The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
When school began in September, the kids of Baltimore became the first in the country to adopt 'Meatless Mondays, and international program that asks people to cut meat from their diet one day a week.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Doctors are set to perform Britain's first threeway series of kidney transplants by the end of the year.
Somewhere in the Sun (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
This week's Take it and Run Thursday comes from Chelsea , who asks: "You’re on the selection Committee for the Nobel Prize for Running. Who would you nominate for the winner and why? It could be an elite or a beginning runner....a courageous ordinary runner in your community who inspires you.... or the local running club leader, race director, or running store owner who gives tirelessly...
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Jesse Eisenberg is the actor that will be playing Mark Zuckerberg in a movie called The Social Network. The Social Network is a movie based on the founding of online social network Facebook. Facebook was founded by Zuckerberg in a dorm room when he was attending Harvard University. However the movie will [...]
BmoreFab! (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Pop star Justin Timberlake was spotted in Baltimore this week at John Hopkins University. The pop star was in town to shoot for Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming movie about the founding [...] Find out more on Bmore Fab!
The Plank (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
David A. Bell is the dean of faculty and Mellon Professor in the Humanities at John Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Conservative talk radio often feels like a strange alternate universe, and never more than when the guest of honor is Doctor Betsy McCaughey , who fielded respectful questions from my local Baltimore Limbaugh-wannabes for fifteen minutes this morning (they neglected...
nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
With its jewel-like star clusters, swirling galaxies and orange Suns, pictures of the Universe are usually impossibly beautiful and brightly coloured. But as Nasa has pointed out the real colour of outer space would not look out of place on an office wall: it is beige. After studying the colour of light emitted by 200,000 galaxies scientists have combined them to produce the colour, they have dubbed...
Baby Chums (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
A new report from researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore estimates that 17,000 United States children may have died over a 20-year period because they did not have health insurance. The Journal of Public Health article was published yesterday online. David C. Chang, co-director of John Hopkins pediatric surgery outcomes research group, joined Dr. [...] Source: Baby Chums...
War On You (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Actor and anti-war activist Mike Farrell has been an outspoken opponant of the Iraq war and an opponant of the death penalty. He was questioned regarding the death toll of the recent wars as well as the issues surrounding 9/11. Farrell spoke at the Inland Valley chapter of DEATH PENALTY FOCUS in October 2008 at Pitzer College [...]
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Baltimore, MD (AHN) – Researchers from John Hopkins Children’s Center say lack of health insurance might have led or contributed to nearly 17,000 deaths among hospitalized children in the United States over the last twenty years. The study is one of the largest ever to look at the impact of insurance on the number of preventable [...]
Tenable Network Security (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
I recently had the chance to be interviewed by a student from the John's Hopkins University Information Security Institute. The questions cover a wide variety of topics including hacking trends, certifications, penetration testing, compliance and patch management.
The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The Greenhouse Effect is one of those things that no one disputes, right? You know, the reason that the Earth is warmer than it should be is because of the fact that energy from the sun warms the planet but that "greenhouse gases" (such as water vapour, methane and CO 2 ) trap the heat reflected from the surface—and so the planet is warmed. No one disputes that, right? It's established...
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Check out some new footage from Tim Burton's anticipated film.
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Surveillance footage of Meighan's truck courtesy WJZ-TV and via the Trib Miriam Frankl, a 20-year-old Chicago native and student of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, was allegedly struck by Thomas L. Meighan Jr. in what was a fatal hit-and-run on October 16. The Tribune reports that the incident occurred in the midst of full day of reckless driving by Meighan, including what a half-dozen...
Ensaios Imperfeitos (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Reviewed: William I. Robinson, Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2008), 412 pages, $55.00, hardcover. Latin America and Global Capitalism delivers a scathing indictment of neoliberal globalization from an explicitly anti-capitalist perspective. Its scope is theoretically and empirically ambitious, beginning with...
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