Just finished reading Noam Chomsky's book on how the power-that-be use propaganda to control populations, Media Control, Second Edition. Powerful and thought-provoking. 3½ out of 5 stars.
Also finished the Nov. 19, 2011 issue of Science News. Some highlights: How lopsided arrangements of continents may have led to reversals in Earth's magnetic field in the past, new uses for saliva in medical diagnoses, dietary concerns for Mars-bound astronauts, how to make male flies horny (turn-ons: food), 2011 ozone loss in the Arctic "unprecedented", mind-reading machines grow yet more sophisticated, and how some black holes may be used as "standard candles" for measuring cosmological distances.
Last edited by WT Sharpe; 11-07-2011 at 07:05 PM.
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