Stanford Center for Internet and Society

John Dunn, on the PCWorld web site: "The Internet needs to be globally regulated if it is to have any chance of stopping scams such as security 'scareware', a researcher has suggested...
 

I have had a longstanding interest in non-animal based meat production. I do not believe humans will ever stop eating meat, but if meat could be made via stem cells --and if it is just as tasty and healthy -- I believe most people would eventually be willing to change over...
 

Krugman today: "...the Bushies didn’t have to worry about governing well and honestly. Even when they failed on the job (as they so often did), they could claim that very failure as vindication of their anti-government ideology, a demonstration that the public sector can’t do anything right...
 

from virtualpeace.org:
 

Tamar Lewin in the NYT today: "Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation...
 

It seems we have a very narrow window open right now to rebuild relations between red and blue America. I was very impressed to see this post on the progressive blog Crooks and Liars:
 

All morning I've been receiving emails from my friends around the world congratulating me on the election of Barack Obama as the next President.
 

David Brooks in today's NYT : "My sense is that this financial crisis is going to amount to a coming-out party for behavioral economists and others who are bringing sophisticated psychology to the realm of public policy.

Eric Hirshberg in the Huffington Post: "There are a number of people in my life -- some family, some friends, some colleagues -- with whom I have never agreed upon anything political. Ever. These are my political opposites. My bizarre-o twins.

Olivia Judson in the NYT: "First, according to a report published last month in the journal Science, strong political views are correlated with distinct physiological responses to startling noises and threatening images.