Review: Doctor Who Episode 197

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SPOILER ALERT — Do not read unless you have seen Episode 197, The Doctor’s ———.

Review: Asylum (1972)

This is a documentary, of sorts, about crazy people. A small camera crew spent a few weeks in a psychiatrist’s experimental group home for, well, crazy people. The result is absolutely fascinating. There is basically no narrative — a few interjections from R.D. Laing, the psychiatrist whose work inspired this group home, and occasionally some [...]

Deaf British Babies: Morally Repugnant?

I have recently started listening to podcasts on my way to work, in an effort to become more aware of current events. As much as I have loved spending my incoming and outgoing commutes reading fiction, DC has a higher-than-average expectation of cultural literacy and I was beginning to feel ignorant and disconnected. It was [...]

Links of the Day: 2008.02.24

Old news, but notable: The Philippines create an all-female domestic violence task force. With pastel work desks. Read the commentary at Feministing. [The Pink Police Power Girl Commandos]
The WALNUTS! video, if you haven’t seen it yet. [via Wonkette]
Teaching kids to be nice with empathy babies. [Empathy Lessons from Little Tykes, WSJ]
James Carville and Bill Frist [...]

Familial Searching: Making CSI a Family Affair

The Wall Street Journal is reporting a new forensic technique in Great Britain – familial DNA searching. Supported by a DNA database, to which anyone arrested must contribute, the bobbies run a sample (of blood, semen, hair, etc.) left behind by their wanted criminal. If they don’t find a match, they look at the close, [...]