Category: Money
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Genome patents, Stupidity patents?
The US Supreme Court has heard arguments questioning whether the human genome can be claimed as intellectual property. The case relates to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2009, and centres on whether companies should be able to patent genes. US authorities have been awarding patents on genes to universities and medical companies…
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"Art", money, Dubai...
The Dubai Festival of Literature is now in its fifth year and attracts some of the world's best known authors and poets. [1] Two hundred events run throughout the week-long event and range from performances and debates to workshops. For the first time there is also poetry in the desert under the blanket of stars.…
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Gang rapping: A "priviledge" of G20...
Another woman - this time a tourist from Switzerland - was raped in India. The woman was camping with her husband at a village in Datia district on Friday during a cycling trip when they were attacked by seven or eight men. The assailants overpowered the husband before gang-raping his wife. [1] You see, it…
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Hyperbolic discounting, extensive margin, rebalancing, New Thought. Or... how economic jargon reshapes Society
Competitiveness, debt hair cuts, rebalancing, debt ceiling, zombie banks, deleveraging, automatic stabalizers, extensive margin, hyperbolic discounting (1, 2), Oops (3), price caps, minimum wage... Economic jargon is something more than just a set of weird words used by weird economy people. They are a tool of re-defining society. As Orwell very intuitively put it in…
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Space marines. Space marines. Space marines.
UK toymaker Games Workshop has been criticised for asserting a trademark claim to the phrase 'space marines'. The claim emerged when it was used to get an American ebook about the futuristic soldiers taken off Amazon. Science fiction writers have called the firm "absurd" for saying it has a trademark to the use of the term…
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