Sick Of This Market-driven World? You Should Be | George Monbiot | Comment Is Free | The Guardian

But these are private companies. Their owners still need to consider the companys interests, explains Bietz.The full report on the survey can be accessed on the project website. Data analysis will require some rethinking as well.
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Navigating the Path Towards Responsible Personal Health Data Research

Even when outcomes are based on talent and hard work, they dont stay that way for long. Once the first generation of liberated entrepreneurs has made its money, the initial meritocracy is replaced by a new elite, which insulates its children from competition by inheritance and the best education money can buy. Where market fundamentalism has been most fiercely applied in countries like the US and UK social mobility has greatly declined . If neoliberalism was anything other than a self-serving con, whose gurus and thinktanks were financed from the beginning by some of the worlds richest people (the US multimillionaires Coors, Olin, Scaife, Pew and others), its apostles would have demanded, as a precondition for a society based on merit, that no one should start life with the unfair advantage of inherited wealth or economically determined education. But they never believed in their own doctrine. Enterprise, as a result, quickly gave way to rent.
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The naked truth: Sex after 50 is still hot – Health – TODAY.com

Yep. Two men. I was having a pre-shoot drink with one of them, and I confided my initial surprise that so many men are attracted to midlife women.
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The Origins of the Chemtrail Conspiracy – Pacific Standard: The Science of Society

THE BIRTH OF THE chemtrail conspiracy (the word chemtrail being a combination of chemical and contrail, and the word contrail a combination of condensation and trail) is generally pinpointed to a few-year window surrounding 1996. It was that year when the U.S. Air Force was first accused of using military aircraft to spray American citizens with mysterious substances, evidenced by the unusual contrail patterns left in the sky. The third-best way to fan the flames of a conspiracy is to say you were only speaking hypothetically.
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