Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Saver at risk as Kelly overhauls railway fares

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:26 am

  Tags: Politics, Transport In The Uk, Public Services, Travel, Travel News, Money, Consumer News

  The transport secretary, Ruth Kelly, served notice on the saver fare yesterday as she backed proposals to overhaul the railway fares system.

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• Research Paper Presents Serosorting As More Dangerous

  Published: July 23, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Academia, Public Policy, Health Care, Mathematics, Science, Aids, Hiv

  As Gabriel Rotello and Andrew Sullivan debate whether "AIDS is over" in an ongoing online hissy fit of battling blog posts, Mad Professah came across the results of a study which bolsters Rotello's argument that "sero-sorting" (the practice of sorting your sexual partners by HIV status and then having unprotected sex with people of the same

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• HIV+ U.S. Soldier Charged With Assault With Deadly Weapon

  Published: July 20, 2007, 3:30 am

  Tags: Homophobia, Military, Public Policy, Aids, News Analysis, Hiv

  against nature" as well as public health laws which "mandate certain control measures for HIV+ people."Specificially,[Maj. Tom Earnhardt, an 82nd Airborne spokesperson] said soldiers in the 82nd Airborne take an annual HIV test. He told The Associated Press that Dalton was ordered by his commander in November not to have unprotected sex after a

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• L.A. Times Covers Plight Of Same-Sex Binational Couples

  Published: July 17, 2007, 12:46 pm

  Tags: Immigration, Public Policy, Gay Rights, Lgbt, Media, News Analysis, Marriage

  networking and greater public outreach on the issue.The biggest push is in support of federal legislation by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to allow Americans in a same-sex relationship to sponsor their "permanent partners" for legal residency in the United States. The Uniting American Families Act, which

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• The Algebra Project on PBS Tonight

  Published: July 13, 2007, 4:29 pm

  Tags: Education, Academia, Public Policy, Mathematics, Algebra, Television, Social Justice

  public television show Now will be airing a segment tonight on The Algebra Project, a non-profit group who is trying to improve the teaching of elementary and high school algebra in low-income and minority schools throughout America. Mad Professah met the founder of the group, Bob Moses, at a Math and Social Justice conference in Brooklyn, NY

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• Among Secular Whites, Clinton and Rudy Split Support [Framing Science]

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:52 pm

  Tags: Public Opinion

  voters who identify as Republicans or Democrats, however, there is substantial party loyalty; the strong majority of both white Republicans and white Democrats -- regardless of how frequently they attend church services -- say they would vote for their party's candidate. Read the comments on this

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• Nothing to fear but the fear of panic [Effect Measure]

  Published: July 28, 2007, 8:42 am

  Tags: Public Health Preparedness

  I had to laugh when Canadian public health officials tell their citizens that with a particularly bad West Nile Virus (WNV) season underway south of the border, "There is no need to panic": Read the rest of this post... Read the comments on this

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• Compliment Machine says you look fantastic

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:54 am

  Tags: Art, Compliment Box, Complimentbox, Compliments, Public Art, Publicart

  Filed under: Do GoodAren't compliments great? Even the completely fake conversations like: "I just love your shoes -- Oh really, thanks! I love your shoes!" are at least a little uplifting -- because, really, who doesn't want to hear that they look good?That's the theory behind Tom Greaves "Compliment Machine," a bright red-and-white striped box

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• Study Suggests Possible Autism Pesticide Link

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:47 am

  Tags: Dr Mark Horton, Toxins, Pesticides, Autism Disorder, California Department Of Public Health, Environment

  the California Department of Public Health which conducted the study is only characterizing the results as preliminary data indicating that there MAY be an association between the pesticides which were the subject of the study and incidents of autism.Women who live near California farm fields sprayed with organochlorine pesticides may be more

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• Your cellphone is not making you sick [Pure Pedantry]

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:11 am

  Tags: Public Health

  Aside from believing that cell phones give you cancer, many individuals report that feelings of illness around cell phones and other electromagnetic fields. This being in spite of the fact that human beings possess no sensory apparatus to detect electromagnetic waves -- unless of course you believe that an X-men-esque revolution is impending.

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• WTF? Seriously, What Is He Saying?

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:10 pm

  Tags: Public Policy

  "Given the increasingly important role of the Internet in education and commerce, it differs from other media like TV and cable because parents cannot prevent their children from using the Internet altogether," Sen. Stevens said. "The headlines continue to tell us of children who are victimized online. While the issues are

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• Dying to Get to Work

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:01 pm

  Tags: Climate Change, Commuting, Air Quality, Transit, Public Health, Energy, Studies Amp 038 Reports

  through scientific research, public education, and legal advocacy. They are responsible for research at New York University that linked asthma rates in the Bronx to traffic pollution. This more recent study investigates the levels of diesel particles during commutes in several cities (Austin, Boston, Columbus and New York City). CATF measured

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• Baconator Hate: Wendy's Protested By Evil Redheads

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:24 pm

  Tags: Public Interest

  It seems that there aren't a hell of a lot of Wendy's left in SF anymore. The one on 658 Market closed recently, and we're dying to sample the Baconator. (We really are.) Although we appreciate the noble slow-food movement, we'll always have a preference for Wendy's square-cut meat patties cooked in record time. Except this redhead group won't:

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• 90210Insider

  Published: July 24, 2007, 10:30 pm

  Tags: The Stories, 90210insider, Ancient Salem, Better Sense, Blogger, Blogosphere, Blowjob, Breaking Any Public Decency Laws, Fit To Print, Fortune 500, Gossip, Hosuewives, More Money From Advertising, Naked, Office Building, Pcitures, Sara, Senator, Slutty Sara, Supermodel, Teen

  enough to avoid breaking any public decency laws. He was certain that if he were to pick up one of her tastefully done nude calendars he would not have a better sense of what she looked like naked than he did right then from stealing glances at her form in the elevator. When they arrived at the twenty-seventh floor he was actually able to brush

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• In Brief: Crazy woman assaulted a bunch of people on ...

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:54 pm

  Tags: Public Transportation Awesome, Quicklinks

  Crazy woman assaulted a bunch of people on the Metro last week and nobody tried to stop her or anything. [WTOP]

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