The Ashley Treatment: From the Beginning
Anyone interested, even vaguely, in what all the fuss is about on the Ashley X case, or who wants a review of the facts of the case, might make a start at a new website: http://www.ashleytreatment.info/ Thanks to the work of Huahima over at Mysteries and Questions Surrounding the Ashley X Case, this case has not [...]

Advice to a Young Bioethicist
The following is the beginning of a response delivered by distinguished bioethicist Arthur Caplan to Ezekiel Emanuel’s address to the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities earlier this year. The full speech was posted by Linda MacDonald Glenn at the Women’s Bioethics Project blog about a month ago. The issue: what kind of training do [...]

The EyeWriter
This little tool kicks ass.  There’s no other way to put it.  Thanks to the EyeWriter development team, $50 and little hardware hacking will produce a fully functional eye tracker that allows the user to express themselves with art by only moving their eyes.  Check out the video to see for yourself: Where did I find [...]

ACT UP NEW YORK: ACTIVISM, ART, AND THE AIDS CRISIS, 1987–1993
EXHIBITION: ACT UP NEW YORK: ACTIVISM, ART, AND THE AIDS CRISIS, 1987–1993 running until December 23, 2009; for an earlier What Sorts post on the ACT UP Oral History Project, click here the exhibition poster below is worth downloading for both the images it contains and the schedule of events it lists. Harvard exhibition of visual media in [...]

Sesame Street Reaches Middle Age
As someone as interested as much in the sorts of people we as a society think valuable as in the processes that we use to produce more of those we value, and fewer of those we don’t, I was was struck by a brilliant post last week at Like a Whisper on a topic that [...]