Amazon’s Kindle is appropriately named, as to kindle means to “catch fire” or to “cause to start burning” (Wordnet 3.0, n.d.). The newest generation of Kindle products support the downloading of books without even having a computer connection, allowing the consumer to get a new book “anytime, anywhere” (Amazon.com: Kindle, 2009). At first glance, this …
Tag: ethics
Feb 06 2008
Science presented in the media
Having just finished a paper on how the media presents scientific findings, I thought I would share it with the world. Basically, this is an anecdotal investigation which focuses on an article by John Cloud that can be found in the TIME Magazine issue from 28 January 2008. In case you don’t have access to …
Sep 04 2007
You can’t handle the truth!
One would assume that, because of the title of this entry, that I’m going to discuss the amazing movie that is A Few Good Men, but that is not the case. Instead I’m going to ramble on about something I noticed in the movie that made me think about the current state of justice systems …
Thought for the Moment
