Posts Tagged ‘Controversy’
Study ignites controversy among the skin-plumping set and the docs who administer Botox.
Black keys took to muscle shoals to record new album brothers
Friday, May 28th, 2010
By Cory Pennington Tusk Writer The Black Keys new album, Brothers, was recorded in Muscle Shoals and released last week. Ill quickly brief you on the controversy surrounding The Black Keys and Muscle Shoals.
Economics and Physics
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Nathaniel Gronewald reports on a somewhat esoteric controversy : The financial crisis and subsequent global recession have led to much soul-searching among economists, the vast majority of whom never saw it coming. But were their assumptions and models wrong only because of minor errors or because today’s dominant economic thinking violates the laws of physics ? A small but growing group of academics believe the latter is true, and they are out to prove it. These thinkers say that the ne
Following Up the Controversy at Dawood Public School
Monday, August 31st, 2009
September 1st, 2009 by Hina Safdar ( 18 Views )Share on Twitter Regarding my previous post on Chowrangi about the controversy of sex education at Dawood Public School there is an overwhelming response and quite an outrage. Many commentators on my previous post spend a lot of time praising the school administration and curriculum. As I have titled it Controversy which means that the truth about issue will unfold in near future. But still the other side of the story is unava
Caster Semenya
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Having set a world record, 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya is being subjected to extensive “gender testing.” Misrepresentations of intersex notwithstanding, this controversy has brought the idea of non-binary gender to MSNBC, the AP , and NPR and The Nation Magazine. What do you think can be done with our current binary-gender/sex-based sports segregation to achieve fair competition? For instance, David Zirin suggests on NPR separation by muscle mass or weight class.