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Even Avatars Are Racist?

12:17 PM, September 12, 2008 | Comments (10)
Now that Americans are hanging around virtual worlds almost as much (it seems) as the real one, research on how we behave in places like Second Life and how things like our choice of avatar spills over into the real world is heating up. As I described...

Why You Can't Swat a Fly

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There's a Peasant Under My Van Gogh!

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  • 'Safest In the World'? Actual Data

    Sharon Begley | Oct 1, 2007 01:30 PM
    As I said in the last post, comparative data on food safety in different countries is tough to find, so the mantra-like claim of U.S. officials that the U.S. has the "safest food supply" in the world generally goes unchallenged. My thanks to CSPI's Caroline... More
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  • "Safest in the World." Really?

    Sharon Begley | Oct 1, 2007 11:03 AM
    Two days after the Topps Meat Company expanded its recall of frozen ground beef and hamburger patties, making it (at 21.7 million pounds) the second-largest recall of ground beef in the history of the United States, I’m sure all carnivores were comforted... More
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