Dark markets

Book Review: Darkness By Design

Walter Mattli reveals the opaque world of high-speed trading, and its danger to finance and the regulatory power of governments.

By Howard Wetzel | April 1, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Cognition, Philosophy, Society | Capitalism, Dark Pools, Financial Markets, Flash Boys, Glass-Steagall, Globalism, Governance, High-Frequency Trading, High-Speed Trading, Obfuscation, Profit, Regulation, Securities, Securities Exchanges, Wall Street, Walter Mattli

Gail Dines

Podcast #30: Gail Dines on Porn Culture

Activist, author, and sociologist Gail Dines discusses the impact of pornography—particularly in its virulent and violent Internet form—on culture.

By Mo Lotman | April 11, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Identity, Podcasts, Relationships, Society, Well-Being | Abuse, Addiction, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Boys, Eastern Europe, Erectile Dysfunction, Feminism, Fun, Gender, Girls, Global Culture, Greed, Hookup Culture, Image, India, Inequality, Internet, Intimacy, Love, Men, Monopoly, Pedophilia, Porn Addiction, Prisoners, Profit, Rape, relationships, Self-Esteem, Self-Expression, Self-Harm, Sex, Sex Addiction, Sexual Identity, Sexuality, Shame, Teens, Violence, Women

Robert Lustig

Podcast #27: Robert Lustig on Biochemistry and Health

Author and endocrinologist Robert Lustig explains the neurochemical difference between happiness and pleasure and how it’s been exploited to make so many of us fat, addicted, and depressed. Then, he reminds us how to reclaim our health.

By Mo Lotman | February 27, 2019 | Cognition, Environment, Family, Food, Health, Medicine, Neurology, Podcasts, Well-Being | Academia, Addiction, Adolescence, Alcohol, Amino Acids, Aristotle, ATP, Availability, Behavior, Biochemistry, Caffiene, Calories, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Cavities, Cell Death, Child Development, Chronic Metabolic Disease, Chronic Renal Disease, Clinicians, Cocaine, Computers, Connection, Connectivity, Contentment, Contribute, Coping, Cortisol, Dementia, Dentistry, Depression, Diabetes, Diet, Dieticians, Doctors, Dopamine, Drugs, Dyslipidemia, Endocrinology, Enjoyment, Environment, Exercise, Exposure, Facebook, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Flow, Food, Food System, Fructose, Giving, Glucose, Happiness, Health Care, Heroin, Hypertension, Hypothalamus, Information, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Marketing, Metabolic Syndrome, Metabolism, Mindfulness, Mirror Neurons, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Money, Multitasking, music, Myelin, Neurons, Neurotransmitters, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Obesity, OCD, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Opioids, Peer Pressure, Personal Responsibility, Philanthropy, Pleasure, Polycystic Ovarian Disease, Prefrontal Cortex, Processed Food, Profit, Propaganda, Quantification, Refining, Regulation, Religion, Reward, Sales, Seizures, Seratonin, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Social Security, Stimulation, Substance Abuse, Substances, Sugar, Suicide, Taking, Taylorism, Technology, Tolerance, Tryptophane, Utilitarianism

Ágnes Geréb

Natural Birth: The Long Struggle of Dr. Ágnes Geréb

In the final piece in a series on birth and technology, David Reynolds shares the history of Hungary’s tireless natural childbirth advocate.

By David A. J. Reynolds | December 26, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Government, Health, Law, Medicine, Reproduction | Ágnes Geréb, Care, Civil Disobedience, Communism, Episiotomy, Hospital Birth, Hungary, Ina May Gaskin, Intimidation, Jail, János Áder, Midwifery, Natural Birth, Obstetrics, Profit, Shoulder Dystocia

David Bosworth

Podcast #23: David Bosworth on Conscientious Thinking

Author and cultural critic David Bosworth discusses America’s myth of individualism and how it feeds a digital culture that ironically infantilizes its users and demands constant approval from strangers.

By Mo Lotman | December 12, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Philosophy, Podcasts, Relationships, Society | "Momism", Accumulation, Affiliation, Atomization, Common Sense, Connection, Conscience, Convenience, Corporations, Descartes, Ethics, Idiot Savant, Individualism, Infantilization, Internet, Malls, MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, Profit, Science, Smartphones, Superficiality, surveillance, Thomas Paine, University of Washington, Value, Virtue, Wikipedia

Fingerprint

Genetic Testing Kits: Unprecedented Privacy Risks

Consumer genetic testing puts sensitive, irreplaceable data about you—and unwitting members of your family—in places you can’t control.

By Sarah Russo | August 1, 2018 | Ethics, Genetics, Health, Identity, Law, Medicine, Policing, Privacy, Society | 23andMe, Abuse, Ancestry.com, Biology, Center for Genetics and Society, China, Crime, Databases, Discrimination, DNA, Genentech, Genetic Testing, Genetics, Hacking, Katie Hasson, Patent, Privacy, Profit, Race, Racism, surveillance, The Human Genome

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