I have just learned that Elling Kvamme is alive, at least he was as of a month ago! Professor Kvammel is 93 and now leads the Buchenwald survivors. http://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=en&sl=no&u=http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/12/det-var-eit-under-at-me-overlevde.html&prev=/[...]
Archive for February, 2014
February 11th, 2014 - 2:15 pm § in Misc.
People of Color
PLAY THE VIDEO and then tell me what “race” this guy is?[...]
February 11th, 2014 - 10:24 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 19: Survivors who may have seen Robert Schwartz
My Father’s WWII Pictures Are Still Dying in His Lawyers’ Safe. As we approach the 69th anniversary of my father’s entry onto Buchenwald to provide medical care, the survivors who might be able to identify themselves from his pictures continue to die of old age. As a pathologist, I[...]
How Commercial Interests Are Turning Scholarly Publishing Into A Racket
“The monopoly on information is increasingly an issue for the scientific community; an issue to which making journals open access seems to be the only solution.” I don’t want to write a long article about this; that’s already been done. See, e.g., the links below. To summariz[...]
February 10th, 2014 - 12:51 am § in Misc.
The AVE Challenge: Who is this?
A. Daniel Day-Lewis in the upcoming movie version of Don Quixote B. John McAfee, fugitive software pioneer C. Robert Duvall playing Don Quixote D. Actor playing Saint Ignatius of Loyola E. New ruler of Venezuela[...]
Child Pornography, the Schwartz Family Feud and Australia
UPDATED FROM Feb 9, 2014 TO REFLECT NEWS ABOUT CHILD PROSTITION IN BRAZIL AND A CONTACT WITH SOMEONE CLAIMING TO BE CHLOE BARTRAM My brother in law accuses me of “using pictures of children who are in beauty contests as illustrations of supposed child prostitutes” My brother in law (belo[...]
Gov. Inslee Orders Moratorium On Executions
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has joined the growing list of governors who have imposed moratoriums on executions. Inslee did not commute the death sentences of any of the 9 men on Washington’s death row; his moratorium only gives them a reprieve while he is in office, so they’re not perman[...]