Incandescence

Uhm, if they're being used on patients, then they're legal...

There's a thing called the Social Contract, which means that Congress shall pass no law that directly endangers the lives of the people.

Since when did science care about morals?

I, too, never had a furby. I wanted one, but the parents were wiser. So I played with my uncle's once. That's rather disturbing...

Clinical depression and physical/mental trauma are easily related. Saying they aren't is like saying anaclitic love is not, in some way, related to narcissistic love. Just because we don't understand ...

Yes, and since America, incidentally, only fights wars where there is oil, we're all paying pennies on the dollar for our gas!

Shakespeare is not better or worse than any author of today. A quick read through Stephenson's "Snow Crash" is more illuminating than an in-depth reading of Shakespeare's "The Tempest".3

I was and I still don't understand. Discipline never made me feel safer. It just kind of annoyed me. I think it doesn't do much good. If you give a ...

1.) The Laws of Thermodynamics do govern the physical world, Qi. 2.) Notice the 'transferred' part. Nothing is created or destroyed, only transferred. There is a point, obviously, where the ...

That reason right there is the exact reason why you shouldn't get a tattoo. Old, flabby women with tattoos are gross . And, as soon as you get pregnant, that ...

Foucault defined the difference between the modern and classical penitentiary system as the difference in abuse of soul and abuse of body. His encounter and subsequent study of institutions and ...

[quote='Midnight']yes and Foucault refers to how violence has become less necessary because of the use of discourses to control ohers.[/quote] As Baudrillard points out, that is only true once they ...

The first law of thermodynamics: nothing is either created or destroyed, only transferred. Foucault's 'Discipline and Punish' is a very thorough book on the idea of child discipline and the ...

But if you don't stop violence, then any other form of 'punishment' is worthless. You have to create if you wish to destroy.

Violence creates and stops violence. Nothing else 'stops' violence. Most people see destruction as the conquer of creation, but that's not really true...