Archive for June, 2010
Fixing Arlington Cemetery
21, Jun 2010In Debt to an Arlington Whistleblower Dana Milbank, The Washington Post (June, 20 2010) Over the weekend, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank published a column on the debacle at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC. There is a reason that I am interested in Milbank’s column but before I explain why, I’ll let him bring [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Law|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
Charles Bowden on Juarez
19, Jun 2010Dreamland: The Way out of Juarez On The Media (June 4, 2010) Earlier this week I wrote about the drug-cartel murders in Juarez, Mexico, and mentioned Charles Bowden, a journalist who has been covering the situation for over a decade. He recently spoke with On The Media about a new book, Dreamland: The Way Out [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Art / Architecture|Death + Crime|Death Ethics
- Tags: homicide, Mexico, writing
The (Death) Singularity is Near
17, Jun 2010Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday Ashlee Vance, The New York Times (June 13, 2010) The Singularity movement sees a time when human beings and machines will merge and overcome illness and perhaps death. The tagline for this New York Times article is only partially correct. The Singularity movement and another group called the Transhumanists see [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Biology|Death + Technology|Death Ethics
- Tags: bioethics, definition of death
Librarian in New Mexico Collates Murders in Juarez
16, Jun 2010A Gruesome Reckoning: Librarian Sifts Mexican Press to Tally Drug-Cartel-Related Killings in Juárez Ana Campoy, Wall Street Journal (June 15, 2010) With 2,633 homicides in 2009, murder in Juarez, Mexico, is out of control. Much of the violence is related to drug trafficking, accounting for gang on gang and police killings. But civilians are attacked, [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Crime
- Tags: books, homicide, informatics, Mexico
Murder?! The Maggots Are on It
11, Jun 2010Crime Scene Insects BBC World Service (June 11, 2010) This episode of BBC Documentaries explores forensic entomology: “the investigation of insects recovered from crime scenes and corpses.” Guests include Amoret Whitaker of the Natural History Museum in London, who studies the flies and maggots that congregate on corpses to find clues about the time and [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Biology|Death + Crime
- Tags: animals, anthropology, death and smell, decomposition, forensics, homicide, research