Corizon Prison Doctor Told NYC Inmate To Throw Away Severed Finger

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On January 26, 2015, Rudolph Richardson sued the city of New York, prison healthcare contractor Corizon Health Services and Dr. Landis Barnes for allegedly delaying and denying him emergency medical care following an incident in which his cell door slammed shut on his fingers.

According to the complaint filed in the District Court of the Southern District of New York, Richardson was hanging out in a common room at the Manhattan Detention Complex (MDC) in June, 2014 when he asked a guard if he could return to his cell to use the bathroom. The guard approved, and another officer in charge of operating the mechanical door to his cell allowed Richardson to enter.

The toilet was positioned next to Richardson’s cell door, and while he was using the bathroom, the lawsuit states that the guard “suddenly and negligently closed the door to Mr. Richardson’s cell, causing the fingers of Mr. Richardson’s hand to get caught in said door.”

Google Life Extension: Does Google Want Us To Live Forever?

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When I first read about Google’s plans for life extension, I thought I’d write a “think piece” about it, but then on researching the thing, I saw that many had trod the path before me. As I read though page after page I saw that Google was not alone, that Silicon Valley was filled with Forbes List billionaires putting oodles of money into research hoping to live forever.

Reading on, it suddenly struck me that that I had seen this before … Then I remembered where: Aldous Huxley’s classic, “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.”

Sergey Brin wants to become the Fifth Earl of Gonister!

Here is a quote from Wikipedia’s summary of Huxley’s masterpiece:

21st Century Populism: The New “Us” Against The Same Old “Them”

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Mark Bittman published a very important article last week in the New York Times, entitled, “What is the Purpose of Society?” Important, because in just a few words he gets to the very heart of political action.

He begins with the most basic problem imaginable, food:

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