MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'identity crisis'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:29:09 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4872059&cid=t_113144_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FWnb5aAt27lM%2F By Jim HarperThe Patriot Act extension passed by Congress this week did not become the law of the land. It is void and without effect. So may argue some future defendant whose conviction rests on evidence gotten under Patriot Act powers during the extended period Congress sought to establish in the bill it passed this week. President Obama is at a meeting in Europe, so he had the bill signed by auto-pen. Representative Tom Graves (R-GA) has written a letter inquiring of the president whether he was presented the bill and truly intended to sign it. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution says: Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4872059 Fri, 27 May 2011 19:50:12 +0100 4872059 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4077233&cid=t_113144_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FjRvcfj9F_nE%2F By Jim HarperLate last month, the National Research Council released a book entitled Biometric Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities that exposes the many difficulties with biometric identification systems. Popular culture has portrayed biometrics as nearly infallible, but it’s just not so, the report emphasizes. Especially at scale, biometrics will encounter a lot of challenges, from engineering problems to social and legal considerations. “[N]o biometric characteristic, including DNA, is known to be capable of reliably correct individualization over the size of the world’s population,” the report says (page 30). As with analog, in-person identification, biometrics produces a probabilistic identification (or exclusion), but not a certain one. Many biometrics ch... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4077233 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:07:03 +0100 4077233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3746723&cid=t_113144_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fsys1uTe-o4M%2F By Jim HarperThe ACLU is representing several plaintiffs in a recently filed lawsuit challenging the U.S. government’s ”No Fly” list. The video in this “Blog of Rights” post tells the story of two of the plaintiffs. “I wanna go home!” laughs U.S. Marine veteran Ayman Latif. “I wanna see my mom. I want her to see my babies.” No-fly listing is a constitutional aberration in which the executive branch unilaterally imposes a disability on persons it selects using unpublished criteria. It often denies these individuals any recourse by obscuring the reasons why they aren’t permitted to fly. Bills in the House and Senate would extend the use of the “no-fly” list to use in gun control. There is no way to clear up the “n... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3746723 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:37:51 +0100 3746723 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3354299&cid=t_113144_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F6TxM0YyU3qg%2F By Jim HarperCompromise is catnip in Washington, D.C. That’s my best guess at why Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would endorse New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D) widely reviled plan to create a mandatory biometric national ID system. Schumer’s national ID plans have no more definition today than when he wrote about them in his 2007 campaign manifesto Postitively American. Among the thin gruel of that book is a two-page lump displaying more ignorance than understanding of how identity systems work and fail. Schumer doesn’t know the difference between an identifier—a characteristic used to distinguish or group people—and an identification card or system, which does the entire task of proving a person’s previously fixed identity. (My thin gruel ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3354299 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:03:00 +0100 3354299 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2712069&cid=t_113144_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fpu5zDG5XEKo%2F . . . is not in doubt. But as technology advances, it will not be as strong an identifier as it has been up to now. Scientists have demonstrated that they can fabricate it. I wrote about the qualities of identifiers – fixity, distinctiveness, and permanence – in my book Identity Crisis. The ability to fabricate DNA renders it slightly less distinctive. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2712069 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:43:27 +0100 2712069 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2406024&cid=t_113144_136_f&fid=36032&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Flife-with-breast-cancer%2Fhaving-an-identity-crisis-after-breast-cancer%2F My picture on the bio for this blog was taken about three years ago. In it, as you can see, I have long flowing glossy brown hair. I like the picture and the hair, but it’s not really me. I have been a blonde for most of my life. I was a tow head as a child (white-blonde locks) and as it darkened during my teenage years I learned that squeezing lemon in it along with other drugstore products lightened it up. As I got older I could afford to go to a hair dresser to keep my natural blonde color bright and brassy. Being diagnosed with breast cancer provided an odd opportunity to try out the other side of life…as a brunette. As my hair grew in dark and curly it looked kind of interesting. As it got longer and the curl gave up, it still was fun to have a different look. Family and frien... Life with Breast Cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2406024 Wed, 13 May 2009 20:40:19 +0100 2406024 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=683175&cid=t_113144_132_f&fid=35001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nodalpoint.org%2F2007%2F06%2F08%2Fbioinformaticists_or_bioinformaticians Hi! On bioinformatics.org there is this old poll: - http://bioinformatics.org/poll/index.php?dispid=4 Asking if bioinformatics people are supposed to be called bioinformaticist or bioinformaticians, and if they are technicians or scientits. I'm sure we're scientists ;), but for the first question, which are the differences between the two terms? I'm not english mother-tongue, so I don't get it.. when I write in my CV, or in a forum/blog post, or in a mail... should I say that I'm a (supposed to be) bioinformaticist or bioinformatician? Thanks!! ;) (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=683175 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:19:28 +0100 683175 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=650888&cid=t_113144_133_f&fid=35098&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclub166.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fcensorship.html photo credit- Isaac MaoFor followers of the blogs on the Autism Hub, one would have to have been asleep over the last several days to have missed it's mini identity crisis. Larry Arnold touched things off with his Animal Farm posting, in which he made the good point that autism advocacy should be led by autistics (although I am hard pressed to see where anyone on the Hub has suggested otherwise). He also seemed to want to rail against non-autistic adults of autistic children, seemingly for the twin crimes of drawing attention away from autistic adults, as well as hijacking the neurodiversity movement.My first reaction was "What?", while my next reaction was more like, "WTF?" I mean, I'm accustomed to getting attacked for offending believers in "cures" for autism, but was initially blindsid... Club 166 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=650888 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:05:00 +0100 650888 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=551444&cid=t_113144_140_f&fid=35440&url=http%3A%2F%2Fspiritualemergency.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F01%2Fspirituality-trauma.html Traumatic experiences force victims to face issues lying outside the boundaries of personal and collective frames of reference. As a result they are forced to confront psychological and spiritual challenges that are unfamiliar to the average person. Therapists need to recognise that organisations of self and God are often thrown into question or destroyed by experiences of trauma. The deconstructive power of trauma exposes the lack of substance and cohesiveness that comprises identity and images of God.Initially, trauma is grounded in pain, loss, and fear. Often it leads to breakdowns. Ultimately, with proper support and guidance, it has the potential to transform individuals into compassionate and deeply spiritual beings. Traumatic events expose victims to aspects of life that most would ... Spiritual Emergency blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=551444 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:27:00 +0100 551444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=551443&cid=t_113144_140_f&fid=35440&url=http%3A%2F%2Fspiritualemergency.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F01%2Fspirituality-that-transforms.html In a series of books (e.g., A Sociable God, Up from Eden, and The Eye of Spirit), I have tried to show that religion itself has always performed two very important, but very different, functions.One, it acts as a way of creating meaning for the separate self: it offers myths and stories and tales and narratives and rituals and revivals that, taken together, help the separate self make sense of, and endure, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. This function of religion does not usually or necessarily change the level of consciousness in a person; it does not deliver radical transformation. Nor does it deliver a shattering liberation from the separate self altogether. Rather, it consoles the self, fortifies the self, defends the self, promotes the self. But two, religion has also ser... Spiritual Emergency blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=551443 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:23:00 +0100 551443