PROPOSED AMENDMENTS to the International Health Regulations, guidelines published by the World Health Organization in 2005, would give the WHO power not held by any other global body except the United Nations Security Council.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN EGYPT announced the discovery of a copy of the Book of the Dead. This seems fitting, given some of the news of the past week.
AL GORE went on an epic rant at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week, yelling that we’re going to lose our ability to self-govern if we don’t stop overheating the planet. He is obviously impervious to irony and/or hypocrisy.