Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were exonerated by Italy’s Supreme Court for the murder of Meredith Kercher on March 27, 2015. On September 7th the court released the motivation report explaining the decision which has since been translated into English by volunteers from Injustice Anywhere — An organisation working to correct wrongful convictions. The Bruno-Marasca Motivations Report is scathing in it’s […]
Nigeria Power Sector Needs Accountability Before Privatisation, Says Minister Of Power
Rilwan Olanrewaju Babalola, who holds a Doctorate Degree in Energy Economics from the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom, was appointed Nigeria’s Minister of Power in December 2008. He was the Team Leader for Power Sector Reform at the Bureau for Public Enterprises, driving the transition from state monopoly of the sector to an […]
Psychiatric Categories as Natural Kinds: Essentialist Thinking about Mental Disorder – Abstract
IN a penetrating ethnographic study of American psychiatry, Tanya Luhrmann (2000) comes to a troubling diagnosis. At the end of the century, psychiatric practice, theory, and training are riven by a deep divide between two ways of understanding mental disorder. These orientations–the biomedical and the psychodynamic–have lived in uneasy coexistence for several decades, struggling to […]
Cyber Organisms
So we’ve been told It’s a small world after all. And thanks to technological advancements, the statement has begin to state its exactitude louder than ever. The world of science and media has improved immensly; creating and gifting civilisation with countless accessories to communincate and coincide together; both as a society and conflicting communities. […]