in Denmark, many parents drive their kids to school, because they are concerned about the heavy traffic around the school because of people driving their kids to school because of.......

this seems to be a particularly strong obsession of Cory´s. Regrettably, in a country where databases like those described above have been implemented for 40 yars, the worries cannot be confirmed. YES, we do have breaches of privacy - done by the "PET" (aka CIA) WITHOUT using the central database system. As I stated earlier, the database makes danish cancer research uniquely thorough, and envied among colleagues abroad.
I also note the closing paragraph: "a computerized file has a certain indelible quality — adversities cannot be overcome simply by the passage of time."
I would think that this would rather apply to paper files, but I could be wrong of course.

I live in a database state, Denmark. Our authorities have no need for dragging around (and losing) CD-rom´s with our bank data. Our CPR id makes it possible to run efficient health databases. The Danish Cancer Registry is unique, not least due to the efficient data mananging, made possible by the CPR system.
All our terrible databases have logged entries of course, making it possible to track breaches of privacy. Breaches happen everywhere, but in DK, the breacher actually gets spotted.
Instead of offering us indiscriminate whining, better start laying out a framework for database security.

Although Olafur Eliasson frequently does exhibitions in Denmark, he is from Iceland.

It is a widespread misunderstanding that food with high cholesterol content is unhealthy. People with high cholesterol levels in the blood should cut down on fat, not eggs.

This is "I am Legend" all over again! Reality beats fiction any time.

Fatal familial insomnia is a prion disease. It is not the sleep deprivation per se, that ultimately leads to death.

I got some more photos from the incident. They do not appear to be manipulated. Also, the shadow of the hand is clearly seen.

I find it easy to "deny" (read: dismiss). The author is obviously a complete crackpot. He might be right anyway, but his arguments are poorly put together and full of flaws and denials.

It is rather amusing to read this post, living in a country where most people still weigh

It is rather amusing to read this post, living in a country where most people still weigh

those of us with discerning noses might smell the difference. Once smelled (or tasted in saliva), always sure.
BTW, isn´t lap dancing just so incredibly U.S.?

http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/94/3/833:

"The fainting lark: voluntary self-induced instantaneous syncope. The fainting lark is a maneuver that combines effects of acute arterial hypotension by gravity and raised intrathoracic pressure with cerebral vasoconstriction in response to hypocapnia (64, 81). The maneuver induces almost instantaneous syncope in volunteers (95). The fainting lark has been used by children, high school students, and recruits as entertainment and also in the laboratory for research (64, 81, 95). Squatting in a full knee bend is combined with hyperventilation. The subject then suddenly stands up and performs forced expiration against a closed glottis. The maneuver provokes a precipitous and deep fall in arterial pressure, hyperventilation further reduces CBF, and the subject loses consciousness"

- because no blood enters the brain. The anecdote of the decapitated (De-bodied?) head focusing on Dr. Beaurieux s is pure BS.

"trunkeret & ikonisk" is pure, unadulterated danish for "truncated & iconic". They may be from the UK, but Jonas is from Denmark! http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2007/09/dude-releases-74-minute-album-on-single.html

no-one calls a Mercedes "ridiculously expensive" because it costs twice as much as a same-size-and-horsepower Ford. It´s just The Law Of Diminishing Returns in action.
-said the Ford-driving B&O watcher

didn´t help that poor eel that I took a photo of. Found on the beach, choked on a herring sticking out of its mouth! Wish I could upload it for you....