Drive-by links about US airport security
Nov. 21st, 2010 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livIn some ways this is a US-specific issue, but where the US leads other countries often follow. And lots of my friends are either in the USA or, like me, need to visit the country for personal or business reasons.
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elusis has a great piece on the social justice implications of the invasive procedures. She writes very much in the American academic feminist style, so if that puts you off badly you probably won't get through her piece. But if you can bear that, it's IMO a really, really impressive piece of amateur journalism (and as such has been linked all over the place, from BoingBoing to the New York Times, so this link may not be news to some of you).
2.compilerbitch breaks down the physics of what "soft" X-rays actually mean. There is disagreement in the comment thread from people who know what they're talking about; compilerbitch moves in the kind of circles where she rubs shoulders with all kinds of serious experts. But it's something worth considering, anyway.
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elusis has a great piece on the social justice implications of the invasive procedures. She writes very much in the American academic feminist style, so if that puts you off badly you probably won't get through her piece. But if you can bear that, it's IMO a really, really impressive piece of amateur journalism (and as such has been linked all over the place, from BoingBoing to the New York Times, so this link may not be news to some of you).2.
compilerbitch breaks down the physics of what "soft" X-rays actually mean. There is disagreement in the comment thread from people who know what they're talking about; compilerbitch moves in the kind of circles where she rubs shoulders with all kinds of serious experts. But it's something worth considering, anyway.