Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists

Eyeless shrimp, from a catch of 400 pounds of eyeless shrimp, said to be caught September 22, 2011, in Barataria Bay, Louisiana

Return of the Debtors’ Prison

How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn’t pay a medical bill.

Occupy Wall Street

Nearly 80 people were arrested last weekend in a series of incidents with the New York police as the protesters attempted to march uptown. Most are now camped out in nearby Zucotti Park. Demonstrations also took place yesterday in San Francisco, and an "Occupy Boston" protest is planned for tonight, September 30.

- The Atlantic.

First Fully Lab-Grown Organ Successfully Transplanted

The synthetic trachea was created by growing the patient’s own stem cells on an artificial ‘scaffold’, which British scientists helped design. Windpipes have been grown from stem cells before, but only using the collagen ‘skeletons’ of donated tracheas

- The Atlantic Wire.

Immune System, Loaded With Remade T-cells, Vanquishes Cancer

There was no trace of it anywhere — no leukemic cells in his blood or bone marrow, no more bulging lymph nodes on his CT scan. His doctors calculated that the treatment had killed off two pounds of cancer cells.

- NYTimes.com.

Are jobs obsolete?

According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, there is enough food produced to provide everyone in the world with 2,720 kilocalories per person per day. And thats [sic] even after America disposes of thousands of tons of crop and dairy just to keep market prices high. Meanwhile, American banks overloaded with foreclosed properties are demolishing vacant dwellings to get the empty houses off their books.

Our problem is not that we dont have enough stuff — its that we dont have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

via CNN.