The debacle over veteran Scott Olsen's treatment (he was in critical condition on Thursday) by the police during the raid on Occupy Oakland rages on. The mayor, Jean Quan, has now publicly apologized and has said that she hopes the movement and the city can work together. Not to be overly cynical, but tear gas and rubber bullets aren't usually a good catalyst for "working together." The photos from the raid are pretty brutal, which were circulated on the internet almost immediately. As usual, The Guardian is providing much better coverage of the event than most US news sources. Read the article here.
More people die every year due to the transmission of diseases through reused syringes than malaria. From a design standpoint, this should be an easy enough problem to solve. Marc Koska is leading the way with his auto-disable syringe. The Guardian article includes a video about how the syringe works. Essentially, from what I can tell, if someone were to try to reset the syringe by pulling back the "trigger," it simply breaks off.
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