Category Archives: She Blinded Me With Science

Radical breast cancer preventive surgery common in Brazil

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Brazilian pop star Rita Lee knows what Angelina Jolie is going through; she’s been through it herself. And so have many other Brazilian women: Actress Angelina Jolie caused a great sensation on Tuesday when she announced that she had undergone … Continue reading →

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Dying to be beautiful in Venezuela (and elsewhere)

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Sabina Becker

This morning, I came across this particularly sad story out of Caracas: Adriana Carolina Hernández, 26, died in the Pérez Carreño hospital on Wednesday, where she was brought by her mother, as a result of a pulmonary embolism after having … Continue reading →

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Neruda to be exhumed tomorrow

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Sabina Becker

The grave of Pablo Neruda, overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Isla Negra, Chile. After nearly 40 years, it is about to give up its biggest secret: How did the great poet, a Nobel-winning national icon before his death and a … Continue reading →

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Crazy talk in Venezuela

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Of all the things to waste a governor’s time, scurrilous rumors have got to be the worst. Just ask Chavecito’s old army buddy and Bolivarian comrade-in-arms, the governor of Zulia: The governor of the State of Zulia, Francisco Arias Cárdenas, … Continue reading →

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Nicolás Maduro on the legacy of Comandante Chávez

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Sabina Becker

The current (and sure to be future) president of Venezuela recently gave an interview to the Venezuelan newspaper, Panorama, and shared some remarkable insights into Chavecito’s illness, his last days, and the extensive preparations that lay behind it all: When … Continue reading →

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The “mysterious” death of João Goulart

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Sabina Becker

It is well known that João Goulart, the popular left-liberal president of Brazil, was overthrown in a military coup that ushered in twenty-one years of fascist military dictatorship, replete with political prisoners (among them, the current president of Brazil, who … Continue reading →

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Teh Heterostoopid: Too dumb to read, but not to breed

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Sabina Becker

And anthropology is the poorer for it. D’oh.

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Festive Left Friday Blogging Too: Chavecito in hospital…for reals!

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Well, well, what have we here? Looks like the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez…and his daughters, María Gabriela and Rosa Virginia. Reading a Cuban newspaper. And resting comfortably, but not hooked up to life support or anything like that. He’s … Continue reading →

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Spanish paper speculates, anglo whore media runs with it.

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Sabina Becker

“Doctors have already told the Chávez family that he will not recover. Venezuelan government to announce in the next few days the incapacity of the president, who has lost his voice.” O RLY? Film at 11… The Spanish newspaper ABC … Continue reading →

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Now is the winter of our discontent…

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Sabina Becker

So, it appears that the long missing skeleton of King Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England, has finally been found. And, in a creepy parallel to the case of Che Guevara, he was found in a rather ignominious … Continue reading →

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