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Youth Online Literacy: What's Going On Out There?

As many of you know, I've been working for the past couple of years on youth internet health and education issues. While the stereotype is that younger = tech savvier, that's not strictly true. Younger kids may be better acquainted with the internet, may use it more, and may feel more comfortable with it, but that doesn't necessarily mean they have the cognitive skills or experience to differentiate between manipulative content, unreliable content, and good content. How many of you, as adults, have been tricked into clicking on a deceptive banner ad that looked like genuine content? How many…

Pills, profits and medical schools

When I was in medical school it was common to get gifts from drug companies. Since many of us had very little money, the gifts were welcome. One company gave me a Littman stethoscope, at the time, the most advanced stethoscope around. The same model costs about $100 now. I was glad to get it, although I can't tell you the name of the company. I forgot the names as quickly as I pocketed their gifts. We all got lots of free samples, too, and they were often things like tranquilizers sent through the mail and left in the magazine bin in my apartment house common mailbox area. Yes, these folks…

Bad Bailouts?

It's economics time again. I hate economics. I find it hopelessly dull. But apparently my style of explaining it is really helpful to people, so they keep sending me questions; and as usual, I do my best to try to answer them. Even if I don't particularly enjoy it. So people have been asking me to explain what the proposed bank bailout plan is, how it's supposed to work, and why so many people are upset about it. Background The basic problem underlying the current financial mess is, quite simply, that banks made a lot of bad loans. They took those bad loans, and bundled them up into…

Casual Fridays: Who's tab-happy -- and who's not

Last week's Casual Fridays study was inspired by my (incorrect) observation that the latest beta version of Firefox always displays tabs. (Actually, while it defaults to that setting, it's possible to disable it.) When I pointed this out on Twitter, the reaction was one of astonished disbelief that I might ever not want to be viewing multiple tabs. Am I the only person left who doesn't always use tabs? And who uses the most tabs? We asked readers how many tabs they currently had open, as well as several other questions about their internet habits and opinions. As it turns out, I'm in a…

WSJ Health Blog and NYT 'Well' Tie for 2nd Place in AHCJ Excellence Online

Just a quick note of congratulations to friends of Terra Sig (FOTS, if you will) on earning 2008 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism from the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ). Online FIRST: M.B. Pell, Jim Morris and Jillian Olsen, Center for Public Integrity, "Perils of the New Pesticides" SECOND (tie): Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times, The "Well" blog SECOND (tie): Scott Hensley, Jacob Goldstein and Sarah Rubenstein, The Wall Street Journal Online, The Wall Street Journal Health Blog THIRD: Randy Dotinga, Voice of San Diego, "Suicide Magnet" [Part I, Part II] You…

NIH - loan repayment awards

From today's email: Dear Colleague: NIH is inviting health professionals engaged in biomedical and behavioral research to apply online for a loan repayment award. The loan repayment programs (LRPs) are a vital component of our nation's efforts to recruit and retain highly qualified professionals to careers in research. NIH annually awards loan repayment contracts to approximately 1,600 health professionals with an average award of $52,000. More than 50% of the awards are made to individuals less than 5 years out of school. Approximately 40% of all new applicants are funded and 70% of…

Goats, lotteries and the Reverend father

I don’t usually highlight my e-mail spam, but this was so priceless, I just had to. So much wrong here: Guinness is running its "Online Lottery" out of a PO box in Killorglin. I’ve seen Killorglin. It’s best known for a goat being annually named King of Ireland. Seriously. And apparently now the payment representative is working out of the UK (+44) with a Hotmail account. Who have thunk it? And the general manager of the notification department is a Reverend. As in priest. These people aren’t even trying anymore. Full text below the fold. Guinness Online Lottery. Diageo Ireland P.O. Box…

Recommendations for crafting your online presence as your real life changes

Thanks so much to Propter Doc for helping me moderate the Transitions session at ScienceOnline09. Our goal for the session was to draft a list of "best practices" for handling your online presence as you move through personal and professional transitions in the off-line world. Thanks to all the participants in the session for offering up their advice, stories, and wisdom and helping us come up with just such a list. Propter Doc has now got the complete list posted on Lecturer Notes, but I'll offer up a few highlights here. Be ready with an argument to support your blog (why it benefits you…

Buy-in and finger-wagging: another reason scientists may be tuning out ethics.

I was thinking some more about the Paul Root Wolpe commentary on how scientists avoid thinking about ethics, partly because Benjamin Cohen at The World's Fair wonders why ethics makes scientists more protective of their individuality than, say, the peer-review system or other bits of institutional scientific furniture do. My sense is that at least part of what's going on here is that scientists feel like ethics are being imposed on them from without. Worse, the people exhorting scientists to take ethics seriously often seem to take a finger-wagging approach. And this, I suspect, makes it…

Good-bye ScienceBlogs, and Thank You

Three years ago I didn't even know what science blogging was. Frustrated as a freelance writer, I typed "science blog" into my search engine and was thrilled when this network showed up first on the list. Here was a community of researchers and writers whose love of learning and the sharing of knowledge was communicated on a daily (and sometimes hourly) basis. After spending much of the day reading through posts by GrrlScientist, PZ, Bora, Carl, Chris and Sheril as well as John and Afarensis I was hooked. I made a decision right then and there that I would write for ScienceBlogs. I…

The Morality of Walking Away: How Deregulation Hurts a Conservative Ethos

It's interesting how we're trained to tolerate or engage in a lot of behaviors that, rationally, don't make much sense. Workers who realize that, in today's job market, loyalty to a company doesn't make much sense, are accused of disloyalty by their employers, even though those same employers will let employees go at the drop of a hat. Another economic morality tale is that letting a bank foreclose on your home is an awful thing, even when foreclosure makes economic sense: ...why should Mr. Lewis be "astonished" that people who can pay their mortgage refuse to do so when the home value is…

Why Do So Many Smokers Keep Paying High Tobacco Taxes?

The World Health Organization has declared that "tobacco taxes are the most effective way to reduce tobacco use, especially among young people and the poor," but Slate's James Ledbetter points out that in the US, there's a portion of the smoking population that keeps on paying them: Over the last decade or so, several states and jurisdictions have experimented with massive cigarette tax increases, as much as 100 percent or more over the existing rate. California, for example, still has a relatively low state cigarette tax, but in January 1999, it ballooned from 37 cents a pack to 87 cents. In…

Links for 2011-04-10

"Tie this to your lanyard, Billy Collins" "My brother Aryaman (the talented one) writes: "A colleague of mine who is interested in pursuing science education after her PhD was directed to a collection of (I think apocryphal) answers to science questions from 5th and 6th graders in Japan. I noticed many of them were almost little haikus. So I took the time to work some into form..."" (tags: science education world japan poetry blogs culture silly shalizi) You can't be a fan of SF and lament the rise of ebooks - The Word - According To Me | The Word "It happens so often, people that are…

I Bought a Kindle!

I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point technology left me behind. I still can't play those first-person video games without getting dizzy and confused. On those rare occasions when I want to record a television program, I use videotape. I despise cell phones, though I do begrudgingly admit they have their uses. (During my recent trip to New Orleans I sent my very first text message!) I still buy CD's from time to time. And ever since I started reading articles about the demise of print books, I have been doing my part to keep the industry afloat. This is partly because I…

Legal Victory for Bloggers

A California appeals court handed a huge victory to bloggers last week, ruling that from the standpoint of the law, bloggers are essentially the same as regular journalists and entitled to the same protections. The three-judge panel in San Jose overturned a trial court's ruling last year that to protect its trade secrets, Apple was entitled to know the source of leaked data published online. The appeals court also ruled that a subpoena issued by Apple to obtain electronic communications and materials from an Internet service provider was unenforceable. In its ruling, the appeals court said…

Signs of life in medical social media

Many of us who are involved in social media have bemoaned the sluggishness of our own professions in adopting new media. There are two notable developments in my own field that seem to be holding up. The first is the twitter stream for the American Medical News. This is an online and print newsletter put out by the American Medical Association, but in true social media fashion, the feed is not simply a conduit for their own articles. The feed retweets frequently and tweets stories from other media outlets and blogs. The second is a blog from my own specialty organization, the American…

YouTube: A Curse on the Cute Little Loris?

Here's Alexis Madrigal on why the slow loris' newfound YouTube fame could be the worst possible thing for the little primates: Talk about a buzzkill: watching a video of a cute animal on the Internet may -- in some small way -- lead to it being ripped from its mother, abused, and sold on the global market. I know, I know: most of us can coo over small furry critters with extreme neoteny, while refraining from buying them on the black market. And it's not YouTube's fault that the loris is adorable. It's just truly sad that popularizing an endangered animal most people don't even realize exists…

23andMe offers family discount, just in time for Christmas

Personal genomics company 23andMe is now offering a discount of $200 for customers who buy three or more kits before December 31st. In a press release the company explains the reasoning behind the price cut: By offering this discount, 23andMe hopes to encourage families, in particular, to explore the unique features of the 23andMe Personal Genome Service⢠that are of special interest to people who are related. These features allow family members to learn how genetically similar they are and how genes were passed down from grandparents to grandchildren. Still unconvinced? Just imagine the…

Moonshine Days

My first job out of college, I was a police reporter for a small newspaper in North Georgia, situated in rolling foothills of the southern Appalachian mountains. Moonshine country, in fact. I was hardly a month on the job when agents at the local office of the federal government's Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) offered to let me accompany them on a raid to break up a still. From which I learned that those back-mountain stills tend to be pretty grubby looking. I got a better education in moonshine - or white liquor as most folks called it - from local firefighters. I hung out at the fire…

Strawmen and insurance mandates

I don't say this often, but Atrios isn't talking sense: I feel like those more supportive of this bill are attacking anti-mandate strawmen. The reason for thinking that without a public option or similar mandates are going to be a disaster is that without competition or sufficient affordability (due to not quite generous enough subsidies), you're forcing people to buy shitty insurance that they can't afford. Mandates aren't bad in and of themselves, but they're bad if they aren't part of a comprehensive plan which is... good! The issue is that the health insurance reform bill in Congress…

Wow, I really need me one of these!

Given the general level of intelligence and erudition of commenters here, rare would be the need for a product such as this: (Fortune Magazine) -- Internet veterans have long complained about the steady erosion of civility -- and worse, intelligence -- in online discourse. Initially the phenomenon seemed to be a seasonal disorder. It occurred every September when freshmen showed up for college and went online. Tasting for the first time the freedom and power of the Internet, the newbies would behave like a bunch of drunken fraternity pledges, filling electronic bulletin boards with puerile…

ScienceOnline'09 - Saturday 2pm, and on the organization of an Unconference

About a month ago we had a spirited debate on Twitter if ScienceOnline09 is an Unconference or not. I think the problem stems from two distinct meanings of the term. See what Wikipedia, the Unconference Blog and this article say about the concept. On one hand, people in the tech industry who like to attend various BarCamps and FooCamps (like SciFoo) really like the idea that the program is set entirely by participants ahead of the coference, either on a wiki, or on a big white poster board on the morning of the conference, and thus take it that this is the defining aspect of an Unconference…

National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife

Info, resources, network, academic life - it's all good. From the WEPAN listserv: The National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife combines into a single website information resources and community discussions to support those who study or participate in academic work: faculty, administrators, graduate students in the pipeline, staff. Up to date articles, policy examples, and discussions are available on topics ranging from family-friendly benefits, tenure attainment, and faculty satisfaction to policy development, productivity, and demographics. This one-stop website was developed at the…

The Buzz: Putting a Price on Carbon

The two major policy approaches to cutting carbon emissions, cap-and-trade and carbon taxes, both work by putting a price on pollution. Carbon tax—simply, a tax on fossil fuels—is intended to motivate businesses to conserve energy and switch to cleaner energy sources in order to save money. Cap-and-trade schemes put a limit on how much pollution a company is allowed. Companies that exceed their limit must then buy "carbon credits" from greener companies to compensate. Though these efforts have met with some success, our bloggers ask: is pricing carbon enough to stimulate investment in clean…

Food Court Musical

From http://www.ImprovEverywhere.com, 16 agents create a spontaneous musical in a food court in a Los Angeles mall. Using wireless microphones and the mall's PA system, both their voices and the music was amplified throughout the food court. All cameras were hidden behind two-way mirrors and other concealed structures. This is one of over 70 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed over the past six years in New York City. Others include Frozen Grand Central, the Best Buy uniform prank, and the famous U2 Rooftop Hoax, to name a few. Visit the website to see tons of photos and video…

T.rex, Space, lively colors, mugs, and future scientists - the PLoS Store Spring Collection

PLoS shirts are always hot items in labs and at conferences. People just love them. They ask for them, get them as prizes, or buy them, and proudly post pictures of themselves wearing them.... With the spring coming, we decided to make the range of items available in the PLoS store much more diverse. You can now find tiny Future PLoS Author shirts for kids. And elegantly done embroidered tees, hats and hoodies. We introduced items with a lot more fun colors. And added T.rex to a number of dino tees, mugs and mousepads. There is LOTS to choose from, so take a look around the PLoS store. Hmmmm…

Sometimes the news is funny!

The setup is George Bush, as usual, being an insensitive fool and making stupid jokes about tens of thousands of destroyed lives: There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk--that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras. It got drunk, and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments. And then we got a housing issue, not in Houston, and evidently not in Dallas, because Laura's over there trying to buy a house. The punchline? The White House says Bush's comments were in line with previous…

The New Telecom Product You've Been Waiting For

Presenting the hottest new product in the telecommunications sector: the rPhone: rPhone combines three delightfully diverse products into one awkward and cumbersome handheld contraption -- a revolutionary steam-powered satellite phone, a stylish French musicbox, and a vibrasonic multi-purpose tool that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a Sonic Screwdriver. rPhone is the first portable telephone constructed of materials you've come to associate with progressive technology... from its exquisite rosewood paneling to the handsome brass frame, it shouts "This is the 18th century!" and "Gee…

Obama knocks it outta the park

Extraordinary speech, Barack. But as Julia said at the end ... "OK, guys, now step slowly away from the stage before it gets cheesy .... oops, too late..." I have the following thoughts. Remember the Friend of Bill hats? Hey, we can re-use them as Friend of Barack hats. The money saved can be used to buy better armor for our troops in foreign lands. It occurs to me that Jackie Kennedy was a first draft for Michelle Obama. And now, get to work, fellow Democrats. Slap on the bumper stickers, send money, get the word out, and if someone calls you and asks who you are going to vote for…

Department of Self-Promotion

Well, the BSB (that's the Big Sudoku Book) has now received its first review. It comes from Ed Pegg Jr., who runs an excellent website about mathematical games and puzzles and is very well-known among those interested in recreational mathematics. Did he like the book? Along with Sudoku Masterpieces and Mutant Sudoku, this is one of the best Sudoku books ever written. And I do mean written/crafted -- too many Sudoku books are computer generated. This book shows a lot of careful craftsmanship. He did! Go check out the rest of the review. Then go buy multiple copies before they are all…

Censureship

Lawyers shouldn't determine who gets to read what. Religions shouldn't determine who gets to think what. But the worst combination is when religions use lawyers to stop criticism of their actions and beliefs. Scientology, the money making scam purveyed by the mentally deficient (I can't think of a nicer way to say it), has prevented Andrew Morton's biography of Tom Cruise, the couch and shark jumping actor, from being sold in Australia. This follows similar moves made, by threats of litigation as usual, in the UK. Now, I don't know whether Morton's biography is a piece of crap or a…

The "just another study" gambit

I wrote about this classic crank gambit a bit about a week and a half ago, emphasizing that no amount of studies will convince a crank. Now, MarkH at denialism.com takes on the same issue in more detail so that I don't have to bother with David Kirby's latest spew. Thanks, MarkH! The point is that, for people who've already made up their mind to take a position that already contradicts what large amounts of available evidence says, no amount of other studies is ever enough. The "just another study" gambit should be recognized for what it is: a delaying tactic designed to buy time and distract…

Human Anatomy: A Visual History from the Renaissance to the Digital Age

Anatomical engraving from Henry Gray's Anatomy, 1858. A month or so ago, Abrams books reached out to mention that they were releasing a new title, Human Anatomy: A Visual History from the Renaissance to the Digital Age. I said, "don't I already have this book?" It turns out I did - I had the previous, hardback edition which I picked up for $25 or so on Amazon (a deal, I thought at the time). So I knew this book should really be subtitled "vintage eye candy from Vesalius to Schmiedel," because it's a bundle of rich images from anatomical atlases, interspersed with just enough curation to give…

Around the Web: Persistent myths about open access scientific publishing, Prepping grad students for jobs and more

Persistent myths about open access scientific publishing Prepping Grad Students for Jobs Rewarding Teaching Innovation Ask a Stupid Question: Why is there so much anonymity when it comes to the practices of academic discourse? Elite Universities' Online Play Electronic Textbooks: Why the Rush? Peer review and plagiarism Redesigning the Reference course and Crowdsourcing a library-school syllabus Contract hacking and community organizing and Provocative proposal to force scholarly publishers to respect open-access wishes of their unpaid contributors Why you should stop using social reader…

Plant Sends Tweets for Water

Can a plant send tweets for water? It is possible, using a "do your own biology" approach. From Mashable: From SparkFun: Botanicalls Kits let plants reach out for human help! They offer a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates to your mobile phone. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love. It comes as a kit so that you can hone your soldering skills (or teach someone else) while you build a line of communication between you and your houseplant! This kit comes with everything you need to get your plant…

On the challenges of conference blogging

I've just been pointed to a post on ScienceInsider that mentions my recent coverage (also on Twitter) of the Cold Spring Harbor Biology of Genomes meeting, and the resulting request for clarification from some professional science reporters: In addition to reporting on genetic variation in a gene that is active in fast muscle fibers at The Biology of Genomes meeting, MacArthur wrote several on the spot blog posts covering advances discussed by the participants. Francis Collins also mentioned results on his new Web site. A specialized Web-based news service, Genomeweb, complained. To attend…

ScienceOnline2010 - Program highlights 2

Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 10:15 - 11:20am: A. Demos - FieldTripEarth - Mark MacAllister and Russ Williams Description: Field Trip Earth (FTE) is the conservation education website operated by the North Carolina Zoological Society. FTE works closely with field-based wildlife researchers and provides their "raw materials"--field journals, photos, datasets, GIS maps, and so on--to K-12 teachers and students. The website is in use by classrooms in all 50 US states and 140 countries world-wide, and was…

Pompous git solves the problem of induction … with Jesus!

Wow, but this is awful. Don't watch it unless you're feeling masochistic. It's a snotty, arrogant punk kid filmed in annoying style claiming that he has disproven atheism and that all science is based on theology. I think he might be something like a freshman philosophy major who has just discovered the problem of induction. The problem of induction is a real one, all right; we can't logically support one of the fundamental tools of science, the idea of making general inferences from specific observations. You might think, well, it's worked so far and we've got all these successful…

The Psychology of the Sale

I was doing my grocery shopping yesterday when I stumbled upon a discount that I assumed was a clerical mistake: some fancy olive oil had been reduced from $23 to $9. Needless to say, I immediately put a bottle in my cart, even though I didn't need another bottle of olive oil. But then, just a few minutes later, I began to wonder: why was the olive oil so drastically reduced in price? Is something wrong with it? What isn't Whole Foods telling me? That nagging suspicion - and I'm sure it was completely unfounded - was enough for me to put the bottle back on the shelf. It was too good a deal…

DonorsChoose: Sizzling Science

As the DonorsChoose fundraiser rolls along, I'm making an effort to highlight a few worthwhile proposals from my challenge entry, in case the lack of specificity is keeping people from donating. This time out, that's the "Sizzling Science" proposal, from Broward County, FL. This description echoes sentiments that are frequently expressed here and elsewhere in blogdom: What does a scientist look like? My students need to know that a scientist looks just like them. In fact, they are scientists. They can think like a scientist, hypothesize like a scientist, experiment like a scientist and then…

Revisiting Slow Clothing

Note: If you asked my sisters, both of whom are deeply stylish, elegant and aware of fashion, who you should call before you called me to discuss issues of style, they would probably come up with about a billion names. And that's because they love me. Anyone else could come up with 3 billion. And yet my phone has been ringing off the hook and my email box is full of interview requests because this is fashion week. Why is anyone calling me, a woman who like the late, great Molly Ivins embodies clothes that make a statement - the statement "woman who wears clothes so she won't be nekkid?"…

Searching the scientific literature through the years

After my experience with using (or, as at least one of my readers has suggested, misusing) my blog to get an article to which my university does not provide online access, it occurred to me just how much our means of accessing the scientific literature has changed in the last decade and just how radical those changes have been. Again, those who are old farts with me may remember that a little more than 10 years ago at the institution where I did my residency, we could do electronic searches of the Medline database, but it wasn't over the Internet. Basically, the library bought access to…

Internet Manners

Now that the broken windows theory of crime has been experimentally validated - disorderly streets really do make people more likely to steal - Jason Kottke wonders if the theory also applies to online spaces: Much of the tone of discourse online is governed by the level of moderation and to what extent people are encouraged to "own" their words. When forums, message boards, and blog comment threads with more than a handful of participants are unmoderated, bad behavior follows. The appearance of one troll encourages others. Undeleted hateful or ad hominem comments are an indication that that…

Just One Thing Challenge #4

Did you send your letter and email last week? Did you get your friends to? This weeks is tougher still and will hit the old pocket book. Not all of them are going to be easy. The request: When you buy your groceries this week, if the option presents itself buy organic. Looking at the canned pintos, splurge and buy the organic pintos for 50 cents more. Some of you will no doubt quaff at this week's request. You will say, as I would, but what about the extra money. I only ask you to do this week. Find out exactly how much it raises your grocery bill this week. Post that amount below…

Shouldn't it be called “The Great Wall of Vulva”?

It looks like I missed my chance — I think this place was only a few blocks from the hotel where I stayed in Brighton a few weeks ago. An artist has put together a montage of 400 casts of women's personal bits, called The Great Wall of Vagina. It's impressive and rather pretty. You know, I've been planning some research on natural variation in populations, and I've been looking into variation in limb morphology as an easy assay…but man, I'm looking at that and thinking there's an even bigger reservoir of natural varieties right here in the human population. Somebody ought to do a study on…

Maybe I should beg for nickels so I can buy a pair of roller skates

Jebus, but I am in the wrong business. Benny Hinn is getting his flock to buy him an airplane. As a result, we have recently taken delivery on our Gulfstream G4SP plane, which we call Dove One. I have enclosed a beautiful photo-filled brochure to explain more about this incredible ministry tool that will increase the scope of our abilities to preach the Gospel around the globe. Now we must pay the remainder of the down payment, and I am asking the Lord Jesus to speak to 6,000 of my precious partners to sow a seed of $1,000 in the next ninety days. And I am praying, even as I write this letter…

City of glass houses: how a lack of online privacy shapes "acceptable behaviour"

Mika Tan is a 30-something biochemistry graduate working in the United States. She also happens to be a successful porn actress. Tan helped me out when I was looking for a security expert to provide some context on an article about hacking luxury cars; since then I've been following her on Twitter, because, hey, nothing livens up a Twitter stream like a little gangbang gossip in the mornings. One of the recurring themes on Tan's list of bugbears is her ongoing strife with Facebook, which repeatedly suspends her account for breaching rules on graphic content. This opens up an important…

What Does Science Online Want to Be?

The ongoing mess over Bora Zivkovic's harassment of women writers in connection with his editorial role at Scientific American and Science Online has moved into the "What is to be done now?" phase. The most prominent and linkable of these are from Maryn McKenna and Kelly Hills, though I've also seen the edges of more ephemeral discussions on Twitter. Much of this has focused on formal organizational changes, stripping Bora of power and titles and banning him from the conference. These are entirely appropriate, though partly moot given that he's resigned from both Scientific American and…

Negreanu on the WPT Lawsuit

Daniel Negreanu has a video blog on his website, and if you go to the entry for 7/26/06 you'll hear his take on the lawsuit against the World Poker Tour from 7 top players. It contains some interesting information that may pave the way for a settlement. Lyle Berman, who owns the World Poker Tour, apparently told Daniel that he would be happy to have the players sign the same release they sign for the World Series of Poker (all 7 players suing them are playing in the WSOP and signed that release) rather than the one for the World Poker Tour. If that's a genuine offer and it's made to the…

British Online Gambling CEO Arrested

This is absolutely outrageous. A reader sent me this report by email about BetonSports, an online gambling site that is based in the UK. The report is from MarketWatch: Shares of online-gaming operators based in Britain dropped Monday, after BetOnSports' chief executive was detained while switching flights in the United States, raising the prospect that American authorities are moving to crack down on overseas Web sites that allow U.S. citizens to bet illegally... The board of BetOnSports said in a statement it was seeking "clarification" on the move. David Davidson, assistant chief deputy of…