Archive for the ‘science’ Category
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Pop Quiz: which of these is more important?
A. The banking industry is in free fall and the problem is spreading.
B. There's methane bubbling out of the Arctic.
To me, the really interesting thing about this period in history is the amount of uncertainty over what story lines will dominate our ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Latest in the Bisphenol-A tussle. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26736202/
I have a feeling this will just keep going drip drip drip with the American Chemistry Council blustering about how all the studies are flawed and finally, in about ten years, everyone will say, yeah, we really should have banned this stuff a long ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Tip of the hat to Lou Anders who passed me this link; they've made glow-in-the-dark cats in Korea.
When I wrote "The Calorie Man" this questionable little trick had been performed on rabbits. It provided the creative spark for Cheshires, and also formed the basis for the grain-sniffing IP ...
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