Cloudy, gray. Maybe some links will help? Science:
The likelihood of pollen from GE cotton causing harm to the environment is about as likely as a poodle escaping into the wild
Empiric antibiotics in the ICU
Study shows reusable bags contain high levels of lead content
Other:
Money and the Midterms: Are the Parties Over? Interview with Thomas Ferguson
Straight Talk In Troubled Times
2 Dems claim Arianna Huffington stole website idea (Considering Peter Daou is one of the plaintiffs, this could get very interesting)
TSA Backlash week
Schools missing mark on MCAS (it seems impossible to expect all students to be proficient. Ever. But it's reform!)
- Log in to post comments
More like this
In the recent debate on sustainable agriculture, I noted that "The likelihood of pollen from GE cotton causing harm to the environment is about as likely as a poodle escaping into the wild."
Amidst the avalanche of comments, noone rebutted the peer-reviewed data indicating that biotechnology has…
I walked into the gleaming 'Orchard in a box", a closed greenhouse where no pollen can flow outside. The apple was red, red, red inside and out and I wanted it. But because I was in New Zealand, where experimenting with genetically engineered food is highly regulated, tasting was banned.
How was…
I had the opportunity to see Felicity Barringer, the New York Times correspondent, speak on the "The Dangers of Environmental Parables" at University of Wyoming's Consumer Issues Conference. Barringer argued that simple parables, such as the greed-versus-good stories present in the seminal Silent…
AKA me on Eli on Richard Betts on... well, you get the idea. The story so far: I wake up one morning a week or so back and hear some luvvie talking the usual kind of "me 'arts in the right place so you won't mind if I talk drivel, lord luv a duck, I 'ad that Lord Monckton in the back of me cab…