Somethings happening here

Over the next few weeks I’m going to manually moving pre-2006 posts on Stranger Fruit over to this site. Longtime readers - or is that reader - will remember that the blog was hosted on my own server between January 2004 and December 2005 but disappeared into the aether after a database crash early this year. Remnants are, however, to be found on the Wayback Machine and I’m going to use those to recreate some of the material going back to January ’04 in an effort to give it more permanence. I’m going to have to do this manually, but that will enable me to just concentrate on the science and anti-science material, though I will still repost some political material as needed.

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From Well, Tara Parker-Hope's health blog at the NY Times:
Peter Baker of the Post reports on a White House policy manual (PDF) detailing how Preside
Trade publications; such as catalogs, technical bulletins, and web sites; are a valuable source of information for students in biotechnology-related courses.
I've always wondered about why manual transmissions generally get better mileage than automatics. The answer is surprisingly simple: humans are better shifters.