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Declaring War On Frappuccino And Diet Soda Is Not A Valid Government Nutrition Guideline

You're not a Frank-people because you eat Doritos, despite what people writing lifestyle/diet...

Physician Burnout Is Common - And Informal Rationing Is One Big Cause

If the government promises every home a great gardener, most people recognize they won't get a...

Cancel Culture Prevents The Best Researchers From Engaging With The Food Industry

After Chris Wild took over the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a UN-funded...

Vermont Should Stop Showing Leadership In Overruling Scientists On Farming

Despite Vermont's Agricultural Innovation Board (AIB), created to inform regulatory recommendations...

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Moms (Up)Rising: Grassroots Health Care Reform Movement Or Well-Funded PAC?

Aug 05 2009 | comment(s)

As you might imagine, I get a lot of press releases. As I have said here before, I like getting them because it's difficult for me to know all the good things happening out there, especially if an organization lacks the budget to hire an expensive PR firm. A little proactive work helps get your message out.

GE Ecomagination Makes Smart Grids Seem Way Cooler Than They Really Are

Aug 05 2009 | comment(s)

There's this little company you may have heard of called GE. Yeah, it's the one Edison started and I don't know where you come down in the whole Westinghouse/Edison fight but one of those guys screwed Tesla and one did not, so I am inclined to like Westinghouse more than Edison even though GE stock obviously did much better.

Hey, I can stick with my principles and still make some money.

But GE has earned my respect, not because of Jack Welch (though he earned my respect, mostly by making the stock a gold mine and despite being a part of that annoying Six Sigma crap that has been foisted off on MBAs since the 1990s) but because they made smart grids seem kind of cool.

What are smart grids?

Tangential Science: Jurassic Beer And Ptolemy According To Homer

Aug 04 2009 | comment(s)

Tangential Science: it's not necessarily science, but it's still funny.

Tangential Science: If You Think It's Tough To Get A Date Now , Wait Until Women Evolve Even More

Jul 29 2009 | comment(s)

Tangential Science: it's not necessarily science, but it's still funny.

1. In an overhyped analysis certain to make biologists want to reach for their pistols, it has been declared that women are evolving to be more beautiful:

"Evolution has led to women, but not men, getting progressively beautiful, according to scientists" it reads.

At Least One Little Pig Concerned - New Houses To Be Made Of Straw

Jul 28 2009 | comment(s)

You may have heard the fairy tale of The Three Little Pigs. In the original story (1), they leave home to find their fortune but the first one builds his new place out of straw and the Big Bad Wolf blows it down and eats him.

By the time he got to the third little pig, who built his house of brick, the wolf got his comeuppance, but it still wasn't a great result for the progessive, environmentally-conscious first one.

Researchers at the University of Bath say straw in housing has gotten a bad rap and to prove it they are making a "BaleHaus" of prefabricated straw and hemp 'cladding' panels.

Have we learned nothing?

First They Want To Kill Me, Now Discovery Channel Wants To Be Friends ...

Jul 27 2009 | comment(s)

A few weeks ago, I got an eerie package from the folks who work for Discovery Channel; an obituary and clues to a mystery. Turns out this was part of a big viral marketing campaign for their upcoming Shark Week.