Four more people in the Philippines have been found to be infected by the Ebola-Reston virus and the possibility of pig-to-human transmission cannot be dismissed, the government said Friday. – Is the outbreak of Ebola in Philippines a concern? Apparently I am not keeping a close enough eye on the news – I was not [...]
I work in a colorful neighborhood. Crackhead versus The Operator [Gestures to jacket] Hey, back in black – I like it. Thanks. Hey man, you know Van Dyke brown? Never heard of them. No man, it’s not like that. It’s a guy, he’s a painter, uses Van Dyke brown to paint the trees… … … [...]
Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug. The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had [...]
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If you believe everything you read, perhaps this bite-sized portion of saccharin spin will whet your appetite: WASHINGTON, DC – The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) today challenged the relevance and accuracy of information published by Environmental Health asserting that certain tests found measurable levels of mercury in high fructose corn syrup. – HFCS Mercury Study [...]
The Peanut Corporation of America product recall has the look and feel of another overblown public health scare/corporate malfeasance scandal with the inevitable punchline: litigators agree that it was preventable and, therefore, definitely worth suing over. Let’s step outside the headlines for a moment and consider the inverse of the equation: you work in a [...]
Came across an interesting find – AT&T Research Labs homepages for various engineers. Further investigation is certainly warranted, however, in the meantime, a clip from Neil J. A. Sloane’s homepage: Up to now every good quantum error-correcting code discovered has had the structure of an eigenspace of an Abelian group generated by tensor products of [...]
John Thain, who resigned from Bank of America on Thursday, bought 84,600 common shares of the bank on Wednesday, according to a regulatory filing. The man named to replace him, Brian Moynihan, bought a total of 30,000 common shares over a span of two days. Thain bought his stock at $5.713 a share and Moynihan [...]
A group of the nation’s top scientists sent a letter on Wednesday, January 7, to the transition team for President-elect Barack Obama in which they urge a restructure of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because it has become “fundamentally broken.” Of particular concern is the way the agency intimidates and coerces its scientists [...]
The acknowledgment of a disagreement or dispute of facts need not result in failure for one’s interests so long as the core issue remains obfuscated. Information consumers are rarely equipped to resolve controversy without external guidance. Detractors may have physical evidence and supporting theories, however, no evidence is irrefutable wherein doubt can be cast. Principle [...]
