Science-y posts
Mostly science-related, but also other topics.
- Nukes can never be the answer. Nuclear plants can’t supply enough energy to stop global warming, but they can kill the planet.
- Profits cost us cures
- Stem Cells: science and ethics.
- Female genital mutilation
- Tuberculosis: the problem we could have avoided
- When is a drug not a drug?
- Science Goes to the Movies. Rant against unnecessary stupidity in fiction.
- pitfalls of Windows, including MS ability to shut down your computer. ubuntu as an alternative.
- Global Warming
- You can’t believe in evolution
- A Choice or a Child?
- Aug. 28, 2007, Lunar Eclipse as seen from my garden.
- Meet the relatives: sea squirts
- Global warming: links to rebut deniers
- Hero Rats. There are times when I think people really will make it.
- Our Government (Not) At Work Substituting people-destroying methyl iodide for ozone-destroying methyl bromide as an agricultural fumigant. Those are not our only choices!
- Germs taken to space come back deadlier
- Zombie (amoebae) like global warming
- Paper Stirling engine
- Carbon nanotech paper batteries
- Bush admin is for fraud. Really.
- Russians boast about a “Father of all Bombs”.
- Taleban pulls ahead of US Their leaders seem to be capable of using solar technology. Ours ….
- Right. Fine. Brains Differ (About neurological conservative and liberal differences.)
- Now I’ve heard everything (About re-shaping genitalia).
- Ten minute cancer test
- Old signs of life on Mars? (Not, as it turns out.)
- Science-ish links, 2007-09-20 Fossil evidence that warmer bogs exhale methane, another greenhouse gas. Chronic fatigue syndrome may be caused by an intestinal virus. A different white blood cell may be effective against cancer.
- Links to interesting data on the physics of levitation, on dinosaurs, and on muscle wasting disease.
- Science links, 2007-09-03 RFID chips in people. Sharpening telescope pictures from the OWL (Overwhelmingly Large Telescope ;-))
- Science links, 2007-09-01 Storing data on a single atom. A possible vaccine for multiple sclerosis. Engineered cells destroy amyloid plaques in mice. And finally, a cosmic crochet project.
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