Does Ice Cream Cause Breast Cancer?
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 Posted in Red Flag, Right Conduct, Science | 2 Comments »Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made With Monsanto's Artificial Hormones? - Huffington Post Article Why my title? It is a quick synopsis of the article by John Robbins in Huffington Posts. Basically rBGH, artificial growth hormone that is so prevalent in ...
How different are dog fighting and football
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Posted in Right Conduct, Science | 1 Comment »A recent article in The New Yorker, Offensive Play How different are dog fighting and football? By Malcolm Gladwell, explores the effect of extreme contact sports like football and boxing on the human brain. For an American male, I’m a bit ...
Let your kids play
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Life, Science | No Comments »Article in the Feb/March 2009 edition of Scientific American Mind reports that there is a correlation between lack of unstructured play time for kids and crime, "By age 23, more than one third of kids who had gone to play-free ...
Memes, is there a self?
Monday, February 2nd, 2009 Posted in Book Reviews, Religion, Science | 12 Comments »I just finished reading a book by Susan Blackmore, The Meme Machine. Meme may be an unfamiliar term to you so I will attempt to explain to the best of my limited ability. All of us are familiar with DNA and ...
You don’t still use a screen saver, do you?
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Science | No Comments »By Don Willmott , Forecast Earth Correspondent I'm happy that at this stage in my career I often find myself writing articles about energy-efficient ways to use computers, peripherals, gadgets, and consumer electronics. It makes me feel so, you know, virtuous. Whenever ...
Africa in perspective
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Politics, Randomness, Science | No Comments »A little graphical food for thought. Click on image for a larger view
Link to interesting article on Global Warming
Friday, August 17th, 2007 Posted in Politics, Science | No Comments »You'll need Adobe Reader for this, a free download Here is the link to the article: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/realdeal.16aug20074.pdf Below is an excerpt from that article: Usufruct is as American as the Declaration of Independence, implicit in the Preamble "to ourselves and our Posterity". ...
