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Podcast:
http://biobees.blogspot.com/2010/11/have-we-been-lied-to-for-10-years.html
"Wherever you are, I think you will find something of interest, as I am interviewing a man who has looked very carefully at the whole issue of pesticides and their potential impact on bees, with particular reference to the BBKA's decade-long policy of taking money from the pesticide industry in return for the use of the BBKA logo on certain products, and the endorsement of such products as being somehow 'bee-friendly'."
http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_12_10.html
The Innumeracy Behind Airline Security
"If ever I wanted to find a good example to illustrate the importance in today's society of ensuring that citizens achieve a basic level of quantitative literacy, the recent activities at the nation's airports provided it. Rather than spend increasing amounts of money, to say nothing of trampling on key provisions of our nation's founding constitution (in this case the Fourth Amendment), chasing a patently unachievable target, by spending a fraction of the money on elementary mathematical education we might achieve a lot more."
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/12/05/over.reactive.immune.system.kills.young.adults.during.pandemic.flu
Over-reactive immune system kills young adults during pandemic flu
"In a paper published Dec. 5 in Nature Medicine, Fernando Polack, M.D., the Cesar Milstein Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt, and colleagues in Argentina and Nashville provide a possible explanation for this alarming phenomenon of pandemic flu. The study's findings suggest [younger]people are made critically ill, or even killed, by their own immune response."
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/12/06/the.lousebuster.returns
The LouseBuster returns: "Four years after the LouseBuster prototype made headlines when research showed the chemical-free, warm-air device wiped out head lice on children, a new study reveals that a revamped, government-cleared model is highly effective."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cat-disease-threatens-endangered-monk-seals
Cat Disease Threatens Endangered Monk Seals: "On the beaches of the Hawaiian islands, monk seals are dying from a pathogen in cat feces that is carried to the ocean in polluted runoff and sewage"
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/12/08/autism.breakthrough.researchers.identify.possible.treatment.impaired.sociability
Autism breakthrough: Researchers identify possible treatment for impaired sociability
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1811404
Five Sci-Fi Children's Books: spoofs. Several of my friends have posted this, but it's amusing. I particularly like the mua'dib in the moon on the last one, a subtle bit of art from the actual text.
http://www.chuntaritos.com/botas-exoticas
Poulaines come to modern Mexico
http://biobees.blogspot.com/2010/11/have-we-been-lied-to-for-10-years.html
"Wherever you are, I think you will find something of interest, as I am interviewing a man who has looked very carefully at the whole issue of pesticides and their potential impact on bees, with particular reference to the BBKA's decade-long policy of taking money from the pesticide industry in return for the use of the BBKA logo on certain products, and the endorsement of such products as being somehow 'bee-friendly'."
http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_12_10.html
The Innumeracy Behind Airline Security
"If ever I wanted to find a good example to illustrate the importance in today's society of ensuring that citizens achieve a basic level of quantitative literacy, the recent activities at the nation's airports provided it. Rather than spend increasing amounts of money, to say nothing of trampling on key provisions of our nation's founding constitution (in this case the Fourth Amendment), chasing a patently unachievable target, by spending a fraction of the money on elementary mathematical education we might achieve a lot more."
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/12/05/over.reactive.immune.system.kills.young.adults.during.pandemic.flu
Over-reactive immune system kills young adults during pandemic flu
"In a paper published Dec. 5 in Nature Medicine, Fernando Polack, M.D., the Cesar Milstein Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt, and colleagues in Argentina and Nashville provide a possible explanation for this alarming phenomenon of pandemic flu. The study's findings suggest [younger]people are made critically ill, or even killed, by their own immune response."
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/12/06/the.lousebuster.returns
The LouseBuster returns: "Four years after the LouseBuster prototype made headlines when research showed the chemical-free, warm-air device wiped out head lice on children, a new study reveals that a revamped, government-cleared model is highly effective."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cat-disease-threatens-endangered-monk-seals
Cat Disease Threatens Endangered Monk Seals: "On the beaches of the Hawaiian islands, monk seals are dying from a pathogen in cat feces that is carried to the ocean in polluted runoff and sewage"
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/12/08/autism.breakthrough.researchers.identify.possible.treatment.impaired.sociability
Autism breakthrough: Researchers identify possible treatment for impaired sociability
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1811404
Five Sci-Fi Children's Books: spoofs. Several of my friends have posted this, but it's amusing. I particularly like the mua'dib in the moon on the last one, a subtle bit of art from the actual text.
http://www.chuntaritos.com/botas-exoticas
Poulaines come to modern Mexico