I'm feeling ambivalent about the marches against Monsanto today. There are serious concerns about giant agri-business corporations, Monsanto included. But there's just as many concerns about Con-Agra and ADM and all the rest. I'm just not all that thrilled about the focus on one company and the focus on "the dangers of genetically modified foods ( Read more... )

I spent the last week watching the two seasons of the ABC remake of the 1980's V series. I'm sure most people will remember this one -- reptilian aliens in human skin showing up on Earth in 50 giant spaceships scattered across our planet, claiming to come in peace (always), but really interested in stealing the Earth's water and using humans as a ( Read more... )

Today the idea of a weekly, regularly scheduled sci-fi post occurred to me as a natural complement to Science Friday. Perhaps that has something to do with the lengthy Battlestar Galactica marathon that's taken up a lot of this afternoon and evening or maybe the arrival in the mail last week of the complete V series on DVD. Saturday of most weeks ( Read more... )