Global Food Security – or – Fast and Easy Ways of Losing Weight (in 20 years).
This was just published in Science this week: Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptation Needs for Food Security in 2030. From the “Perspectives” review of the paper: Lobell…
Read articleOntarians Might Finally Air Dry Their Unmentionables
Let ’em loose! [source] I’m a third generation eastern European. By that token, my grandparents speak Ukrainian, my Dad went to Ukrainian Sunday School as…
Read articleBeing the AMS Executive Coordinator of Student Services: An Amazing Way to Spend a Year
For the past 10 months I have been the AMS Executive Coordinator of Student Services, a position that has challenged my thinking, expanded my vision, greatly…
Read articleSENSibility 8: The Supercarrot
A genetically engineered carrot has been developed in the US that greatly increases human absorption of the calcium within the vegetable. I am not making this…
Read articleMainstream Media and Science: Climate Change, 1995-2004
[source] Thus, by way of the institutionalized journalistic norm of balanced reporting, United States television news coverage has perpetrated an informational bias by significantly diverging from…
Read articleWorld’s Cheapest Car On Market…F#*K
Yea. I said it, F#*K. Although this word has many meanings, and has even had a song dedicated to it, my definition of this heinous (yet…
Read articleThe Globe 2008 Student Sponsorship Program
Happy New Year to all! And to bring the new year in on a high note, check out the great opportunity offered by the Globe Foundation…
Read articleBrewing Bigger, Better Biofuels
(image source) I’ve never sat down and thought about ethanol as a viable fuel source for the future until recently. Most of what I’ve picked up…
Read articleNational Institutes of Health Mandated to Make All Research Publicly Available
This is interesting – President Bush signed the first law making the release of National Institute of Health research publicly available. This also marks the first…
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Say Goodbye To Science, Government of Canada
By Dave Semeniuk,
Check this out: On Wednesday, Industry Canada confirmed that national science adviser Arthur Carty would be retiring on March 31, and that the position and office…
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