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The Color Purple
January 9, 2013 0

The Color Purple

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9/1/13 3:20 PM Anonymous said… Apologies for being a bit off-topic, but since the New Year is often a time for catching up with the goings-on among friends like ol’ Bish, perhaps it’s worth an update on a certain Peter Wood, with whom John Mashey and other readers are familiar, whose ignorant and defamatory anti-science essays appeared at the blog Innovations , formerly hosted by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Eli Found Another Daniel Sarewitz Comment
January 6, 2013 0

Eli Found Another Daniel Sarewitz Comment

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Eli Found Another Daniel Sarewitz Comment Whilst poking about the INTERTUBES, Eli came across the generator that Daniel Sarewitz uses to prepare his Nature columns.  Now some, not Eli to be sure, might think this produces but a pale imitation of the real thing, but Eli knows Artificial Intelligence when he reads it.

Caution
January 4, 2013 0

Caution

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Caution Thomas Midgley Jr. is well known for having "more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history".  Midgley’s team was responsible for CFC refrigerants, and the introduction of tetraethyl lead as an antiknock agent in gasoline.  The CFCs have had both good and bad effects, the identification of the bad ones, ozone depletion, and the calculus is irrelevant at this point with the Montreal Protocols and the availability of adequate substitutes.  Tetraethyl lead is another story and a report in Mother Jones today provides a useful platform from which to view the introduction of GMO technology. The Weasel has posed seven questions, but even he admits that there are two core ones 4: Can we really be sure that GM crops are safe — for our fellow creatures in the environment at large; or for consumers – whether livestock or people