Sci/Tech: Biotechnology
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Book Review - Myxomatosis: A History of Pest Control and the Rabbit by Peter W.J. Bartrip— Offers an insight into 50s Britain, its agricultural and official communities, and its ecological balance.
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Theater Review (NYC): Taboos by Carl Djerassi— Carl Djerassi, the inventor of the Pill, sees his scientific perspective conflict with his dramatic one in Taboos.
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How to Make Your Tinfoil Hat— Don't let the CFR turn you into a robotic spy with their mind control lasers. Take steps to protect yourself now!
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Book Review: Knit Aid by Vickie Howell— A near-perfect knitting companion.
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Genetic Manipulation Leads To Extended Lifespan— Scientists manipulated two genes on yeast and ended up with organism which lived ten times longer than normal.
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TV Show ReGenesis Generates Interest in Science— A science consultant for the show spills secrets on the truth behind the fiction.
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Transcendent Consciousness for Transcendent Technologies: Part II— The concluding part to how we humans can transcend body and consciousness using technology.
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Transcendent Consciousness for Transcendent Technologies : Part I— How must a person accept oneself as nothing more than an organism and then transcend body and consciousness? With technology?
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How Would You Know? House Holds Hearings on Drug Safety— The House is looking into foreign drug safety. Will anything change?
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How OLED Is Changing the Face of Portable Technology— A look at OLED technology and its amazing potential for changing the face of portable electronics.
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European Tree Yields New Alcoholism Treatment— Anti-smoking drug also curbs alcohol craving in early tests.
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Book Review: Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization by David R. Montgomery— That our potential to provide the food a growing world population needs is in question is not widely known...
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Cochlear Cyborgs— It is essential to encourage Cochlear Implant technologies while respecting social issues involved.
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How Good Are Your Drugs? (Part 4)— The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is faltering in their attempts to safeguard drug distribution and prescription medications quality in the United States and
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Is Mitt Romney a Cylon?— 10 reasons - from how could one person have so many different positions ... to the meaning of "null set"
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News Analysis from Israel: Suppressing the News - Why Is This So?— They are not white, they are not rich, they are not Christians - who needs to gives a damn? Who needs to know?
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Book Review: Chasing Life by Sanjay Gupta— Is immortality really on the horizon?
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Extreme Left Spin on Stem Cell Story— An article came out today that touts the results of stem cell treatment for diabetics while attempting to mislead readers.
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New Approach May Lower Drug Prices— A new approach may lower the cost of drug manufacture.
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Streamlining Ethanol Production— Modifying microorganisms to produce ethanol more efficiently.
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Baa Baa Black Sheep and an Angry Navratilova— Can bio-engineers deliver world peace where politicians, philosophers and clergy have failed?
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Strong Brands Balm Consumer Brains, New Study Shows— Researchers poke around the "branded brain."
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Bad Religion to Headline Warped Tour and The Daily Music and Tech News— Bad Religion on the Warped Tour, The Shins, and Fingerprinting at Heathrow in Today's update.
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Kanguru Biometric USB Drive— Biometric security meets USB memory
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Is Michael J Fox Aware Cardin Voted Nay on Stem Cell Research?— Michael J. Fox campaigns for a candidate that voted against embryo-destroying stem cell research.
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The Drugs on War— Canadians and Taliban smoke some pot together.
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Fingerprint Fury: Parents Angry at Schools— British parents are angry that their kids' schools are fingerprinting them and providing police with a database to draw from.
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What About Performance Enhancing Mechanisms?— Will our genetically-enhanced, chemically optimized, and possibly bio-cyber equipped descendants will think of us as “Amish”?
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Viisage to Buy Iris-Scanning Technology Company and The Daily Music and Tech News— Viisage set to buy Iridian, Franz Ferdinand to give out tips and Kylie to play London in today's update.
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News From The Heart: Cardiologist Donates Blood During Surgery— There are many complaints about the medical profession. There are also heroic doctors at work.
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What Shall We Spend Our Money On Today? Health? Education? I Know, Biological Weapons!— Any sane person would focus on ridding the world of harmful pathogens, not on creating new ones.
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UN Wants Birds to Wear Backpacks— Birdy backpacks proposed to fight the spread of avian influenza... No, really.
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Getting into J. Craig Venter's Genes— "My genome is bigger than yours!" Venter's personal genome will be published as a reference databank this year. Where will this maverick researcher head next?
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The Healthy Skeptic: IGF-1 Is The Performance Enhancing Drug That Everyone Will Want To Get Their Hands On— Post-Balco era, it’s not a matter of whether athletes are using illegal drugs, but what drugs they are using.
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Help Girls Fly And Achieve Other Fantastic Feats— Women experts in engineering, mathematics, science, and technology are needed to present at Sally Ride Science Festivals for girls.
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SciTech Watch: The Finest SciFi TV You've Never Seen— Join us this week as SciTech Watch explores the world of Regenesis, the Finest SciFi TV You've Never Seen.
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Book Review: Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look At Literature by David P. Barash and Nanelle R. Barash— The nature of human nature as applied to literature, but in a fun way. Nobody will be replacing Derrida with DNA tests any time soon.
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News Flash: Grow Your Own Body Parts— Scientists report on a stem cell breakthrough in animal research that could have major implications for the future.
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Computing to Greatly Impact Science and Research by 2020— Microsoft-sponsored report sees great gains for biology, medicine, climate study - calls for renewed support of science.
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Russian Roulette— Hey, Mr Pharmaceutical. Run, come, inject me. Inflate my head. To three times, its normal size.
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Bird Flu Virus One Gene Away From Human-To-Human Transmission— The plagues of Egypt return, just in time for Passover. Prayer is the best defense now.
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Living in Death's Shadow— Most US adults anticipate a terrorist attack within the next year. How is this affecting our collective unconscious?
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Green Dogs in San Francisco and Green Buses in London— A gift to cartoonists, but it also makes perfect sense - time to harness "canine power".
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