I Walked With A Zombie
How do you make an A-list film with a B-movie budget? You use clever writing, moody atmosphere and then some creative camera work. Result: a lot of fun. read...
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Did You Go To A Restaurant? I Know How You Vote
Are you buying Halloween candy? Don't you know they use child labor to harvest those cocoa beans? You went to Chick-fil-A? So you don't believe gay parents have just as much right to be annoying at a kid's soccer game as everyone else?It's increasingly the case that someone, somewhere, is going to make a value judgment about you based on what you buy and where. This is the sign...
read moreCelebrating 50 Years Of Weapons Grade Junk Science
To people who are brand new to the culture wars, California's Proposition 37 might be scary. It has demonstrated that the world is a very small place, lies and hysteria can travel around the world and be perpetuated by the blogosphere, the Tweety pages and the Faceyspaceys well before there can be any fact checking or even common sense checking. read...
read moreFusion In A Coffee Mug
Fusion is the super-clean energy we would be thinking about if government-controlled energy science were about the best long-term solutions and not political pet projects - alas, its share of the $72 billion spent on alternate energy the last three years is negligible. But something is better than nothing and some recent research revealed at the International Atomic Energy Association's...
read moreHyped Séralini GM maize study looks worse every day
Gilles-Eric Séralini, the University of Caen biologist and anti-GMO activist, is under intense pressure to report the full data behind his team’s claim that rats fed for two years with Monsanto’s glyphosate-resistant NK603 maize (corn) developed many more tumors and died earlier than controls.
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