Something happened last night that you don't see very often - almost all of the polls were right. Nearly everyone predicted the state electoral results correctly and that, my friends, is truly rare. read...
read moreWhat big trends can you expect to take hold in 2013? THE WIRED WORLD IN 2013 is a new annual trend report that covers a broad range of topics across eight sections; from science to arts, politics to medicine and culture to the environment.I have two articles in the issue, one on science and one on environmental policy - that's right, Richard Branson and James Dyson only get one but they...
read moreA few months ago, before Monsanto and DuPont realized Proposition 37 may have been started by anti-science crackpots but it was not going away and I was one of the few critical of it, I would have predicted GMO warning labels to win by 66% - because that is the percentage of Democrats in California and while Republicans get attention in science media for being 'anti-science' due to global...
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If the Economist's obituary of Sylvia Kristel, star of Emmanuelle, is accurate: that she was moderate, responsible, moral and had an IQ of 167, how could we not have cloned her?...
read moreSince it is almost the end of election season we will also see the end of the meme from Environmental Working Group and other anti-science organizations about genetically modified organisms.Okay, we won't see the end of that at all. If you are an advocacy group, you don't raise money by noting the positive things about science, you have to try and scare people a little. So Union of...
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