A Kansas farmer has sued Monsanto over genetically modified wheat in Oregon. The attorney who talked to the Associated Press from Dallas said lawsuits were the only way to police the agricultural system. Only a few hundred million dollars in penalties will protect us from food.The lawsuit alleges that the unharvested crop drove down wheat futures prices and caused a backlash from some...
read moreCongressman Raul Grijalva, (D-Arizona), has some interesting ideas about science.Namely, he thinks that all of the government scientists in the State Department who did numerous environmental impact assessments regarding the Keystone XL project don't know what they are talking about. And that he can prove it with a few rocks. read...
read moreNick Duffy is co-founder of the West Midlands Ghost Club (1989) and since then members of the club have been visiting the spookiest and scariest places around the region, using audio visual equipment, temperature recordings and trigger objects such as crucifixes and old coins to find proof of ghosts. The focus for them has always been objectivity and a calm and measured approach.So people...
read moreFracking is awesome. While it has been in existence since the 1940s it really only took off in the last decade. Natural gas is cleaner than coal and now it is even cost competitive. Emissions from the energy sector are back at early 1990s levels, just like we all wanted. And coal is back at early 1980s levels. If our migration toward cleaner energy continues, pretty soon the government will...
read moreIn the 2004 documentary "Super Size Me", Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's food for a month. He felt terrible at the end of it, but it was for art. Fast food has a lot of calories, most people could subsist just fine for 30 days eating just one such meal a day - but even one McDonald's meal every single day in conjunction with two other meals can still lead to weight loss,...
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