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Posts made in May, 2015

Antibiotics Cure Up To 70 Percent Of Patients With Appendicitis

Five small studies indicate antibiotics can cure some patients with appendicitis; about 70 percent of patients who took pills did not need surgery.Antibiotics Resurface as Alternative to Removing Appendix - Gina Kolata, New York Times

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Argument: Offset California’s Water Crisis With A Levy On Inefficient Farms

It's not a secret that organic farms trade modern science for inefficiency in production and higher profit margins - but that does not count the 'intangibles' that go into organic farming, argue Terry Anderson and Henry Miller, and those higher margins should be accounted for in a revenue-neutral way. read...

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Big Cosmetic And Sen. Dianne Feinstein Go After Your Handmade Soap

Big Cosmetic And Sen. Dianne Feinstein Go After Your Handmade Soap

What do you have when someone declares that organic food should be separate from USDA oversight but organic soap should have special oversight if it is not made by a large corporation?A California politician. read...

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Spooky Quantum Action Might Hold the Universe Together

Tensor networks could connect space-time froth to quantum information.A good video for background is ER=EPR from Leonard Susskind is here. 

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Whole Foods Discover Millennials Haven’t Been Trained As Hoped

For year we have been told that Millennials, born after 1982, wanted healthier, nutritious food and it had to come in microwave pouches that were recyclable and in all ways environmentally terrific.Millennials were also being told that, by companies selling all of those features - at highly inflated prices.

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