December 2011
11 posts
Maria Popova's Beautiful Mind | Mother Jones →
How she reads so much
What Is Good Fact-Checking? | Mother Jones →
“The first rule of fact-checking is that everything you read and hear is wrong.”
Illegal flare burning near Richwood » Today's... →
BBC News - Brain changes seen in cabbies who take... →
The Berkeley Pit - Butte, Montana Superfund site,... →
“Though it might seem an irredeemable place, it turns out that the Pit—located in the mining town of Butte, Montana, and operational between 1955 and 1982—is proving to be a rich source of unusual extremophilic microorganisms, which have produced novel and compelling bioactive metabolites.
Read more: http://failuremag.com/index.php/site/print/the_berkeley_pit/#ixzz1fb2KZMJ9
Are You Ready for High Allegheny National Park? |... →
Fundamentally: Newt Gingrich’s Favorite Word --... →
“Newt Gingrich, you might say, is the world’s most hard-core fundamentalist…..
To give you a more complete understanding of how compulsively Gingrich abuses his favorite words, I searched Nexis transcripts and news accounts with the goal of plucking out every single phrase in which he uttered them. I started in the present day, and made it all the way to the beginning of...
How to Make a Deadly Pandemic Virus | Mother Jones →
Controversial Studies Give a Deadly Flu Virus... →
Martin Enserink
Scientists have created an H5N1 avian influenza strain that has been genetically altered and is now easily transmissible between ferrets, the animals that most closely mimic the human response to flu. Flu researchers believe it’s likely that the pathogen, if it emerged in nature or were released, would trigger an influenza pandemic, quite possibly with many millions of...
Drilling Down - Fighting Over Oil and Gas Well... →
Wes Jackson — A Perennial Revolution in... →