New Scientist Breaking News – Cannabis may soothe inflamed bowels
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That “evil” weed just keeps on being useful, doesn’t it?
Now if the government (of the people, by the people, and for the people? pardon me while I puke…) would wake up and quit spending billions of dollars a year “fighting” the “war on drugs” and building more prisons to house their victims.
Hard drug use is a self-correcting problem, unlike the “war” which is a self-perpetuating problem, and one that has put millions of otherwise law abiding people in jail and has driven many, if not most, hardcore drug users to a life of crime to support their habits.
My personal belief is that the “war on drugs” is also directly responsible for the spread of aids (and the millions of resulting deaths) among those that use needles, simply by restricting the availability to the point that dirty one-shots get used many times by many folks.
Education eradicates – Incarceration perpetuates…
Israeli Research: Cell Phone Radiation May Cause Visual Damage
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I’ll be using my ear set more often now. Wonder what the safe distance is?
New Scientist Breaking News – Planting trees may create deserts
The report summarises studies commissioned over the past four years by the Forestry Research Programme, funded by the UK government’s Department for International Development.
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I have my doubts about the accuracy of this report. It sounds more like something the US gov would be spewing out.
Update:
I just reread this piece and I’d have to see the entire study. There at the end the one guy says that cutting all the trees only causes a little decrease in rain fall. But what about the air temperature of the area. Does it go up or down when the trees are cut? What about the temp of the ground. Again, up or down? Birds, animals? Insects, and lower life forms? What does it do to the wind patterns. And what does it do to erosion patterns in an area when clear cutting is involved. There are so many variables that while they may be honest in reaching their conclusions I suspect that they chosen their figures to make this piece of toilet paper sound the way the powers that be want it to sound.
Or I could just be in a foul mood… But I have lived with the effects of clear cutting an area and the decrease in water and increase in erosion…
New Scientist Breaking News –
Mysterious disease outbreak in China baffles WHO
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At least they know what it is now. The spread would be a lot worse if it were able to spread between humans.
Treehugger: Organic Farming More Than Competitive
What some of us already knew is being confirmed by a Cornell University study: “Organic farming produces the same yields of corn and soybeans as does conventional farming, but uses 30 percent less energy, less water and no pesticides, a review of a 22-year farming trial study concludes.” Of course, the people who make fortunes selling fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides, GMO crops, etc, don’t want people to know that.
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It’s the little things that make the difference but tech makes the news and news sells product. I’ll take the odor of cow shit over chemical fertilizer any day.
We just got to get small. Big just don’t always (any time?) work!
Canal could cause earthquakes, Egypt warns | The Register
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Little things overlooked (or ignored) in these massive projects can lead to interesting side effects.
Of course, so do tsunamis…
New Scientist Breaking News – Claims of GM-field ‘superweed’ are dismissed
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So who’s lying? Who’s covering up? And who’s just in it for a story? I don’t think they know enough to be making blanket statements on what can and what can’t be passed on and what is sterile and what isn’t quite yet.
GM crop creates a ‘superweed’
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But that can’t happen! Looks like it can too. Now how much of the other stuff out there is gonna crossbred and spread?
Ocean spray lubricates hurricane winds
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So if we can figure a way to dry those nasty ole hurricanes out, the winds wouldn’t be so bad? 😉
Hazy Cloud of Saharan Dust Nearing U.S. – Yahoo! News
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The assorted colds and respiratory crap that usually follows one isn’t a really problem and I’m sure it’s all in my head (and chest or will be soon). And there isn’t any global warming either…
I really do hope it stays south of here, these hot summer days have limited my mobility to nill already.
New Scientist News – Chronic fatigue is not all in the mind
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No S#$%! Glad they have finely figured that one out.
The mechanism that they discuss is interesting.
My symptoms started with a month long bout of flu that left me unable to do much more than real short walks for weeks. That was about 17 years ago. I still have periods that I am unable to do more than just walk from place to place to sit again. Mental activity is almost impossible at those times.
I am coming out of a 2 to 3 week bad period now. This time the mental fog wasn’t as bad but still bad enough that things that I would usually spend minutes on has been taking hours.
Typing during these episodes is always interesting too as I seem to get short circuits between head and hands, so that the finger on the left that is supposed to type the letter will not work but the one on the right hand will do so instead. Or the speed with the nerves fire will seem to vary and I get a lot of “teh” and “ot” and other transposed letters.
I’ve been living with is as there is no alternative that I have found to this point but this sounds like it may have a direct impact on a lot of us…
CNN.com – Quake sounds reveal Earth ‘ripping apart’ – Jul 20, 2005
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Makes sense. And may give a new way of either predicting or monitoring quakes.
Good news for dark chocolate-lovers? – Yahoo! News
The study, published by the American Heart Association, joins a growing body of research that show compounds found in chocolate called flavonoids can help the blood vessels work more smoothly, perhaps reducing the risk of heart disease.
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At last! A reason to eat chocolate. And this was sponsered by the the AHA and not the ACE (american chocolate eaters). Cool!
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Hunger hormone linked to memory
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Interesting. So how hard is it gonna be to regulate this? Or is it gonna be possible without gene therapy?
NRDC: Natural Resources Defense Council
Warmer Oceans May Be Killing West Coast Marine Life
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Not good news for the home team…
Or the top of that food chain they are talking about.
Green Power from Chicken Litter
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This is good news for both the power companies as well as the poultry producers.
I’d like to see small farm sized co-generation setups for all types of livestock waste disposal.
Brain stimulants may become popular
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I want an expresso! Make it a double!
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