Prior to my looking at the third-party candidates and reviewing them I am going to quickly describe my views so my reader(s) know from what direction I cast my gaze. I doubt this will be all encompassing (and I am …
Author: Tfoui
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Something good from global warming
Ozone hole at smallest size in decades
Warm Antarctic temperatures help preserve UV-protecting layer
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346068/title/Ozone_hole_at_smallest_size_in_decades
Just like the thawing of the ice at the North Pole opens up huge lucrative shipping opportunities, the warming has resulted in a shrinking ozone …
Third party case
The progressive case against Obama
Bottom line: The president is complicit in creating an increasingly unequal — and unjust — society
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/27/the_progressive_case_against_obama/
I am not totally sold on the author’s case for the third party. There is the plausible case …
Bacteriotherapy
‘Faecal transplant’ clue to treating gut bug
The gut infection Clostridium difficile can be defeated by a cocktail of rival good bacteria, experiments in mice show.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20081895
I talked a bit earlier about problems with antibiotics and their interference with …
Wage theft
Walmart supply chain: warehouse staff agencies accused of wage theft
‘They prey on people living on the edge,’ claim workers, who are already among the most vulnerable and lowest-paid in America
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/oct/18/walmart-supply-chain-agencies-accused-wage-theft
I can state with authority that this isn’t …
Endangered species!
Is the middle class an endangered species?
After losing ground for four decades, middle America increasingly looks doomed. Here’s how it happened
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/is_the_middle_class_an_endangered_species/
This is likely to be a rambling post, brace yourself… I have felt in my gut for …
Our police state is complete
It seems that there is no longer any point in droning on and on about the ‘impending’ police state, it is now fully embedded in concrete:
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent
Complete with a newly coined, …
Thank goodness for grandma!
Longevity Traced to Grandmothers
http://www.voanews.com/content/grandmothers-longevity-24oct12/1532183.html
I talked a bit before about group evolution and that post-child-bearing adults are valuable to families. The grandmother hypothesis is a variation on the same theme. Looking over the wiki page it seems to …
Are we really collectively that dumb?
A Simple Fix for Farming
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/a-simple-fix-for-food/
I read many years ago about a rancher in the mid west that decided to forgo the hugely expensive and time consuming effort of clearing shrubs and bushes, killing ‘invasive’ browsers (like antelope) and …
Maybe it is easier to teach them to talk to us
WHITE WHALE spent 4 years trying to tell us something, then stopped
Startled diver ‘given orders in English,’ say boffins
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/23/whale_speaks_english/
I have always felt that whales and dolphins are (at least) as smart as us and wanted to be …