Category: Money
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Brain "dead" and the Industry of Transplants...
Brain dead is not necessarily... “dead”! The fact is that the criteria for "death" based on "the death of the brain" were invented by a committee at Harvard (hence the "Harvard Criteria", based on 0 experiments by the way) the members of which had relations to organ transplantation. And today these criteria are used to support a multi-billion dollar industry…
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G20, sewage system, vaccines...
In the United States, rotavirus is a public health nuisance, resulting in tens of thousands of hospitalizations for severe diarrhea in infants and young children each a year, but few deaths. In India, the virus is a public health menace: It claims more than 100,000 lives a year. [1] A new vaccine could sharply reduce…
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High Frequency Trading, computers, humans...
In markets, as in war and medical research and just about everything else, technology tends to impart an advantage. This is how a single computer program of mysterious origins managed to make up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week while hoarding 10 percent of the bandwidth allowed for trading…
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Monsanto, free genes, lucky crops.
In a unanimous decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court backed the agribusiness firm Monsanto on its soybean patents. The justices concluded that an Indiana farmer, Vernon Hugh Bowman, violated the company's intellectual property rights when he refused to pay royalties on unlabeled soybeans he bought that contained genes patented by the company. The court ruled…
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The 90% to the 1% - Logical and fair...
90% of the world's anti-depression medications is consumed by 1% of the world's population... Oups. My bad. I wanted to say that the 90% of the world's wealth is owned by 1% of the world's population... Wait a minute... Isn't that the same? 🙂 😛 😉
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