Tag: money
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Funding, funding, funding!
Two out of three posts in Science Insider Magazine [1] lately are related to research funding (especially with the NSF issue). This is what "science" has become today: From the lighhouse of humanity, a beggar for money…
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Order 81, farming, GM...
Order 81 in Iraq changed farming for ever: Farmers are no longer allowed to re-use their seeds for the next crop and they have to use genetically modified seeds. (1, 2) The soil of one of the most ancient civilizations on Earth will never again be the same. Welcome to the new era of "civilization"... A, and…
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Selling paint, selling lead, selling "civilization"...
Rich countries banned deadly lead pigments years ago. However western "civilized" and "ecological" countries still export 28,000 tonnes a year to poorer countries. [1] You see, there is no law for killing people from paint there… As the article characteristically points out, in 1786 Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend on the hazards…
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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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