Import Blogger Comments into WordPress 1.5
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Safety Issue with Google
How to stop Google from divulging a map from your phone number.
Cool Clock
Very Cool Clock Very fun and a little hypnotic to watch, this clock has little films of someone writing the numbers and erasing them in boxes for the seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. (Thanks Nelson!)
New Strain of HIV
Manhatten hospital patient’s virus is highly resistant to drugs and progresses rapidly to full-blown AIDS “For the first time, doctors have diagnosed a form of HIV that New York City health officials say has two striking characteristics: It is highly resistant to antiviral drugs in a patient who had never been treated with the medications, and it quickly developed into full-blown AIDS. The infection defied the typical HIV-to-AIDS profile by apparently developing into AIDS in a matter of months, officials…
U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Findings
U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Findings Here is just one more example of our government’s merger with corporate interests depite all rational and ethical considerations. In response to a survey done by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, more than 200 scientists employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say they have been directed to alter official findings to lessen protections for plants and animals. “Sally Stefferud, a biologist who retired…
Biosecurity a No-Go
In March of 2004, the US Dept of Health and Human Services announced the formation of a new National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. The aim of the board was to advise feds on research of “dual use” – science that could be used as a weapon. This was meant to prevent terrorists from seeing information that they could transform into bioweapons while still not impeding – too much – the flow of information in the sciences. “The NSABB will…