Here’s a complicated international political snafu for you: how does the South Korean government hold Dow and Monsanto’s feet to the fire for creating Agent Orange back in the Vietnam War era? With a ruling today that awarded $62 million to 6,800 victims of Agent Orange poisoning, the case is brought once again into […]

Well, school starts up again today down here in Charm City, a.k.a. Baltimore. I’ll try to keep up a regular stream of posts, but no promises…
The link to Sprol has been lurking in the shadows of our sidebar for quite some time now, but I wanted to make sure that it received a proper […]

If “news” told us more
Of real, good, non-cheesy things,
We’d be more hopeful
A story in the Jan. 8 New York Times made me ponder this. It was about, of all things, health care in a developing country – Cambodia. Called “A Cure That Really Works: Cambodia Tries the Nonprofit Path to Health Care”* and written […]

Eugene Jareki was on The Daily Show last night, plugging his new movie Why We Fight. The interview made it sound interesting — a kind of Michael Moore-ish documentary where he starts with his “idea piece” of Eisenhower’s final speech as the Commander in Chief where he ominously (and presciently) warns of the military […]

Add this headline to the “stranger than fiction” category: “Inventor develops anti-malarial wristwatch” (yahoonews via TEDBlog).
How the hell does this thing work, you may ask…
The sturdy digital timepiece pricks the wrist with a tiny needle four times a day and tests the blood for malaria parasites.
If the parasite count tops 50 an alarm […]