Links for you. Science:
Could a Newly Developed RNA-Based Vaccine Offer Lifelong Protection From Flu?
Representative Dan Burton’s last antivaccine hurrah is scheduled for November 29
Ecologists need to do a better job of prediction – part I – the insidious evils of ANOVA
Thorium To Be Tested in a Working Nuclear Reactor
How Can Big Pharma Restore A Reputation?
Other:
He Felt Threatened (must-read)
Is Taxing Capital OK? (Yes, see the second half)
“UFOs” Over Denver Bug Me
Fracking Our Food Supply
The Insourcing Boom (though see this)
Should YOU Go to Grad School? A Guide
Skittish Democrats putting filibuster reform in peril
Class Wars of 2012
White House Makes Aggressive Opening Bid in Fiscal Slope Negotiations
Democrats dig Big Bird; Republicans not so much
Ed Rendell Is on the Wrong Side of the Class War: What you need to know about his “Fix the Debt” cabal.
Susan Rice’s Conflict of Interest – Major Holdings in Tar Sands Oil, Keystone XL Pipeline, and Canadian Financiers
mikethemadbiologist
“Thorium To Be Tested in a Working Nuclear Reactor”
It would be interesting to know what the dickens they’re trying to do. So far as I can tell (a person doesn’t dare do many searches about nuclear ‘anything’) the reactor in question wasn’t a bad choice – it’s pretty deep down under solid rock.
http://www.emtr.eu/hr.html
From what little I know, one of the few things thorium has going for it is that it’s lots more common than uranium. Wouldn’t matter much to me if some evildoer slagged a nearby Th reactor instead of a U one. Of if I get vaporized by a U-233 weapon rather than one of the ‘regular’ types. But some of the propaganda has thorium right up there with free beer.
http://www.thoriumenergyalliance.com/downloads/ThoriumSummary_Alex_Cannara.pdf
I don’t buy it.
“Fracking Our Food Supply”
Depressing read. I’m running into a lot of that type of article lately. Another one of this sort was from the Counterpunch site.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/28/the-drug-store-in-american-meat/
Makes me wish I could raise my own meat animals. But given how fracking is contaminating both soil and water, where could I keep them? And what would I feed them?
““UFOs” Over Denver Bug Me”
Plait points out some of the major issues, notably that you can’t be sure of speed or size if you don’t know the distance. A few other red flags:
# If it shows up as something mysterious in video, but you can’t see anything strange in person while at the site, that’s a red flag. We have a pretty good idea how vision works, both in human eyes and in cameras. They see the same wavelengths.
# If your video tells you UFOs are landing frequently at a particular intersection, but you go to the intersection and don’t see anything unusual, that’s a red flag. This is not rocket science.
Stereo 3D video cameras are not that rare or expensive any more. They should be easily within the range of a dedicated hobbyist, let alone a TV news department.