Archive | April 25, 2007

Food contamination investigation expands: how trustworthy is the fox guarding the henhouse?

UPDATE: Now the FDA is investigating whether melamine may have gotten into … wait for it … baby food. It started out as a pet food contamination crisis – dozens of dog and cat food brands associated with Menu Foods were recalled because pets were dying. An investigation was launched, and as these things so […]

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Nanotechnology may help regrow damaged spinal cords

Nanotechnology is a major buzzword in the media these days. There are people who swear up and down that it can enable a revolution in nearly every aspect of society, and others who scream that it’s the metaphorical sky falling down upon our heads. In some respects its both, but I believe that the revolutionary […]

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When “The Ever Present Past” doesn’t supply marketing research

Paul McCartney has a new single out called “My Ever Present Past.” (Scroll down the page to download the song.) Not only is it sonically a nice synthesis of a lot of the music he’s heard over the last, oh, forty plus years or so, the lyric explores his failed marriage, his still burning desire […]

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A social entrepreneur you’ve never heard of … Raymond Ackerman

When Richard Branson or Oprah Winfrey arrive in South Africa to distribute largess you are left in no doubt that these are television stunts designed to maximise their brands. Too much showmanship in front, and little thinking behind. It’s rich folk lording it over poor folk. One South African businessman can teach Bono, Branson, Gates […]

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