The U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General recently did an audit of the National Organic Program, which is part of its Agricultural Marketing Services group. read...
read moreFrom 1946 until 2008, my old home town of Vero Beach was Dodgertown, and the Dodgers held spring training there, even though they were in California for most of that time. But in 2008, dirtbag/genius Frank McCourt took the giant suitcases of money being offered to him and moved their spring training to Arizona, where the fanbase in the Southwest, much nearer to Los Angeles, was far more...
read moreExpand or die is a business school staple. The idea being that you use profitable stores to buy market share and carry less profitable stores that will eventually become profitable due to the increased popularity of the brand due to greater presence. Otherwise, your revenue starts to decline. McDonald’s was always no small part a real estate venture as much as a hamburger one. And it...
read morePETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is mostly famous for exploiting live naked human women to protest the exploitation of dead food. It doesn’t make a lot of sense but not much about PETA makes sense. They deny science but apparently they love technology – especially if it will annoy hunters. They have [...]
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* I lived in Vero Beach, Florida until the age of 10, when we moved to Pennsylvania. But living in Vero Beach – Dodgertown, spring training home of the Los Angeles Dodgers – instill a lifelong love of the Dodgers. Though not LA. In the early 1970s, Vero Beach had a number of retired former Brooklyn Dodgers and fans and they never quite got over the trauma of the team moving to...
read moreIt's the weekend, which means it is time for scientists, science journalists, book authors and intellectually curious readers to think about microbiology. And that means beer. Beer is actually safer to drink than water. You didn't know that? Let's talk some biology. The master ingredient in beer is yeast. That's a microbe! So if you do experiments with beer this weekend, you are...
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