Welcome Back To 1978: Nuclear Winter Rebranded As War-Related Climate Change
Greenpeace activists stuck in the 1970s, you need to take a lesson from Madonna; always be reinventing yourself. read...
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OxyContin for 6-year-olds
Purdue Pharma, makers of the painkiller OxyContin, are going to seek U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to label it for use by children as young as 6.Oxycontin earned them $2.8 billion last year but drug companies have a tiny window in which they can make any money so they are always looking for creative ways to extend that. Even a 6-month extension is a billion bucks so Purdue is putting...
read moreCan Lawyers Investigate The CDC?
A recent air leak from a laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, a lab that studies dangerous pathogens like influenza, tuberculosis and rabies, is a very serious issue because it has the potential to harm both employees and the public. Leave it to Congress to put on some political theater and declare they will investigate - using lawyers. It's...
read moreA Graphical History Of LEDs
LEDs are the future of lighting but they aren't new. British experimenter H. J. Round reported a light-emitting solid-state diode in 1907 while Oleg Vladimirovich Losev published the paper "Luminous carborundum [[silicon carbide]] detector and detection with crystals" in Telegrafiya i Telefoniya bez Provodov (Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony) but they were truly basic research and...
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