Suddenly.. the electric car is a big item of discussion, with political leaders making bold promises. Most famously Senator McCain has promised a $350 million prize to someone who develops a better battery for electric vehicles. And in general the treatment of EV’s is as if they have no history, that they’re completely […]

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The Voice of Officialdom: “Volkswagen’s top researcher warned Saturday, July 19 that pure electric cars would not became a major product for decades, because they continue to be thwarted by battery technology. ” …the key problems were gaining adequate range, the huge cost and a lack of industrial capacity to make high-energy batteries.
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T. Boone Pickens Responds to Al Gore’s Climate Speech: In a “My plan is better than your plan” kind of statement T. Boone Pickins announced: “Today, former Vice President Al Gore put forward a framework of a plan that is focused on global warming and climate issues. My plan is aimed squarely at breaking […]

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DrugMonkey alerted me to this gem at Light-skinned-ed Girl on a company called GenSpec Labs who are marketing, African American-, Hispanic-, and Caucasian-focused vitamin supplements.
Seriously. I thought this was a link to The Onion.
The GenSpec promotion is a completely asinine and repulsive marketing exploitation of a concept that, surprisingly, often has some pretty good science […]

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Just a quick follow up to my post about genetic screening of embryos and subsequent implantation. The spontaneous abortion rate for humans is very high. Probably on the order of 50% of fertilized ova implant and complete to term. I’ve seen numbers all over the place. In any case, I assume many of these are […]

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Joe Conason is claiming the proposals floated by John McCain are eerily like the ones pushed by V.P. Dick Cheney. Hmm… McCain is running on claims he bucked the White House on various things, but hey if he’s reading from the same playbook as Cheney then is he really the maverick bucking the […]

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