FDA Warns Consumers Not to Eat Raw Oysters Harvested from Hood Canal Area 4 in Washington State OYSTERS Hood Canal and Samish Bay reopen October 1 for oyster harvest All areas are open with no restrictions for Vibrio bacteria[...]
Archive for September 30th, 2011
NIH may get 3% at the cost of cuts to Pell grants
Inside Higher Education For those here who are not obsessed with the NIH budget, the usual process has been for the President to lowball and then lobbyists and Congress raise the budget. This year things are a LOT different. The Senate is proposing an increase of less than 1% with dictates on spen[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Al-Awlaki killed in Yemen
Anwar Al-Awlaki Dead: U.S.-Born Al Qaeda Cleric Killed In Yemen al-Awlaki booked for soliciting prostitution, 1997 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi, for whom al-Awlaki was reportedly a spiritual adviser 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar, for whom al-Awlaki was reportedly a spiritual adviser Writing[...]
Peak Carbon
“Peak Carbon” H. Harrison July, 2011 By now nearly everyone has heard about “Peak Oil” and the effort to identify the time when half the world’s reserves have been extracted. At earlier times the price of oil is said to be ‘demand limited’: that is, if d[...]