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- bombastinator posted In New System, Algae Cleans Water, Then Transforms into Organic Fertilizer 3 years ago
One of the huge problems with fertilizers is the giant dead zones they create at ocean mouths. This may not only solve that, but make money doing it. The idea is to deliberately grow algae in... more
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- bombastinator posted Hulu may be blocking mobile browsers. 3 years ago
Just looked at my updates on my Android based nexus one today, and in the comments it says Update v2.0.1: More stable, Home shourtcut Hulu blocking Skyfire, (which is the web browser that can... more
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- bombastinator posted GMO roundup ready crops now accompanied by roundup ready superweeds 3 years ago
Popsci has an article about new herbicide resistand superweeds invading American fields. IIRC science pretty much predicted this one. I'm recalling USDA research in the 1950's on hog... more
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- bombastinator posted Sped-Up Bacteria Could Transform Carbon Dioxide into Natural Gas 3 years ago
Gizmodo has picked up a French story about a Japanese company who thinks they might be able to use bacteria to convert underground stored C02 into usable natural gas in a reasonable amount of... more
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- bombastinator posted Bans 'do not cut abortion rate' in 197 country survey 3 years ago
"Restricting the availability of legal abortion does not appear to reduce the number of women trying to end unwanted pregnancies, a major report suggests. The Guttmacher Institute's... more
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- bombastinator posted Republican oriented polling firm strategic vision may have cooked their data. 3 years ago
Republican based pollsters Strategic vision http://www.strategicvision.biz/home.html had their data over several years checked by polling expert Mark Blumenthal and blogger Nate silver with... more
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- bombastinator posted Booming business for tuberculosis infected saliva in South Africa. 3 years ago
Apparently a new south African welfare scam involving false TB claims is gaining such popularity that a thriving black market for TB infected saliva and stolen specimen bottles is developing... more
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- bombastinator posted Is wallstreet beginning to retreat from the Libertarians and the Chicago school? 3 years ago
This article entitled "Wallstreet's math wizards forgot a few variables" discusses an emerging change in wallstreet's prediction models that diverges from the the traditional... more
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- bombastinator posted Scent of insect death may be effective eco-friendly repellant. 3 years ago
According to the article it seems that much like putrezine given of by us meat based critters all insect corpses give off a distinctive blend of fatty acids that almost all insects seem to... more
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- bombastinator posted Some basic fuel for the corn debate 3 years ago
I ran into this on HULU. It's a history channel documentary on the history and uses of industrial corn. It's pretty basic, but it seems fairly balanced to me and provides some... more
