Monthly Archive: February 2004

I still keep coming back to this simple problem. If a prion disease like CWD (in deer) can spread as if borne by mobile ve ctors or proximity-based contagion, then how can the prion-based...

So prompted by the fuss over Mel Gibson’s gruesome snuff movie (which itself features the usual anachronistically inaccurate White Jesus, and this during Black History Month!), I checked out some stills on IMDB. All...

Fill out your letter using this form, and the George Bush Re-election Campaign will kindly email your letter to editors for you. How kind of them, especially considering the content is left up to...

George Bush in a debate in 2000, speaking about “gay marriage”: Q: So if a state were voting on gay marriage, you would suggest to that state not to approve it?A: The state can...

Converting to a “hydrogen economy” given current mechanical efficiences will mean increasing the already unsustainable human agricultural footprint by around 50%. The fossil fuels burned in 1997 were created from organic matter containing 44...

Despite being lambasted by his critics (mainly economists), M King Hubbert’s prediction that despite all possible advances in technology and expansion of drilling areas, US oil production would peak and then decline during the...

Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihanouk has shown that advancing years are no barrier to an open mind and liberal attitude. After watching television images of gay marriages in San Francisco, the 81-year-old monarch has decided...

BREMER: On the question of the Peshmerga, let me address it as a somewhat broader question relating to militia and armed forces that are not under the control of the central government. We have...

Halliburton?s construction-and-engineering subsidiary … Brown & Root was part of a consortium of four companies that built about eighty-five per cent of the infrastructure needed by the Army during the Vietnam War. At the...

By refusing to make public its estimates of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has undercut international support for the US campaigns in those countries and has made the postwar stabilization of...