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POPSDoes Economics Violate the Laws of Physics? Excellent article on how, among other things, economists treat energy as a commodity and ignore that it takes energy to produce the other commodities. This is what happens when our educational system gets taken over by people who devalue the subject of Science...not to mention common sense.
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POPSComputational Process Zeroes in on Top Genetic Cancer Suspects The new process focuses on missense mutations, meaning protein sequences that each possess a single tiny variation from the normal pattern. A small percentage of these genetic errors can reduce the activity of proteins that usually suppress tumors or hyperactivate proteins that make it easier for tumors to grow, thereby allowing cancer to develop and spread. But finding these genetic offenders can be difficult.
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POPSItaly Cracks Down On Raiders Of Lost Art The 2,500-year-old Euphronios vase, which depicts a battle scene from the Trojan War, was dug up and illegally taken out of Italy in the 1970s. It was finally returned to Italy in 2008, after it made its way into the collection of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Lost Chalice" by Vernon Silver/Wiliam MorrowThe 2,500-year-old Euphronios vase, which depicts a battle scene from the Trojan War, was dug up and illegally taken out of Italy in the 1970s. It was finally returned to Italy in 2008, after it made its way into the collection of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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POPSThe Health Care Debate Is Making Me Sick "Some of us — a lot of us — already receive health care under some form of government plan, but don't believe in health care under some form of government plan. That makes us hypocritical or selfish. In some camps, I hear that makes us patriotic.
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POPSCourt Restores 'Roadless Rule' in National Forests A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Forest Service, did not tip the administration's hand, but said: "The Obama administration supports the conservation of roadless areas in our national forests, and this decision today reaffirms the protection of these resources."
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POPSWastewater Analysis for Drug Abuse Evidence A study in the journal Addiction shows that a viable system for measuring the consumption of illegal drugs in various communities is to analyze samples of untreated wastewater--which contains the leftovers.
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POPSBear Shaving or How Not to Solve a Problem Example: putting a sophisticated queue management system into the Department of Motor Vehicles so that people waiting in line feel like it's less of a mob. This is bear shaving. The productive approach would be to redefine what actually happens in that building so the line itself disappears.
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