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POPSFarmers plant hemp seeds on DEA's front lawn As anyone who isn't smoking crack has already figured out (and even a few who are), America's drug policy is a scandalous failure. Not only has the so-called "War on Drugs" utterly failed to stop the flow of recreational drugs in America, it has criminalized struggling farmers who seek to grow industrial hemp as a profitable, renewable crop that's in high demand across multiple industries.
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POPSThe Website Bandwagon... are you on it? Very hekpful guidelines here for those of us starting up websites. I did one for 10 years and have since passed it on to s.o. else. Now I have the bug again in a different field: photography and marketing my photos. www.photocards4all.com (plug, plug...)
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POPSMechanism that triggers differentiation in embryo cells discovered They found in their experiments, using embryos from laboratory mice and cells that grow in culture, that this entire process is actually controlled by a single gene, called G9a, which itself is capable of directing a whole program of changes that involves turning off a large set of genes so that they remain locked for the entire lifetime of the organism, thereby unable to activate any further cell flexibility.
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POPSThe Concept of Race I want to be clear from the beginning, we do know of any gene, no one has ever found a gene, I'm not saying they don't exist, but in all the searching, no one ever has found a gene in which one so-called race has 100% of one form of the gene and some other race has 100% of another form of the gene. There are no single genes that differentiate Africans from Asians, Asians from Europeans, Europeans from Australian Aborigines and so on.
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POPSEven the Giants Can Learn to Think Small BACK in the waning days of the 20th century, little start-up companies couldn’t wait to get big. Growth was their entree to the upper echelon, to millions in venture capital and tens of millions more in an initial public offering of stock. Getting big meant taking advantage of economies of scale, putting the company name on a ballpark, creating a global distribution network and hiring the industry’s best to conduct big-picture research.
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POPSIn Love with Love: Watch Out!
By the second half of the 20th century, though, this culture of restraint had been jettisoned, and replaced by the idea that self-denial was self-abnegation. Now, in its general thrust, our culture is in love with the idea of love, awash with cock-eyed romanticism and unable to tell any more what's attraction, what's lust and what's love. Puberty, and even childhood is suffused with a popular music soundtrack that peddles endless trite paeans to the central importance of modern romance. The most surprising of people want naff anthems celebrating some songwriter's long-since ruined "true love" at their weddings. At some point, most teenage girls at least flirt with the idea of giving attraction a dry run by developing a crush on a pop star. Heaven knows what Wagner would make of it all. On the whole, people don't really like it when scientists tell them that attraction is all down to pheromones, or waist-to-hip proportion, or instinctive recognition of genetic differentiation.
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POPSCause and Treatment for Parkinson's "In Our Sights" "We have the cells; we know what controls their birth and death—we're on our way," says McKay, a senior molecular biology investigator. "It looks like we've got this disease in our sights now. We will understand Parkinson's disease relatively soon."
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POPSMystical Masks in Bali I find the idea that everything contains spirit very powerful. I've studied mask in acting workshops in New York and it was remarkable how great a transformation I underwent when I put on a particular mask.I'd like to study mask making and masks in Bali one day.
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