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POPSAroma Resturant goes High Tech So now we have to have a London Blogger and Podcaster dinner here. Maybe a special event, not the usual monthly meetup. I also have to go spend some time in the Wine Cellar/Lounge!
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POPSGenetically modified human embryo stirs criticism It is definitely unacceptable to try it when it is unsafe. It is definitely worth trying when it will be safe. It will be safe eventually, our job meanwhile is to create an adequate ethical framework that will allow the harnessing of this future technology to the benefit of all humans and other beings.
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POPSH-P Challenges IBM Get details of H-P's proposed acquisition of Electronic Data Systems. The move would make Hewlett-Packard the world's second-largest provider of technology services.
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POPSFather of India's Green Revolution Prepares for Evergreen Revolution
“In every crisis is an opportunity” Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution -- this time a perpetual one. In the early ‘60s, India grew 12 million tons of wheat every year. Starvation was rampant and the country imported much of its food. Swaminathan, an agricultural geneticist, developed new strains of high-yield wheat for his country and the programs that led to an India that exports food. Today, India grows some 70 million tons of wheat and has become the world's second-largest wheat producer. He says that today India has reached a plateau in production and productivity because a problem of under investment in rural infrastructure. His M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development follows a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development.
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POPSWomen And Science -- Again A study has found that while there actually is a significant number of women working in fields related to science, engineering and technology, it's their longevity in those fields that's lacking. Women's reluctance to stay in these jobs isn't due to innate abilities, rather, there are a variety of converging causes, from the attitudes of their co-workers to their decisions to start a family. The article provides some good food for thought.
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POPSUniversity Research Labs Produces Too Much CO2 Hervé Philippe, a Université de Montréal professor of biochemistry, is a committed environmentalist who found that his own research produces 44 tonnes of CO2 per year. The average American citizen produces 20 tonnes. Hervé Philippe“I did my PhD on nucleotide sequencing in the hope of advancing our knowledge of biodiversity, but I never thought that the research itself could have a negative impact on biodiversity,” he said, during a recent biology department symposium. He doesn’t believe in one magical solution, but rather in transformations adapted to each area. For universities, he recommends having less frequent international conferences, increasing the use of videoconferences, avoiding research on well explored topics, reducing publications and evaluating the amount of CO2 produced by research projects. On the web: About the Université de Montréal: http://www.umontreal.ca/english/index.htm.
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POPSIn Search of a Test-Tube Hamburger Ok, PETA...you need to keep your nose and money out of franken-food creation. You self righteous SOB's are misguided in this stupidity. HOW ABOUT SOME CONCERN FOR THE ANIMALS (US HUMANS) Ingesting this ungodly abomination? Listen, if you want to pollute your system with god-only-knows-what, that's on you, but your money would be better spent elsewhere.
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