Hey, don't leave all that food on the plate. Don't you know there are starving people in India?
Well, screw them. We have a better use for the scraps here:
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -
Purdue University students who pile too much food on their trays at Purdue's dining courts are helping the city of West Lafayette generate extra power.
Well, thank goodness:
[Fernando] Nottebohm's research has shattered the belief that a brain gets its quota of nerve cells shortly after birth and stands by helplessly as one by one they die — a 'fact' drummed into every schoolkid's skull.
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Sometimes, I am asked, "Well, OK, what kind of government spending do you like?" Here's a $250,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that I don't mind:
"An adequate supply of food is the first component of social justice." That was from the speech of Norman Borlaug in 1970 when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize; he was one of the winners who actually deserved the prize. It is said that he saved a billion lives, which might be a slight exaggeration, but he certainly saved tens of millions with his work on wheat and rice that resulted in far greatrer yields per acre.
This so-called "group of experts" must be delusional. President Obama has assured us that such things could never happen, and anybody who says otherwise is just a rightwing crank:
Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors have warned.
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
A lighting expert says our mandated switch to CFL will probably save "some" energy, but at too great a cost in rampant dissatisfaction with lighting:
Here's an end-of-life story for you:
Here's some research that seems totally bogus to me. A couple of applied mathematicians at the University of Vermont have concluded that Monday, far from being the most miserable day of the week, is actually the second-happiest. They state that we are at our absolute lowest on Wednesdays:
"Schoolyards could be hotbeds of swine flu infection" -- Gee, do ya think?
One of the main battlegrounds in the fight against an expected resurgence of swine flu this fall will be the schoolyard, a place where the disease could, well, go viral.
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Large groups of children and young adults? Check.
In close proximity? Check.
Lax sanitary standards? Check.
Flummoxed by swine flu? Not to worry, the government has your back:
Businesses should encourage employees to stay home sick at the first symptom of swine flu and should drop requirements for doctor's excuses during flu season, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
