NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 8th November 2007 03:53 PM GMT] This week, Planktos, a nanotech company with the lofty goal of reducing carbon emissions, finally set sail.
Planktos aims to reduce carbon emissions by releasing huge amounts of iron into the ocean, with the hope that plankton will take up that iron, and absorb more carbon. According to the New York Times, Planktos' 115-foot ship, the WeatherBird II, launched from Florida on... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 7th November 2007 02:28 PM GMT] New Jersey voters nixed Governor Jon Corzine's proposal to borrow $450 million over 10 years to fund stem cell research yesterday (November 6).
Voters defeated the measure by a 53-47 margin.
Corzine introduced the proposal in July, and supporters argued it would serve as an economic boon to the state. California, New York, and Massachusetts have already devoted extensive funds to stem cell research.
According to the New York... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 5th November 2007 05:06 PM GMT] In case you missed it, Saturday (Nov 3) marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Wilhelm Reich, who passed away in federal prison. He was serving out a two year sentence for ignoring an injunction obtained by the Food and Drug Administration that outlawed his device that accumulated "orgone energy," which he described as a "universal life energy." (Saturday was also the 50th anniversary of the day when the ... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 2nd November 2007 05:51 PM GMT] Last night (Nov 1), Princeton president Shirley Tilghman elicited an audible response from an audience at the Chemical Heritage Foundation when she announced that the average age at which investigators receive their first NIH grant has climbed to 42.9 years. We all duly murmured astonishingly, as she called this the "LaGuardia effect" -- as in, scientists are spending more time circling in the air before they can land. (This... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 2nd November 2007 03:30 PM GMT] A New Jersey court has ruled that an animal rights group cannot file a civil lawsuit against Huntingdon Life Sciences, a contract research organization in the U.S. and U.K. that has long been the target of militant animal rights group.
Wednesday (Oct 31) a three-judge panel in the Appellate Division threw out a lawsuit filed by the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals charging Huntingdon with animal cruelty and... Click to continue
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