Presentation: A Closer Look at Our Garbage – Alan Kirschner
Great study commissioned by the state of MA to find out what was ending up at some of the state's big recycling centers. Already the raw data are starting ...
Category: The Narrative
MassRecycle 2011 Conference Presentations
Presentations from the Organics Waste and Recycling event held at the end of March. It was great and I’ll link to some of the presentations. Bookmarked in...
Less Bad vs. Good : Oscillator
“Should young, bright, and idealistic biotechnology students spend their summer coming up with technologies for oil companies to exploit so that they can ...
Researchers Challenge E. O. Wilson Over Evolutionary Theory – ScienceInsider
“Nowak is convinced that his critics haven’t really done inclusive fitness calculations or they would understand the theory’s limitations. ...
Bourdain: Discovery killed ‘Brew Masters’ because big beer threatened to pull ads
Did Big Beer kill the TV show about Dogfish Head brewery? This short article will send you off in different directions trying to gauge the likelihood of this id...
Three start-ups took off despite recession – The Boston Globe
“The day Dann Paquette brewed his first barrel of beer in fall 2008, the US Senate passed the $700 billion bank bailout bill. If timing is everything, he ...
Friendly bacteria fight the flu : Nature News
“Neomycin-sensitive bacteria naturally present in the mice’s bodies provided a trigger that led to the production of T cells and antibodies that cou...
Old Style Marketing vs Social Evidence
Traditional marketing ain’t dead yet. Old skool, that’s how we roll I was in a meeting last month and one marketing manager’s idea of promoting a sponsor was to...
Microbiopolitics and the Post-Pasteurian Age
Cross posted from my new fledgling blog Practical Microbes I can’t believe that I haven’t written about this amazing paper from MIT anthropologist, Heather Paxs...
In Defence of Cheese | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Cool manifesto Bookmarked in Delicious. Read this article…