Category Archives: science

The Strangling of Traditional Agriculture

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

Seeds of Freedom, narrated by Jeremy Irons, charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity, used to monopolise the global food … Continue reading →

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Consumer Capitalism Wins Again

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

Twenty years after the first substantive Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, representatives from more than 190 countries met again. Hopes were high, but unlike the first one, the 2012 Summit was mostly window dressing. President Obama, Prime … Continue reading →

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GMOs, What’s Not to Like?

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Arlen Grossman
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Conservative Paradise (Not Canada)

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

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UGANDA? ZAMBIA? KENYA?

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

Where To Escape the Individual Mandate (Hint: Not Canada) By Amy Bingham/ ABC News/ June 30, 2012 Good Luck Finding A Developed Country That Has No Individual Mandate The Supreme Court’s ruling upholding Obama’s health care law on Thursday made … Continue reading →

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Americans: (A) Ignorant, (B) Simple-Minded, or (C) Both?

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

 46%  of Americans believe: God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.  32% of Americans believe:  Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms … Continue reading →

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What We Don’t Know Can’t Hurt Us, Right?

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Arlen Grossman
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BPR Quote of the Day: It’s All Downhill (or Uphill?) From Here

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

“When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man’s convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his … Continue reading →

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This is Who We Are: The 2010 Census

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census Browse population growth and decline, changes in racial and ethnic concentrations and patterns of housing development. By MATTHEW BLOCH, SHAN CARTER and ALAN McLEAN | Source: Census Bureau; socialexplorer.com Click  here  to browse the 2010 Census Map … Continue reading →

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Turn on, Tune in, Get Cured?

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Arlen Grossman

LSD Study Spotlights Decades-Old  Research On Hallucinogen For Drinking, Mental Illness  by David Freeman/ Huffington Post/ March 9, 2012 Talk about flashbacks. New research suggests that LSD–a mind-altering drug known to cause recurrent hallucinations–may find new popularity not as a recreational … Continue reading →

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