Archive for the 'Kill Off' Category
Haiti Cholera: UN Peacekeepers to Blame
December 8th, 2010Wow. I actually didn’t think much of a cholera outbreak in Haiti. Thousands of people, packed close together in camps without proper sanitation—it’s not much of a stretch to think that cholera could result. Weirdly, though, my dad was cryptically trying to tell me something about cholera on the phone a few weeks ago, but […]
Scientist Who Studied How Mosquitoes Transmit Diseases Dies After Ingesting Cyanide
November 17th, 2010Via: The Tampa Tribune: A University of South Florida researcher stumbled out of her hotel room Monday night and told two guests she had ingested cyanide, police said. Chitra Chauhan, 33, wife and mother of a 3-year-old, was pronounced dead at a hospital about two hours later, victim of an apparent suicide. A small amount […]
Genetically Altered Mosquitoes Released into the Wild
November 12th, 2010What happens to the bats, dragonflies, bird and other creatures that eat the GM mosquitoes? Via: New Scientist: An outdoor trial of mosquitoes genetically engineered to sabotage Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue fever, has been declared a success by scientists in the field. … Oxitec breeds millions of males carrying an altered gene called […]
And Now… Cheap Fluoride from China Leaves Unknown, Insoluble Residue in Municipal Water Systems
October 29th, 2010Update: Multiple Tests Can’t Determine What The Material Is? Via: The Daily News (Newburyport) on Fluoride Action Network: Desmarais said while soluble sodium fluoride has traditionally proved easy to dissolve and add to the water supply, in recent years he’s found that 40 percent of the product they’ve been buying will not dissolve, and he […]
New Book Looks at Connection Between Mobile Devices and a Host of Health Problems
October 12th, 2010Is this partially why so many men are shooting blanks? And what is the compelling evidence to suggest that cellphones might be tied to sterility in men? In 2008, researchers found that men with the lowest sperm counts were significantly more likely to keep their phones on their bodies all the time. And it’s been […]
1010: No Pressure
October 1st, 2010Update: They Tried to Take It Down How’s that working out for you, 1010global? Mirror 1 Mirror 2 —End Update— Via: 1010Global: Whippersnapping climate campaign 10:10 teams up with legendary comic screenwriter Richard Curtis – you know, Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, co-founded Comic Relief – and Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong to proudly […]
Inside Norway’s Underground Military HQ
September 22nd, 2010Everything old is new again. Click through for video. Via: BBC: In November, Norway will officially move its military command base to its former Cold War complex in Bodo inside the Arctic Circle. As Russia is strengthening its armed presence on the other side of their shared border, there is no better illustration of the […]
Pentti Linkola, Finnish Environmentalist: “Kill Defectives”
September 21st, 2010Via: penttilinkola.com “We will have to…learn from the history of revolutionary movements — the national socialists, the Finnish Stalinists, from the many stages of the Russian revolution, from the methods of the Red Brigades — and forget our narcissistic selves.” — “Our only hope lies in strong central government and uncompromizing control of the individual […]
FDA Rules Won’t Require Labeling of Genetically Modified Salmon
September 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to approve genetically modified salmon, one thing seems certain: Shoppers staring at fillets in the seafood department will find it tough to pick out the conventional fish from the one created with genes from another species. Despite a growing public demand for more information […]
Antibacterial Soaps Contain Endocrine-Disruptors Capable of Interfering with Hormones Critical for Normal Development and Reproduction
September 18th, 2010Via: Natural Resources Defense Council: The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today against the Food and Drug Administration for failing to issue a final rule regulating the chemicals triclosan and triclocarban, which are commonly found in antibacterial soaps. These chemicals are suspected endocrine disruptors linked to reproductive and developmental harm in laboratory studies. […]
