Meat is Murder?

While I'm no longer a vegetarian, I still often cringe at the idea of eating dead corpses and when that happens I usually lay off nimbling at the flesh for a good long spell. Right now I'm about 90% veggie and 10% carniwhore, but if it were grown in a lab, I'm might feel a whole helluva lot better about eating the quivering flesh of animals.

Check out this article from Slate: Lab Meat

It's hard not to respect him.

Al Gore is Back

With the release of his stunning new documentary, An inconvenient Truth, Al Gore bounds back into center stage and has never looked so good.

It is hard not to respect Gore. He has bags of experience. He has been ahead of the curve on a lot of big issues that other politicians have missed or fumbled. He was right about the internet and right about climate change - and still is. He was a Democratic moderate before Bill Clinton. He was right about the first Gulf war - he was in favour - when many in his party were wrong. More strikingly still, he was right about the second Gulf war too - this time he was against - when the bulk of his party got it wrong again. And then there was the 2000 election. It should have been him. And it would have been if he had got one more supreme court justice on his side. And if he had succeeded, the history of the last six years would have been very different

Another 420 misnomer knocked down

Smoke Out Cancer

The largest study ever conducted on the link between cancer and marijuana usage leads to some suprising conclusions.

The new findings "were against our expectations," said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.
"We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use," he said. "What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect."

The Future is Now!

Believe it or not, scientist from the United States and England are apparently very close to inventing an invisible cloak.

Yes, you could actually make someone invisible as long as someone wears a cloak made of this material," said Patanjali Parimi, a Northeastern University physicist and design engineer at Chelton Microwave Corp. in Bolton, Mass. Parimi was not involved in the research.