From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Photo – Calgary Tower

March 18, 2010

Calgary Tower, originally uploaded by Rod Edwards. A few weeks ago (the night of the Canada-US gold medal hockey game) my wife, several friends, and I were in Calgary overnighting to take in the game in advance of ski trip to Kicking Horse and Revelstoke. We used the Priceline iPhone app to book a room [...]

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Ice-cold gas ‘kills’ breast cancer

March 17, 2010

The cure for breast cancer: freezing tumors. And, in a major breakthrough, the “ice-ball” created around a tumour by the injections not only kills it off but ensures the cancer does not return. via Express.co.uk – Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: Ice-cold gas ‘kills’ breast cancer. Should be something [...]

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Vitamin D better than vaccines at preventing flu, report claims – Times Online

March 17, 2010

Why don’t we put Vitamin D in municipal water alongside flouride? No side effects, and a continual stream of new benefits being found, most famously huge decreases in rates of certain cancers, and now, the flu: The risk of children suffering from flu can be halved if they take vitamin D, doctors in Japan have [...]

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Franklin Roosevent’s Second “economic” Bill of Rights

March 17, 2010

The Second Bill of Rights was a proposal made by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944 to suggest that the nation had come to recognize, and should now implement, a second bill of rights. Roosevelt did not argue for any change to the United [...]

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PHOTO: Old City, Dhaka, Bangladesh

March 17, 2010

Old City, Dhaka, Bangladesh, originally uploaded by Rod Edwards. The city of Dhaka is the wildest, craziest place I’ve ever been (my wife and I were there in 2008). More people than you can imagine, packed into a smaller space than you can imagine, all frantically leading their lives. Its polluted, destitute, and heartwarming. Its [...]

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Red Menace: Ug99 Fungus is Going to Destroy the World’s Grain

March 15, 2010

Indeed, 90 percent of the world’s wheat has little or no protection against the Ug99 race of P. graminis. If nothing is done to slow the pathogen, famines could soon become the norm — from the Red Sea to the Mongolian steppe — as Ug99 annihilates a crop that provides a third of our calories. [...]

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Toyota’s Electronic Defects Apparently Discriminate Against the Elderly

March 12, 2010

These “electronic defects” apparently discriminate against the elderly, just as the sudden acceleration of Audis and GM autos did before them. In the 24 cases where driver age was reported or readily inferred, the drivers included those of the ages 60, 61, 63, 66, 68, 71, 72, 72, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89… via Theodore [...]

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Study finds median wealth for single black women at $5

March 10, 2010

For all working-age black women 18 to 64, the financial picture is bleak. Their median household wealth is only $100. Hispanic women in that age group have a median wealth of $120. “That means half of [black women] have a net worth of more than $100 and half have a net worth of less than [...]

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Dreaming the Possible Dream: Friedman on America’s Innovation Culture

March 8, 2010

Thomas Friedman writes in the NYT today about America’s innovation culture. Its interesting that Friedman’s two examples of American innovators are both immigrants, but Friedman doesn’t wade into the heavily politicized immigration & visa  issue. Its a great story – very inspiring and encouraging – but perhaps alarming for the fact that America’s real contribution [...]

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