Scientific Research - Future of Plum Island Weighed as Labs Move Is Planned - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:43 PM EDT (The New York Times)

The controversy over Plum Island continues. The thought of moving a major facility studying zoonotic diseases that can infect our food supply, right into the production heart of that same supply, fills me with foreboding.

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FT.com / Companies - Google and Nasa back new school for futurists

Seeded on Tue Feb 3, 2009 1:43 AM EST (FT.com)

The Singularity is one of the more interesting things to come out of fiction in the last 20 years or so, however this article incorrectly credits Ray Kurzweil with popularizing it.

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An Inconvenient Truth exaggerated sea level rise

Seeded on Fri Sep 5, 2008 11:54 AM EDT (Telegraph)

A great example of either a) Poor thinking/writing b) an attempt to deceive or c) using misleading headlines to garner traffic.

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Moving virus lab isn't just risky - it's costly, too

Seeded on Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:02 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

An outbreak� from any of the locations considered for a new virus laboratory would be more devastating to the U.S. economy than from the isolated island laboratory where such research is now conducted, says a new report published Friday.

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