Of Pigs and Men: Revisiting the Haitian Creole Pig Disaster

Seeded on Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:14 PM EST (Conversations with the Living Blog)

African swine fever struck the eastern side of the Dominican Republic in 1978. It was not until 1982 that the United States – citing fears that the outbreak spread to American farms – demanded the slaughter of all Haitian pigs. Was it an American Agri-business conspiracy?

haiti, aids, united-states, hiv, world-news, usaid, pigs, conversations-with-the-living, creole-pig-disaster

Barack Obama: Barry from D.C. or Bush in blackface?

Seeded on Wed Dec 23, 2009 4:24 PM EST (Conversations Blog)

Too many times, the Obama administration has represented an extension of the Bush administration. So is our President Barry from D.C. or Bush in blackface?

politics, barack-obama, george-w-bush

Vietnam rejects Bush's Iraq comparison

Seeded on Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:47 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

bush, iraq, white-house, politics, war, united-states, vietnam

'Hot Zone' Marburg's natural reservoir discovered

Seeded on Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:19 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

science, disease-control, biology, immunology, virology, ebola, marburg

Renewable energy at what cost? Environmental destruction.

Seeded on Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:09 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

green, environment, science, ecology, renewable-energy, biofuels, nuclear-energy

Is this the real president of the United States?

Seeded on Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:36 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

new-york, politics, colin-powell, paul-wolfowitz, washington-post, george-bush, bob-woodward, dick-cheney, donald-rumsfeld, dick-cheneys

Nuclear plants linked to leukemia in 136 countries

Seeded on Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:07 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

cancer, science, leukemia, nuclear-energy, nuclear-power-plants

Skulls Add to "Out of Africa" Theory of Human Origins

Seeded on Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:59 AM EDT (Sciam)

evolution, science

Viral origins of flesh-eating bacteria

Seeded on Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:12 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

disease, science, medicine, biology, immunology, mrsa, gram-negative, flesh-eating-bacteria, staph-a, bacateria

Racial variations in the human genome

Seeded on Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:50 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

race, science, racism, dna, genetics, genome, iq, chromosome, racial-differences

The truth about organic farming

Seeded on Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:39 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

Don't believe the Big Industry hype.

green, environment, science, natural-resources, organic, organic-food, organic-farming

Tomato anti-cancer benefits disputed

Seeded on Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:51 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

cancer, fda, science, drug-administration, tomatoes, tumor, public-health, top-stories, tumour, anti-cancer

BBC NEWS | Health | Shy guys 'could face heart risk'

Seeded on Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:50 AM EDT (BBC News)

science, heart-disease, stroke, heart-attack, shyness

Fighting heart disease with Viagra

Seeded on Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:05 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

Viagra's return to it's roots?

viagra, science, medicine, heart-disease, blood-pressure, biology, cardiovascular-disease

China releases first national climate action plan

Seeded on Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:57 AM EDT (engineerlive.com)

china, global-warming, science, climate-change, united-states, united-nations, george-w-bush, greenhouse-effect, greenhouse-gasses, carbon-emissions

Mysterious kidney disease blamed on bad bread

Seeded on Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:52 AM EDT (New Scientist)

croatia, serbia, disease, science, medicine, biology, herbal-remedies, kidney-disease, nephropathy, urinary-tract-failure

Historically, climate change spurs wars

Seeded on Mon Jul 9, 2007 11:13 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

china, global-warming, environment, science, climate-change, greenhouse, ecology

Altruism among amoeba

Seeded on Fri Jul 6, 2007 9:45 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

Selfish and cheating members of amoeba communities are ostracized in order to ensure community viability.

science, cheating, biology, altruism, microbiology, amoeba, micro-organisms, kin-systems, unicellular-organisms, fruiting-bodies

Neil Griffiths' top 10 outsider books | Top 10s | Guardian Unlimited Books

Seeded on Thu Jul 5, 2007 11:45 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

arts, native-son, jane-eyre, life-magazine, holden-caulfield, albert-camus-if, steven-naifeh, maybe-holden-caulfield, colin-wilson-if, bigger-thomas

Plague of bioweapons accidents afflicts the US

Seeded on Thu Jul 5, 2007 11:08 AM EDT (New Scientist)

science, tuberculosis, anthrax, texas-am, bioweapons, rocky-mountain, albert-einstein-college, medical-university, biological-testing, rocky-mountain-fever

Pathogen Work at Texas A&M Suspended

Seeded on Thu Jul 5, 2007 11:07 AM EDT (Science: Current Issue)

Pathogen Work at Texas A&M Suspended

homeland-security, science, disease-control, texas-am, edward-hammond

Pomegranate improves erectile dysfunction

Seeded on Tue Jul 3, 2007 7:54 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

Is it just me or are the actual v placebo results very close? Not sure I'm sold, but if cranberry juice works for UI...

science, medicine, biology, erectile-dysfunction, pomegranate-juice, impotency, erectile-function, alternative-drugs

Powerful urine is mind-altering - Alpha-male pheromones cause females to make brain cells.

Seeded on Mon Jul 2, 2007 10:20 AM EDT (News at Nature)

sex, urine, medicine, mice, biology, neurology, neurons, pheromones, sexual-attraction, alpha-male

Failure breeds success

Seeded on Mon Jul 2, 2007 10:04 AM EDT (scientistlive.com)

Samuel Beckett advised: Fail again. Fail better. Turns out, he was right. Human beings learn quicker from the shock of mistakes and failure than from successful experiences.

learning, science, success, psychology, failure, neuroscience