Varied Links for the day
02 Mar 2007
Posted by mpm
- Antioxidant supplements may not be all that good for you. Hmmm, might be time to trim the doses of Vitamin A.
- Most Americans want universal health care. Looks like accusations of “socialized medicine” that conservatives throw about aren't going to work.
- Michael Jackson converted to Islam.
- Republican candidates who governed left-leaning constituencies (Guliani and Romney) try their best to convince conservatives that they are on their side.
- A new magazine, called “Conserve” is launched, which proposes to be a voice of “doing more with less.” Um, a new magazine? Don't magazines make their money with advertising? Don't advertisers expect people to buy stuff? What's wrong with this picture? (It reminds me of the magazine “Real Simple.” Why do people need to buy a magazine to make their lives simpler, or do more with less?)
- The graphs are a bit eye-bending, but check out this post in the Oil Drum about the decrease in Saudi Arabian oil production last year. By the way, Saudi Arabia has 1/4 of the world's oil reserves. Looks like we're at Peak Oil. There are, by the way, some very interesting comments in that post.
- The USDA preliminarily approved the production of rice engineered with human genes, which are hoped to help treat diarrheal infections in the developing world, but could have completely unpredictable effects. In addition, the genes won't stay in the rice fields they originally put them in.
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