Hey, Kids! Squalene’s Back!

On: October 7, 2014

In: Avian Flu, Biological Threats, Connecting Dots, Emerging Diseases, Pestilence & Disease

[L]ongtime listeners to our internet podcast, PID Radio, may remember that back in 2009 or so, Derek and I were talking about the government’s proposal that Swine Flu vaccine manufacturers be allowed to add an adjuvant to their vaccine cocktails to keep costs to a minimum and ‘stretch’ the amountContinue Reading

I Sing the Brain Electric: Science Moves Another Step Closer to Artificial Intelligence

By: Sharon

On: January 30, 2013

In: Beyond the News, Connecting Dots, Molecular Babylon Series, Robotics, Science

[I]f you’re my age, then you must remember the Twilight Zone episode ‘I Sing the Body Electric’. The script was written by none other than scifi icon, Ray Bradbury, who based the title on a Walt Whitman poem of the same title. The TZ episode featured three children who hadContinue Reading

“Unmutual” — the Clarion Call for Mental Health Reform Should Give Us Pause

By: Sharon

On: December 15, 2012

In: Connecting Dots

December 15, 2012 [W]hile some are calling for stricter gun laws in the wake of yesterday’s horrific shooting, it is the constant drumbeat in favor of mental health ‘reforms’ that I find most curious. Very little is known (or so we’re told) about the shooter, Adam Lanza, but beginning onlyContinue Reading

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