I just found out about the potato hepatitis B vaccine in a odd way. Solid info from the BBC “An edible vaccine against the deadly liver disease hepatitis B may have been developed by scientists in the US.
Chunks of genetically modified potato may be enough to give immunity without the need for an [...]
Not very long ago I spent some time in Frankfurt’s Museum f?r Moderne Kunst looking at the exhibition The Brutal Truth, which took this year’s top prize for international exhibitions from Beaux Arts magazine. (It’s too late for you lot, sorry; the exhibition’s down now.) TBT is a retrospective of the expatriate American artist Sturtevant’s [...]
Micael Froomkin left a comment:
How nice to see my favorite under-appreciated blogger turn up at one of my favorite appreciated sites.
Now if you could only get them to spill the beans on how they implemented that anti-spam measure in the comments box?”
Like hell we are. Yes, we get mentions in Foreign Affairs and award nominations, [...]
20 years ago I had an Idea. Maybe someone who knows something about the field can tell me what is wrong with it in 20 seconds (including maybe someone else had the idea 40 years ago).
This thought was stimulated by reading Structural Anthropology a collection of essays by Claude Levi-Strauss. There are two questions. [...]
Google thinks that means Roberto Formigoni and so do I. One year ago FreeRepublic.com
posted an effort to translate the list of people who got free (but not valueless) rights to buy oil from Iraq under the oil for food program. The list was published by an Ahmed Chalabi affiliated newspaper in Iraq. [...]
I am Robert Waldmann and I am honored to be a fistfullofeuros guest blogger.
I have a blog “Robert’s Stochastic Thoughts” already on the blogroll and another one (which 200 people total have visited at http://fantapolitica.blogspot.com.
The high points of my blogging career are this, the time Atrios linked to me and the time that someone hinted [...]
A piece over at Crooked Timber by D-squared caught my eye this morning. Although it is primarily about using the Internet to slag off your MP/MSP/MEP, this bit piqued my interest:
It’s very useful for sending letters to MPs who don’t have readily available email addresses but (for example) helped sort out a parking ticket [...]
Ever since the UK government unveiled the question it intends to ask in a referendum on the EU constitution opinion polls which use that question have shown a marked swing in favour of the Treaty.
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Through a series of stupidities, when I moved from Washington to Germany, I lost a fair number of books. Several hundred, I think, but it’s a little too sad to count them up. There was, and still may be, a list I made when packing.
An indulgent winter evening’s thought is which one I would most [...]
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