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POPSRacing Toward Super Seeds Methinks it would be a humanitarian gesture to charge these giant unethical corporations with crimes against the planet.
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POPSThe power and the glory The market for energy is huge. At present, the world’s population consumes about 15 terawatts of power. (A terawatt is 1,000 gigawatts, and a gigawatt is the capacity of the largest sort of coal-fired power station.) That translates into a business worth $6 trillion a year—about a tenth of the world’s economic output—according to John Doerr, a venture capitalist who is heavily involved in the industry. And by 2050, power consumption is likely to have risen to 30 terawatts.
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POPSMalthus Redux Excerpts from an excellent article on the failings of Malthusian theory and doomsday peddlers.
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POPSWill the World Survive GM Cultures and the Damage to the Earth's Eco-Systems?
The bio-tech industries have taken a big and dangerous step towards destroying the earth as it has been known for thousands of years. Organic agriculture, biodiversity and natural pest control have made the earth a place for sustainable farming for millennia. However, at this point of delicate balance for the earth's survival, bio-tech corporations want to put an end to everything that is natural in order to make short-term profit from huge monocultures of the genetically modified products that they are falsely marketing as our saviors from world hunger and poverty. India is one country that has been severely hit by the bio-tech industry with accompanying disasters. What follows after the farmers change over to GMO seeds after millennia of planting and making a livelihood in organic farming is a horror story of bad harvests, huge debts, increased costs for herbicides and fertilizers (in spite of the companies' promises of lower costs), and the suicides of thousands of farmers
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POPSIpsen Buying Tercica The weak dollar strikes again, as another U.S.-based biotech gets bought by an overseas drugmaker. Ipsen already owned 25% of Tercica, which makes a hormone for treating children who are not growing adequately. Still, that 104% premium is pretty eye-catching.
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POPSOncology on Parade: The Business of Cancer Like Condors viewing from on high, Wall Street analysts have given an overview of their favorite companies with prospects for increased sales from new, successful cancer medicines. It always pays to see the money behind the medicine these days.
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POPSLundbeck Likes Myriad. Should You? It's a good sign that Lundbeck was willing to pay $100 million up front, but Flurizan is still seen as a bit of a long bet. If it shows a real benefit, even a small one, this could be a pretty big drug, but the risk here is big, too.
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POPSEarth 2030 - healthier, safer, more enjoyable Forward-thinkers believe that by 2035, memories, personality, and feelings ¬ non-physical elements that describe a human being ¬ could be scanned and uploaded into a robot, or newly-cloned human body, enabling life to continue indefinitely.
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POPSFACTORY FARMS OR FAMILY FARMS from 5-1999 With the same corporations controlling so much of the food chain, the question is--are some of these corporations in violation of anti-trust laws?
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POPSNano RNA Delivery Novel delivery agents could mean a more targeted way to turn off disease genes. The MIT researchers, however, developed a way to make more than a thousand different delivery agents in parallel using a simple, one-step chemical process. And that allowed the team to quickly discover effective delivery molecules, including several that surprised the researchers. "We wouldn't have necessarily sat down and said, this is a structure that's going to work," says Daniel Anderson, a research associate at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. "It was only by making and testing over a thousand that we were able to get to that place."
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POPSVertex Beats Schering-Plough In Hep C Race That's the takeaway from both Bernstein analyst Geoffrey Porges and Adam Feuerstein, who has been following this battle closely over at TheStreet.com. Click the link to read the whole story.
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POPSSweet Deal:Economical Biodiesel Chop up sugarcane. Feed it to bacteria. Produce diesel fuel. Bacteria will begin pooping out Mack-truck grade diesel fuel in test amounts next year and in commercial amounts in 2010 under a new joint venture announced today between a Northern California biotech company and a Brazilian sugarcane processor. Unlike ethanol, which draws the bulk of alternative biofuel attention, the bacterial fuel can be distributed through existing infrastructure, according to Amyris.
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POPSLet them eat spuds: the world's new staple Anybody can grow them in their garden. They are much prettier than grass and the loosen up the soil for the next crop. And with 5,000 varieties, they should be out of reach of the biotech industry. Indeed, they are the perfect recession / depression crop. Also, once you start growing potatoes, you start growing other food, too.
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POPSIn Lean Times, Biotech Grains Are Less Taboo See how the media misguide. Biotechnology reduces yields, it does not increase them. Go to yesterday's clip on the subject which proves that the biotech companies have no case when it comes to increasing agricultural productivity. The only case is for increasing their profits. Go to - http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C8609958-71E0-45E0-BCDA-4F38C4B70305/
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POPSVulnerability of Web and World A world without internet is almost inconceivable, In an article in Gigaom, however, 10 ways of how it might die are described. Even the survival of our whole world on the long term is unsure. An article in Discover discusses "20 ways the world could end". All these desasters are listed below.
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