Since my childhood, growing up in rural Arkansas (yes, a paradise for a wide variety of blood-loving organisms) I have believed that the only value of ticks was to get paid for removing them from a neighbor’s dog. In Arkansas, you get paid by weight not by the piece (just kidding, of course). [...]
The Obuse Music Festival will be held on August 28th (Friday) and 29th (Saturday), 2009. For the 10th anniversary of the festival, organizers have lined up an exciting variety of music, from Bach, Brahms and Tchaikovsky to more modern Big Band and Pops pieces. There’s something for everyone. On the 28th, there will be a 7:00 [...]
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How would you like to live in a house that is inexpensive, can be constructed in a day, is made from materials with low environmental impact, is earthquake, fire and typhoon resistant, and is…well, just plain cool? Personally, I’d love to have a home like this.
For a couple of years now I’ve been trying to [...]
There’s nothing like economic success to encourage us to turn a blind eye to questionable business practices, and nothing like a recession to reveal just how greedy and naive we were. Well into a long-term economic downturn, we still see holdouts of the bubble economy where unsustainable salaries and bonuses are distributed without regard to profitability. [...]
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Stem cells, or more specifically “induced pluripotent stem cells,” have done it again! An article in today’s Japan Times newspaper reported that University of Tokyo researchers have managed to coax this amazing transformer into yet another piece of the complex human puzzle. Kidney, pancreatic, cardiac and even nerve cells have already become old news in the rapidly-expanding [...]
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Alternative housing is an interest of mine and when I came across an article about cardboard buildings in China, I just had to read it. The project is led by a prominent Japanese architect, Shigeru Ban, who is building temporary schools in the earthquake-damaged Sichuan province of China. On May 12th, 2008 a huge 7.9 [...]
All the world is abuzz about the “Big Three” American automakers begging for low-interest government loans. Governmental life support for these companies in their current state of affairs would be, in my humble opinion, a huge waste of taxpayer money better spent elsewhere. U.S. car ownership is rapidly approaching a saturation point. If you don’t [...]
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When I was a kid, my parents used to tell me the story about the ants and the grasshopper… you know the one where the ants work all summer while the grasshopper is off doing his own thing, not worrying about his future? Well anyway, winter sets in and old grasshopper comes [...]
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