Category Archives: She Blinded Me With Science

They tip over in those desert winds…

Posted on April 12, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Surprise, surprise. Those WMD trailers BushCo used as their pretext to declare war on Iraq? Turns out there was nothing in ’em… On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for … Continue reading →

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Screw Tamiflu–drink white wine!

Posted on April 7, 2006 by Sabina Becker

More good news for us wine lovers. Now, it’s not only red wine that’s good for us. White wine, it turns out, can help us ward off potentially deadly flu viruses: White wine may prove to be effective in combating … Continue reading →

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Another unsexy post on de-privatized Argentinian water…

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…which, if you’re smart, you’ll read anyway, because one day it could concern YOU. (I’ll tell you why shortly…) Bob Chapman, of the International Forecaster, writes: Water is contaminated in some suburbs of Buenos Aires and has been since 1993, … Continue reading →

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Would this be illegal in South Dakota?

Posted on April 2, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Hey…it’s a pertinent question! Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother’s womb, a doctor said. The infant, who was identified only as Nazia, … Continue reading →

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Stanislaw Lem, R.I.P.

Posted on March 28, 2006 by Sabina Becker

From the Beeb: Polish author Stanislaw Lem, most famous for science fiction works including Solaris, has died aged 84, after suffering from heart disease. He sold more than 27 million copies of his works, translated into about 40 languages, and … Continue reading →

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Um, Condi…do you know what you’re holding?

Posted on March 23, 2006 by Sabina Becker

It’s called a charango, and you’ll never guess what the one you’ve got your hands on is made from!

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Another 9-11 first responder has died

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Sabina Becker

And if you guess correctly what she died of, you win a hunk of asbestos-ridden rubble from Ground Zero: A 41-year-old paramedic who worked at a morgue for months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center … Continue reading →

Posted in Environmentally Ill, If You REALLY Care, Isn't That Illegal?, Not So Compassionate Conservatism, Obits and 'bobs, She Blinded Me With Science, The War on Terra | Comments Off

Got stem cells?

Posted on March 16, 2006 by Sabina Becker

I do! I do! And so do all menstruating women…in fact, you might say it’s in our blood: Japanese researchers have harvested stem cells from human menstrual blood, a medical conference has heard. The researchers say these stem cells could … Continue reading →

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…and equal mediocrity for all

Posted on March 16, 2006 by Sabina Becker

What a surprise. Seems the much-vaunted US healthcare system (or rather, LACK thereof) just ain’t all that ‘n’ a bag of chips, after all… Startling research from the biggest study ever of U.S. health-care quality suggests that Americans — rich, … Continue reading →