December 2009
10 posts
cartoonist Bill Mauldin
Postal Service salutes Santa Fe cartoonist Bill Mauldin By Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican The late cartoonist Bill Mauldin, a Santa Fe resident for 27 years, once wrote an opinion piece for The New Mexican headlined “Rotten Stamps Show Nation’s Decline,” lambasting the U.S. Postal Service for using glue on stamps that would not stick and tasted awful. Next year, however,...
[the elderlies, aging] Nursing homes with razor...
Nursing homes with razor wire By David Fathi Are elderly prisoners really a threat to public safety? http://hlthenvt.tumblr.com for Grassroots Science Biocultural Science & Management A Little Red Hen [a blog by Naomi Dagen Bloom] O’Folks, off their rocker [a blog by Vuee] Unorganized Borough on Twitter>
[Superlative thinking] Yellowstone Supervolcano... →
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SciDev.Net 8th anniversary prize draw two weeks...
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Climate Justice for a Changing Planet: A Primer for Policy Makers and NGOs shines a light on the important intersection of equity and justice in the context of the current climate change debate. This new publication from the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) explores climate justice as an emerging concept and as a key to understanding the global debate. The book...
To Alice McGrath, who changed the world...
To Alice McGrath, who changed the world By Carlos Valdez Lozano Beginning with her role in the 1940s Sleepy Lagoon trial, hers was a life lived for social justice. http://hlthenvt.tumblr.com for Grassroots Science Biocultural Science & Management A Little Red Hen [a blog by Naomi Dagen Bloom] O’Folks, off their rocker [a blog by Vuee] Unorganized Borough on Twitter>
Sir John Crofton [nonagenarian, TB]
Sir John Crofton dies at 97; doctor pioneered combination therapy to treat tuberculosis By Thomas H. Maugh II He is credited with saving millions of lives by using a ‘cocktail’ of multiple antibiotics to treat the disease. The concept subsequently was applied to AIDS, cancer and other diseases. http://hlthenvt.tumblr.com for Grassroots Science Biocultural Science & Management A...
Bhopal Marks 25 Years [hazmat, safety, public...
Bhopal Marks 25 Years Since Gas Leak Devastation from BBC News Online People in the Indian city of Bhopal have been marking 25 years since a leak at a gas plant killed thousands and left many more seriously ill. Activists and survivors marched through the city, chanting slogans against the government and Union Carbide - the US firm that owned the plant at the time. The incident was the worst...
Fwd: PHISHING SCAM - CDC Sponsored State...
This e-mail is itself a scam. There is no legitimate site, govdelivery.com See Snopes for details, http://www.snopes.com/fraud/phishing/cdcvaccination.asp Legitimate site is http://www.cdc.gov False message is below— “Reply-To: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Subject: PHISHING SCAM - CDC Sponsored State Vaccination Program for H1N1 Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:20:45...
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Alaska study is limited (H1N1 ethnicity) ProMED...
INFLUENZA PANDEMIC (H1N1) 2009 (118): UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (ALASKA), ETHNICITY Date: Sat 28 Nov 2009 Source: Anchorage Daily News [edited] http://www.adn.com/swineflu/story/1031513.html [This limited survey of patients in Anchorage, Alaska, concludes that ethnicity may be a factor influencing the severity of response to infection by the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza virus. However, the design...
