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DIS’12 Workshop: (DIY)biology, Designing for Open Source Science

DIS’12 Workshop: (DIY)biology, Designing for Open Source Science June 12, 2012, Newcastle, UK Website: Deadline for workshop submissions: March 16, 2012 DIYbio (Do It Yourself Biology) is a growing community of biologists, artists, engineers and hobbyists who pursue biology projects outside of professional laboratories. (DIY)bio projects range from gardening and experiments with food, to creating …

Posted 15 months ago by ten

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Is it a myth: Trader Joe’s as an ethical company?

I was recently reading an NY Times article documenting the utterly dreadful working conditions endured by labourers in the Florida tomato growing industry, when an unexpected thing happened. I discovered that a roll-call of companies generally regarded as highly exploitative and of dubious ethical character - McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, etc. - had gone ahead …

Posted 23 months ago by roderick

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Thanks, Michelle…

Where do conservatives get the nerve?

First, it was creationism as a 'theory' which should be taught alongside evolution in schools; now, it's a denial of the realities of climate change. The list of baseless nonsense dressed-up as informative and informed theorizing looks set to grow with each new challenge to the possibility of 'business as usual'  - at least for …

Posted 24 months ago by roderick

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Being simultaneously a fundamentalist and a relativist seems a tough trick to turn…