“There will be no end to what corporations may claim to own. A few years ago it was the gene sequence, now it is embryonic growth. Next year it may be one’s heartbeat or the synapse.”
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Maybe this is the way it is going to be played?
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“Burning all fossil fuels could result in the planet being not only ice-free but human-free.”That’s a direct quote from our nation’s top climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen. The good doctor, and longtime head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, just quit his day job, apparently so that he could spend more time making apocalyptic pronouncements.
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An expert in global warming killed while cycling to work has been described as a “talented scientist” who “had a bright future ahead of her”….Her death comes just three months after senior colleague, Professor Seymour Laxon, 49, died in a fall, hitting his head and suffering a brain haemorrhage.
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Jack E. James, a professor at Reykjavik University in Iceland and the National University of Ireland, argued in an editorial published Monday that researchers and lawmakers alike need to take a look at caffeine-related deaths and near-deaths.
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India has claimed to have boosted the rice harvests from 3.1 mln tonnes to 8.2 mln tonnes in a province by using new techniques. China has a long tradition of faking harvest reports and questions this.
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It was climate change after all! The huge lava flows from the Deccan traps in India may have led to global warming and ocean acidification.
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Frank Olsen’s family claim CIA threw him from a hotel window and covered up his death after he witnessed torture by agency operatives in Europe
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British businessman Neil Heywood was murdered to prevent him revealing an “unspeakable” and “complicated” secret, one of China’s top forensic scientists has claimed.
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A top US cholera specialist, Dr Daniele Lantagne, said after studying new scientific data that it is now “most likely” the source of the outbreak was a camp for recently-arrived UN soldiers from Nepal – a country where cholera is widespread.
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