Recently, a friend of mine got food poisoning soon (during that night) after eating pre-cooked chicken from a local grocery. She went back to inform them, and was told that this was impossible because it takes something like 36 hours to get food poisoning from eating such food, and it could not have happened that [...]
Archive for June 2009A lot of hay is being made these days about a Georgia case involving land application of sludge apparently not meeting EPA standards. As described here in an AP article from March 2008, a consultant hired by a farmer whose land had been apparently rendered unusable by unsafe sludge ran tests that found polychlorinated biphenyls, [...] There’s a group near me, the Sewage Sludge Action Network, that is mightily concerned with land application of wastewater sludges. That is, sludge produced as a byproduct of treating human sewage. I am sympathetic with some of their concerns, in part because it is difficult to oversee the entire process to ensure that it is [...] Years back, comic books ran an advertisement with the headline, “They Laughed When I Wound Up My Razor!” The Thorens Riviera model, shown here at the nice museum site Simply Switch On…!, most closely resembles the one I remember. There were a couple of paragraphs discussing the advantages of a wind-up mechanical razor. Of course, [...] Michael Moore says we should convert GM’s factories to producing the infrastructure for public transportation, including bullet trains and light rail, and that, meantime, they should move now to producing only electric cars and batteries. He suggests a $2 a gallon gasoline tax to help make this happen. It all makes perfect sense to me. [...] |
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