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Science for Non-Majors: White House, White House, How Does Your Garden Grow?
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Cutting-edge science and long-pondered questions explained in plain English. Bad science gutted. Great science extolled. Thursday, March 19, 2009. White House, White House, How Does Your Garden Grow? I have been pleased to be part of the "Eat the View" Campaign. A petition asking the Obamas to plant a garden at the White House to showcase the many benefits of gardening: economic, nutritious, physical, emotional, and environmental. . Michelle Obama is going to break ground. Ebooks by TK Kenyon.
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Science for Non-Majors: FDA Impersonators Scam
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Cutting-edge science and long-pondered questions explained in plain English. Bad science gutted. Great science extolled. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. FDA Impersonators just get my dander up. Be aware, and don't fall for this stupid scam. The US. Food and Drug Administration is warning the public about criminals posing as FDA special agents and other law enforcement personnel as part of an international extortion scam. Anyone receiving a telephone call from a person purporting to be an FDA or other law e...
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Science for Non-Majors: Science Debate 2008
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Cutting-edge science and long-pondered questions explained in plain English. Bad science gutted. Great science extolled. Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Is a coalition of scientists and science supporters who are asking the three presidential candidates to engage in a debate concerning the future of America as the world's scientific powerhouse. John F. Kennedy dared us to dream of the moon. Our next president. Should inspire us, too. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). AIDS Vaccine: Should We Stop Looking?
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Science for Non-Majors: Bleed a Cold, Purge a Fever
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Cutting-edge science and long-pondered questions explained in plain English. Bad science gutted. Great science extolled. Friday, November 14, 2008. Bleed a Cold, Purge a Fever. The medical community is sluggish to embrace new, even well-supported, therapies that are at odds with established medical dogma. In addition to the outright hostility that the discoverers of H. pylori. Experienced, other examples of medical foot-dragging abound. In fact, speaking of slugs, leeches come to mind. Patients were ofte...
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Science for Non-Majors: Toyota Prius is Destroying the World
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Cutting-edge science and long-pondered questions explained in plain English. Bad science gutted. Great science extolled. Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Toyota Prius is Destroying the World. TK Kenyon, your intrepid scientist for non-majors, is not surprised to tell you that i. F you're thinking about buying a Toyota Prius because you think it will help the environment or halt global warming, STOP! A Prius supposedly gets about 45 mpg, but that number is greatly disputed and more like 38 mpg. Global warming vs&...
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Obama Garden: Garden of Eatin'
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Produce to the People. Saturday, February 7, 2009. Hello, and welcome to The Obama Garden. . Look, this is a tough time for our country. A lot of people have lost their jobs, almost 600,000 last month. 160;alone, (7.6% unemployment at the time I wrote this,) and a lot more people are going to lose their jobs (perhaps 3.2 million more people in 2009.) . A lot of people are going to be eating little but ramen or rice. . Tough times. We need to not just shuffle money around but to add value. Like WWII, wh...
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Obama Garden: Why a Garden?
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Produce to the People. Sunday, February 8, 2009. I don't usually get too personal in blogs, but there're personal reasons why I thought of the Obama Garden. . My husband is employed by a large pharmaceutical company that was recently taken over by an even larger one. Takeovers are notorious for producing huge layoffs. The takeover company has mentioned that they will pfire ten thousand people. Before this deal is done. (No, that's not a typo.) Probably twenty thousand. Or more. . One of my thoughts amid...
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Obama Garden: Tomato Primer for the Obama Garden: Corrections Wanted (and a poll)
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Produce to the People. Monday, February 16, 2009. Tomato Primer for the Obama Garden: Corrections Wanted (and a poll). All right, I'm a beginning gardener, and I fear tomatoes. . People who grow tomatoes seem like Master Gardeners. Someone who pulls a tomato out of their harvest basket might as well say, "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair." . My lone and level garden stretches far and away, devoid of tomato vines and stakes. . This year, I'm growing tomatoes in my Obama Garden. They like moderat...
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Obama Garden: A Warning About Corn: Gardening Basics for the New Obama Gardener
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Produce to the People. Thursday, February 12, 2009. A Warning About Corn: Gardening Basics for the New Obama Gardener. It seems like a great idea to plant a few seeds of corn, doesn't it? A few stalks growing in a corner of your wee garden that might produce ten or fifteen ears would be just grand, right? Don't do it. . Don't plant corn unless you have a substantial section of land, like ten or twenty rows. To devote to maize. . Then we picked them. . February 14, 2009 at 1:19 PM. Tomato Primer for the O...
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Science for Non-Majors: Autoexperimentation for Prizes and Profit
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Cutting-edge science and long-pondered questions explained in plain English. Bad science gutted. Great science extolled. Thursday, October 09, 2008. Autoexperimentation for Prizes and Profit. As a scientist, sometimes, you have to take matters into your own hands. Or into your own arm, and occasionally, your own heart. Several autoexperimenting scientists have won the Nobel Prize. It’s What’s Eating You. Barry J. Marshall and J Robin Warren. As it turns out, what was eating me was Helicobacter pylori.
