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  • Human Genes Engineered Into Experimental GMO Rice Being Grown in Kansas

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    Unless the rice you buy is certified organic, or comes specifically from a farm that tests its rice crops for genetically modified (GM) traits, you could be eating rice tainted with actual human genes. The only known GMO with inbred human traits in cultivation today, a GM rice product made by biotechnology company Ventria Bioscience is currently…

  • Memorial held for 50,000 dead bees in Oregon

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  • How Do Doctors Die? Ctd

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    Originally posted on The Dish: When hypothetically on the cusp of death, physicians overwhelmingly decide against life-prolonging intervention, with the exception of pain medication. Lisa Wade talked to USC professor and doctor Ken Murray to figure out why: First, few non-physicians actually understand how terrible undergoing these interventions can be. [Murray] discusses ventilation. When a…

  • New study finds nothing impressive about GM crop yields

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    By Laura Rance in the Winnipeg Free Press: The debate over genetically modified crops has often generated more heat than light. Some opponents claim the stuff is hazardous to our health, which seems unlikely, given that just about anything with vegetable oil or corn in it (and that’s just about everything these days) comes from…

  • Newly found clouds double the amount of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs

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    From Design & Trend, by Jessica Passananti: Researchers at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University studied the influence of cloud behavior on exoplanets far from our solar system. The newly found clouds double the amount of potentially habitable planets orbiting red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in the universe. In the Milky Way…

  • And you thought it was bad here

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    From Ally Bruschi’s article in The Daily Mail: Endless food scandals throughout the past few years have Chinese consumers growing suspicious and weary of their grocery store produce —enough so for more well-off families to begin seeking organic alternatives to their traditional foods. For example, Catherine Ho Wai-man and her family have stopped buying produce from…

  • Distributism and the Internet

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    I’m posting the following article by Daniel McInerny from aleteia, a Catholic publication, in its entirety.  It reflects much of my own thinking.  I’ve only recently learned about distributism,  an economic philosophy that arose as a countervailing force to the laissez faire capitalism and rampant industrialization taking place at the turn of the 20th century.…

  • A Poem For Sunday

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    Originally posted on The Dish: “Mood” by Countee Cullen: I think an impulse stronger than my mind May some day grasp a knife, unloose a vial, Or with a little leaden ball unbind The cords that tie me to the rank and file. My hands grow quarrelsome with bitterness, And darkly bent upon the final…

  • Catholic law and federal law collide over Crimen Sollictationas

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    Hunt Henion in the Examiner brings news of the, “slowly emerging conflict between Catholic law and federal law[that] hit the fan today when Catholic clergy were ordered to refuse to enforce the church law called Crimen Sollicitationas.” “Thousands of Catholic clergy and officials are being issued an Order to Comply with child protection laws this week,…

  • San Francisco leading the way with sustainability development program.

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    San Francisco is, again, ahead of the curve in working with California’s sustainability guidelines to establish a program to reduce water consumption, reduce waste and enhance community-scale energy resources.  Architect News  reports on a new tool called Eco-Districts that will help them get to their goal: To aid in the fulfillment of these goals, the program…