The National Center for Science Education reports that disgraced United State Senator David Vitter withdrew his “earmark” which was supposed to funnel $100,000 to the Louisiana Family Forum, a right-wing religious group in Louisiana. The NCSE article reports:
The earmark was the topic of instant controversy after the New Orleans Times-Picayune (September 22, 2007) reported on [...]
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Michael Pollan has a new book out: In Defense of Food. From an interview with Grist:
The new book is called In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. It’s a book that really grew out of questions I heard from readers after Omnivore’s Dilemma, which was basically so how do you apply all this? Now that [...]
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Fruit Species is a blog devoted to fruits from all over the world. So far, there are 19 species on the page, including avocado, guava, rambutan (which I tasted for the first time a couple weeks ago) and soursop. The descriptions include common and scientific names of the species and several paragraphs of information about [...]
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