GM Crops Created Superweed

Modified genes from crops in a GM crop trial have transferred into local wild plants, creating a form of herbicide-resistant "superweed", the Guardian can reveal.The cross-fertilisation between GM oilseed rape, a brassica, and a distantly related plant, charlock, had been discounted as virtually impossible by scientists with the environment department. It was found during a follow up to the governments three-year trials of GM crops which ended two years ago.The new form of charlock was growing among many others in a field which had been used to grow GM rape. When scientists treated it with lethal herbicide it showed no ill-effects.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0,,1535428,00.html

Natural Gas Costs To Double Next Month

The cost of heating your home in January is set rise sharply, with Direct Energy getting approval for rate increases of between 60 per cent and 80 per cent across the province.The bump means an average customer in southern Alberta will pay another $100 next month, while northern customers will see an average increase of about $60.
http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/story/ca-natural-gas20051230.html?ref=rss

ID Thrown Out: Maybe Theres Hope For The US After All?

In making this determination, we have addressed the seminal question of whether ID is science. We have concluded that it is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents...
To be sure, Darwins theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions...
this case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy. The breathtaking inanity of the Boards decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial.
http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=threw_the_book_at_em&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

OReilly on Web 2.0

Some dismiss this as marketing speak but I firmly believe that this is where its at. Blogging, Wiki, and Google have proved it. It basically comes down to the web as a platform for interactive, collective intelligence.
http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228

Essence of Aikido

 

 

Spiritual teachings of the founder. Very difficult to understand. Great calligraphy.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/477002357X/ref=pd_bxgy_img_b/102-0133326-6725737?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Budo

Osenseis teachings, enough said.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4770020708/qid=1134679080/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-0133326-6725737?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

Other Origins : The Search for the Giant Ape in Human Prehistory

Our direct ancestor, Homo erectus , had close ties to a 10-foot-tall, 1200-pound ape called Gigantopithecus. Fossil remains of the two species have been found together in caves in Vietnam and China. New light was thrown on these discoveries in 1989 when Ciochon, a University of Iowa paleoanthropologist, and Olsen, an archeologist at the University of Arizona, participated in a U.S./Vietnamese expedition that unearthed the oldest dated Homo erectus fossils in southeast Asia.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553070819/qid=1134678988/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-0133326-6725737?s=books&v=glance&n=283155