Random links
- Restoring the Urban Sea by Farming It
- "While much of the dialogue about sustainable seafood focuses on maintaining adequate resources, some forms of aquaculture can actually help to regenerate ecosystems, revitalize economies, and enhance food security." - Looks like seaweed and shellfish may be more common on menus in the future.
- Diabetics With Cancer Dangerously Ignore Blood Sugar
- Relative risk: "When people with Type 2 diabetes are diagnosed with cancer -- a disease for which they are at higher risk -- they ignore their diabetes care to focus on cancer treatment, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. But uncontrolled high blood sugar is more likely to kill them and impairs their immune system's ability to fight cancer."
- Unearthing the Sex Secrets of the Périgord Black Truffle
- Are mass-market truffles to be found in future supermarkets? "Truffle growers in France and Italy have a mixed reaction to the work of Dr. Martin’s team on the truffle’s genome. On the one hand, they “are always complaining we are not doing enough for them,” Dr. Martin said. On the other, “they don’t want us to get the magic recipe to produce truffles by the ton because then the price would go down.”"
- On the problems with a bumper sticker like "Don't like abortion? Don't have one."
- "When pro-life advocates claim that elective abortion unjustly takes the life of a defenseless human being, they aren't saying they dislike abortion. They are saying it's objectively wrong, regardless of how one feels about it. ... Imagine if I said, "Don't like slavery? Then don't own a slave." Or, "Don't like spousal abuse? Then don't beat your wife!""