The Associated Press: Court: US can block mad cow testing
"Larger meat packers opposed such testing. If Creekstone Farms Premium Beef began advertising that its cows have all been tested, other companies fear they too will have to conduct the expensive tests."
(tags: Bushism safety food-testing food mad-cow-disease beef agriculture business-culture )
Great Ape Trust graduate student's paper sheds light on bonobo language
"After applying conversational analysis tools, Pedersen asserted that language is more than the simple act of transferring information, but a conversational interaction between active participants. Language-competent bonobos use lexigrams, which are made up of arbitrary symbols that represent words, as the basis for conversations with humans.
Pedersen said linguistic aspects of the conversation included turn taking, negotiation, pauses and repetition, and went far beyond information sharing made possible through the use of...
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ArbCampFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-10-13 06:10:58
I’m writing to ask you to consider attending ArbCamp , an UnConference to be held at Washtenaw Community College on October 27 .
We’d all like to bring together the region’s technical, entrepreneurial, academic, artistic and corporate cultures. “We” being the organizers of ArbCamp, the region’s planners, the region’s workers.
And I agree. I’m not an organizer of the event, but I’d like to help build a future here out of something bes...
more “Evolution: What it is and what it is not” by David Starr Jordan (1892)From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-10-05 19:29:49
I scanned an issue of The Arena magazine from 1892, for Distributed Proofreaders a while ago. Barbara just uploaded the scans and OCRed text, and started the project there. But in prepping, this essay caught my eye.
You may find it of interest. Consider it in terms of today’s discourse, and dwell at length on how stupid our general populace has become in the intervening century.
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more Notes on departing the 2007 University of Michigan Entrepalooza WorkshopFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-09-21 07:51:39
Sigh .
First off, I note that the 2007 website was until yesterday titled “Entrepalooza 2006″. Because why, exactly?
Also:
In what sense is it a good thing that there are 320 unclaimed badges at the table, most of which say “Ross School of Business”, and at least three of which have “speaker” pennants dangling from them?
Sam Zell stands up there and describes the structure of a useful and interesting sale of his company, and there are no comme...
more Still aliveFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2007-09-20 09:46:27
Please stand by. Expect to see three additional sites with blogs: one for Coscience.org -related nonprofit science-for-free material, and one for Vague Innovation, LLC -related for-profit agalmic consulting work, and one at WhatMightHappen for futurist interviews and monographs.
But today it’s a trip to the hospital for my Mom for a “simple” procedure, and some basic errands. Soon.
-ish.
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