WHAT’S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 23 Nov 07 Washington, DC 1. PLURIPOTENT CELLS: IS THIS THE BIG STEM-CELL BREAKTHROUGH? If you have the uneasy feeling that we’ve been there before, you are not alone. Two years ago the Woo Suk Hwang fraud began to unravel http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN05/wn121605.html . This week, two groups of researchers reported the creation of "pluripotent"

WHAT’S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 28 Sep 07 Washington, DC 1. SUBSIDIES: FARMERS GET FAT WHILE LIVESTOCK GO HUNGRY. The price of corn is the highest in a decade. Ethanol plants are sprouting up in the corn fields. Land prices are turning farmers with 200 acres into millionaires. And yet, they still get direct government subsidy checks to "save the family farm." "We’re harvesting

WHAT’S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 21 Sep 07 Washington, DC 1. THE MORAL LAW: THE GENETIC BASIS OF THE GOLDEN RULE. The feature story in the Science Times section of Tuesday’s NY Times is based on the work of psychologist Jonathan Haidt, University of Virginia. It reinforces recent brain scanning studies that found "mirror cells" in the motor cortex http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN07/wn081707

On Feb 23, 1:14 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@mchsi.com> wrote: WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 23 Feb 07 Washington, DC 1. OF PANDERING AND PEOPLE: WHO WILL CAPTURE THE CREATIONISTS? Even as these words are being turned into electrons, Senator John McCain is in Seattle delivering the keynote luncheon speech to the Discovery Institute. Eighteen months ago, just as the Dover

WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 23 Feb 07 Washington, DC 1. OF PANDERING AND PEOPLE: WHO WILL CAPTURE THE CREATIONISTS? Even as these words are being turned into electrons, Senator John McCain is in Seattle delivering the keynote luncheon speech to the Discovery Institute. Eighteen months ago, just as the Dover School Board trial involving "intelligent design" was about to start