2005 November

Updated versions of the ’60s bomb shelters called ’safe’ rooms have already made their way into popular culture via movies and TV. FEMA will even tell you how to make one. But none of the limited-purpose retrofits have the high-tech style of the U.S. Bunker version. Its spaceship looks won’t fit with your average neighborhood, […]

Where do you live?
As a geographer (by education), I am interested in where people ‘feel’ they live as opposed to their mailing address. I am a Midwesterner but it is sometimes amusing how far east I can go and still find people who call themselves fellow Midwesterners. Geographers have conducted some studies but there is […]

The big content owners have been determining the world’s intellectual property regimes for the last few decades.
By clever lobbying at extraordinarily boring conferences, they had managed by the late 90s to commit governments, through the world trade talks, to a draconian programme of laws extending the notion of intellectual property to the point where […]

When was the last time you went to the library? I go every once in a while but if I need to do some research I tend to go online. But if I want to sit down and check out one of the classics the library is my best bet. In most cases it’s free […]

One of the first things I usually do in the morning is to sit down and read the newspaper. The dog likes to curl up in my lap as I catch up on the comics and the news. It’s a nice way to start off the day but for the most part though I tend […]

Here is another story you will not find on mainstream media.
A breakthrough study from a national Russian research agency suggests that a diet with genetically-modified (GM) soy may indeed affect newborns of parents maintaining a GM-based food diet.
According to the study reported by Russian federal news agency Regnum News Agency, GM foods can affect […]