LHC
A portion of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN: Americans participated in its search for the Higgs boson, but the project was European-led.
View ArticleDr. Oz fires back at his critics -- with misdirection and an absurd defense
Those who feared that the TV medical show host Dr. Mehmet Oz would only profit from a recent call by a group of 10 doctors for Columbia University to dump him from its faculty have turned out to be...
View ArticleDesalination plants aren't a good solution for California drought
As surely as the hot, dry Santa Ana winds bring blue skies to the coast and wildfires to the hills, severe California droughts bring calls to build desalination plants up and down the seashore.
View ArticleComcast discovers the drawbacks of bad behavior
Comcast customers and their advocates may believe that the cable company's reputation for wretched service was the key factor in federal regulators' distaste for its proposed merger with Time Warner...
View ArticleJunk food and junk science: the case of aspartame and Pepsi
PepsiCo, evidently testing the notion that junk science can be good marketing, announced last week that it was removing the artificial sweetener aspartame from most of its diet sodas in the United...
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