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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Anti malarial hope?

I forget where I heard this quote recently: “The bugs are winning” (I think it was a CDC officer in reference to malaria and insect borne pathogens. Hopefully not much longer. Die, malaria. Die.

They won.

I just realized I didn’t blog about the Oxford style economist debate hosted at the Harris theater a few nights ago. Luckily, Vince had some tickets to it, so I decided to head over with him. The title of the debate is “Will China’s Rise Lead to an Environmental Catastrophe?“. Prior to the event, and [...]

I’m a street cleaner…err run an advertising company?

Check this out! Smart idea, I’m still surprised that the government is okay with it though. It seems like it creates an incentive for authorities to clean the streets more than anything. What might be interesting in this supremely cheap and potentially very effective form of advertising is to actually use it as for political [...]