http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:17:58 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:17:58 entirely independently of the method used to create H2. (Thanks for the more detailed link, BTW.)

However, some things still require clarification -- note this peculiar claim:
[div class=excerpt]For almost a century, scientists have tried and failed to “split water” cost effectively to produce h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/84 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:23:45 Silicon forms long chain molecules which are more reactive under Earthly conditions (air and water) because of the very strong bonds which form between Si and O, and the relative weakness of the Si-H (and even Si-Si) bonds. The ability of Si and heavier elements to form "hypervalent" intermediates -... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/83 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:13:17 You pay taxes to support the PUBLIC school system, whether you DIRECTLY benefit from it or not.

If you don't believe it, consider that people without children still have to pay property tax. People whose children are no longer in school pay property tax. People whose children went to school in an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/79 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:02:59 The simple building blocks of nucleic acids were found on meteorites.

Sorry, this does not contradict any previous theory. Just shows that prebiotic chemistry may have happened elsewhere, which is widely believed anyway.

Best not to get your science news from a business publication.

see th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/80 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:57:15 Get a grip! Sodium fluoride is unbelievably cheap, and available from many different sources. Monopoly is all but impossible. The quantities employed in drinking water ("isolated fashion"? WTF is that supposed to mean?) are miniscule, compared to other commercial uses. There is no secret cabal rakin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/82 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:33:21 The total fluoride consumed is miniscule compared to the amount used in industry. Nor is fluoride a waste product of aluminum refining -- it is a necessary, useful material which must be paid for, and is recycled as much as possible, with the only losses being due to leakage or spillage. So your sto... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/81 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:54:02 When one fails to perform, trash and replace. The bottom line will reward you.

Meanwhile ... European office manufacturers are introducing reclining work chairs, to make office naps more comfortable.

http://www.sedus.com/se/pressImages/Preview/up_Schlafen_4.jpg
http://www.sedus.com/se/it/pres... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/78 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:00:24 One day, a poor farmer is visited by a genie. The genie agrees to grant him any one wish. The poor farmer wishes for a cow, so that his family will never do without fresh milk. The genie grants his wish.

His neighbor, hearing this story, berates the poor farmer: "You could have wished for anythin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/76 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:58:26 Just read this article this morning while waiting in the doctor's office. Short version: "Pyrex" made in the USA is no longer borosilicate glass, which has a low coefficient of thermal expansion and is therefore much less prone to break on rapid heating or cooling (lab glassware is mostly borosilica... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/75 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:36:47 Conventional wisdom suggests that the reduction of funding for social welfare policies during the 1980s is the result of a conservative backlash against the welfare state. With such a backlash, it should be expected that changes in the policies toward involuntary commitment of the mentally ill refle... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/74 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:12:07 When it comes to great jazz music you can hardly beat the live recordings from the height of the 1930s swing era.

There has always been chatter about a mysterious treasure trove of unreleased material known as the Savory collection. Recorded by the audio engineer Bill Savory - these live perform... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/72 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:07:19 [b]Copy of Quran only book saved from Union’s 1865 burning of UA[/b]

By Taylor Holland Special to The Tuscaloosa News
Published: Friday, September 10, 2010 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 11:58 p.m.

TUSCALOOSA | A copy of the Quran dating from 1853, its spine mi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/71 Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:25:38 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid#Botanical_sources

has more, including Kiwi fruit, lingonberries and black raspberries -- all news to me. Most of the omega-3 in fish oil are obtained from algae and plankton; apparently fish do not synthesize them themselves. Both fish and krill may... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/70 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:43:16 Radium-bearing barite (radiobarite) is a common constituent of scale and sludge deposits that form in oil-field production equipment. The barite forms as a precipitate from radium-bearing, saline formation water that is pumped to the surface along with oil. Radioactivity levels in some oil-field equ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/77 Thu, 27 May 2010 17:43:42 I'm picturing dead-eyed peasants shuffling in the streets, while iron-wheeled carriages clatter echoingly over the cobblestones ... in the distance, the dark prominence of an ancient castle blots out the moonlit sky, its empty windows eerily reminiscent of an eyeless skull ... in one window, a lone ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/68 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:23:03 many justifications of the Free Market as well. Most Free Marketeers push the point that an unrestrained FM leads to the best of all possible worlds -- but in fact it gives free rein to all manner of irrational behavior, and even rewards it, leading to catastrophe.

Some know well enough to argue ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/67 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:35:35 To think that scientists have failed to notice that one of the most fundamental laws in science, taught in every scientific discipline, should be directly contrary to easily observable facts in the world around them, and that NONE OF THEM HAS NOTICED what the astute armchair quarterback has, is just... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/66 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:49:42 I read in a CNN article that the source of the toxic, corrosive, odiferous gas hydrogen sulfide (H[sub]2[/sub]S) is strontium sulfide (SrS), which reacts with moisture in the air to form H[sub]2[/sub]S. The big question is, where does the SrS come from? It's been suggested that it was added as a pho... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/64 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:44:32 Unfortunately, this is becoming increasingly common. Here's an FTC ruling on such a case, from 2004:

[div class=excerpt][b]Job Applicants Not Informed of Their Rights under Federal Credit Law, FTC Alleges

Bad Credit Lowered Consumers’ Odds for Casino Jobs[/b]

Two casinos denied consumers jo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/63 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:49:29 By Ted Danson
Special to CNN


[i]Editor's note: Ted Danson is an Emmy Award-winning actor, a founding board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation, and narrator of a new film, "End of the Line." For more information about Oce... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/62 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:14:16 By Elizabeth Cohen
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent

(CNN) -- Nineteen-year-old Stuart Wald is not likely to grow out of his schizophrenia, bipolar disease and attention-deficit disorder. But he will, with 100 percent certainty, grow out of the health insurance coverage he has through his f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/61 Thu, 14 May 2009 13:31:42 Source: [b]CNN[/b]

[b]An administration official confirms that a $4 billion bridge loan and $3.2 billion in bankruptcy financing won't be paid back by Chrysler following bankruptcy.[/b]

By Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com senior writer
May 5, 2009: 4:54 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Chrysler L... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/60 Tue, 05 May 2009 17:14:59 By Laura Smitherman | laura.smitherman@baltsun.com
December 25, 2008
After years of problems with the state's touch-screen voting system, Maryland has filed a claim to recover $8.5 million from the maker of the machines, Premier Election Solutions, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced y... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/59 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:53:06 What's happening on 20 Jan 2009 is a change of civil government in a nation which recognizes no establishment of religion. It does not need, and does not benefit from, a clerical presence.

After having wingnut "religion" shoved in our faces for the last eight years, it would be quite a relief to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/58 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:40:26 This is from Roger Welsch's "It's not the end of the earth, but you can see it from here":

[div class=excerpt]Just as some insist that there is a public right to know, Royal Cupp insisted that there was a public right not to know. On one occasion, typical of daily occasions, he expressed his prid... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/eppur_se_muova/57 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:16:49