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10 Interesting Links From November 16th

November 17th, 2009 Greg Smith No comments
  • Foodborne illness: An acute and long-term health challenge for the 21st century | Science Blog – CFI's report, The Long-Term Health Outcomes of Selected Foodborne Pathogens, calls for a new approach to foodborne illness research and surveillance and provides expert reviews about some of the long-term health outcomes for five foodborne pathogens. The outcomes range from hypertension and diabetes to kidney failure and mental retardation.
  • Arizona lands solar manufacturing facility – Phoenix Business Journal: – The company, which is based in Wuxi, China, and has its American offices in San Francisco, has not settled on a site as of yet. Company officials cited its work with the Greater Phoenix Economic Council as well as the state’s renewable energy standard and potential research relationships with Arizona State University as the reasons behind its decision. The plant will initially employ about 75 people with the potential to double that within the first year.
  • Local News | ‘Missing’ SeaTac man found with new name, in new state | Seattle Times Newspaper – Earlier this year, Christine Francisco got a divorce and, in an interview with KIRO-TV, said she had subsequently learned her husband had been leading a double life, complete with hidden bank accounts.
  • Mysterious Porpoise Deaths Blamed On Berserk Dolphins – News Story – KTVU San Francisco – Marine biologists have figured out why a growing number of dead harbor porpoises have been found on California beaches in recent years: dolphin attacks.
  • High Fructose Corn Syrup: A Recipe For Hypertension, Study Finds – Over the last 200 years, the rate of fructose intake has directly paralleled the increasing rate of obesity, which has increased sharply in the last 20 years since the introduction of HFCS. Today, Americans consume 30% more fructose than 20 years ago and up to four times more than 100 years ago, when obesity rates were less than 5%. While this increase mirrors the dramatic rise in the prevalence of hypertension, studies have been inconsistent in linking excess fructose in the diet to hypertension.
  • News : Desalinization plant presents sustainability, waste concerns – Rio Rancho Observer – Jensen is also concerned with what happens after 100 years. “The deepwater isn’t renewable, so when it’s gone, it’s gone,” he said. “So, if it’s being used to promote more growth and more development and more housing, when that water runs out, there’s going to be a huge question of where the water comes from to supply the new population. That is a serious issue.”
  • Report: Motorola looking at selling unit – Motorola Inc. is seeking to sell its largest division, which includes Tempe operations, according to a report Wednesday. Motorola has a location in Tempe at 2900 S. Diablo Way. The Schaumburg, Ill., company is exploring a sale worth about $4.5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal's Web site, which cited "people familiar with the matter."
  • Al Jazeera English – Americas – Rio gangs down police helicopter – Suspected drug traffickers in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro have shot down a police helicopter monitoring a shootout between rival armed gangs.
  • Florissant deer gores woman who tried to pet it – The Denver Post – A young buck mule deer gored a 63-year-old woman near Florissant on Monday after she apparently called to the animal in an attempt to pet him, officials from the state Division of Wildlife said today in a news release.
  • Birth Control Pills Affect Women’s Taste in Men: Scientific American – Studies suggest that females prefer the scent of males whose MHC genes differ from their own, a preference that has probably evolved because it helps offspring survive: couples with different MHC genes are less likely to be related to each other than couples with similar genes are, and their children are born with more varied MHC profiles and thus more robust immune systems.
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    10 Interesting Links From March 6th

    March 7th, 2009 Greg Smith Comments off
    • Residents’ wait continues at Superfund Site – In 1982, Motorola Inc. reported a leak from a 5,000-gallon underground tank containing TCE at its facility at 52nd Street. TCE is a manmade industrial solvent suspected of causing cancer. In 1989 the area became a federal Superfund Site, which is any contaminated land that poses a risk to public health or the environment.
    • Reality Check, Please! | ThatsSoYummy.com – While I was reading The Food Network Magazine, I found a tid-bit I wanted to share with you all.

      Restaurant Menus are designed to make you eat more and spend big.

    • Holder says Feds will stop medical marijuana raids – War Room – Salon.com – For those of you keeping score at home, add another major policy shift by the Obama administration to the tally. Breaking with precedent set under former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, the Department of Justice will not raid medical marijuana dispensaries allowed under certain state laws.
    • Televisionary: Word Salad: The History of the Cylon Race Comes Tumbling Out on "Battlestar Galactica" – Confused about the secret history of the "Old Cylon" race? Let's see if we can work it all out from what Battlestar Galactica has told us thus far.
    • U.S. Consumers Driven Away From Drink Spending: Chart of Day – The CHART OF THE DAY shows why. Take-out sales of alcoholic beverages tumbled 9.3 percent in the fourth quarter, the steepest drop since the U.S. Commerce Department started compiling data half a century ago. They sank four times as much as overall consumer spending, depicted by a green line in the chart.

      The plunge, which took place as the U.S. recession surpassed the one-year mark, shattered the previous record of 3.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 1991. That decline capped three quarters of falling sales as the U.S. came out of a recession.

    • Hulu Gets Nasty, Blocks Boxee Browser From Videos – Old media's war against technology just escalated: Hulu, the Web video site owned by Fox (NWS) and NBC (GE), just blocked Boxee, a Web TV-specialized browser, from accessing its videos. (What's Boxee? See explanation at bottom.)

      Specifically, this means that Hulu videos can't be watched on Boxee's new video RSS reader, while Hulu's content will (presumably) still work with other Web browsers and RSS readers. This is sort of along the lines of Microsoft hypothetically blocking Mac users from Hotmail.

    • $1.27 Per Share: The General Motors Of 1933 – GM stock dropped 25% today, hitting $1.27 per share during intra-day trading. It's a level not seen since April, 1933. Let's put things into perspective and take a look back at the GM of 1933.

      The GM of 1933 and the GM of 2009 are two seemingly diametrically opposite companies connected by only one thing — a stock price. One was exiting the Depression, while today, one is apparently just entering one.

    • Pepsi introduces drinks with natural sugar | Markets | Markets News | Reuters – Pepsi Natural, a premium cola made with sugar, natural caramel and kola nut extract, will be sold in glass bottles in the premium or natural food aisles of stores in 10 markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle.
    • Signs of Life from the Real Estate Market – BusinessWeek – The Fairfield ZIP code had the biggest annual increase in sales in the fourth quarter of last year, according to a ranking of the 25 U.S. ZIP codes with the most improved sales compiled for BusinessWeek.com by Santa Ana (Calif.)-based First American CoreLogic. California, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada ZIPs dominated the list, as we expected, but Howell, Mich., near Detroit; Woodbury, Minn.; Rio Rancho, N.M.; Humble, Tex., outside Houston; Duluth, Ga., in the Atlanta metro area; and the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, Ill., also showed strong or at least stable sales at the end of last year. We limited the ranking to ZIPs with at least 10,000 households and selected only one ZIP for any given metro area. (If we hadn't done this, California would have taken almost all of the top 25 slots).
    • Supercomputer Adds Up, but not in the way The Journal Believes – Well, a few weeks ago, the Albuquerque Journal editorialized in glowing terms about the jobs supposedly being created by the State's $39 million supercomputer. It made me wonder whether the State got ripped off for their computer or whether, as is so often the case, the government officials allowed taxpayers to get ripped off. Well, it turns out that it was basically the latter. After poking around and asking some questions, I discovered that the computer really cost taxpayers $42 million because the State had to "fund the creation of a permanent office, build more college gateways, and hire staff…and design a planned central office for the project and to buy equipment for the gateways on college campuses."
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    Moto & iTunes

    July 26th, 2004 Greg Smith 2 comments
    “Apple Computer Inc. will make a slimmed-down version of its iTunes jukebox software that No. 2 cell phone maker Motorola Inc. will install on some wireless phones it will start selling in the first half of 2005, the companies said on Monday.”

    Wow, and I thought iTunes was a way to sell iPods. Clearly this shows that Apple thinks there’s a chance to make some extra dough via the iTunes Music Store. This should help Motorola sell phones. If you have a ton of iTunes music would you buy a phone that plays your iTunes songs vs one that can’t. I wonder if that sexy new V3 will be capable?

    Oh yeah, lets see how long Harmony lasts before Apple Legal beats them down.

    [Updated:] Speaking of the V3, there is a good review of it here. It is on my gadget want list! 

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