Daily Archives: March 23, 2011

$461 Million High Speed Train=13 Minutes

Just a bit of a follow up to yesterday’s story about the Feds offering $461 million in stimulus money for the train service between Raleigh and Charlotte (which no one takes) Officials say the new service would cut travel time from Charlotte to Raleigh to less than three hours, even with seven stops along the […]

GM Cows That Produce “Similar To Human” Milk

I’m going to have to agree with Treehugger’s Matthew McDermott on this one Details are a bit thin on this one, but my initial reaction to this is an overwhelming grossness: Reports from Times of India are that researchers in China have genetically modified some 200 cows so that the milk they produced in similar […]

Globull Warming Makes Alaskan Brown Bears Bachelors

It’s probably the fault of climate alarmists James Cameron and Al Gore, who took unnecessary fossil fueled flights to Latin America. Anyhow, there’s a new study out More and more brown bears are embracing the single life — at least that’s according to an extensive, decades-long study of the animals in Alaska’s Kodiak wilderness. Researchers […]

What, Exactly, Is The “Obama Doctrine”?

Does anybody know? Does Obama? What is it? Over at the Politico, Leonard Nimoy Glenn Thrush is In search of the ‘Obama Doctrine’ At a briefing for reporters last Saturday as U.S. Tomahawks missiles slammed into the Libyan coast, a top aide to President Barack Obama was asked to define the “Obama doctrine” to explain […]

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