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P10 million pesos worth of smuggled onions confiscated.
Actually not a joke: These cheap (often chemical laden) onions from China are undermining the local onion farmers here in N.E....it's a form of economic warfare: subsidize the product, underprice the local product, make the locals go bankrupt, and voila, export market now a monopoly. and it's not just Onions... ---------------------------------------
No, they still haven't found Amelia Earhart.
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Prozac as an anti viral medicine?
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Wired has a good article on Rabies.
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Via Improbable research notes a lot of kitchen utensils are used to describe medical conditions, such as Nutcracker esophagus,
then we have the "silver fork deformity" of the Colles fracture...
and the Acetabulum – bowl is used to describe the socket of the hip joint.
and then there are Spoon-shaped nails
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Chicken Pox vaccine could eliminate shingles in the elderly.
The problem is a shortage of the new version of the shot for adults.
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Dr. Robert S Ledley, RIP:
a dentist turned biomedical researcher and computing trailblazer who invented the first CT scanner capable of producing cross-sectional images of any part of the human body, died on Tuesday in Kensington, Md. He was 86.
His scanner probably saved hundreds of thousands of people but I doubt his name is a household name.
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The Olympics had all sorts of celebrities, including Mr. Bean, Mr. Beckham, and...Sir Tim Bernards-Lee
the UKMail comments:
This is Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He invented the internet. Blame him if you don't like what you're reading now.They included Harry Potter, but I didn't spot anything about Tolkien during the ceremonies.
Is that because, thanks to Peter Jackson, the Shire is now considered a Kiwi franchise?
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