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[ Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:27 ]

Legacy Journal: Toxic Planet or Better Living thru Chemistry?

Section:
Environment

Summary:
It may be my imagination, but it seems that the number of narrowly focused research PhD’s in search of projects and funding is driving the explosion of PhD thesis, grant proposals, funding requests, committee meeting, international conferences, popular press articles, and journal publications. One example is environmental endocrine dysfunction, a kind of mini-movement with vocal advocacy hot spots in northern California and New York. Politics and public policy is part of the mix. A staff person for Senator Boxer of California and Marin Country is “connected”

Environmental Endocrine Disruptors (EED) is the title of this week’s GRC group’ retreat at the Waterville Valley Resort in New Hampshire for their 6th annual meeting. Shanna Swan of URMC is the Chairwoman.

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This community of environmental toxicologists, biologists and epidemiologists focusing on a wide range of “reproductive failures”. Among the failures are a variety of animal and human gross anatomy and microscopic tissue finding that are associated with maternal or egg exposure to environmental chemicals. Some of the chemicals are pharmaceutics like diethyl stilbestrol, but most are petro-chemicals like agricultural pesticides and herbicides.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 06/12 at 12:27 PM
Calendar: • Thursday: • Caveat Emptor: • Chances are ---: • Cause & Effect: • Cherry Picking: • Data: • Dollars and Cents: • Follow the Money: • Environment: • Advocacy: • Policy: • Studies: • Fact vs Fiction: • Going Green: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Medicine: • Voice: • Demonization: • Dooms Day: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Tuesday, March 18, 2008 07:17 ]

Legacy Journal: Economic Moral Hazard

Section:
Politics

Summary:
* “Moral Hazard” is the current term of ART among the political and economic crisis oriented media pundits. What does it mean? Perhaps we should attempt to define the idea behind the phrase.

Main:
It seems to be an insurance term that began in England. One can imagine the talk in the early coffee houses of London where Lloyds of London syndicates were pooling investors stakes to insure the nations trading ships, their cargos, and maybe event the lives of their crews against accidents and piracy as they sailed at sea to the edges of the known world. The talk among these sober risk takers may have incluced the possibility of some imprudent risks. like overloading, if insurance was inforce and playable if the ship, cargo and crew capsized and all were lost. London, the west’s first metropolis, had long been supplied with coal via coast carriers, before they were replaced by canals and railroads. Captain James Cook learned his hazardous trade aboard vessels of just this type.

Today, the term moral hazard has a similarly negative connotation ---- imprudent risk taking without a penalty or price like bankruptcy or insolvency of a business or loss of a house. Bear Stearn’s most valued asset, trust, was lost, liquidity evaporated and its partners and customers would not trade. Insurance can not cover or restore loss of trust.

Currently, the economic good news is that not all Wall Street investment firms took the same risks in low quality mortgage backed derivative instruments at Bear Stearns. Today Lehman Bros. profit report excessed expectations. The nation’s unemployment rate is low and stable. Productive is good. Exports are Strong. Technology, transportation and services sectors are growing. Biotechnology and genomics are red hot. Agricultural incomes and land prices are a boom for the heartland and the national balance sheet. The stock market continues to contain safe and sure value. Pension and Truct funds are performing well.

Yes, New York and other states are facing budget deficits. Inflation rate outpaces Treasury returns. Discretionary consumer spending may continue to contract. Housing construction continues to contract in California and Florida. Decreasing defense spending is not currently an option. Health care and medical insurance costs are rapidly rising to fund patient expections, institutional and professional liabilty protection ,applied documentation imaging technology, and nursing shortages.

The weaking dollor and low interest rates are a double edged sword,

Meanwhile, in the wild and wonderful worlds of evolutionary biology and genetic molecular biology, guarantees of individual and species perfection and survival are hard to come by.

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[ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 13:26 ]

Legacy Journal: Wednesday Wisdom

Section:
Briefs

Summary:
* Ban Ki-moon, a career diplomat, is the recently elected Secretary-General of the United Nations. Based in New York City is appears to be saying all the right things about climate change, according to reporting by Rivkin of the nytimes.

Google is going Green. The company is putting some spare change into climate change and investing in windturbines at altitude with attitude. Altitude is provided by kites. It sounds like kind of a wind driven twofer.: lift and thrust.

* Subclinical sport associated concussion seems to be a mini epidemic. Detection and followup requires a $200 per pop neurobiopsycology evaluation using proprietary software. Hum.

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“Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science” - Henri Poincare

: Ban do not have scientist credentials, Nor is he from France, but that does not stop him from trying use French. So, he does appear to endorse the conventional wisdom of doing good in the third world by sharing, yet again, the pervailing urban Penthouse technical wisdom of the Northern Hemisphere with the largely Southern Hemisphere poor of Africa, Asia, and South America. That wisdom is for the rapid adoption and deployment of alternatives to fossil fuels. Nuclear power for electricity generation in Korea, diesel for the trains of China, bunker oil for the fleets of Norway, gas for the taxis of Caracas, kerosene for the jets to Bali, and dung for the village hearths of India appear unacceptable alternatives at the outset. So think about kite power.

:: And brings us to Google Green. They are hedging their bets on kites, and like Microsoft have located their most recent server farms close to safe, secure and reliable hydroelectric dams in the Pacific Northwest.

::: Meanwhile youth contact sports like football in New York have mandated safety requirements, These are costly. So a property tax assessment is under consideration by a number of western upstate New York school districts.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 11/28 at 01:26 PM
Calendar: • Wednesday: • Caveat Emptor: • Culture Clash: • High Brow: • Demographics: • Energy: • Environment: • Movements: • Policy: • Homeostasis: • How To: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Language: • Rhetoric: • Metaphors: • Leap of Faith: • Nature: • News: • Global: • Really? A Reality Check: • Report Card: • Sixth Sense: • Sustainability: • Translations: • Quotes: • Climate Change: • Certainty: • By the Numbers: • Dollars and Cents: • Blowback: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Thursday, November 08, 2007 06:47 ]

Legacy Journal: Thusday Fast Tracks: Cognition, the Politics of C02, and Getting Real with Water

Section:
Science and Technology

Summary:
* Exercise if good for executive control and for brain frontal lobes in the opinion of writers for the nytimes. A good case for tuning out television and turning off the computer.

* A view of CO2 trangulation along the banks of the Potomac River: Deep Calculus

* Water Cycle: a view from the Desert. Cowboy math in Arizona beats the Green Felt Jungle in Nevada.

Main:
: The seniors working out at the Brighton, NY JCC get it. Exercise is good for you health, your organs, and your mental functioning. They know about heart function, oxygen delivery, and micro vascular disease. These folks have been to school. They have also sent their kids to some of the best medical school is the country. My partner at the bank of erg machines ( rowing machines) conducted a post doc seminar on exercise, diet, health and the value of parochial education. His education began early, continued as a parent, and now as a student of his daughter who is a resident in Pathology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Many new friend is also in disease prevention mode. Weight control, beans in his diet, and the the benefits of algae to the health of the environment. However, caveat emptor:

* He, like most, appeared unwilling to accept that while exercising his breakfast was being recycled as carbon dioxide urea and methane with the marvelous magic of his skin, lungs, kidneys and intestines. While trying to compute the energy costs of cooling the fitness room, heating the water in our shower, powering the banks of ‘TV monitors, and fueling our ride to and from the JCC we both experienced a significant senior core meltdown moment. So we parted with a tip of the hat to the biomass people, including U o R Trustee Steve Chu at the Lawrence Lab in far away Berkeley and potential algae farmers in Arizona.

::: Meanwhile, we have learned that 20% of the continental U.S. is desert and by definition, in a permanent state of drought. Reported by PBS Wired Science, Phoenix, Arizona is growing in population while not increasing total water consumption. Part of its water infrastructure is a massive reservoir system that includes both above ground and underground natural systems. This system, like the electrical grid is monitored and controlled by gatekeepers who send water from where it is to where it is need. Neat. Seniors at Sun City are also committing resources to storage, They are donating organs like their brains upon death to projects like research on degenerative disorders of the central nervous system in the elderly.

Appraising , auditing and monitoring water directly and concretely is easy, affordable, and reliable. The same can not be said for the carbon dioxide cycle and the pie in the sky carbon trading systems. So, absent proper appraisal of their present and future value, alternative, inefficient, and subsidize forms of energy production, processing, storage, distribution and use are suspect.

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