There’s an awful lot of tosh being talked about animals on farms and in diets these days. Militant vegetarians and vegans leaped on the recent FAO report to suggest that all we need to do to halt climate change is get rid of farm animals. Al Gore, they said,¹ can’t be committed to fighting g...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.2 This week: 88.3
Tuesday 20 March: Creeping down, just about. Something odd I’ve noticed for about a month now is that I’m often a bit peckish when I get home of an evening. Not ravenous or anything, but just in the mood for some peanuts or olives or dried apricots. May...

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I said I had some more Jim Watson stories, and I do. But I’m not going to tell them here. Instead, I’ll mention just one little problem I discovered in his latest confessional: Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix.

A lot of people know that Watson’s homie Crick resigned his founding...

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Feet of Clay Dept: Jim Watson, Nobel Laureate for his discovery of the structure of DNA has said that bicycles are extremely dangerous and ought to be banned. He has also pushed the origins of agriculture back to “caveman” days. Perhaps he was thinking of Raquel Welch, farmer and milkmaid? Actua...

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Over at Daily Kos, a behemoth that I have only lately started to attend to, there's a post from someone called lapolitichick about the milk-boosting hormone rBST and labeling, about which I wrote a few days ago. lapolitichick is smiling because a large California dairy will no longer accept milk...

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