F.D.A. Says Food From Cloned Animals Is Safe. I could pretty easily give up meat, but I'm not sure I could live without cheese. There are no labeling requirements for products from cloned animals, as if it will even be possible to track them through generations of livestock. I'm scared.

Crime broadsides collected by the Harvard Law School Library

I have to re-register with Sprint because they upgraded to a more secure system, one that apparently displays my password as I type it:


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A library staff member reported that subscript 3's were appearing as subscript 2's in our online catalog. Check out the middle of the title for Velocity structure of DR21.The subscript has the correct Unicode value of 2083. What's weird is that if I view it in a larger font, it's clearly a 3, and even in a smaller font, it looks like a 3, but in ( Read more... )

Last night I saw an extraordinary documentary, Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority. It's part of the Boston Palestine Film Festival. I arrived before the film in time for the discussion of the previous films about apartheid walls. There were some passionate statements, including some by a Palestinian woman with personal testimony as to ( Read more... )

"water wasted during reverse osmosis / deionization processes in biological laboratories is now reused in urinals and for quenching hot discharge."

Green campus tour

reclaim the streets for horns (marching bands!!!), bikes and feet


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quote from an e-mail by the retiring head of the law school library:
"Electronic journals have exploded in popularity being easy to search, but the first question people ask is how to print them out."

Partnership for Integrity in Scientific Dis-semination

[in response to the recently launched Partnership for Research Integrity in Science & Medicine, i.e. anti-OA lobbying group)

the dinosaurs made me pee