This, an ad thanking Citigroup, which has been decried as the Most Destructive Bank in the World by the Rainforest Action Network for its reckless funding of development projects that endangered indigenous peoples, tropical rainforests, etc.? Thanks to a corporation fraught with malicious business practices, issues of questionable political funding, and so forth? “Thank you […]

GloFish: a genetically engineered zebrafish (Danio rerio) with a fluorescent protein from jellyfish and coral. Initially designed as a kind of pollution detector—the idea being that the fluorescent proteins would “turn on” when in the presence of certain kind of toxins—what the researchers got instead was a fish that glowed all the time. GloFish Zebrafish […]

Are you on the list? “U.S. security agents have a master list of five million people worldwide thought to be potential terrorists or criminals, officials say. ‘The U.S. lookout index contains some five million names of known terrorists and other persons representing a potential problem,’ Brian Davis, a senior Canadian immigration official in Paris, said […]

“Last month’s announcement on Shell’s reserves outraged shareholders and knocked more than $15bn off its stock market value as investors contemplated less than 11 years of reserves at current output rates against more than 13 before the downgrade.” from the Guardian: Thursday February 5, 2004 (Though of course calculating reserves depends on current price, technology, […]