Links With Your Coffee - Saturday
- Major Spoiler Ahead
Everybody is talking about the mysterious and awesome trailer for the new film from J. J. Abrams that is set to debut on January 18, 2008. Code-named Cloverfield, the materials posted and hidden online have generated a ton of speculation about the subject of the movie.
(tip to Ray) - President Cheney Sickens Planet
- Not-So-Elementary Bee Mystery
The disappearance of large numbers of U.S. honeybees is so odd that it's attracted Ian Lipkin. Since last fall, beekeepers in at least 35 states have reported colonies that shrank rapidly for no apparent reason. Adult bees just go missing, leaving behind young bees in need of tending. This colony-collapse disorder (CCD), as it's now called, has got bee researchers coast to coast stirred up and looking for causes and remedies.
Beekeepers in the United States tend some 2.4 million honeybee colonies, which obligingly haul pollen for many of the nation's commercial crops. Researchers are urgently seeking to understand why bees vanished last winter in large numbers, leading to the collapse of countless hives.
Lipkin, however, had never studied a bee disease until now. He works in the epidemiology department of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health—human health, that is. He's solved mysteries, though, and he says that his methods are yielding results this time too.
Lipkin is the pathogen hunter who in 1999 figured out that a cluster of people with encephalitis in New York had caught a then-obscure virus called West Nile. . . - A Gut Feeling about Coffee
Earlier this year, Spanish researchers unveiled coffee as a notable source of soluble fiber. Now, a team in Germany confirms the finding and shows that beneficial gut microbes can easily digest the coffee-bean fiber left in brewed liquid and extract its energy for their growth. Because the waste products of that digestion—also called fermentation—can repel some disease-causing bacteria, the new data suggest that coffee drinking might represent more of a benefit than a vice.
Comments
Re: Abrams'- Blair Witch meets Bush's Homunculus... this 'spoiler' revelation would be too smart and subversive for the filmmaker. My image enhancer found only a another ridiculously good looking young cast member from the "Lost" series lurking in the background.
Amerika's good work in the world . . . spreading democracy and all that bullshit . . .
http://tinyurl.com/2oocbt
Kaliyuga,
While I may agree with you on the weaknesses of "Americka", because of your finger being seemingly pointed in the same direction in all of your invectives, I wonder if you are so inclined to be so critical of any propaganda thus directed towards you?
Oh, but of course not. kali yuga is pure of heart. But of course. Please bring to the table some substantial analysis of the situation. Your facile finger pointing means nothing. Say something substantial. Please.
How do you propose to change the status quo? Or does it just make you feel superior to point a finger?
//Tea for the Tillerman mode off//
That loud noise is unmistakable - it's the "smoke monster" from Lost.
Andy.
Don't know what your problem is, Jo Ann. The link was posted for those who care to listen. If you'd rather not know what your country is up to, you can always spend your time doing something a bit more at your level, like watching Joe Scumborough, of whom you admit to being a big fan.
Your personal attack is greatly appreciated, however, and I do give you credit for this: at least you admit that you're behaving like a troll . . .
Coudal's brilliant. Well done. Had me going the whole time!
you can always spend your time doing something a bit more at your level, like watching Joe Scumborough, of whom you admit to being a big fan
I have read about this before you posted it. I'm a tad skeptical because this same man made a ridiculous claim about cannibalism re Katrina.
You are twisting my words by saying that I am a "fan" of Scarborough. All I ever said is that it was encouraging that someone as conservative as him was beginning to be more critical of conservatives.
"I feel that Scarborough is intellectually honest. . . . Although he is partisan as we all are to some degree, I do think that he makes an honest effort to present an unbiased analysis." -- Posted by: Jo Ann July 20, 2006 12:43 PM
The public can decide what your fawning praise makes you.
"The public can decide"..
I think that you need to get a life angry little boy.
"I think that you need to get a life angry little boy."
Well, if I have no life, then what does that say about you, Jo Ann, the person who apparently has nothing better to do than follow me around this site prodding me until she inevitably, repeatedly receives a smack in the mouth . . .
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