Yeah but I think we really need to consider First Contact and first impressions here.

We don’t want to come off too threatening. What if we made the suits look like Teletubbies?

Phosphorus too. This is another case where Liebig’s law of the minimum comes into play. Phosphorus is essential for DNA synthesis and is often the limiting element of an area’s total biological potential. With adoption of no-till agriculture it was hoped we’d clean up waterways, and to some degree that has happened…

Typically herbicides have modes of action that are specific to plant metabolisms. You don’t need to be engineered resistant to glyphosate because the shikimic acid pathway isn’t part of your metabolism. Natural selection made you immune.

Likewise natural selection has made some plants immune to 2,4-D (the oldest…

This doesn’t go far enough. I don’t think people should be allowed to buy paper, pens, stamps or envelopers without providing identification. Even crayons pose a threat to our liberty. Remember that toddlers kill more US citizens than terrorists. I’m calling for a war on Crayolas.

And of course the only way to get minerals out of the ground is to mine them. It doesn’t take too much effort to find past Greenpeace activism aimed at magnesium mines, for example:

That 1989 storm caused minor damage to a nuclear power plant in New Jersey. In the realm of threats, the possibility of up to 60 simultaneous meltdowns scares the everliving bejeezus out of me.

I have two devices in mind that I think will be popular.

It would be a neat trick if we could somehow preferentially target only infected mosquitoes, so as to create selective pressure for them to become immune to the pathogens. Some day we’ll find a way to use selection to our advantage like this.

This reminded me of Rockbitch, whom I'd completely forgotten. This sort of things was part of their stage performance, and they have a section on their website explaining the rules. Keep clicking the skull icons in the bottom right corner to get to the NSFW images.

I saw that China is doing the same. From this BBC report we even get a statistic of how much electricity is generated:

The plant says one tonne of notes can generate more than 600 kWh of electricity, and is better for the environment than burning coal.

The critical thinker must be willing to investigate viewpoints different from his or her own, but at the same time recognize when to doubt claims that do not merit such investigation. A critical thinker must be neither dogmatic nor gullible. Being both open-minded and skeptical means seeking out the facts, …

I've heard proposals to locate these in areas that already have an abundance of geothermal heat such as Iceland. If you can start with water that is near boiling due to geothermal it takes a lot less energy to go the last step.

Well that escalated quickly.

I captured a few time lapses and plenty of still photos of lenticular clouds over the Sangre de Cristo mountains in New Mexico

The real problem there is the reference to naturalnews.com which shouldn't be trusted as a reliable source of news under any circumstances. The CIA's Pakistan vaccine program was deplorable, and it is great that we won't be doing that again, even as the damage has already been done.

You can create an account on Wikipedia and edit the page if you feel it misrepresents the state of science.

The first link for chelation on Google is Wikipedia's entry which says: The use of chelation as alternative therapy can prove fatal, and medical evidence does not support the effectiveness of chelation therapy for any purpose other than the treatment of heavy metal poisoning.

A few years ago I was in DC taking the metro during the season's first snowstorm. When the train arrived people packed into it so tightly there was literally no room for me unless I could crowdsurf on top. I heard the engineer saying repeatedly "Don't block the doors". Before the train could depart the engineer came…

I'm reminded now of the Evil Overlord list, advice to aspiring evil overlords based on mistakes made in movies:

I specified the European Honeybee and that bugguide.net link backs that up with the caption "Non-native honey bee, Apis mellifera"