Siri’s pronunciation stinks! I live in Oregon, that’s the state immediately north of California, but judging by how Siri pronounces our state, one would guess Siri was designed somewhere in Asia. The same is true for many other place names––and there’s no possibility of correcting any of them. Search for “Tigard,…

*curbs the hug, not curves.

Evil. And stupid. You get both with this package.

Yup. And there’s a non-zero chance that you could get pegged in error as the rapist because they’re looking at only a tiny percentage of your DNA. It would seem the correct way to deliver (and store) this information would be through public/private key encryption. That said, law enforcement has other ways to obtain…

You’ve got that backwards Joe. Because the GMO crops have the gene to tolerate RoundUp, even more of that chemical is used to kill the weeds, in huge monoculture acreages. This has set up an un-natural selection for super-weeds, which have a boomerang effect of making farmers even more dependent on Monsanto. This…

Engineered to what end? That’s the question that needs to be asked. I’m not saying any conceivable GMO is bad, but most of those we have today are basically designed to allow ever heavier applications of RoundUp. Not good. One unintended consequence is that Monarch butterflies have been reduced almost by 90 percent…

It’s easy to win an argument with a straw man. You set him up. Then you knock him down. That’s all the National Academy of Sciences has done here. There’s a big difference. “Round-Up Ready” crops naturally increase the use of glyphosate because the crops will tolerate it. Round-Up remains controversial for its effects…