27 Jun 2007
Animal-human embryos need human rights, bishops say

The fact that we're considering animal-human hybrids is scary - even scarier is that the Church isn't exercising it's influence to stop it, just to insure that any chimeras so produced are given human rights.

Why do I feel like I'm living on the Island of Dr. Moreau? It's not even Friday yet.

Reuters - Hybrid animal-human embryos created for medical research should be viewed as human and permitted to develop into children, Roman Catholic bishops have urged the British parliament.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

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World Wildlife Fund warns against plan by Planktos, Inc.

Somebody oughta remind these people of a saying my mother ingrained into me: sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

World Wildlife Fund today announced its opposition to a plan by Planktos, Inc. to dump iron dust in the open ocean west of the Galapagos Islands. The experiment seeks to induce phytoplankton blooms in the hopes that the microscopic marine plants will absorb carbon dioxide.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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Music biz agrees: stop shooting self in foot

Wow. Maybe they'll get their shit together after all. But I'm not holding my breath - we've heard reports like this before.

At the Norwegian summer resort of Kristiansand in Norway last week, representatives of all corners of the British (and global) music business came together to think the unthinkable.

(link) [The Register]

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