Mankind may die under billions of tons of its own garbage

Pravda - No one in the world knows what should be done with tens of thousands of tons of garbage, which appear every day. If mankind does not find a revolutionary method to process its own garbage, the consequences will follow during the upcoming several years.

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The Traffic Guru

Wilson Quarterly - In the last few years, however, one traffic engineer did achieve a measure of global celebrity, known, if not exactly by name, then by his ideas. His name was Hans Monderman. The idea that made Monderman, who died of cancer in January at the age of 62, most famous [...]

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The Other Darwin

Walrus - Not only the body of Homo sapiens, but the human mind as well has been shaped by evolution. How we think and feel has evolved over millennia, stretching back to our prehistory on the African savannah, and those ancient patterns stay with us, despite the cultural overlay of recorded history and [...]

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EU plans warning labels on artificial colours

Guardian - Hundreds of products containing the colourings will disappear from shops over the next year following the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) call for a voluntary ban on their use in food products.

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GM crop trials ’should be secret’

BBC - Senior researchers have called for the location of small open-air trials of GM crops to be kept secret.

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GM debate: Cloned meat safe to eat says EU’s food agency

Guardian - Beef and pork produced from healthy cloned cattle and pigs are as safe as meat from conventionally bred animals, the European Food Safety Authority said yesterday.

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Why are doctors so oddly thin-skinned?

Independent - There will be more grumpiness than usual this week in doctors’ surgeries across the country. GPs, already wearied by the demands of anxious, needy members of the public, have another reason for discontent. They are not, as a profession, trusted quite as much as they feel they should be. Under a [...]

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