kellyramsey + hype-fads-fashions   8

Stem-Cell Treatments for Pets (Jeninne Lee-St. John, Time)
"just the newest frontier in the booming field of alternative veterinary medicine... driven by pet owners who are increasingly willing to do or pay whatever they can to help their ailing pets"
stem-cell  hype-fads-fashions 
june 2008 by kellyramsey
South Korean Leader Apologizes Over Beef Deal (Blaine Harden, Washington Post)
"Within a few days, there were thinly sourced -- and later, scientifically refuted -- claims on a television news program that nearly all Koreans carried a gene that made them far more susceptible to mad cow disease than Americans."
South-Korea  hype-fads-fashions 
may 2008 by kellyramsey
Pentagon-funded research into regrowing limbs lost in war (Jim Mannion, AFP)
Ohdearlawd. "The army's surgeon general said he envisions the day when adult stem cells will be harvested before a soldier goes into the battle and then used to regrow new limbs within days of suffering a combat wound."
stem-cell  hype-fads-fashions 
april 2008 by kellyramsey
Newsweek invents an alarming trend (Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Making Light)
"My Beautiful Mommy...has no ISBN that I can detect... this book is not destined to make its way to the shelves of your local bookstore. ... It’s not going to corrupt the values of the youth of America, because they’re never going to see a copy."
journalism  blogging  hype-fads-fashions 
april 2008 by kellyramsey
Clarksville mom again taking her 11-year-old son to China for stem-cell treatment (Matthew Ralph, News and Tribune)
"“I prayed and asked God if it was the right thing to do,” said Badger, a Clarksville woman who traveled to China with her 11-year-old son Mason for his stem-cell treatments last September."
stem-cell  hype-fads-fashions 
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Top Ten Reasons Why Web 2.0 Sucks (Charlie O'Donnell @ This is going to be BIG!)
"walk outside your door and try to find a Twitter user... We could do great things if we weren't so segregated into a small group of people punch drunk on Kool Aid and a great deal of people who've never even heard of Kool Aid."
DemoPol  hype-fads-fashions  navel-gazing 
may 2007 by kellyramsey
A Convenient Truth (Billy Manes, Orlando Weekly)
"The doomsday scenario is Oyler’s setup to introduce Orlando’s solution: a “gasification” plant that will transform garbage that would otherwise end up in landfills ... If that sounds too good be true, it is, according to an environmental group"
hype-fads-fashions 
may 2007 by kellyramsey

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