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Drug firms made big money over recent health scare & BP made money on oil spill – Big companies can be vampiric: Despite spending so much to try to cap its leaking oil well, BP actually MADE MONEY on the Gulf oil spill because all their expenses are tax deductible, both in the US and the UK. Both economies are hurting and will be hurt further by lost tax revenues PLUS the US is spending a large amount of OUR tax money in aid to people who are being affected by it. You could almost call it a conspiracy.
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There are many different kinds of creativity. Why are some people more creative than others? Some people think the Visitors are here because, as they have become more efficient and machine-like, they have lost their innovative spark and want to investigate a younger, more creative world. The Master of the Key may have been an example of this.
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Climate change: First it was cow farts, now it’s the anesthesia they give you in the hospital? (Next thing you know, it will be blamed on vampires!)

Inhaled anesthetics widely used for surgery, particularly the anesthetic desflurane, make a measurable contribution to global warming. In fact, the anesthetics used by a busy hospital contribute as much to global warming as the emissions from hundreds of cars per year. While no one’s suggesting that patients shouldn’t receive needed anesthetics because of the risk of climate change, some simple steps could help to limit their environmental impact.
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The quiet, stealthy ones – What’s quiet but sneaks up on you? California’s San Andreas fault is notorious for repeatedly generating major earthquakes and for being on the brink of producing the next big one in a heavily populated area. But the famously violent fault also has quieter sections, where rocks easily slide against each other without giving rise to damaging quakes. These are the quiet quakes.

The relatively smooth movement, called creep, happens because the fault creates its own lubricants–slippery clays that form ultra-thin coatings on rock fragments. The question of why some fault zones creep slowly and steadily while others lock for a time and then shift suddenly and violently, spawning earthquakes, has long puzzled scientists.
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