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The Developing World’s Runaway Energy Train
August 6, 2013 9 min. read

    As the developing world continues its economic expansion, it is predicted to leave the developed world in its dust in regards to increase in energy consumption over the next 25 plus years or so. Dominant forces of China and India will drive the trend, but other developing nations will continue to become major […]

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Unlocking the Gates: GlaxoSmithKline to Open Drug Trial Data
October 15, 2012 3 min. read

Last week, a pharmaceutical company made a novel and potentially groundbreaking decision: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), announced that it would release the data from all of its clinical trials to researchers, who could use the information from GSK’s successes and failures in drug development to independently make new medical and pharmaceutical discoveries. This is the first time a […]

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Free Trade Agreements: Reducing Access to Medicine for the World’s Poor?
August 11, 2012 4 min. read

Recently, the European Union and India have been in the news for a near-final free trade agreement, as have the United States and the 10 other countries who are hammering out the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). While these agreements could bolster economies that were weakened by the recession or that are struggling to emerge, they also […]

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Cooking
April 23, 2009 3 min. read

What could be a more quintessentially human activity?  Our food tastes better and is usually much safer to eat when it’s cooked.  (There is something to be said, don’t get me wrong, for the raw foods approach too.  I’ve been a vegetarian for … what year is this? … a long time and I do […]

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