Gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin of Colorado raises her flag as silver medalist Marlies Schild, center, and bronze medalist Kathrin Zettel, both of Austria, stand nearby after the second women's slalom run at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)
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At Syngenta, corn apparently trumps male genitalia.
The New Yorker’s Rachel Aviv did a great investigative piece on the tactics Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta (once part of Novartis) has used to discredit scientists – UC Berkeley’s Tyrone Hayes in particular – whose studies show their products to be harmful to amphibians and, probably humans.
The European…
1. Russia’s intransigence surrounding the growing humanitarian catastrophe in Syria is of far greater geopolitical importance than anything happening at Sochi.
2. Russia’s role in the ongoing unrest in Ukraine is of far greater geopolitical importance than anything happening at Sochi.
3. Politically speaking, the Olympics have been good for voices of Russian dissent, with Mikhail Khodorkovsky…
6. Football is a business, as the players constantly remind us come contract time. Getting too wrapped up in the fate of the Denver Broncos is like living or dying by the annual reports of Colorado-based Ball Corp., Chipotle, Inc. or Leprino Foods, maker of pizza cheese. At least one can own shares in these…
As a former newspaper reporter, I’m trying to figure out why stark evidence that Bashar Al Assad’s Syrian regime systematically starved, tortured and killed roughly 11,000 men who were, effectively, prisoners of war hasn’t gotten more play.
The German Spiegel hit it hard as did the London Guardian and CNN, the two…