Mashable published my story on what is probably going to be the future of drug testing today. I figured I'd add a bit of backstory.
I came across CU Toxicology and their high performance liquid chromatography/dual mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS-MS) drug test while doing a story for University of Colorado Hospital's biweeky online magazine. It struck me…
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…
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…
Walking off a short jog yesterday with an old friend from Canton, Ohio who lives in Sydney and has kids with strong accents, I came across a man flying a drone over a house around the corner.
"Louie, sorry man, I've got to talk to this guy," I told my friend.
Louie has known me for 25…
Scientific American's David Biello, a sharp observer of clean (and less-clean) energy, posted this piece on peak oil yesterday. The long and short of it is peak oil (the moment when we've collectively burned as much oil -- about a trillion barrels -- as is left in the ground) actually happened in 2005.
Peak oil is important…