Susan Wood (see her past Pump Handle posts here) has an op-ed in today's Boston Globe: "A public health system defeated at the hands of ideology." She focuses on the Bush administration's "failure to staff important health-related positions with qualified individuals willing to provide science-based advice" -- a problem that's particularly glaring when it comes to reproductive health issues.
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Tonight on Thursday Night Wrestling: SteelyKid versus Sky Bison!
Newsweek has a story about the capture of the colossal squid, and it sounds like a) there will be video footage released next month, and b) the boat captain made a good bit of money off of it.
Via Kevin's Other Blog, which I thought we had assimilated, I see that Te Papa has made the lectures from the Colossal Squid event earlier this month available.