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Vaccines!: The Good Fight, Funding Struggle, Breaking the “Cold Chain” and a Bit of Biomimicry

Posted on October 1, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

TrackerNews “Tumblr” posts are short intros to new link suites on the aggregator. However, the Vaccines! post ran a bit longer than usual, so we have decided to reprint here as well. – Ed. Few things bring as much “bang for the buck” in global public health as vaccines. It is simply a lot cheaper [...]

Filed under: agriculture, disease surveillance, epidemiology, food, soil health, TrackerNews, vaccines, water | Tagged: antibiotic resistance, biomimicry, diarrheal diseaeses, edible vaccine, HIV vaccine, malaria, molecular farming, pnuemococcal diseases, TB, TrackerNews, vaccines | Leave a Comment »

Hot, Cold, Wet, Dry: When Weather Becomes Climate

Posted on July 27, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg

The past as prologue: fortune-telling from tree rings; The Green Revolution hits the skids: genetically resilient pathogens and monoculture crops What happens when the future comes early? When does record-breaking weather segue from unfortunate inconvenience to an inconvenient truth? When… China reports massive floods affecting 75% of its provinces? The tally of dead and missing [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, disease surveillance, drought, epidemiology, famine, floods, food, TrackerBlog, Uncategorized, water | Tagged: An Inconvenient Truth, blights, cassava virus, China floods, climate change, extreme weather, famine, Green Revolution, heat waves, hunger, late blight, Norman Borlaug, Russia drought, tree ring data, Ug99, wheat stem rust | 2 Comments »

PopTech 2009 Take-Aways: On Amateurs, Mining Cross-Disciplinary Gold, FLAP Bags, Science Fellows, $12 (well, $10) Computers, the Solar Hope, a Few Ideas for Next Year & Some Darn Fine Fiddling…

Posted on October 27, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg

It was a wonderful little bubble while it lasted. Getting up before dawn. Dressing in easy-to-peel layers for whatever the day might bring. Walking over to Boynton-McKay, a diner of rare perfection, where the wi-fi was as reliably good as the pancakes (a boon in connectivity-challenged Camden…) Ascending the stairs and more stairs of the [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, disease surveillance, energy, food, forests, innovation, lighting, maps, oil, rain forests, rapid diagnostics, recycling, reforestation, solar, transportation, visualization, water | Tagged: $10 computer, $12 computer, agroforestry, Camden Opera House, Daniel Nocera, Dean Ornish, Derek Lomas, Ethan Zuckerman, FLAP bag, fuel cells, Islam, Kristen Taylor, LEDs, Logan Richardson, Mark O'Connor, Michelle Riggen-Ransom, Naif Al-Mutawa, Neri Oxman, photosynthesis, Playpower Foundation, Pop!Tech, Rachel Barenblat, Sheila Kenneday, stereotypes, Tapergy, The 99, Timbuk2, urban agriculture, Will Allen, Willie Smits, Zoe Keating | 3 Comments »

On 9/11, Wild Horses, Symbols & Hope

Posted on August 17, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg

A round up in September could spell the end for a small herd of wild horses out West. Why that matters more than you think: a tale of bureaucracy and special interests, horse meat and hot flashes, and wrongs that wouldn’t be that hard to right. Moments before September 11, 2001 turned into “9/11,” my [...]

Filed under: agriculture, climate change, epidemiology, Horses, Jane Goodall | Tagged: 9/11, BLM, Bureau of Land Managment, cattle ranchers, Dayton O. Hyde, Ginger Kathrens, Hormone Replacement Therapy, horse meat, horse sashimi, HRT, immunocontraceptive, Lascaux cave paintings, Madeleine Pickins, Premarin, Pryor Mountain wild horses, PZP, September 11, terrorism, the Burns bill, The Cloud Foundation, Twin Towers, wild horses, World Trade Center, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals | 14 Comments »

Underlying Conditions: Swine Flu, Obesity, Pregnancy, Cytokine Storms, Ebola, Factory Farms and “The Frog and Peach”

Posted on July 23, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg

The swine flu genie, now officially out of the bottle as a WHO-certified global pandemic, has left a trail of mostly non-lethal misery (so far) stretching across 145-and-counting countries. In the U.K., experts predict there could be as many as a 100,000 cases per day by August – which would also dash hopes for an [...]

Filed under: agriculture, air pollution, CAFOs, disease surveillance, epidemiology, maps, swine flu, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews | Tagged: CDC, cytokine storm, factory farms, Frog & Peach, H1N1 pandemic influenza, immune system, Joel Salatin, MRSA, obesity, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Polyface farms, pregnancy, Reston ebolavirus, Russ Kremer, swine flu, tamiflu, underlying conditions | Leave a Comment »

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