Daily Archives: August 1, 2008

Anthrax

In the 1950s, a spin off from the 1939 Gene Autry movie “Home on the Prairie” was serialized in comic format and syndicated in daily papers across the country. “Home on the Prairie” was about the bad guys importing anthrax infected cattle across that darn Texas/Mexican border. Texas Ranger Gene Autry went toe-to-toe with the [...]

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Flew his Lear jet up to Nova Scotia…

My climatologist friend David is up near Mongolia today for the total eclipse of the sun (mapped by Google here.) In other science news, there’s a big brouhaha brewing about the gent from Qatar who shipped his Lamborghini LP640 to England to have it serviced. The maintenance itself runs US$7,000 so why not add another [...]

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