(E&A) More results of humanity's 'progress'....

I don't know who said it originally, and I don't know where I heard it, but there's a saying that goes something like: Progress creates poverty.


Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
"They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.

The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up."

Concerns raised on China's Global Health Disclosures
"The international and Hong Kong authorities said Monday that they had received little information from mainland Chinese officials about a mysterious ailment killing pigs in southeastern China or about Chinese wheat gluten contaminated with plastic scrap, raising questions again about whether Beijing is willing to share data on global health issues."


Sometimes I wish there was a God, a boss that would come and smack us for being poor excuses for managers. (In a real business, we'da been fired a _long_ time ago...) I know that external authority does not make people good -- you can force someone to do a good act, but the act itself is not truly good. I know that. (Besides that, I'm certain that we'd immediately quibble over why we got smacked, and the shit would just continue with a newfound ferver.)