Genetic Engineering

Rapidly grown chickens, humongous pumpkins, genetically altered corn, and now, cloned beef: tender with a bit of fat, perfect marbling and so ggod for you. We think.

Personally I believe if we are really serious about making a difference then everyone and anyone who can afford it, should find one individual or family and give them the gift of a...

In the long run,the only way fast food is going to change, is if it becomes slow food. We all know that this will never happen,regardless of al the marketing ploys.

Consequently ranchers bred both the fat and the flavor out of our livestock, until we were left with tasteless tough beef, fed on genetically engineered corn and god knows what else. Instead of...

Today, it's impossible to read through a newspaper or news website without seeing at least one or two discussions of the evils of one technology or another ... For as long as we...

(Third posting in a series on venture investing in nanotechnology.) In early 2002 New York-based venture capital firm Harris & Harris Group announced it would concentrate its investments solely on "tiny tech,"...

In my last entry, I introduced Gary and Denise Allen, who sold all the assets of their moving and storage business for less than their original purchase price and expected at the very...

Much of the basic technology which serves as catalysts for new fields comes from the national or international laboratories-the World Wide Web was developed at CERN; the graphical user interface at University of...