Tag: databases
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#MorningMonarchy: July 13, 2016
Luxury trash, Coke suckers and agrihoods + this day in history w/Live Aid and our song of the day by Let’s Eat Grandma on your Morning Monarchy for July 13, 2016.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode245 – WV Pharms, DNA Database, DuPont Down
Obama enlists big pharma to fight WV drug epidemic; Cops want even more of your DNA; DuPont loses toxic Teflon case.
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‘Like hardened criminals’: UK police sample DNA from 120,000 children in 2 years
from RT.com: British police collected the DNA of more than 120,000 children in just two years, with a thousand of them aged 10 at the time of the swab. Most of the youngsters have committed no punishable crime, but their DNA data will be stored for years. “It is disappointing to see valuable crime-fighting resources…
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#BingeAndPurge: London Smog, Digital Health and More
2012 Chick-fil-A same-sex marriage controversy // BP Sending Gulf Coast Chefs to Olympics to Tout Louisiana Cuisine It Destroyed // Martial law shakes hands with the US vaccine program // Bat virus offers insight into deadly Nipah, Hendra viruses
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dna barcoding catches food fraudsters, identifies animals
from ctv: Scientists have discovered a range of new uses for a Canadian technology that can be used to peer into 30,000-year-old permafrost, detect phoney herbal medicines and catch invasive species before they sneak across borders. Researchers from around the world are fingerprinting most of the planet’s species by taking samples of their DNA and…
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food banks go high-tech to feed the hungry
from ap: Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods. It’s a long way from handing out macaroni and canned soup from a church basement. While more people can be fed…