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My two cents about the WaPo loss

So yes, the Conservative clergy won a tiny victory today with Dave’s resignation from the post. The conservative movement has lost big time. Why? There is no mainstream media outlet with a staff reporter to give the movement a clear eyed chronicle and a correcting voice.

Advice for the old media rear guard

Helen Thomas spoke her mind, instead of the sanitized, depersonalized version she would have given a fellow reporter, because she did not recognize a citizen reporter when she saw one. Now her career is over. Old media establishment 0 – New media establishment 1.

The easiest, most refreshing strawberries you’ll ever eat!

The easiest and most refreshing desert in the world is my lime-strawberries. It tastes like a good strawberry margarita. Juicy sweet strawberry taste with a wee bit of refreshing lime to bring out the flavor of the strawberries.

Lene’s Blackberry Sage Iced Tea

I found a great deal on ripe, juicy blackberries at the market this weekend, and the herbs in the garden is starting to get a foothold, so here is the weekend iced tea concoction: Lene’s Blackberry Sage Iced Tea

Judicious use of Hansen’s many hats

I first wondered why a federal employee who does not work for the state department was writing letters to the Norwegian Prime Minister, instructing the Minister how to conduct foreign policy. I would think that Ambassador Barry B. White would be a more appropriate spokesperson.

Copenhagen Climate Caper

I was part of the group of climate realists from CFACT who pulled off an international climate caper against Greenpeace yesterday. We spent the morning boarding the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise and hung a banner that read “Ship of Lies.” There was no confrontation on the boat as we distracted the staff on deck with donuts.

Crossing the generational digital divide

In my opinion, social media have two primary benefits for journalists. 1. It levels the playing field so people who usually don’t have access can reach the reporter. 2. It provides a transparency to the social network of the reporter. Transparency and access are essential to representative community reporting. I hope Kokkvold will experience this first-hand as he continues his Twitter experiment.

How about natural selection of copy editors?

That shorter, plumper women have more kids is news, but that natural selection selects for fertility should hardly end up in the headline. Reproductive success IS natural selection for crying out loud.

Paleoalchology

OK, so I made that word up, but it sounds like a great word to describe the concise Scientific American story summarizing archeological finds of alcohol. So for all of you cocktailistas out there, check out Brendan Borrell’s great story to learn more about the origin of wine. As he says, “Although microbes may have invented alcohol, it was the mammals that mastered it.”

Quick kosher lunch treat

We are staying at my mother-in-law’s while our landlord is rebuilding the kitchen, which means I have to cook kosher and use kosher products. Most of the lunch meats and such that I would like to eat are not kosher, so I am either stuck with sweet quick lunches like cereals, or my new invention.

Pirogies are a stuffed pasta filled with a potato filling. My favorite is the onion and potato pierogi. My beloved prefers to fry his pierogi in lots of butter, but I prefer mine steamed in a broth. This quick and easy lunch is half a can of kosher chicken broth with four pierogies and a drizzle of fresh parsley on top.

NBC launches new program category; Dramamentary

Armed with cameras, the four set out to achieve what the U.S. and all of its allies has been unable to do; bring wanted criminals from the war on terror to justice. This is done in a ridiculous blend of an action movie narrative paired with documentary style content. The result is an uneasy blend of reality TV that undermines the original message. Lets call it a dramamentary.

Getting my foodie on!

The other day I took it all the way and made pan seared tuna with a very lush salad and a really garlicky yogurt parsley dressing. The salad consisted of red leaf lettuce, cored cucumbers, radish wedges, cherry tomatoes, green beans, button mushrooms, Miranda’s mom’s home pickled beets (Thanks Miranda, they were lovely! Yeah, I have killed off the jar you left me.), scallions, fresh corn off the cob, eggs, and it was all raw. I apologize for the lack of pictures, I guess I will have to start taking them if I am going to be adventurous with food.

The devil is in the details

If the researchers are correct in this new hypothesis, an increase in antioxidants could help stave off Alzheimer’s. Antioxidants is the latest rage in so called smart foods and you will find claims of the benefits on any green tea product in the drinks aisle, as well as on beauty products containing vitamin C. The scientific conclusions on the best way to consume antioxidants however, is still hard to find.

Why steak is good for you!

Highly processed foods is digested more easily, which is why eating them will add more flab to your middle. I will sure take another look at the nutritional information on my food and maybe even take on that home made granola project I have been eyeing this week.

Lakey’s rosy glasses

The only thing that places Obama on the right wing of the Norwegian political scale is how much government intervention that is politically possible in U.S. politics. With an electorate that is strong supporters of decentralized government and private solutions, he can only propose so many centralized, big government solutions without reducing his office to irrelevance and certain loss in the next election.

Bad/Good News

One of the most amazing things about this process was all the love that I received from my friends in Missouri. I miss you guys as much as you evidently miss me. You are welcome to visit us in Philly at any time, and I promise to make sure you have a great time.

On Expectations and Crushed Dreams

I have been preparing for the on campus interview at Washington University in St. Louis that is scheduled for Thursday and Friday next week. I am so excited about this job that some of my friends thinks I care too much and worry that it will be rough if I don’t get the job. I understand their concern; but I am really excited about going to Philly as well.

First ever resignation via Twitter?

The media trade publication Journalisten in Norway reported today on what appears to be the first resignation via Twitter. Heidi Norby Lunde, opinion page and citizen journalism editor of the online news site ABC Nyheter, tweeted that she had cleaned her desk and was ready for new challenges on May 12th.

Reinvigorating change

So now I am waiting for the call about interview round two, I hope I can make the cut despite the fact that I do not have the traditional science writer background. Those jobs often require graduate level studies in a hard science. I only have social sciences. I am an autodidact and most every source I have worked with on complex science issues appreciate my willingness to learn, my ability to comprehend their work, and the way I translate it into compelling stories.

Scientific Newspeak from Obama administration

For all the pledges Obama issued about basing his administration on scientific fact, it lasted three months, three months and seven days to be exact. The political reality finally caught up with him. Obama stopped saying swine flu and started using the much more awkward and inaccurate H1N1 and Vilsack was sent on the mission of explaining the administrations Newspeak.

Feathered dancing queens

The paper that came out last week was about certain parrot species are able to dance to a rhythm, which does not come as a surprise to people who have parrots. Cockatoos of any type are especially prone to this. The interesting thing about the paper is that researchers have for decades thought that dancing to a rhythm is uniquely human. Neurologists are starting to think it is connected to language centers in the brain, which might explain why some parrot species also are great at parroting.

Mental disorders: What I see in the mirror

The thing is, my mental disorders have also led to disappointing people who trusted me, who loved me, and who gave me opportunities. There is nothing I hate more than letting people down. That makes me feel like a failure, a fraud, and the person I let down the most when I cannot keep my promises is myself.

All bylines are not created equal

There is a Norwegian reporter who has the greatest blog post on self-obsessed journalists; unfortunately it is in Norwegian. Thus I am giving you a brief synopsis so you can go look at the wonderful post without getting completely lost.

Øyvind Holen starts out with a story about this girl they brought with them to the now defunct members only press club in Oslo. Starstruck by television reporters and other journalistic stardom, she asked what she should say to these people, and the guys told her to say “Bloody good byline you had the other day.” Then they started thinking about how all bylines is not created equal. Øyvind Holen has catalogued different types of bylines in this story.

Brazen female

Which is were Penelope Trunk comes in. She has alluded more to her personal life in her columns, but her Twitter feed is not even remotely close to what an expert in personal branding is supposed to do. Because smart women are superheroes, and they can handle everything, and they don’t show pain. I know too well that this is not true, but that does not mean I don’t put on those airs at times. To see someone like Penelope Trunk remove the airs has meant a lot to help me deal with my own barriers to share personal stuff.

OMFG! Rush has lost it!

-Yeah, most of us would think that the Humane Society is a great organization, running shelters and spey/neuter operations and all that. You might even think that Rush’ new PSA is a decent thing to do. However, the Humane Society of the United States is NOT affiliated with your local animal shelters in any way, shape, or form. HSUS is a radical organization promoting vegetarian life style and animal rights (not animal welfare, which is the idea of avoiding animal suffering).

Game theory for the masses?

A British game show called Golden Balls are probably teaching daytime television viewers more game theory than they ever thought they would learn. The final round of the show is a classic prisoner’s dilemma between the two final contestants. They call it split or steal.

Stubborn Danes, gotta love them!

Danish non-profit to reprint numbered and signed copies of one of the 12 controversial Mohammad cartoons to raise funds for freedom of speech work.

” In a time where Anders Fogh Rasmussen is not being pointed enough in his defense of freedom of speech;” says Hedegaard. Thus, we want to make the point that there still is freedom of speech in Denmark.” When asked if they could not raise the money without insulting other people’s religious sentiments, Hedegaard said, “we probably could. But people have no right not to be insulted. They choose to be insulted.”

Spring time in DC

Walking under the cherry trees, where the flowers was dense enough to become a ceiling over your head, was fairytale like. They were at the peak of the blossoming cycle this weekend. Some had started dropping their petals, which fell like a soft snow around the people milling under the trees. It was like being in the set of some Japanese movies, such as Memoirs of a Geisha.

Not excited by new Royksopp album

Röyksopp released their third album after making everyone wait four years. You might have heard them, even though you haven’t heard about them. They are the guys behind the song Remind Me, which was featured in the Geico commercial where the caveman is on a conveyor walk way in an airport.

House GOP suffering from “Oh! Shiny!”-complex?

House GOP should not let themselves be distracted by wedge issue policy changes everyone knew was coming. Keep fighting to kill the earmarks and excessive spending, and you might regain the support of the small government voters that was alienated during the Bush era.

Clean technologies have only one defect; They have not been invented

EU-president Vaclav Klaus gives scathing speech about global warming alarmists in New York.

Lazarus Gene Discovered!

My favorite story of today is about the resurrected IRGM gene, a gene that “died” more than 40 million years ago, but somehow mysteriously got turned back on in human, gorilla, and chimpanzee DNA.

The Emperor’s New Clothes, Conservative Edition

The conservative movement is full of cerebral white young men who do little more than state the obvious. In a city that needs to feed the 24/7 live broadcast monster, I guess that might be a good thing, but it does not do anything for the “leave us alone” coalition of citizens that want a smaller, more manageable federal government.

I share Lott’s view on the Krohn phenomena. I thought I was pretty profound when I was 14 as well, and my parent’s did the best they could to disabuse me of this view. Now that time has lent me perspective and maturity, I am very thankful they protected me from myself.

Poi threatened by collective property rights?

A settlement with three local Maori tribes decrees that the Ngati Toa iwi owns the Ka Mate haka that was made famous world wide by the New Zealand rugby team. The Ka Mate haka is part of Maori native performing arts. The label native performing arts also includes poi, which my family practices. When will the Maori iwi’s come after all the firespinners and poi dancers that are not native because they claim the ownership to this practice as well?

Is political Islam a threat to liberty in the West?

Give me your thoughts on political Islam in Europe and USA. I struggle with the topic after watching Geert Wilders’ Fitna, reading Hallgrim Berg’s Letters to Lady Liberty and listened to Nonie Darwish speak.

Senate GOP: Don’t just do something! Stand there!

There was only one problem with this; Lehman managed the overnight credit market. This is where companies such as Wal-Mart, Boeing, and General Electric goes and says “Hey, buddy, can you lend me $1 billion till tomorrow, I’ll pay you back $1.3 billion, OK?” This market has NEVER been insolvent, until the Feds said no to Lehman.

So now you have these Fortune 500 CFO’s who can’t make payroll, who defaults on their contractual obligations, and all of a sudden what seemed like a minor issue with one asset class has turned into THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.

Actor dislikes critical question about uncritical movie Che

Benicio del Toro walked out of the Washington Times interview about his new movie Che, when the reporter started asking the actor about the man he was glorifying in the movie.

Generic trouble

These two companies are among the biggest generic producers in the world. It is very troubling that quality control measures fails so often in their production. All of these failures should have been caught before the products went to market. A recall should have been unnecessary. When industry leaders like Ranbaxy and Actavis fails so miserably, is this an indication that there is a systemic problem in the entire industry?

Why we still fight for freedom

As American’s celebrated the 232nd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence yesterday, the democratic movement of Zimbabwe is picking up the pieces of their battle with ruthless military commanders that refused to lose personal wealth and influence in the face of a polling booth loss.

Statistical Insignificance?

I seem to remember from statistics class that anything less than 95 percent probability is junk science. This is an editorial from the most recent issue of GEO, a Norwegian magazine about earth sciences “it is useful to remember that the IPCC concludes that there is only a 90% chance of a connection between global [...]

The dangers of cloning…

In my upcoming book there is a chapter called Not your Grandpa’s banana, so I was totally excited when I heard about Dan Koeppel’s book Banana. Basically, the current export banana is not going to be the export banana anymore by 2013. The Cavendish is becoming so disease ridden as to no longer be financially [...]

Why I do not want to be famous

Gregg Easterbrook bemoans the fact that Norman Borlaug is the forgotten Nobel Prize winner in the US. Although I share his sentiments about Borlaug’s amazing feat of feeding 1 billion people has been forgotten, I am not so sure that I feel sad that Borlaug can avoid the trappings of the Nobel Prize. 2007′s winner [...]

Too perfect for intelligent design

I recently wrote about Darwin’s orchid and Richard Dawkins’ examples of stories that end with the assertion that “in order for that reproductive strategy to have worked at all, it had to be perfect the first time. No incremental steps could account for it.” in his book River out of Eden. This story about an [...]

Grilling science: Marinades

It is summer and grilling season is upon us. Our friends at the Washington Post want us to revise our marinating habits, insisting that the marinade is all about flavor and has nothing to do with tenderness. I already loved Viestads story when he lead the story with how he always starts with red wine, [...]

Lazy morning, great writing

It has been a rough week. Last night was CEI’s big annual fundraising dinner and I have put everything on hold to help our CEI’s magnificent CFO Megan with dinner preparations this week. It was a very successful event, with Czech president Vaclav Klaus as keynote speaker. Today, I am just tired and worn out [...]

The problem with politics

The problem’s with some politicians is that they are more concerned about public recognition and big monuments to the mediocre efforts of establishing a legacy, rather than creating a legacy through statesman like public service. Matt Welch’ eminent editorial City of Rats shows a perfect example of politician’s who wants to build stadiums instead of [...]

You can preserve species by eating them?!

I think our buddy Barun Mitra at Liberty Institute in Delhi has found a soulmate. Barun has long argued that we should farm tigers, to eliminate the black market in dead tigers. Now a conservation scientist is arguing for saving endangered species by eating them! Gary Paul Nabhan has taken a note from our own [...]

When burning gas is good for the planet

OK, so say we accept the premise that CO2 causes global warming, is there any case where energy use will be beneficial for the planet? Yes, according to New Scientist: They say the use of biogas plants, which store the decomposing manure and capture the natural gas it releases, could improve rural farmers’ livelihoods, while [...]

Using regulation to undo what regulation caused?

[youtube kok4ADtRM8g] Humane Society of the US just released another expose video on animal cruelty in the meat industry. They argue for more regulation so that the responsibility for downer cattle is firmly placed on someone’s shoulder. Their ultimate goal is to eliminate factory farming, where cattle are raised one place, transported to a feedlot [...]

See what is going on in your body right now!

[youtube 4PKjF7OumYo] The more I learn about molecular microbiology, my awareness of how little I know grows. It took me a visit to Miranda’s lab to fully understand processes that I could explain to you in a few words. This movie is a collection of visualizations on DNA duplication, RNA production, and how ribosome use [...]

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Norwegian Easter

You can learn about Norwegian food traditions, hiking snacks tips, the uniquely Norwegian Easter crime tradition, and get your Norwegian on!

Norway at war

A television story from Afghanistan on Norwegian television on New Years Eve spurred a curious debate where it appeared that a large Norwegian newspaper said the military should have censored the footage.

Not Evil Just Wrong lesson plan FINALLY published!

I tried to make the Not Evil Just Wrong lessons interactive and hands-on. I focused on science literacy, fact checking, understanding the nature of scientific knowledge, understanding of what happens to science when it steps into the policy scene, and fundamental understanding of economic and political dynamics.

Tea party Confidential

I worked as a local reporter in Missouri, and I recognize all the Tea Party sentiments from the people I covered there. It is not so prevalent on the East coast, but the ideas and the sentiments are definitely familiar to me after six years in the Midwest. This is Middle America speaking in a way they haven’t in many years.

The Greatest Show on Earth

Dawkins new book makes it easy for anyone to overcome his or her pig ignorance on evolution. He starts out with the easy stuff, selective breeding in domesticated plants and animals. Then he gets a bit more challenging by offering up an onslaught of examples of natural selection in wild populations of plants, animals, and insects.

Nobel chair uses Obama for personal publicity purposes

Most of the world, including President Barack Obama, woke up last Friday to quite a surprise. But the real story is that Thorbjørn Jagland, the new committee chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, wanted to start his tenure with a splash. He had promised insiders a winner that would gain international recognition.

What was Norway thinking?

This was the question my friend Iain Murray sent me yesterday morning. He went ahead and posted my reply over at the Corner, National Review’s blog. Here is a excerpt:

One person that did predict this result was Gerhard Helskog, an experienced reporter covering the foreign desk for TV2, the largest private newsnetwork in Norway. He said the new committee chair, Torbjørn Jagland like to think big, and Obama was big in Jagland’s eyes.

Lessons from U.S. elections

Obama put social media and web 2.0 technologies to good use in this campaign. Norwegian politicians are gearing up for an election in September and want to learn from the U.S. general election. I asked social media expert Elizabeth Terrell from David All Group, from Washington, DC what they could learn.

Teachers sharing inauguration experience

“It is great to be proud to be American again,” says Gail Parkay from Illinois Teacher Federation. “it feels great that we will clean up the things that were done in our names. It starts with Barack Obama, but we all have a role to play. This has been a day filled with joy, because we have worked so long to get where we are now.”

Obama’s Education Challenge

Story on education challenges facing Obama and his newly minted Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.

U.S. Election Coverage in Norwegian

he Embassy is running at capacity with 10 official delegations, including a handful of parliament members, three members of the cabinet, and more press people than you can shake a stick at. They are expecting 265 people at this evenings election wake reception at the Ambassador’s residence.

Organic foods as a counter reaction to the green revolution

Minerva finally published my story about organic foods. The story looks at the intellectual roots of the organic food movement and its current incarnation as a counter movement to the green revolution. I also cover NGO’s activities to mandate organic food through international organizations, and the logistical and philosophical problems that Michael Pollan discovered when [...]

Audubon with Double Conservation Standard on ANWR

The Audubon Society drilling in its on wildlife refuges while they oppose drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? It is actually old news, but legacy knowledge becomes as new when this is not commonly known. I tried to get hold of Paul Kemp, head of Audubon’s Gulf Coast Initiative to learn more about the [...]

Climate crisis canceled!

I had a story published today in ABC Nyheter in Norway. The story is about the hugely under covered fact that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition stating the climate crisis is canceled: We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, [...]

Food prices and plant biotechnology

I have a piece in the American Spectator today about the food prices and the need to double our food production by 2050. The commentary includes a brief history of plant breeding and asks why one plant breeding technique should be regulated differently from other methods Food Fracas

Climate op ed on the most prestigious op ed page in Norway

This is an English translation of my op ed on climate skepticism: Climate Skepticism 101 Ole Mathismoen [high profile climate reporter in the biggest paper in Norway] had a strange opinion piece in Aftenposten Monday. In his piece, he portrays people that question the global warming gospel as conspiracy theorists. Lene Johansen, science reporter, Washington, [...]

Norwegian foreign policy details

The Norwegian Secretary of State, Jonas Gahr Støre, had a three day visit to the US, which included Minnesota, New York, and Washington. My editor asked for two stories, one on the Minnesota stop, and one on the Washington stop. The Minnesota story focuses on a significant change in the Midwestern community of Norwegian-Americans community. [...]

McCain booed on CPAC and hillarious voicemail from activist mom!

I did a story on the Conservative Political Action Committee 2008 for Minerva in Norway. This is a straight news story about the conference and about McCain getting booed out. This was my first CPAC, and I found it both overwhelming and fun. The parties where awesome; I met a bunch of nice people and [...]

The Libertarian Fog

Did you know the libertarian vote is as big as the Christian conservative vote? Did you know the libertarian vote is twice as big as the soccer mom vote? In this extensive story I did for Minerva in Norway, you will find all the information you will ever need to know about the libertarian fog, [...]

Climate taxes and unfree laborers

Two more stories published in Norway this week, this time in the political magazine Minerva. The first story is about the Norwegian ranking in the Index of Economic Freedom. We are not doing too well, being in the upper echelons of economies ranked as moderately free, but the really big news is that Norway is [...]

USA delegation from Norway

I did another story for ABC Nyheter in Norway; this time about the Norwegian Secretary of the Environment, Erik Solheim, and his four day trip to America. The primary purpose of the trip was climate change, and the trip included meetings with representatives for the Bush administration, members of Congress, various advocacy groups on the [...]

Life-embracing Environmental Policies Speech in Sweden

My second speech in Stockholm in two weeks was given in connection with the Swedish release of Globalisation Institute’s report Positive Environmentalism. The Swedish translation is available from Eudoxa, my speech was in Swedish too, so it could be hard to read if you don’t know how. My business partner Alexander Sanchez presented the report [...]

Working in Norwegian again!

It is almost a decade since last time I published a story in a Norwegian news outlet. My first assignment for a Norwegian outlet is profiling the new Norwegian ambassador to the US for Norwegian ABC Nyheter. – Det er det venstre øyet som virker

Blog Roundoup

I guess I should cross post this as they are published, but here is a roundup of my blog posts on openmarket.org and globalwarming.org since I started at CEI on October 1. Globalwarming.org: Do as I say, not what I do! About the hypocrisy of Hollywood jet-setters gone activist. Globalwarming.org: Royal Academy of Sciences in [...]

Corporate Paternalism

My most recent guest blogging entry at aBetterEarth.org on corporations eliminating consumer choice that are not based on sound science or sound economics. Why I stopped shopping at Kroger

Why we need competition in the educational market

St. Louis Public School District is a disaster. Here is one account I wrote about what is wrong with the district for HIS’ iLiberty.org blog. Read it and make your own judgement about what the primary priority of the school board and administrators in St. Louis is. It seems to me it sure ain’t the [...]

Guestblogging on how to use DDT to fight cancer

I was recently invited to blog for the three Think for Yourself blogs: iLiberty, aBetterEarth, and aWorldConnected. My first post came up today, and the editor was quite excited about my topic, DDT, Burkitt’s Lymphoma, and Malaria. Yes, I know, I blog about the most exotic stuff, but this is just plain good sense. Use [...]

YIKES! Front page story! :o)

OK, its not my first main front page story ever published, but it is my second, and it is the first since I got sick and well again, and it is the first time I got paid for one. I am excited. The story is about RADIL, or Research Animal Diagnostics Laboratory, at MU. The [...]

An international perspective on smoking

Its funny how your work gets its own life after a while, and people don’t always ask permission to reuse it. The latest example is a fellow policy specialist who has published our joint work in a book that was published this summer. I didn’t know until one of Waldemar Ingdahl’s frequent googling for the [...]

Finding the perfect niche in a crowded market

It is official, I have returned from the land of the dead! My first two stories in more than a year was published Friday and I am totally excited about this new job. More is to follow in two weeks. Here you go: Local car sales drop again in 2006, following national trends Woods to [...]

Brain damage study can lead to new harm reduction strategies for addictions

I posted an entry to the tobacco harm-reduction website that my Swedish company hosts today. The comment is about a paper that will be published in Science today. The paper has found a correlation between damage to the part of the brain called the insula, and elimination of the mental urge to smoke. All current [...]

Consumers benefit from pharmaceutical commercials

The Norwegian Think Tank Civita recently published a longer version of my op-ed on consumer benefits of pharmaceutical commercials directed to consumers. The short version was published in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten in August. Tillat reklame for legemidler

Innovative plant biotech platform

Chlorogen produces proteins in tobacco plants, just about any protein you can think up actually. The company chose an untraditional business model compared to other biotech startups. Chlorogen closing in on $6 million funding round (Requires registration)

Can the consumer benefit from pharmaceutical commercials

An op ed in Norway’s largest elite paper raising the question of whether it is time that Norway permit consumer directed pharmaceutical commercials. (In Norwegian). Legemiddelreklame kan tjene vanlige folk

Passion for fitness leads to revolutionizing innovation

Exertron developed prototype of tomorrow’s exercise machine, which makes excerise regime more efficient in shorter time. Exertron to take high-tech weight machine to market (Requires registration)

Whiter brighter smile

Cosmetic dentistry trend also found among St. Louis residents. This story was so much fun to do, and they cut so much good stuff out of it! Oh well Quest for perfect smile boosts dental demand (Requires registration)

Cutting edge research that can stymie aging

Scientists at Washington University Medical School do some cutting edge research. Jeffrey Milbrant specializes in neurological diseases, and one of this patents was just licensed to a company with one of the most aggressive strategies for anti-aging research. Milbrandt signs licensing deal with pharmaceutical firm (Requires registration)

Most Influential Business Women Awards 2005

The benefit of reporting is the people you get to meet. Writing profiles of these women was such a treat. Be allowed to hear the story of their amazing careers, talking to their bosses, their co-workers, their friends, and their family was such an inspiration. They are awe-inspiring role-models. (Requires registration.) Dr. Marlys Schuh Consuelo [...]

GMO policies

GMO-free crops should be treated as identity preserved crops. EU is trying to force GMO crops out of the non-identity preserved seed flow, and it is wrong. Here is why: Crop Circles

Real-Estate Niche

The Business Journal publishes a quarterly section on real estate. Villas at Pine View is capitalizing on a new housing trend: Carefree living. Terra’s Pine View brings care-free living to Highland (Requires registration.)

Venture capitalists are people too!

The award for the most pretentious bill name of the year goes to three U.S. legislators from Missouri. Representative Sam Graves (R-MO), Senators Kit Bond (R-MO) and Jim Talent (R-MO) for the bill labeled: Save America’s Biotechnology Innovative Research Act of 2005. Jest aside though, the issue at hand is important: Are venture capital firms [...]

Brilliantly simple idea

Who would have thought I would find one of Apple’s suppliers in Fenton, MO? Centurion Technologies has a brilliant product that I wished we had when we were imaging computer labs at the University of Oslo. Hard drive protection fuels growth at Centurion

30 under 30

These are the profiles I did for St. Louis Business Journal’s 30 under 30 awards. It is amazing what you can achieve if you want it bad enough, and young entrepreneurs and business people like this is an inspiration to us all (requires registration). David Brown Dr. Amit Dhawan Michael Novack Eric Smothers Sara Stock

Clayton: St. Louis Second Downtown

I wrote two stories for this annual section. Clayton is one of the most affluent cities in St. Louis, and it is the downtown of St. Louis County. My future office will be in the Sevens Building (7777 Bonhomme Avenue) in Clayton, and it is a spiffy little city. Clayton considers adding incentives for development [...]

BIO2005 coverage

OK, so I am envious. 17,000 biotech people, including a decent sized delegation from Missouri are gathered in Philadelphia this week. I am in St. Louis. Next year I am going for sure! On Friday, I attended a party with several people that were going to BIO2005. Some of them had attended the first BIO [...]

Legislative Awards

The Business Journal gives out legislative awards every year, for this years special section, I wrote profile on three legislators: Senator Chuck Gross (requires registration) Representative Steve Hunter (requires registration) Speaker Rod Jetton (requires registration)

MoveRescue.org

This story looks at how the recent recession created a shortage in the market for moving household goods, which created an opportunity for crocks. One lady has been waiting for her stuff more than five months. UniGroup Inc. takes fight against rogue movers online (requires registration)

Quality Jobs Act

The entire business community is excited workers compensation, tort reform and the quality of jobs act. All bills passed in this legislative session. This story looks at the quality of jobs act and how it possibly could influence local business development. New bill could help bring relocating firms to the state (requires registration)

Shell Oil executives joins local company

This story published on the front page in the paper version. Local start up company in the fuel additives business reqruited two former Shell executives to helpt he build distribution network and analysts were excited. Shell Oil executives give International Fuel a boost (requires registration)

Breaking news story

After one week on the job, I broke the story of Kelly Gillespie being named new executive director of Missouri Biotechnology Association. BIO published a press release 36 hours after we published this story. Gillespie named to head MoBio (requires registration)

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