meteorite

Apparently we have a goverment problem.

(No, not that one.)

The age-old, or at least a couple decades- old, debate around GM has flared up again, with an interesting article in the Guardian by Eoin Lettice of UCC.

The recent decision by the EC to allow member states to ban GM crops on a nation-by-nation basis is not a win for any of us, he argues.  In fact he goes so far as to say that the EC has "failed science and failed itself."

Get it while it's hot

Well, the great midlands meteorite hunt of 2010 is on. Sighted pretty much everywhere, and causing many a call to the local authorities, a meteorite that streaked across the skies earlier this week is thought to have landed somewhere in the midlands.  The Irish film board have already received film scripts: