Yearly Archives: 2013

While I am totally a proponent of marriage equality, this less talked about case is actually far more…

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While I am totally a proponent of marriage equality, this less talked about case is actually far more important

This week the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving the patenting of human genes. There is absolutely no way anyone should be allowed to ever get a patent on the instructions for growing a human or any other organism. At best (or worst depending on your perspective), patents could be granted on specific methods of detection, but never the genes themselves.

‘Could you patent the sun?’ Inside the Supreme Court case on patenting DNA
This week, the Supreme Court held arguments in an unusual case: whether a company named Myriad can patent a piece of DNA. The company says it spent $500 million and 17 years studying a pair of…
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Yeah, about that debt being bad for growth; never mind

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Yeah, about that debt being bad for growth; never mind

A simple Excel calculation error puts a famous economic study under scrutiny
Back in 2010, economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff published a report that stated countries with a debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio greater than 90 percent would find it…
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The 2008 +Ford Motor Company Mustang Bullitt was one of my favorite ponies of all time

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The 2008 +Ford Motor Company Mustang Bullitt was one of my favorite ponies of all time

In the Autoblog Garage: 2008 Ford Mustang Bullitt
Click above for high-res gallery of the Mustang BullittMy earliest memory of falling in love with a car was a Mustang. As a kid, a friend of our family had
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My first photo shoot with the 2010 +Ford Motor Company Mustang GT convertible

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My first photo shoot with the 2010 +Ford Motor Company Mustang GT convertible

In the Autoblog toy chest: 2010 Mustang GT convertible 1/18 by Maisto
Click the Mustang for a high-res galleryWhat we have here is the latest in an occasional series we’ll be doing here on Autoblog featuring some smaller
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Since moving to Flat Rock Assembly Plant in 2004, 1 million Mustangs have been built

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Since moving to Flat Rock Assembly Plant in 2004, 1 million Mustangs have been built

Flat Rock Assembly builds millionth Ford Mustang
Ford’s Flat Rock Assembly Plant is where the current Mustang is built. And it’s built a lot of them. Today, the plant celebrates its millionth Mustang built, and names the top 10 to come from the faci…
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While I am totally a proponent of marriage equality, this less talked about case…

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While I am totally a proponent of marriage equality, this less talked about case is actually far more important

This week the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving the patenting of human genes. There is absolutely no way anyone should be allowed to ever get a patent on the instructions for growing a human or any other organism. At best (or worst depending on your perspective), patents could be granted on specific methods of detection, but never the genes themselves.

‘Could you patent the sun?’ Inside the Supreme Court case on patenting DNA
This week, the Supreme Court held arguments in an unusual case: whether a company named Myriad can patent a piece of DNA. The company says it spent $500 million and 17 years studying a pair of…

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