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More News: FDA Curbs One Class of Farm Drugs

More News: FDA Curbs One Class of Farm Drugs

Here’s a bookend to the Food and Drug Administration’s disappointing Christmas Eve notice that it will cease trying to regulate the largest classes of growth-promoter antibiotics. Today, the agency announced that it is forbidding certain uses of a different class of drugs, cephalosporins.

To those who are concerned about antibiotic overuse in agriculture, though, this is good news — though it may be more good news-bad news-bad news-good news.

The dialectic looks like this:

Good: The FDA is taking regulatory action, a strong contrast to the “voluntary reform” path it declared itself in favor of...

Pentagon Scientists Use 'Time Hole' to Make Events Disappear

Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting light.

A team at Cornell University, with support from Darpa, the Pentagon’s out-there research arm, managed to hide an event for 40 picoseconds (those are trillionths of seconds, if you’re counting). They’ve published their groundbreaking research in this week’s edition of the journal Nature.

This is the first time that scientists have succeeded in masking an event, though research teams have in recent years made remarkable strides...

Mitt Romney as D&D Character.

Artist Casey Jex Smith depicts Mitt Romney as the D&D character Lord Speldyall. It is one of the works in the Dungeons and Dragons On & Ever Onward art show in New York.
Image courtesy Allegra LaViola Gallery

Today and tomorrow mark what looks to be an exciting series of events in New York City that celebrate the impact and continued relevance of Dungeons & Dragons on the culture.

The Dungeons and Dragons On & Ever Onward art show at the Soho Gallery of Digital Art is “a snapshot of the contemporary NYC scene forming at the intersection of role-playing games, the art world and t...

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