New research suggests that British Columbians with HIV are more likely to be unsure of their next meal as compared to the rest of the Canadian population.

This uncertainty is nearly 5 times higher than the general Canadian population, often leading to HIV- positive individuals not having access to adequate amounts of food.
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The genetically modified golden rice that was going to save the world in 2000, has yet to leave Louisiana, where it is being tested.

Despite not having reached the countries it was expected to help, the rice with added vitamin A has been making waves among consumers and scientists alike.
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Parenting can be very difficult. And when you become a new parent, people will give you hundreds and hundreds of books about how to be a good parent. But what they don't tell you is that there are secrets to parenting that you will not find in any book, even one from a bookstore. These secrets have been handed down generation to generation, parent to parent for eons. I learned them from my mother and she learned them from her father, who learned them from his Great Aunt Larry. And so on and so on. Well, today, I would like to reveal just some of these secrets about parenting.
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In 1973, the landmark and controversial court case Roe v. Wade came to a close when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a woman’s Constitutional right to privacy negated abortion legislation [1]. This court ruling enabled women to terminate pregnancies up to the point of fetal viability [2] (the point in fetal development at which a delivered baby can survive without interfering with the body of the mother [3]). In humans, fetal viability is considered to occur at 24 weeks of gestation [4].
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From the time of Charles Darwin, it has been the dream of many biologists to reconstruct the evolutionary history of all organisms on Earth and express it in the form of a phylogenetic tree. Phylogeny uses evolutionary distance, or evolutionary relationship, as a way of classifying organisms (taxonomy).
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THEORY
A public job listing for an animal euthanist will go over poorly.

SCIENTIFIC STUDY
1:17 PM - The following is posted in the Jobs section of Craigslist:
Seeking Experienced Euthanist for Animal Facility
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This reminds me of a little experiment I did a couple of years ago. I stood on a busy street-corner in Oxford, and asked passers-by to "name a random number between zero and infinity." I was wondering what this "random" distribution would look like.
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