"Each year, thousands of Americans donate their bodies in the belief they are contributing to science. In fact, many are also unwittingly contributing to commerce, their bodies traded as raw material in a largely unregulated national market. Body brokers are also known as non-transplant tissue banks. They are distinct from the organ and tissue transplant … Continue reading Reuters Investigates “The Body Trade”
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The Cookbooks of Nathan Myhrvold
"If you are not passionate, a 2640-page cookbook [Amazon cost: ~$500] is not for you... ...I ask Myhrvold for a simple example of how the knowledge of cooking he has developed might help ordinary home cooking. 'If you have a steak that is twice as thick as the one you cooked the last time,' he asks … Continue reading The Cookbooks of Nathan Myhrvold
