Aaron Leroy Alston - first in world to get shot of penicillin

Read a fascinating post all about the fact that the first person ever to receive a shot of the new wonder drug penicillin was not white and wealthy but rather black and working class.

That would be amazing even today - but in 1940 ?!

It was like a red flag to a bull to right wing Americans determined to see that dying Americans didn't get any medical care unless they or their family could pay for it.

Louise Glaze Alston

Bravo to Doctor Dawson and Aaron Leroy Alston and to his marvellous mom, Mrs Louise L (nee Glaze) Alston, second oldest child in a family of 11 kids and so probably a stand-in for mother long before she had kids.

I an the second oldest girl in a poor family of 14 so I speak from experience !

Suschitzky lives long enough to see his iconic photo honored - UNBUTCHERED by Oxford University

One hundred years young last month, a world famous photographer finally saw his most iconic photo signally honored by Britain's National Portrait Gallery - and displayed unbutchered as well !

FULL MOON Republicans reminds world of Goldwater's finger on Red Button

FULL MOON = Armegeddon !

Not since 1964, when GOP presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, Jr repeatedly threatened to nuke any country that got in his way , has the world been this scared of the Republicans taking over that big Red Button in the White House.

Stephen said he'd pull out, Tony stayed in , Kyoto2 had a baby : that's hardly a sin

No good day, not a good day at all, for the beleaguered climate denier, Stephen Harper ....

"WARMIST" traitor ? Merkel spites fellow con servative Harper by visiting CDN climate change project

In public, it was all hugs and kisses. In private, Stephen Harper  was so outraged by this traitor in the con-servative ranks, that his nurses had to double his medication and he wasn't allowed near sharp objects until Angela Merkel was safely in the air, bound for home.

desperate climate deniers play THE RACE CARD : black carbon plot to replace white gold

Its never really been about the science with your average climate-changing-denying-voter : all 2 billion of 'em.

If OCEAN FISH can get SKIN CANCER, that bodes badly for land creatures like you and I

The Journal-Post Daily says a new study shows widespread skin cancer in fish found along the Great Barrier Reef.

Soaring food prices, soaring temperatures, global warming : women get it - men don't !

You can't really be sure you see global warming, no matter how long you stare at all the complicated charts , but you can sure can see it today on food price stickers.

Are COMMUNIST oil barons funding LIBERTARIAN think tank denial ?

Climate denial scam : highly profitable business for think tank bureaucrats..... and commies

Few realize that the economy hardest hit by the world reducing its hydrocarbon use would be Russia.

(A) It has the most hydrocarbons.

(B) It has very few foreign sales of services or goods to match its sale of raw materials - unlike the USA for example.

Russia - from Putin on down - is full of climate deniers.

But the real climate change debate will stand or fall in just a few countries - the USA and maybe Australia and Canada.

Are the oil barons of Russia secretly funding - maybe via Swiss banks etc - American think tank bureaucrats who are leading the denial team ?

Ironic indeed - libertarians and communists meeting (secretly) in a common cause : gassing all world's species slowly to death with their CO2 pollution.....