Hold on a second…. Executive compensation will be reduced in the Pig Seven (the seven companies that split up the multi-deca-billion dollar bailout). The argument is against this is that with lower executive compensation, these executives will bail, go away, move to other companies.

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Pamela Ronald, author of Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food, is now a Sbling! She will be blogging at Tomorrow’s Table. Welcome Pamela!

David Sloan Wilson is famous for his work on group selection, a.k.a. multi-level selection, and it is quite a coup for Seed and Scienceblogs.com that he has joined our ranks. Please visit E4E and say hey.

People say that clinical trials have not been perforemd with H1N1 vaccine, so we can’t be sure it is safe. Clinical trials have been performed on the H1N1 vaccine. People say that the inhaled version of the vaccine give you the flu. The inhaled version does not give you the flu. Yes, it is a “live” virus … but only barely. Don’t listen to people. People are not as smart as they think they are.

Anyway, wired magazine is running a major story on this. I’ve not read the story, but I just saw the author interviewed on msnbc.com and it looks interesting.

Or so says this crazy, ranting lunatic.

Bug Girl’s Blog: “Stupidity….there’s an app for that” is a skeptical look at an iTouch/iPhone app to repel mosquitoes.

Biological ramblings talks about this cool thing that shrikes do. Do you know about the shrikes? It’s cool.