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...actually gave them our base map, and we were probably the first municipality to give them that data," says Per Kristensen, Nanaimo's chief technology officer. "Over time, that has just continued to increase." Nanaimo is betting that embracing Google, the ubiquitous search engine that has become the starting point for most internet searches, will be good for tourism...
...environment and only reluctantly assumes action, I am genuinely disappointed. What an unbelievable waste of capability. Considering the brainpower, information and materials available, how can the U.S. miss such an opportunity to offer a level-headed, constructive and sustainable approach to solving the crisis of our planet? Karen Marie Kristensen London...
...crisis of our planet? Although I have much respect for and the greatest confidence in the U.S. as a leader in other areas, from an environmental perspective I cannot imagine a greater waste of human capacity than the bunch inhabiting the West Wing of the White House. Karen Marie Kristensen London Global warming must be addressed in the same way the U.S. set up the Manhattan Project to beat Hitler at creating the atom bomb. If that was a problem of national security, this is a problem of global security concerning all nations. Hence an equivalent international commitment is needed...
...does one extract venom from a tiny, delicate and perhaps deadly spider? In a word: carefully. Kristensen and his wife Anita start by tranquilizing the specimen with a gentle breeze of carbon-dioxide gas from a cylinder behind the milking desk. Once the spider is groggy, the milker, peering through a low-power stereoscopic microscope, gently picks it up with metal tweezers that are connected to an electrical supply. When a mild shock is administered through the tweezers, the spider promptly spews up pretty much everything liquid inside it--including digestive enzymes. That was a problem early on, until Chuck...
...venom purchased from Kristensen in the 1980s, for example, helped neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinas of New York University School of Medicine discover a new calcium channel involved in the communication between certain neurons, shedding new light on how the mind works. Another toxin extracted from Spider Pharm venom in 1995 by Kenton Swartz at the National Institutes of Health (named hanatoxin after Swartz's daughter) is being used to probe the function of proteins that are located on cellular membranes and have been implicated in diseases ranging from diabetes to epilepsy...