Daily Archives: December 4, 2008

Biopolymers: Get down tonight

December 4, 2008
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Two items: 1. Via the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, Chinese goose farmers have excess geese since the bottom dropped out of the down market (that’s the feather-down, not the “down” market as in “stock prices sinking”); and, 2. Via the American Chemical Society, feather keratin is ducky for making fibers with sustainable materials (rather...

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“Fake Rockefeller” update: The talented Mr. Gerhartstreiter: A study in psychopathy (Updated)

December 4, 2008
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“Fake Rockefeller” update: The talented Mr. Gerhartstreiter: A study in psychopathy (Updated)

Rockefeller Center Update 12.03.08: Vanity Fair has a terrific chronology of Mr. Gerhartstreiter, “The Man in the Rockefeller Suit,” Vanity Fair January 2009, by the somewhat redundantly named “Mark Seal” (Is that his real name? Isn’t a seal a sort of mark? Hm.)  The article goes through each of the identities, with interviews of...

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