Posts Tagged as ‘prize’

April 28, 2008

Book Prize for the 100 Mile Diet

On April 21, I wrote a review of the 100 Mile Diet.
In today’s Vancouver Sun, Rebecca Wigod reports that The 100 Mile Diet has won a British Columbia book prize. The book won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and was also a finalist for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.
Congratulations to the authors, J.B. MacKinnon and [...]

April 24, 2008

Test tube meat

PETA is offering a $1 million prize to the scientist who can MacGyver commercially viable meat in a laboratory.
Let that sink in. I will wait….
mmm mm mmm mmm mmm mm mm mmm mmm …theme from Jeopardy…
This has to be a joke, right?
As reported in this article, “the reward would go to the first scientist to [...]