pond scum

Now and again, someone quits the team by writing a cancel-my-subscription letter and damning NCR as pond scum, with me in the subaquatic waters below.

Not surprisingly, considering its source, its taste has been described as similar to "pond scum."

Gomez has injected tough talk on the campaign trail, drawing criticism at one point for calling his opponent "pond scum" over a Markey ad that criticized Mr.

Formerly called blue-green algae and often called pond scum, cyanobacteria are one of the best prokaryotic phyla in which to study bioenergetics and stress biology, because of their cosmopolitan occurrence, archaic origin, and relatively simple bacterial architecture with a physiology ancestral to higher plants.

Savage discussed his latest movies, including "Pond Scum," "Fertisle" and "Kinderplay," all in post-production.

Everyone chuckled at how drenched I was, but my waders had actually kept me free of pond scum; it was all sweat--an inherited flaw--and I was happy to regain the weight I had just burned off with a feast of walleye from Lake Winnipeg.

Washington, June 14 ( ANI ): Airline companies are ready and eager to fuel up with biobased jet fuel, which is made from waste cooking oil from fast-food and other restaurants, waste fat, biomass and even algae - the stuff of "pond scum."

THE ENDLESS QUEST FOR AN alternative to petroleum has dipped a toe in a rather slimy source: pond scum, reports science journalist Neil Savage.

You people, on the other hand, are pond scum and I show my contempt for you by wearing gigantic curlers.

This system will convert pond scum into biofuel, ultimately making the campus, and possibly the entire community, more self-sustainable.

By Tiffany HsuTo many, algae is little more than pond scum, a nuisance to swimmers and a frustration to boaters.But to a growing community of scientists and investors in Southern California, there is oil locked in all that slimy stuff, and several dozen companies are racing to try to figure how best to unleash it and produce an affordable biofuel.The companies and several research labs have set up shop in the San Diego area, many of them in an area nicknamed Biotech Beach.

When Adam Freeman graduated last December from Kennesaw State University in Georgia with a degree in biochemistry, he wanted to work in only one field: pond scum. Freeman had read that entrepreneurs were squeezing out fuel from the green muck known as algae, and he wanted to be one of them.

As our authors advise, however, we shouldn't throw out the jatropha, French-fry grease and pond scum with the maize.

algae industry will be in Washington this week, urging lawmakers to consider tax breaks and other incentives to help turn pond scum into an economically viable fuel for commercial aviation.