Love him or hate him, Patrick J. Buchanan pulls no punches, and tells things like they are.
Click HERE to read his analysis of the Barack Obama / James Dobson clash.
Archive for the 'news' Category
Irony: You go to school to learn. They teach you how to use computers. You learn computers well enough that you use that knowledge to change your test grades at said school from Fs to As.
Seems like they should be offering this young man a job with Homeland Security’s anti-cyber terrorism unit. Instead, he may not see freedom until he’s into his 50s.
Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have successfully cured a man with advanced (and metastatic) skin cancer with his own immune cells.
The process, outlined in the latest New England Journal of Medicine, involved removing CD4+ T-cells from the 52-year old patient, modifying and expanding them in culture until there were around 5 billion of them, and then reinjecting them intravenously. Two months later, the man was tumor free, and two years later shows NO signs of cancer.
You can read more about it HERE and HERE.
Very exciting stuff, especially considering that it did not involve ESCs.
17
Jun
Firefox 3 is here!!
Click the big red button up there, already!
Click HERE and rejoice, my brothers and sisters of the sacred bean!
Toxicology and Epidemiology:
- Human Health: USGS
- Epidemiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Epidemiology - home
- EPA: Welcome to ECOTOX
- Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) | IRIS | US EPA
- Toxicology Problem Set
Various Diseases:
- What is river blindness?
- Necrotizing fasciitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Overcoming Necrotizing Fasciitis, the Flesh-Eating Disease
- Boy, 12, contracts amoebic meningitis after lake swim - Austin, Texas
- Toxoplasmosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Mercury poisoning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Typhoid Mary (Great video! Buy one!!)
- NOVA | The Most Dangerous Woman in America | PBS
- WGBH Shop / PBS and Public Television videos and DVDs
- Amazon.com: NOVA - Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Outbreak Detection and Containment:
- Outbreak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Texas Department of State Health Services, News Updates
Hantavirus:
- Hantavirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Virus That Caused Deaths Among Navajos Is Isolated - New York Times
Ebola:
Refuse Problems in the Philippines:
- Children Living in the Garbage, Payatas, Manila, Philippines
- The Quest for Zero Garbage in the Philippines (May 2003)
Reducing Packaging:
Refuse and Recycling:
- EPA Waste Report (pdf file)
- Plastic Container Codes - The Green Guide
- Tommy Lewis Industries, Plainview, TX on MacRAE’s Blue Book Industrial Directory of Manufacturers
Computer Waste in China:
Landfills:
- The Anatomy of a Landfill
- Environmental Protection Agency: landfill anatomy
- “How Landfills Work” - howstuffworks.com
Random Silliness (I’m a SILK, by the way…):
The worst part about the future is that it usually fails to deliver on its promises.
Flying cars? No.
Five-hour work week? Not for me. (Or you, probably.)
*Alien invasion? Still watching the sky… although John Edwards comes pretty close to what I’d expect to see.
Once in a while though, the future really pays off. Big and awesome-sauce:
Yep, strength-enhancing, robotic exoskeletons are here. Here’s the story (click it or ticket.)
And HERE’S a link to some streaming video of the suit in action.
While not quite to the coolness-level of this…
… or this…
… it IS nice to know that we’re on our way to the future of 1986 that both Daniel and Ripley know and love.
Can you imagine? Taking out the garbage would be FUN again. (Lift the dumpster over your head, walk to the city dump, shooting lasers at hapless passers-by, and BANG, no more sanitation collection fees. And more lasers, or possibly a cheeseburger, on your way home.)
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In sadder news (no sick humor intended, honest,) a report on EMO culture came out in today’s UK paper Daily Mail. It tells the story of a 13-year old named Hannah who took her own life a few months after wrapping herself in Emo. Here’s the link (click).
It’s a sad story, and an eye-opening look for those of us who have little to no inroads into this massive (and arguably unhealthy) cultural phenomenon. I’m not going to go so far as to say that “emo made Hannah kill herself,” (I’ll leave that to the blog pundits), but I have personally known several high-school kids (especially girls) who are into the hairstyles, music, fashion, and self-mutiliation associated with emo.
It’s gotten to the point where I really want to slap the next person who makes a joke about slitting one’s wrists.
PARENTS: Talk to your kids. Now. About lots of things. Often.
* Obviously, I’m not talking about ILLEGAL ALIENS invading. We have plenty of those. Oh look, there goes one now…
28
Apr
NEWS FLASH!!
The world is a crappy place.
In other news, things DO tend to get better, given a long enough timeline.
Now go watch Cloverfield. In a dark room. Without people around to spoil it for you.
Discuss. 
