A pill for longer life? : Nature News: "Rapamycin, a drug commonly used in humans to prevent transplanted organs from being rejected, has been found to extend the lives of mice by up to 14% — even when given to the mice late in life."
09 July 2009
03 July 2009
Researchers To Breed 'Super-Tuna' Within A Decade - Science News - redOrbit: "Scientists in Japan say they will breed a new 'super-tuna' in the next ten years that will be stronger, more resistant to disease and taste better than the bluefin presently in the oceans, The Telegraph reported."
09 June 2009
Five Experiments on How Human Nature Will Affect Our Long-Term Survival -A Galaxy Classic: "Human behavior is often inexplicably bizarre, destructive and counterintuitive, and yet we’ve made it this far."
08 June 2009
07 June 2009
04 June 2009
You Fail Economics Forever - Television Tropes & Idioms: "This violent collision leaves a few absolutes to take refuge behind, and a wide open mine field for catastrophic assumptions and mistakes, and prime Flame Bait. This is probably one of the reasons Thomas Carlyle called economics 'the dismal science'."
02 June 2009
31 May 2009
Fasting May Improve Cancer Chemotherapy: "Fasting prior to cancer chemotherapy treatment may significantly enhance the cancer-killing effects of the drugswhile protecting healthy cells from damage."
19 May 2009
16 May 2009
XKCDB: The #xkcd Quote Database: "A mathematician, a physicist, and a biologist see two people walk into an empty building. A while later they see three people walk back out. The biologist says 'they must have multiplied'. The physicist says 'no, our initial count was likely off'. The mathematician nods sagely and says 'actually, if one more person walks into the building then it will be empty again'."
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