Cancer Cured? Granulocytes Treatment Worked 100 Percent In Mice Work But Will It Work In Humans? | Scientific Blogging

Cancer Cured? Granulocytes Treatment Worked 100 Percent In Mice Work But Will It Work In Humans? | Scientific Blogging: "The treatment will involve transfusing specific white blood cells, called granulocytes, from select donors, into patients with advanced forms of cancer. A similar treatment using white blood cells from cancer-resistant mice has previously been highly successful, curing 100 percent of lab mice afflicted with advanced malignancies."

Science Journal - WSJ.com

Science Journal - WSJ.com: "Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision -- an eternity at the speed of thought."

Simulated reality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Simulated reality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Simulated reality is the proposition that reality could be simulated—perhaps by computer simulation—to a degree indistinguishable from 'true' reality. It could contain conscious minds which may or may not know that they are living inside a simulation. In its strongest form, the 'simulation hypothesis' claims it is probable that we are actually living in such a simulation."

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Better safe than sorry

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Better safe than sorry: "Given our present state of knowledge, we simply cannot exclude the possibility that aliens will visit the Earth next year, and, on finding that we have not yet produced a Higgs boson, find us laughably primitive and enslave us."

Abyss & Apex : Fourth Quarter 2007: Wikihistory

Abyss & Apex : Fourth Quarter 2007: Wikihistory: "Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?"

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe: "Purity"

Method Art

Method Art: "The wobbly effect!
the flowy-fluid effect!
The wavy effect!
The freaky time-shifting effect!"

Will It Blend? | Presented By Blendtec

Will It Blend? | Presented By Blendtec: "Below you will find a collection of videos that are NOT safe to try at home. Click any of the videos to see what the Total Blender can do in our test lab, as we ask the question, Will It Blend?"

Cloned immune cells cleared patient's cancer | Science | The Guardian

Cloned immune cells cleared patient's cancer | Science | The Guardian: "A patient whose skin cancer had spread throughout his body has been given the all-clear after being injected with billions of his own immune cells.

Tests revealed that the 52-year-old man's tumours, which spread from his skin to his lung and groin, vanished within two months of having the treatment, and had not returned two years later."

Audiophile Deathmatch: Monster Cables vs. a Coat Hanger | Gizmodo Australia:

Seven songs were played while the group was blindfolded and the cables swapped back and forth. Not only "after 5 tests, none could determine which was the Monster 1000 cable or the coat hanger wire," but no one knew a coat hanger was used in the first place.

Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol - Times Online:

this is not science fiction. Mr Pal holds up a small beaker of bug excretion that could, theoretically, be poured into the tank of the giant Lexus SUV next to us. Not that Mr Pal is willing to risk it just yet. He gives it a month before the first vehicle is filled up on what he calls “renewable petroleum”.

Science News / Accidental Astrophysicists:

Dmitry Khavinson and Genevra Neumann didn’t know anything about astrophysics. They were just doing mathematics, like they always do, following their curiosity. In 2004, they posted a new result, an extension of the fundamental theorem of algebra, on MathSciNet, a preprint server.

Five days later, they received an e-mail. Congratulations, it said. You just proved Sun Hong Rhie’s conjecture on gravitational lensing.

Blepharophimosis, Ptosis, and Epicanthus Inversus -- GeneReviews -- NCBI Bookshelf:

[BPES, Blepharophimosis Syndrome. Includes: Blepharophimosis, Ptosis, and Epicanthus Inversus Type I (BPES I); Blepharophimosis, Ptosis, and Epicanthus Inversus Type II (BPES II)]
Elfride De Baere, MD, PhD
Center for Medical Genetics
Ghent University Hospital
Ghent, Belgium
Elfride.DeBaere@ugent.be

BPES Family Network:

BPES, also known as BPEI, is a rare genetic disorder, affecting most notably the eyelids. BPES stands for: Blepharophimosis Ptosis Epicanthus Inversus Syndrome.

Genetic building blocks may have formed in space - space - 13 June 2008 - New Scientist Space:

The find might bolster claims that meteorites delivered some of the chemicals needed to create life. "It boosts the idea that the origin of life on Earth may have had an important contribution from an extraterrestrial object," says lead author Zita Martins, a chemist at Imperial College London in the UK.

But it may be too early to conclude these nucleobases formed beyond the Earth, says Sandra Pizzarello, a chemist at Arizona State University in Tempe, US. The study "raises a very interesting question that was raised a very long time ago, but I don't think it solves it", she told New Scientist.

Michael Feathers' Blog: The Flawed Theory Behind Unit Testing:

In the software industry, we’ve been chasing quality for years. The interesting thing is there are a number of things that work. Design by Contract works. Test Driven Development works. So do Clean Room, code inspections and the use of higher-level languages.

All of these techniques have been shown to increase quality. And, if we look closely we can see why: all of them force us to reflect on our code.

Absolutely Hilarious Computer Quotes | Geek 24: Gadgets, Technology and Geek:

The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.

WebHome < Main < Reprap:

RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right - a self-replicating machine. This 3D printer builds the component up in layers of plastic. This technology already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you about €30,000. And it isn't even designed so that it can make itself. So what the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to self-copy (material costs are about €400).

Nanosolar Price Barrier Breakthrough Makes Solar Electricity Cheaper Than Coal:

Nanosolar, Inc. has developed a way to produce a type of ink that absorbs solar radiation and converts into electric current.

Economic View - This Global Show Must Go On - NYTimes.com:

More than 400 million Chinese climbed out of poverty between 1990 and 2004, according to the World Bank. India has become a rapidly growing economy, the middle class in Brazil and Mexico is flourishing, and recent successes of Ghana and Tanzania show that parts of Africa may be turning the corner as well.

Some Consulting Wisdom I Picked Up - Chad Myers' Blog:

I did a consulting gig for a few years at a very large government institution and I picked up some wisdom about how to best serve the customer (even sometimes in spite of themselves), how to remain sane, and how to maintain your scruples while doing it all.

How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later:

One day a girl college student in Canada asked me to define reality for her, for a paper she was writing for her philosophy class. She wanted a one-sentence answer. I thought about it and finally said, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." That's all I could come up with.

LHCountdown.com » Blog Archive » Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times:

Starting sometime next summer if all goes to plan, subatomic particles will begin shooting around a 17-mile underground ring stretching from the European Center for Nuclear Research, or Cern, near Geneva, into France and back again — luckily without having to submit to customs inspections.

Thought experiment [dive into mark]:

The reason I know that they have denounced me is that I read what they had to say, and the reason I was able to read what they had to say is that my browser is very forgiving of all their various XML wellformedness and validity errors.

Signs of Rose-Type Immortality in Humans?:

If you're familiar with the work of aging researcher Michael Rose, you'll know that he uses "immortality" to mean no increase in mortality rate with advancing time. He demonstrated that mortality rates in flies, for example, stop rising after a certain age. This is counterintuitive for most people, given our experience with the world - we expect the chance of death on any given day to continue to increase as age-related degeneration piles up.

The flies all still die, of course, because the odds come up sooner or later, but they don't get any more likely to die per unit time whilst in this "immortal phase." You can find a more detailed explanation in Rose's essay in the online version of The Scientific Conquest of Death - it's the first essay in the book.

New Ion Engine Sets Thrust Record | DarkGovernment:

An ion engine has smashed the record for total thrust in a NASA test. The successful test means the engine could be used in future NASA missions.

mozdev.org - deepest sender:

Deepest Sender is a blogging client for Firefox. What does this mean? Well, it means that instead of having to go to the Update page on LiveJournal/WordPress/Blogger/whatever, or loading up a separate client program, all you have to do is hit Ctrl+\, or click the button in your toolbar, and you can start posting.

New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aging - NYTimes.com:

Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human lifespan, researchers say in a new report that is likely to give impetus to the rapidly growing search for longevity drugs.

300 Calorie Food Picture Gallery:

It turned out that 300 Calorie is more than 2 pounds of watermelon or just 2 ounces of milk chocolate. Eventually, I decided to make photographs of what these 300 Calorie look like in different foods.

Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Announcing SquirrelFish:

What Is SquirrelFish?

SquirrelFish is a register-based, direct-threaded, high-level bytecode engine, with a sliding register window calling convention. It lazily generates bytecodes from a syntax tree, using a simple one-pass compiler with built-in copy propagation.

Ask Calvin’s Dad @ Soft Warcraft:

Calvin’s dad (from Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes) is the coolest comic character I ever came across. Whenever Calvin asks him question he often makes up outlandish answers. Here is a collection of some quotes from the comic strip.