tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55325552012-01-05T23:26:58.217+01:00Contains whatever I find interesting enough to want to remember it.Nico de Vrieshttps://profiles.google.com/115367009984498712276noreply@blogger.comBlogger5391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532555.post-45739151191556515442010-02-20T03:36:00.001+01:002010-02-20T03:36:45.423+01:00

Caloric Restriction Comes in a Pill | Wired Science | Wired.com: "Scientists have provided the strongest evidence yet that the anti-aging benefits of calorically restricted diets can be duplicated — minus the near-starvation — by a pill."

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How to Do the Ultimate Aging Study | Wired Science | Wired.com: "Resveratrol, a natural compound that affects mitochondrial function and DNA repair, and its pharmaceutical derivatives have been used to prevent diabetes in obese mice. Now they’re being tested in humans. Manipulations of the growth-regulating IGF-1 pathway have extended lifespans in lab animals. Rapamycin, used to suppress

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Slashdot Science Story | Golden Ratio Discovered In a Quantum World: "'Scientists have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter. 'In order to study these nanoscale quantum effects, the researchers have focused on the magnetic material cobalt niobate. It consists of linked magnetic atoms, which form chains just like a very thin bar magnet, but only one atom

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Faster-Than-Light Pulsar Phenomena | Universe Today: "Observational data from nine pulsars, including the Crab pulsar, suggest these rapidly spinning neutron stars emit the electromagnetic equivalent of a sonic boom, and a model created to understand this phenomenon shows that the source of the emissions could be traveling faster than the speed of light."

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Calorie restriction: Scientists take important step toward 'fountain of youth': "Going back for a second dessert after your holiday meal might not be the best strategy for living a long, cancer-free life say researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. That's because they've shown exactly how restricted calorie diets -- specifically in the form of restricted glucose -- help human

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Has dark matter finally been detected? | Science | The Guardian: "In a series of coordinated announcements at several US laboratories, researchers said they believed they had captured dark matter in a defunct iron ore mine half a mile underground. The claim, if confirmed next year, will rank as one the most spectacular discoveries in physics in the past century."

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Playing tricks with the speed of light: "The mechanics of slowing light down, as well as speeding it up, is governed by methods and equations that are pretty well understood. Now scientists just have to figure out what to do with it."

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First Programmable Quantum Computer Created - Science News: "Using a few ultracold ions, intense lasers and some electrodes, researchers have built the first programmable quantum computer. The new system, described in a paper to be published in Nature Physics, flexed its versatility by performing 160 randomly chosen processing routines."

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Turritopsis nutricula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The ability to reverse the life cycle is probably unique in the animal kingdom, and allows the jellyfish to bypass death, rendering the Turritopsis nutricula biologically immortal."

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How to Extract DNA from Anything Living: "For this experiment, we like to use green split peas."

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Vitamin D and calcium supplementation reduces canc... [Am J Clin Nutr. 2007] - PubMed result: "Numerous observational studies have found supplemental calcium and vitamin D to be associated with reduced risk of common cancers."

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“Longevity Genes” -Why Some of Us Live Longer: "Scientists have long been baffled as to why some people live so much longer than others. Diet and exercise account for some of it, but researchers have found that genetics also factor heavily into the equation, and that long life is somewhat hereditary as it is with living bristlecone pine that were alive when Caesar ruled Rome."

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Medical News: Gene Therapy based on reversed engineering HIV Arrests ALD Progression: "In what appears to be a first, European researchers have used gene therapy to arrest the progress of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, or ALD, a fatal brain disease. In two 7-year-old boys, the gene therapy -- using a viral vector derived from HIV -- stopped the progressive demyelination characteristic of the

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Why dolphins are deep thinkers | Science | The Guardian: "When people drop paper into the water she hides it under a rock at the bottom of the pool. The next time a trainer passes, she goes down to the rock and tears off a piece of paper to give to the trainer. After a fish reward, she goes back down, tears off another piece of paper, gets another fish, and so on. This behaviour is interesting

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The Past 5,000 Years Mark a New Epoch in Human Evolution (The Weekend Feature): "We are more different genetically from people living 5,000 years ago than they were different from Neanderthals."

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Let's say you've gone back in time

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The Way We Eat - The Science of Appetite - TIME: "Nature prefers you fat, but you can take control. New research could explain better approaches to dieting and how to curb your appetite"

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Free will is not an illusion after all - life - 23 September 2009 - New Scientist: "Miller and Trevena also failed to find evidence of subconscious decision-making in a second experiment."

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Immortality only 20 years away says scientist - Telegraph: "Scientist Ray Kurzweil claims humans could become immortal in as little as 20 years' time through nanotechnology and an increased understanding of how the body works."

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Is String Theory an Unphysical Pile of Garbage? : Starts With A Bang: "Quantum field theory is possibly the best-tested physical theory ever, with every single particle physics experiment ever performed confirming its validity."

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Reboot Your Brain? Science Says It's Possible -A Galaxy Classic: "Animal studies conducted at the National Institute on Aging Gerontology Research Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, for example, have shown that both calorie restriction and intermittent fasting along with vitamin and mineral intake, increase resistance to disease, extend lifespan, and stimulate production

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"Power Shift" -How to Enhance Your Memory | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond: "A recent study suggests that merely glancing from left to right (the traditional “shifty look” of spies and sneaks) can boost memory power"

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Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess: "In a design straight from the earliest days of the Web, miscellaneous posts compete for attention on page after page of blue links, undifferentiated by tags or ratings or even usernames. Millions of people apparently believe that love awaits here, but it is well hidden. Is this really the best we can do?"

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Depression's Evolutionary Roots: Scientific American: "Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages"

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TyPower comments on Anyone else here feel like they're never fully rested, like there's dead space in your brain? I have lost most of my emotions and the connections between the physical w: "You could be suffering from early 21st century syndrome. Don't bother googling it, I just made it up. But the symtoms you describe are typical of the new malaise."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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HowStuffWorks "How Time Travel Will Work"

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Ladies+Home+Journal+Dec+1900+paleofuture+paleo-future.jpg (image)

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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'."

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How To Write Unmaintainable Code

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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."

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55+ Extremely Useful Online Generators for Designers

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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

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Sorting Algorithm Animations

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The Ten Most Revealing Psych Experiments: "Some of the experiments psychologists have conducted over the years reveal things about the way we humans think and behave that we might not want to embrace, but which can at least help keep us humble. That's something."

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Slashdot | "Miraculous" Stem Cell Progress Reported In China: "The founder of Beike is so enthusiastic, he says his company is exploring the concept of using stem cells to extend longevity beyond 120 years.'"

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AnandTech explores the virtues and woes of today's SSD: "If you're interested in SSD, chances are you've been paying attention to the allegations of performance degradation in Intel's X25-M drives. AnandTech dives into the issue (and many, many more topics) in 31 page exploration of the state of solid state."

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Whole Health Source: Reversing Tooth Decay: "Nutrition has a profound effect on tooth structure, and well-formed teeth are inherently resistant to decay. But is there anything you can do if your teeth are already formed?"

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Low Level Virtual Machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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timemachine.jpg (JPEG Image, 874x3579 pixels)

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Economist.com: "What the several researchers found was that there were more photons in some places than there should have been and fewer in others. The stunning result, though, was that in some places the number of photons was actually less than zero."

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Two sexes 'sin in different ways': "Msgr Giertych said the most difficult sin for men to face was lust, followed by gluttony, sloth, anger, pride, envy and greed.For women, the most dangerous sins were pride, envy, anger, lust, and sloth, he added."

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Is Aging an Accident of Evolution? -A Galaxy Insight: "Everyone has assumed we age by rust. But how do you explain animals that don't age? Some tortoises lay eggs at the age of 100, there are whales that live to be 200 and clams that make it past 400 years."

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How We Think Before We Speak: Making Sense Of Sentences: "How does the brain turn seemingly random sounds and letters into sentences with clear meaning?"

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The $300 Million Button: "We were surprised how much they resisted registering."

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How fanboys see the world (JPEG Image, 1351x1167 pixels)

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Quantum entanglement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Quantum entanglement is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects are linked together so that one object can no longer be adequately described without full mention of its counterpart — even though the individual objects may be spatially separated."

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Scientists stop the ageing process (ABC News in Science): "Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says."

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Slashdot | Is the Relational Database Doomed?: "There's an article over on Read Write Web about what the future of relational databases looks like when faced with new challenges to its dominance from key/value stores, such as SimpleDB, CouchDB, Project Voldemort and BigTable."

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tlrobinson.net / blog » Blog Archive » Game of Life text and image generator generator

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Devoted Geek » Blog Archive The ultimate guide to tweaking useless Windows XP services

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Secrets of the Super-Healthy: People Who Never Get Sick: "Some people never seem to get sick. What are they doing that the rest of us aren't to keep illness at bay?"

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omphalaskepsis comments on Who wrote this software? An Ex-CIA agent?: "Let me tell you a little story. In 1983, during his Turing Award lecture, Ken Thompson admitted to a back door in the UNIX kernel which enabled him to log in. Because UNIX was distributed as source, he was concerned about being discovered. So instead he wrote the C compiler to recognize that it was compiling the kernel, and to

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Top 10 Fitness Myths: "Oh, and that whole 'recommended eight glasses a day' thing? Also false. You should drink only when you're thirsty, and this is done just to replace the amount of water a healthy adult loses every day -- about four to six glasses."

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PL People: "Programming Languages"

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50 Things We Know Now (We Didn't Know This Time Last Year): 2008 Edition

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SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator: "SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence."

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Getting Things Done - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "GTD rests on the principle that a person needs to move tasks out of the mind by recording them externally. That way, the mind is freed from the job of remembering everything that needs to be done, and can concentrate on actually performing those tasks."

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Intel X25-M solid state disk getest (2/7) | Core | Tweakers.net: "Write amplification"

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Linus Torvalds: "C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C."

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Aegisub: If programming languages were religions...

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Video Game Design Between 1990-2008 | Webdesigner Depot

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Maurice Vincent Wilkes - Wikiquote: "As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."

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List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Scientists extract images directly from brain ::: Pink Tentacle

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50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 | Noupe

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Let's talk about Python 3.0: "There’s an old joke, so old that I don’t even know for certain where it originated, that’s often used to explain why big corporations do things the way they do. It involves some monkeys, a cage, a banana and a fire hose."

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How Time-Traveling Could Affect Quantum Computing

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xkcd - A Webcomic - A Bunch of Rocks

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The 150 Best Online Flash Games

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Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering

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How To Cheat In Every Computer Game With Poke | MakeUseOf.com

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Quoted for Truth dot Com - I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead.

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Unknown "Structures" Tugging at Universe, Study Says

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Thinking Machine 4: Play the Game

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How to fight a rumor - The Boston Globe: "Fighting rumors by publicizing them in vivid, high-profile locations is, to say the least, a surprising tactic."

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13 Training Principles of CSS Everyone Should Know « HMV.co.in

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Senecavirus Structure Revealed (Oh, And It Still Kills Cancer Cells 10,000 Times Better Than Traditional Chemotherapeutics) | Scientific Blogging

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5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind - ReadWriteWeb

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38 Ways To Win An Argument—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Zeven manieren om je zin te krijgen - intermediair.nl (Dutch)

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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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Stars & Stripes FOREVER! on Vimeo

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The Blue Danube Waltz on Vimeo

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Bork Bork Bork Meep Meep Meep La la La LAH!!

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Ode To Joy on Vimeo

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10 Principles of the CSS Masters - NETTUTS

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Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

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A large grid seen rotating at a certain speed will appear to group itself into smaller grids, spinning independently.

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optical illusion wheels circles rotating (PNG Image, 1024x768 pixels)

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YouTube - Domino Logic (AND, OR, XOR): "OK, the XOR gate is damned impressive."

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DailyTech - Nanotech Produces Bizarre "Flat" Atom, Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough: "Imagine a tiny arsenic atom embedded in a tiny strip of silicon atoms. An electric current is applied. Something strange arises on the surface -- an exotic molecule. On one end is the spherical submerged arsenic atom; on the other end is an 'artificial' flat atom, seemingly 2D, created as an artifact.

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New map IDs the core of the human brain (7/2/2008): "Their groundbreaking work identified a single network core, or hub, that may be key to the workings of both hemispheres of the brain."

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‘Ghost’ Photos through Quantum Physics | Blog | Futurismic: "These are exciting times on the frontiers of physics. Researchers in Copenhagen took a step towards producing a quantum bit. And scientists at Arizona State are trying to figure out how electrons interact. Both are necessary steps towards building superfast quantum computers."

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Dennis, gadgets - Hyves.net - Always in touch with your friends: "Star Trek XI teaser"

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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

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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."

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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

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