Cancer cure ‘may be available in two years’
Cancer sufferers could be cured with injections of immune cells from other people within two years, scientists say.
US researchers have been given the go-ahead to give patients transfusions of “super strength” cancer-killing cells from donors.
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Split brain behavioral experiments
To reduce the severity of his seizures, Joe had the bridge between his left and right cerebral hemisphers (the corpus callosum) severed. As a result, his left and right brains no longer communicate through that pathway.
Here’s what happens as a result:
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Moncton mayor will not run again
To mix things up, a little local color.
Moncton Mayor Lorne Mitton will not seek another term in next spring’s municipal election, he announced Thursday morning.
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The fates of real-life advertising icons
Check out this insanely detailed ten-part post on Ira R. Schnapp, the most impressive typography/logo/stamp designer you’ve never heard of. Very cool and fascinating.
But who in the world is I.R. Schnapp? Why does HE deserve to be ranked among the hallowed creators who guided Superman through his earliest adventures? And why as “Senior Vice President of Advertising,” of all things? The surprising answer: Schnapp deserves to be there, perhaps more so than any of the others, because all the other people on this masthead came to Superman after his first adventure had been published. Not Schnapp. He was there from the very beginning. Schnapp was, as they say, “present at the creation.”
Ira R. Schnapp was an eyewitness to the first-ever appearance of the Man of Steel. He also saw the debuts of the Caped Crusader, the Scarlet Speedster, the Emerald Gladiator, and the Amazing Amazon… in person. He was there the day Barry Allen raced across the bridge between the earths and became the Flash of Two Worlds. He saw the mightiest heroes of comics’ Golden Age unite for the first time to form the Justice Society of America. And he witnessed the unforgettable first meeting of the JSA and Justice League of America with his own eyes. Through it all, there was one constant, and one constant alone: IRA SCHNAPP.
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Canadian Money becomes Real Money
Parity – The Canadian Dollar is (almost) at equal value to the American Dollar for the first time since 1976.
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Landis Guilty
Say It Ain’t So, Floyd. Landis found guilty of doping, must surrender 2006 Tour de France title.
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Illegal x 2 = Refugee?
“The fact someone wants to come here for better economic opportunity or a better quality of life … that’s no basis for a successful refugee claim.” That’s not the Minutemen talking, but rather Canadian Immigration Refugee Board (IRB) spokesman Charles Hawkins. Over the past three weeks, approximately 200 illegal immigrants from the U.S. entered Canada at the Detroit River crossings and applied in Windsor for shelter and social assistance. So far, no cries of racism or xenophobia against the Canadians for defending their borders.
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Girl can’t help it: a critique of porn star Ashley Blue’s blog
Susannah Breslin has an essay up today about the online life of (former?) adult film performer Ashley Blue, whose very interesting blog seems to document a kind of transition from working in porn to whatever lies beyond that. Snip:
Ashley Blue‘s blog is like no other. On it, Blue–whose real name is Oriana Small–reveals the real girl behind the porn star. Blue is–or at least was–a porn star like no other. She has starred in some of the most extreme porn movies ever made. According to IMDB, she has appeared in over 200 adult videos, among them: “Ashley Blue AKA Filthy Whore,” “American Bukkake 26,” and “Gag Factor 15.” Take “American Bukkake 26,” for example, in which Blue fed fried cum to a bukkake girl. (“It was amazing,” she later noted.) Her performances have not gone unnoticed. Last year, “Gag Factor 15,” in which Blue reenacts a scene out of Abu Ghraib, was listed in an 18-count federal obscenity indictment. Her blog, though, shows another side of the sex star. There, in a stream-of-consciousness assemblage of words and pictures that’s part tumblelog, part haiku, and part Molly Bloom’s monologue, Blue–that is, Small–exposes the woman behind the sex with unrivaled intensity. This is a blog that stars the usual suspects found on confessional blogs–the boyfriend (erotic photographer Dave Naz), the new puppy, the night out on the town. Blue takes blogging to a whole new level.
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Get yer Marvel Universe info right here!
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I watched a particle crawl randomly along the edge of a straight razor
Cinematic particles is an online applet that draws watercolor-like visualizations of movie dialogs, from Apocalypse Now to Zabriskie Point. See also: Spinal Rhythms, L-Garden, SpyCamp and other online toys by Austrian artist Eva Schindling.
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Scholarpedia: the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia
Welcome to Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.
Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program – MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to review and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article link.
However, Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very important ways:
* Each article is written by an expert (invited or elected by the public).
* Each article is anonymously peer reviewed to ensure accurate and reliable information.
* Each article has a curator – typically its author — who is responsible for its content.
* Any modification of the article needs to be approved by the curator before it appears in the final, approved version.
Herein also lies the greatest differences between Scholarpedia and traditional print media: while the initial authorship and review processes are similar to a print journal, articles in Scholarpedia are not frozen and outdated, but dynamic, subject to an ongoing process of improvement moderated by their curators. This allows Scholarpedia to be up-to-date, yet maintain the highest quality of content.
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My Phone is so hot
My phone rocks, I finally got around to repairing it, and I LOVE it. I have it in a more classy shiney black though, super hot.
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All Creatures Great and Small
Meet the Crew: Dot, Gael, Jon, Spot, and Cap. They’re border collies who live and work at Border Collie Rescue in North Yorkshire.
The volunteers there rescue, train and find homes for these extraordinary dogs.
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TRANSIT – an art deco murder mystery
T.R.A.N.S.I.T. is, by a wide margin, my favorite animated short ever produced. Set in the art deco Europe of the 1920’s and (and released in 1997) it tells the story of a journey throughout several major vacation destinations of a wealthy tycoon, his young wife with wandering eyes, and a murderous turn of events. The story is told in reverse, from the final stage of the “vacation” back through each prior stop, and the artwork for each segment is painted in the style of the luggage travel sticker for that stop.
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black sheep aus!
The nationalist Swiss People’s Party (who garnered 26% of the vote in the last elections) is proposing a deportation policy reminiscent of Nazi-era practices. Under the plan, entire families would be expelled if their children are convicted of a violent crime, drug offense or benefits fraud. And get a load of their black sheep poster campaign, or their 2004 poster, with the dreaded black hand reaching for (gasp!) a Swiss passport. Yodel-odel-ay-eeeeeee-who?
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25 Years Later, It’s Still Dark and Rainy
Ridley Scott is presenting Blade Runner: The Final Cut, a re-edited version of the cyber-punk classic, at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.
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Totally Stoked
Texify is a pretty convenient web-based way to typeset LaTeX equations and get a linkable image.
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Strangelove’s Doomsday: fiction meets facts
Dr. Strangelove’s Doomsday device may be more fact than fiction. We’ve had doomsday stories here before, but what if dead hand control of nuclear devices is real? Perhaps live-hand control is better. You could always try your hand at a nuclear apocalypse.
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Who’s your daddy now?!
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It will get on all your disks, It will infiltrate your chips, Yes it’s Cloner!
The Computer Virus Turns 25. “I guess if you had to pick between being known for this and not being known for anything, I’d rather be known for this. But it’s an odd placeholder for (all that) I’ve done.” In 1982, ninth-grade student Rich Skrenta decided to play a prank on his friends. He wrote the Elk Cloner virus that infected Apple II machines. It is thought to be the first computer virus to be unleashed “in the wild.” Related: A History Of Viruses.
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How long will you live?
An insurance company’s cute little flash application tells you how long you’re going to live.
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Good Night, Sweet Icarus
R.I.P Paul B. MacCready Paul MacCready, inventor of the Gossamer Condor, the first human powered heavier-than-air aircraft, and the Gossamer Albatross, the first human powered aircraft to cross the English Channel, has died, according to AeroVironment, the company he founded.
“You can do all kinds of things if you just plunge ahead,” he said in an interview with Science in 1986. “It doesn’t mean you’re any good at them, but you can be good enough.”
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ZetaFlow
ZetaFlow. Blow up a few of his spaceships, then build your own to blow up. Some instructions inside.
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Influence Me
John Lennon’s Jukebox (BBC,Google vid,48min)
wiki “In 1989, John Lennon’s jukebox surfaced in an auction of Beatles memorabilia at Christie’s, and was sold for £2,500 to Bristol-based music promoter John Midwinter. Lennon had apparently bought the jukebox � specifically a Swiss KB Discomatic � in 1965, and filled it with forty singles to take with him on tour. Midwinter spent several years restoring the box and researching the discs catalogued in Lennon’s spidery handwriting. When Midwinter developed cancer, and his health began to deteriorate, his desire to see the player featured in some kind of documentary became all the more important.”
Guardian article,music.
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