Take this study: “Taller people more likely to develop atrial fibrillation” it says. I’m 6’2″, not extraordinarily tall, but tall enough. Over a period of 10 years beginning in 1986 I suffered four brief (no more than a couple of days at worst) spells of atrial fibrillation. It’s now been just about 10 years since …
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The first sentence I wrote today was…
Anton stood in the coalyard of Lord Sisk’s home, sadly surveying the wreckage of the Professor’s balloon, stretched out on the cobblestones like the cast-off skin of some giant red snake.
USB peripherals: The weird, the bad and the ugly
Wired News offers up an amusing gallery of the world’s weirdest USB gadgets. Although I kind of like the USB storage devices that look like sushi.
Now that’s what I call a compact!
Rice University scientists have attached light-powered motors to the single-molecule cars they announced a few months ago. How small are these cars? Well… The nanocars, which measure just 3-by-4 nanometers, are about the same width as a strand of DNA, but much shorter than DNA. About 20,000 of these nanocars could be parked, side-by-side, across …
Photo of the Day: Invasion of the Chloroplasts
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Engage tractor beam!
Alas, it’s only good for trapping and moving protein molecules, not spaceships. Still, even the scientist being quoted explains it by referencing Star Trek.
The first sentence I wrote today was…
He woke to grey morning light filtering through a dirt- and bird dropping-smeared skylight above the bed.
Photo of the Day: Standing on Guard
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Nanodrugs cure prostate cancer in mice
Some very very promising news on the cancer-fighting front.
What made that asteroid break up?
I love stories like this, about mysterious happenings in the outer solar system…mainly because I’ve read so many science fiction stories where just such a seemingly innocuous astronomical event proves to be Earth-shattering in its implications (sometimes literally).
Patent silliness
Advertisements sometimes refer to “Our patented solution to…” or “Patented protection from…”. The implication is that if something has been patented, it must be good. As the song from Porgy and Bess puts it (in an admittedly different context), “It ain’t necessarily so.” But first, a word or two about patents. A patent is “a …
The first sentence I wrote today was…
Lor grunted and set off through the darkness of the park toward the yellow glow of the fog-shrouded city.
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