Another Star Trekish development: a new infectious disease diagnostics tool that can simultaneously detect and recognize 22 pathogens, both viruses and bacteria, that can present as clinically similar pulmonary disease. “Dr. McCoy…paging ‘Bones’ McCoy…”
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Einstein’s theory of relativity has inspired a new ballet.
The bombing of Saskatchewan
I’ve known about the Japanese effort to deliver bombs to North America via balloons during the Second World War, but until today i didn’t know that they actually successfully bombed Saskatchewan.
The changing brain
We’re all getting older. (As the saying goes, it’s better than the alternative.) And as we age, we can’t help noticing that our brains don’t work quite the same way as they did when we were younger. Researchers have certainly noted this, and whether it’s because the average age of the population is going up …
What are the chances there’d be two of us?
We’d all like to think our names are unique, but they generally aren’t. Consider “Ed Willett.” Not only is there an Ed Willett who’s some kind of government commissioner in Australia, there’s also this Ed Willett, part of the “World Chamber Music” duo known as Chance. Fortunately, he doesn’t look a thing like me. I …
Ed talks!
OK, maybe not as earth-shaking as “Garbo talks,” but still… I didn’t know this was online until I stumbled over it today. Here’s a clip of me describing the premise of my novel Spirit Singer from Jillian “The BookChick” Bell’s CJTR program Saskatchewan Books Go Public.
Carbon storage
Yes, yes, I know, the only true solution to greenhouse warming of the planet is a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. But while we’re working on that–and the only way we’re going to achieve it, realistically, is with a switch to alternative forms of energy–it seems to me to make a lot of sense to …
Birds of a feather…
Ever wonder why herds, flocks, gaggles, murders, etc., etc., of various animals manage to stay together while moving all over the place? A new study at Princeton University may have the answer–and may point the way to understanding how humans move in crowds.
Mystery of the missing matter solved?
Maybe! Scientists have discovered where the missing half of “normal matter” in the universe may be hiding. Of course, “normal” matter only makes up four percent of the universe’s entire matter-energy budget. Twenty-three percent comes from “dark” matter–we still don’t know what that is–and the rest from “dark energy”–which we have even less of a …
You’re not getting older, you’re getting faster…at some things, anyway
Well, this is good news for those of us whose pictures can no longer be filed under the heading “Chicken, Spring”: The long-held belief that older people perform slower and worse than younger people has been proven wrong. In a study published today in Neuron, psychologists from McMaster University discovered that the ageing process actually …
More on augmented reality
Here’s another story on the new method of adding computer-generated images to video in real time. It includes a link to an 80MB AVI video showing the system in action…and now so have I.
Good virus! Good boy!
Scientists have created an obedient measles virus that targets cancer cells, and not healthy cells. Sounds promising, though a human therapy is still years away…
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