According to a new study, there’s a less than 50 percent chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true. But that means there is a less than 50 percent chance that the new study that says there’s a less than 50 percent chance that the results of any randomly chosen scentific …
Here’s something really exciting: scientists at the Wistar Institute in the U.S. have created mice that can regenerate missing limbs or damaged vital organs–and they think the genes comparable to those that control the ability in mice almost certainly exist in humans, too. (Via Instapundit.)
That’s what the headline on this press release says. A team led by Dr. André Veillette, a researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, has identified a molecule, EAT-2, that suppresses the killer function of NK (“natural killer”) cells, which are central to the immune system. If medication that inhibits EAT-2 can be …
I knew there was some reason I’ve recently found myself drinking more coffee, a drink I used to avoid: Coffee not only helps clear the mind and perk up the energy, it also provides more healthful antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet, according to a study released Sunday. Of course, …
And before you ask, “So who wants mice to live longer?”, remember that what works in mice today may work in people tomorrow…or, then again, may not. An interesting development in longevity research, nonetheless.
Despite the fact I am still an astonishingly young man, I do find that I occasionally have more trouble remembering things than I did twenty years ago (when, as a precocious six-year-old, I was news editor of the Weyburn Review). It is, alas, an indisputable fact that our brains change as we age. However, as …
It’s funny, I’ve been immersed in all these books about the ’60s music scene in England because of the children’s biography of Jimi Hendrix I’m working on, and who do I see is playing at the Casino Regina Show Lounge in a few weeks? Eric Burdon & the Animals. If I may quote myself, from …
The new study suggests water may still bubble to the surface of Mars now and then, flow for a short stretch, then boil away in the thin, cold air. Now that is seriously promising news in the search for life–and the quest to put humans–on Mars.
The London Zoo has put that most peculiar of species, Homo sapiens on display. There’s a Shel Silverstein poem about this very subject, as I know from having been reading Silverstein to my four-year-old-daughter every night for the past two months or so.
Wall Patterns Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. I took this photo in Drumheller back at the end of June, attracted by the patterns made by the siding, the stairs, and various shadows. When I was editor of the Weyburn Review, I always enjoyed sneaking in a few “artistic photos” that had no news value but …
Pelicans, that is.
…or a piece of it, anyway. Here’s the follow-up to that space weather forecast I blogged a couple of days ago.
