This sounds like a great project: using computers to produce a blueprint of a designer drug that could stop some diseases–including influenza–from replicating in humans. With the growing concern about the expected next influenza pandemic, we should all keep our fingers crossed.
Thanks to Instapundit, I just discovered this cool blog focusing on emerging new medical technologies.
Romance Reviews Today has sent along a very nice review of Lost in Translation, which will appear on their site in their February 20 issue; I’ve posted it here with permission. The hatred between the bat-like S’sinn and the humans, who colonized their world twenty years ago, burns bright. Neither Jarrikk, one of the few …
This is very cool: a wizard that shows you the popularity of various names over the years, in usage per million babies. Edward is apparently very old-fashioned…to which I say, good!
NASA has set May 15 as the launch date for the first space shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster of two years ago.
Does part of our brain act as an early warning system, monitoring environmental cues for possible danger? And is that why primitive tribes escaped devastation from the December 26 tsunami?
A team of experts will announce in March whether their test results on Tutankhamun ‘s mummy supports the idea that the boy king was murdered. Maybe the butler did it!
The December 26 tsunami appears to have uncovered the remains of a seventh-century port city in India.
I take a particular interest in Scotty the T-Rex‘s travels, because I had the opportunity to visit the site near Eastend where he was dug out of the ground, while he was still mostly in it (I was doing some work on a documentary about it). He was discovered by a school-teacher who happened to …
There’s an interesting round-up of recent stories in the field of alternative energy posted at Winds of Change. I’ve always felt that conservation, while laudable and important, is not an end in itself: it’s a way to buy time until better sources of energy are available–’cause the future I want to live in (and want …
Samuel W. Alderson, physicist, engineer, and pioneer in developing the crash-test dummy, has died–and, as proof that the universe does not always organize itself along ironic lines, he died of natural causes.
…but “baby” isn’t a toddler, it’s a robot that learns to walk the same way humans do…and keeps learning.
