This caught me eye, since today’s science column touched on gene therapy: researchers have come up with a better vector for delivering gene therapy into the brain: a virus normally found in insects.
Writing Diary: August 30, 2004
Today was a CBC science column day, so that was what I spent my morning on. This week’s topic (in honor of the Olympics being over): gene doping. There’s more than one way to skin that performance-enhancement cat! This afternoon I went to Second Cup and wrote several pages in Razor Wind, then it was …
Reading Writing Diary: August 29, 2004
I didn’t provide a writing diary for Thursday and Friday because there was nothing much to say. Thursday my brother Jim from Edmonton arrived to take away the family piano (by prior arrangement!) and brought Mom with him from Weyburn, so Thursday night was a family night. Friday I drove my Mom back to Weyburn …
Reading & Writing Diary: August 29, 2004
I didn’t provide a writing diary for Thursday and Friday because there was nothing much to say. Thursday my brother Jim from Edmonton arrived to take away the family piano (by prior arrangement!) and brought Mom with him from Weyburn, so Thursday night was a family night. Friday I drove my Mom back to Weyburn …
Laser shoots down mortar rounds
Imagine a laser weapon that can shoot down incoming mortar rounds. Sounds like SF, doesn’t it? But, imagine no longer.
A treatment for tinnitus?
If you, like me, suffer from tinnitus–a.k.a. “a ringing in the ears”–you may be intrigued by this new tinnitus drug study. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis think a drug called gabapentin, already approved for seizure disorders and chronic nerve pain, may help severe tinnitus sufferers. Although I have tinnitus, it …
Going up?
An effort has been launched to establish an annual competition for space-elevator technologies, similar to the Ansari X Prize. Cool!
Extrasolar planet announcement August 31
NASA is promising the announcement of the discovery of “a new class of planets” beyond our solar system at a press conference on August 31. Best guess? They’ve found something closer to Earth-sized than anything found yet–even that “super-Earth” planet I blogged about a couple of days ago.
Writing Diary: August 25, 2004
Let’s see, I must have done some writing today… Well, not much, actually. I had to several queries to answer on the physics book whose page proofs I dealt with yesterday; then I had to design an ad for Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s upcoming auditions, then I had a lunch date. In the early afternoon …
Another new planet,,,
…and what’s most exciting about this one is that it’s the smallest yet found (only about the size of Uranus) and it appears to be a rocky body with a gaseous atmosphere–the closest thing to an Earth-like planet discovered so far. The galaxy is lousy with planets. I can’t prove it, but I’m betting it’s …
Clean energy from water
Australian scientists say that they have a method to generate hydrogen from water that could lead to simple pollution-free energy-harvesting devices within seven years.
Writing Diary: August 24, 2004
Not much creative writing today, I’m afraid. I edited down my CBC version of the science column into the lean, mean columning machine you see a couple of posts down from here, then spent the rest of the day reading and correcting the page proofs for Introduction to Quantum Physics: The Photoelectric Effect and Line …
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