Scientists have discovered that a drug that targets the capillaries in white fat can cause overweight mice to lose nearly a third of their body weight in a month. And here I just finished doing it the old-fashioned way, losing 50 pounds since November following the Weight Watchers regimen. Then again, I’m not a mouse.
I’ve just received my author’s copies of my latest nonfiction book, J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of Imaginary Worlds. It looks pretty good, if I do say so myself!
Spring and summer, to many people, means barbecuing. This isn’t surprising, when you consider that the activity of cooking meat over an open flame has been indulged in by human beings for a very long time–a lot longer than anyone dreamed, according to recent research. For a long time the earliest evidence of a human-controlled …
Check out the masthead of the Vulcan Advocate in Vulcan, Alberta!
Here’s an interesting article on just how (and how quickly) a meme can spread through the blogosphere.
Astronomers have discovered a vast gassy limb of the Milky Way that had previously been overlooked. Hey, it’s only 77,000 light years long and several thousand light years thick. Who can blame them for missing it? Me, I lose my car keys from time to time.
They’ve discovered a new feathered meat-eating dinosaur in Alberta; Philip Currie says its the first new meat-eating dinosaur to be found there in 14 years.
“Saviour siblings” have been created for the first time: siblings who can provide stem cells for transplantation to children suffering from leukemia and a rare type of anemia. You know, I’ve always been rather sanguine about cloning. This isn’t cloning, but this one I’ll have to think about. At first blush–it bothers me. How’d you …
…even vitamins. At least, if you’re a mouse.
Here’s a story with bite.
This is a cool story: Hollywood stunt pilots are being called on to capture the Genesis space probe from mid-air when it re-enters the atmosphere with its cargo of particles of the solar wind in four months.
This story about a miniscule DNA computer (as opposed to, what? A giant DNA computer filling several rooms?) doesn’t use the word “nanotechnology,” but I have to admit I wonder why. It’s technology, it’s definitely on the nanoscale. Is the term “nanotechnology” becoming limited to non-organic devices? That would be silly. If I may quote …
