I think I’d rather put up with the jet lag. I’m not sure that I’d want to be stuck on a 12 hr flight somewhere with a woody, without being able to do anything about it.
The “little blue pill” given to treat impotence might also help people overcome jet lag faster, a new study [...]
I’m not sure I’d want to carry around a bunch of small sealed containers containing, for lack of a better word, snot. Hmmm, how to explain that to an officer during a routine traffic stop.
Whenever these patients felt the need to clear their noses, they would do so directly into the container, seal it, and [...]
This is one of the coolest things I’ve heard in a long time. I hope it was everything he hoped for, and more.
Stephen Hawking Flies Weightless from PhysOrg.com
(AP) — Free of his wheelchair and tethered only to heart rate and blood pressure monitors, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking on Thursday fulfilled a dream of floating weightless [...]
This is something that I just completely fail to understand. It reeks of the politically inspired Lysenkoism from the Stalinist era. That misguided attempt to force science into serving political purposes set genetics and biology back in the Soviet Union for decades.
The Bush administration has again been charged with interfering with federal climate science, in [...]
This has to belong in the “well duh” file.
Well-hung males may enjoy an evolutionary advantage over their less well-endowed competitors - in certain rodents, anyway. The finding may help answer the vexing question of why penis size is so variable among mammals.
It pays to be well hung, if you’re a rat - sex - 26 [...]
My perspective on a lot of issues like this have changed over the last 5 years, since becoming a step-parent of a kid who is now a full-fledged teenager. But in most cases my perspective is simply more nuanced than it was in the past. This just seems like a really bad idea. Why is [...]
There’s been quite a dust up the last few days in some corners of the blogosphere over an interview that Bill Gates gave for Newsweek in which he gets a bit peevish about Apple’s ads tweaking Windows, and comparisons between the Mac in general and Vista. Personally, I thought he came off sounding a bit [...]
This was news to me when I heard it. It seems that xylitol, an artificial sweetener used in a lot of common things like chewing gum, can be fatal to dogs, even in small doses.
No Sugar Coating: Products Sweetened With Xylitol Can Be Toxic To Dogs
Urbana, Ill., August 21, 2006:”The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center [...]
As much as I love doing scientific research as a profession, I’ve always needed to believe that what I’m doing had a real purpose, and benefit. In this case, I think I would have given up after 6 months. If it was a government project, 3 years would just be considered the “Proof of [...]
OK, this blog may end up being a reflection of what I tend to read on the web while I’m catching up on the world.
Folic acid supplements rejuvenate older brains
13:23 19 January 2007
NewScientist.com news service
Debora MacKenzie
Folic acid supplements can improve mental performance and memory in people over 50, according to a new study.
/ from New [...]
