4.05.2011
You had me at all-you-can-eat-&-drink
www.azcentral.com
4/7: Forks & Corks moves to Phoenix's Cityscape, Forks & Corks moves culinary event to downtown Phoenix's CityScape.
4.04.2011
Hold on, maybe Israel isn't such a bad-guy
Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes
Convertible airplane just doesn't have a good ring to it
My dad was supposed to be on a SouthWest flight from Phoenix to Sacramento last night which was canceled because of plane changes. Just so happens that's the exact plane he would have taken a day later.
4.01.2011
Utilizing bacteria to produce AND deliver drugs
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/37242/?nlid=4296
Engineering bacteria to not only make drugs, but also to deliver them directly to the cells in the body that require them.
Engineering bacteria to not only make drugs, but also to deliver them directly to the cells in the body that require them.
3.31.2011
How Stem Cells Are Changing the Way We Think About Disease
How Stem Cells Are Changing the Way We Think About Disease
If you don't know too much about stem cells, this TIME article gives you a good idea of where the technology is at now and how it can evolve to solve most medical problems.
If you don't know too much about stem cells, this TIME article gives you a good idea of where the technology is at now and how it can evolve to solve most medical problems.
3.22.2011
Bonobos: Hippies of the jungle
Peaceful bonobos may have something to teach humans
Humans share 98.7 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, but we share one important similarity with one species of chimp, the common chimpanzee, that we don't share with the other, the bonobo. That similarity is violence. While humans and the common chimpanzee wage war and kill each other, bonobos do not. "There has never been a recorded case in captivity or in the wild of a bonobo killing another bonobo," notes anthropologist Brian Hare.
3.21.2011
Science Rhyme Time: A little exercise everyday can cause aging to delay
Regular exercise can delay the aging process
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Canadian scientists working with mice genetically modified to age twice as fast as normal has found regular exercise keeps them young.
You might want to think twice before deciding to run a marathon...
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/when-exercise-is-too-much-of-a-good-thing/?nl=health&emc=healthupdateema11
Exercise is indisputably good for your health. But some recent studies suggest that it's also possible to do too much of a good thing.
Exercise is indisputably good for your health. But some recent studies suggest that it's also possible to do too much of a good thing.
Can a magazine with one subscriber survive? Absolutely!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704758904576188621188047068.html
Each morning, the President of the United States gets briefed on the day's news by some of the smartest advisers around. The rest of us aren't so lucky. We have to sift through newspapers, magazines and websites to find out what's going on around us. Now, thanks to a free iPad app called Zite, the news-gathering process may get a lot easier for those of us who aren't leaders of the free world.
A new iPad app called Zite crawls the Web and uses your social network and online reading behavior to cull reading material you might like. WSJ's Katie Boehret compares this app to the similar Flipboard app.
Zite, by a Vancouver company of the same name, crawls over half a million Web domains to find specific reading material that would be of interest to you, according to your social network and/or online reading behavior. It evaluates this potential content by tracking signals (like tweets, comments, tags and sharing) from stories that indicate a certain level of social interest and momentum in the story. The result is a personalized magazine that gets more accurately targeted toward its reader the more it's used.
A light-and-heat combo makes for a great infrared sauna experience (& a way to track cancer and deliver drugs)
Organic nanoparticle uses sound and heat to find and treat tumors
Scientists have created an organic nanoparticle that is non-toxic, biodegradable, and nimble in the way it uses light and heat to treat cancer and deliver drugs, says principal investigator Dr. Gang Zheng, Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI) at Princess Margaret Hospital.
Scientists have created an organic nanoparticle that is non-toxic, biodegradable, and nimble in the way it uses light and heat to treat cancer and deliver drugs, says principal investigator Dr. Gang Zheng, Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI) at Princess Margaret Hospital.
Personal health care...there's an app for that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/technology/01iht-srhealth01.html?_r=1
For more and more people, computers and software are becoming a critical part of their health care.
Thanks to an array of small devices and applications for smartphones that gather vital health information and store it electronically, consumers can take a more active role in managing their own care, often treating chronic illnesses — and preventing acute ones — without the direct aid of a physician.
2.23.2011
After Jeopardy, Watson 1, Mankind 0. Next up...doctors
IBM to Collaborate with Nuance to Apply Watson Analytics Technology to Healthcare
IBM and Nuance Communications, Inc. have announced a research agreement to explore, develop and commercialize the Watson computing system’s advanced analytics capabilities in the healthcare industry.
2.21.2011
Sprinkle a little water on some sodium silicide and presto...battery power
Technology breakthrough fuels laptops and phones, recharges scientist's 60-year career
How does a scientist fuel his enthusiasm for chemistry after 60 years? By discovering a new energy source, of course.
2.14.2011
Cheat sheet for surgeons, cut there and not there
Nerves Light Up to Warn Surgeons Away - Technology Review
Surgeons take pains to avoid injuring nerves in and around surgical sites—a stray cut could lead to muscle weakness, pain, numbness, or even paralysis. In delicate operations like prostate removal, for instance, accidentally damaging nerves can lead to incontinence or erectile dysfunction. Scientists at University of California San Diego have announced a new method for lighting up nerves in the body with fluorescent peptides, which could act as markers to keep surgeons away.
If you don't yet know about Ray Kurzweil, you have some catching up to do...
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
Love it or hate it, Ray Kurzweil's theory of 'The Singularity' must be accepted as a legitimate possibility of what the future holds in store for humanity.
2.12.2011
GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL
Best goal of the 2010-2011 EPL season scored by Wayne Rooney of the greatest team on the planet, ManU.
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