Posted by: Baldwin
- [4261155] Wed, Dec 11, 2002, 13:29
It's been a long time coming but it looks like a cure for the common cold is only five years from market. If I am reading this correctly that is. The words croup, cold and flu are mixed throughout this piece but I think it is the common cold that is the specific target of this therapy.
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Boldwin
ID: 1902939 Fri, Jan 04, 2013, 01:06
Compelling case. Better than Freakanomics' theory.
I think this idea is actually pretty old I remember reading an article several years back that was trying to link soil led in cities to lower IQs.
I am not sure if this is related to humans but I was reading a study that showed a link between increased lead in birds has shown to lead to homosexual behaviors.
Two years ago, Brown attempted to teach Watson the Urban Dictionary. The popular website contains definitions for terms ranging from Internet abbreviations like OMG, short for "Oh, my God," to slang such as "hot mess."
But Watson couldn't distinguish between polite language and profanity -- which the Urban Dictionary is full of. Watson picked up some bad habits from reading Wikipedia as well. In tests it even used the word "bullshit" in an answer to a researcher's query.
The following story comes with noteworthy caveats.
1) The most 'biased-towards-this-theory' scientist in the world is announcing it.
2) The meteorite would actually have to be a meteorite.
3) We'd have to be looking at the meteorite, and not contamination of the meteorite.
4) The meteorite must not have come from earth itself for this to have significance.
...however, he's a seriously good scientist, they seem to have no trouble recognizing a meteorite, and I imagine they can tell that something is fossilized in place, therefore I think this is pretty intriguing...
The previous 'best evidence' Mars rock ALH 84001 [which had Bill Clinton kinda intrigued and itching to be part of the announcement] was this:
...however further scientific debate produced juuuuust enuff alternative non-life explanations to prevent a hullabaloo from ensuing.
This latest meteorite disintegrated and fell in the village of Araganwila in Sri Lanka on 29 December 2012.
Several of the fossilized algae are visually identical to known algae, to which the latest paper replies, many of them are not known, to which I reply, 'We don't know half the stuff in the ocean right now, conservatively speaking, let alone a billion years ago, none of them are necessarily alien unless you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that rock did not from the earth.'.
Still, that's the best and possibly only fossilized life ever found in a meteorite which makes it pretty kool no matter how you look at it.
My own best guess is that this is from earth, that only a small percentage of meteorites come from earth and even fewer of those are young enuff to include fossilized life, thus the rarity of the finding.
Still it would be very cool for this former sci-fi junkee to find the panspermia hypothesis bolstered.
I am blown away by this one. Could Minority Report have a legimate scientific basis? Eeks.
Where evil lurks:
German scientist claims to have discovered a 'dark patch' in their brains where rapists and other violent convicted offenders are missing an area where compassion and sorrow are processed.
Longterm Martian cycle that mirror's Earth's occasional 'snowball earth' cycles. Results in geologically brief [somewhat] Earth-like Mars periods, a process called MEGAOUTFLO.
These images are meant to be more thot provoking than statements to be taken as precisely scientific accurate. The shorelines would of course be set by the amount of water released. Liberties [great big ones] were taken speculating about climates, arid regions, amount of life [if any], etc.
But the interesting thing is that Mars actually does have enuff mass to hold onto it's atmosphere. What it doesn't have is enuff magnetic shielding to prevent the sun from blowing off the hydrogen in the atmosphere. [also preventing an adequate ozone protection if I recall correctly] When that happens the water eventually breaks down, hydrogen is lost, the oxygen gets sequestered and the planet rusts. Nitrogen also has been massively sequestered which could be released by terraforming.
Bacteriophage, a virus that attacks bacteria, found with a functioning adaptive immune system.
Remarkable both for the very promising field of therapy with phages, and for the degree of genetic swapping revealed between phages and bacteria. The immune system was stolen from bacteria. Phages were thot to be too simple an organism to house an immune system and in fact there is quite the semantic controversy whether viruses are living creatures at all.
There is a story floating around that there is a comet very possibly scheduled to hit Mars soon and that this could spark a mini-terraforming event releasing frozen groundwater and atmosphere. My understanding is that it would take many such comets to produce a lasting significant atmosphere. Also that one big comet wouldn't do the trick, most of a massive comet's effects would be blown off into space. It would take many small comets.
Mar. 3, 2013 Researchers today described the first documented case of a child being cured of HIV. The landmark findings were announced at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta, GA.
Nanoparticles with bee venom [when properly shielded from normal cells] kills aids virus without harmimg normal cells. This looks very promising and it is doubtful the virus can find a defense to this type of attack.
Some areas of science are just not ready for primetime. Here is your prime example. If you get the sense that the science is settled, you'll have to explain how you came to that conclusion.
FWIW one of the smartest people I know, tho far too 'healthfoody' for my taste, assures me certain kinds of dark chocolate are practically a miracle healthfood with @148 crucial and rare chemicals.
Always gives me acne and weakens my immune system to this day. Except that acne thing has been disproved by science. No one told my face.
I spose the figleaf they would hide behind is that yes it's true the body can process both, but the body doesn't handle them both the same way. And the difference has sinister results.
One of the craziest, most unexpected, counterintuitive, experimental results I've ever heard of, as weird as quantum physics...and deeply connected to it.
Which puts destiny back on the table and raises all sorts of questions.
So crazy I'm not buying it right off the bat. Extraordinary claims needing... I'm in shock and getting a nap before I finish reading it. I wanna be sharp for this one.
Super-fast acting virus [in the rabies general family of viruses] seeks out and only attacks skin cancer cells in trials with mice. The viruses act so fast they begin killing the skin cancer before the bodies immune system can kill them. The viruses may even help the body's immune system to go on and finish the job attacking the melanoma.
Faster please as Glenn Reynolds would say. Article in Virology, on a Yale study, aggregated at Scitechdaily.com.
...in 2006 the National Research Council released a 500 page review, which took 12 scientists over three years to produce and described in great detail why EPAs purportedly safe drinking water standard (4 ppm) needs to be reduced in order to protect human health. The report documents myriad potential hazards from fluoride exposure, including damage to the bones, brain, and various glands of the endocrine system. According to Dr. Bob Carton, a former risk-assessment scientist at EPA, this report should be the center piece of every discussion on fluoridation. It changes everything.
But everybody knows that just nuts so don't worry, consensus is always the right choice.
"Perfluorinated compounds, such as perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulphonate, are highly persistent in the environment and in the human body, and seem to be neurotoxic.73 Emerging epidemiological evidence suggests that these compounds might indeed impede neurobehavioural development.74"
Going to the sole article referenced, their conclusions are:
"This study suggests an association between PFC exposure and children's impulsivity. Although intriguing, there is a need for further investigation and replication with a larger sample of children."
83 kids.
Glad they are taking a look, but it's all questions as of yet. That sample can show danky.
I've never been strongly concerned about this issue. I drink bottled reverse osmosis filtered water, and you all can take the risk or not. But fluoride was originally considered a hazardous industrial waste, that industry turned into a health miracle in the same way they tried to make tobacco use a healthy practice thru their PR.
I am flumoxed as to way the knee-jerk anti-business, businessmen are evil meme didn't get applied here. How did the regulators who practically won't approve anything, allow flouride such a free ride?
If it isn't a case of malthusian elites trying to cull or dumb down the herd, I'd like someone to explain these things to me.
It was a public health issue. IIRC, the driving force behind the APHA was dentistry, with a dentist the head. No idea if he was liberal, just concerned about dental carries.
Portland, one of the most liberal cities is America, still does not flouridate.
Portland does not flouridate? I guess liberals just don't want to do any culling up there. Now that the news is out, expect major population movement into Oregon. At least from people tired of getting culled.
the application wouldnt necessarily be restricted to autos. I'm thinking there may well be other applications. Eliminate the crank, and you eliminate a LOT of the vibration/counter-balancing requirements. How much more efficient as a generator motor would this be, than what is currently being used? (or would it be?)
<631>It's ability to generate enough force to effectively keep a satellite in orbit is the key to its usefulness. Otherwise, other forms of propulsion will continue to be used for keeping geosynchronous satellites in orbit and dodging space junk.
I believe most of today's communications satellites employ solar cells for sustaining their payloads, while using propellants for navigation. Many of the birds fall out of a stable orbit due to lack of propellants and have to be replaced.