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  1. Before and after photos by peipas · · Score: 1 · on Facial Bones Grown From Fat-Derived Stem Cells

    Here are before and after photos of the teen.

  2. Anglo-Saxon Intelligence: Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on Facial Bones Grown From Fat-Derived Stem Cells
    The person who accomplished this breakthrough technology of using stem cells to grow bone is Jesse A. Taylor. He is an American of Anglo-Saxon ancestry.

    The scientific and engineering accomplishments of Europeans (and Americans of European ancestry) are astounding. Some feats include space travel, quantum physics, high-temperature superconductors, automobiles, etc.

    The accomplishments of the Japanese are equally amazing. They include the hybrid gasoline engine, the blue light-emitting diode, the Yagi antenna, low-cost MRI machines that produce an MRI for only $100, etc.

    By contrast, Africans (and Americans of African ancestry) have accomplished little in science and technology. None of the Nobel prize winners in physics or chemistry is African.

    We know that Japanese IQ is about 20 points higher than African IQ. Could this IQ difference explain why all societies dominated by Africans are gross failures?

  3. Re:Requires halorhodopsin gene by TheSync · · Score: 2, Interesting · on MIT Shows How to Shut Down Brain With Light

    There has already been an example of successful gene therapy with retroviruses, and no they didn't get caner, they were cured of cancer.

    However the blood-brain barrier is a limitation to brain gene therapy. So in 2003 a UCLA research team inserted genes into the brain using liposomes coated in polyethylene glycol.

  4. Re:The Bible and Shakespeare by toopc · · Score: 1 · on Why Doesn't Sci-Fi Hit the Bestseller Lists?
    He wrote for everyone, and he invented many words still used today. One estimate found that there were 100,000 unique words used in his works. The average person in America today uses a vocabulary of 1,000 words in their entire lifetime.

    Every stat I can find on the average vocabulary is much higher than 1000.

    10,000 seems to be the most reported number. Apparently there was a study done in 1997 that showed high school students from the 1950s had an average vocabulary of 25,000 words, while students from 1997 had an average vocabulary of only 10,000.

    1000 words seems to be closer to the average vocabulary of a 2-3 year old or so says an article from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.