Breast cancer hits one in eight women at some time in their life. One in eight! That's a frightening prospect, yet this is the risk that faces our mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters.
This new tissue transplant procedure in mouse provides what, up until now, has not been available... living human breast tissue on which to experiment.
Despite massive funding of breast cancer research over the past 20+ years, we still know very little about the cellular mechanism by which breast cancer takes hold. I'd say this new procedure is a move in the right direction and gives the female population new hope.
Ah.... The great K-T extinction debate continues....
For those interested in reading about the supporting data and possible causes of the K-T extinction, here's a good discussion" by Dewey M. McLean of the Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Favorable "word of mouth" advertisement is better than gold. I'd think the game manufacturers would jump at the chance to get the word out their game was "hot", before it hit the shelves. Of course, if their game really sucks I can understand why they might not be too excited about providing a free peek.
Many of the objects amateur astronomers observe can be found on the NGC/IC Project website. This is a particularly fine reference because it includes many corrections to the current NGC(New General Catalogue) and IC(Index Catalogue).
As a point of interest, Brian Skiff of Lowell Observatory and a team member of the NGC/IC Project, was instrumental in assisting McNeil in securing telescope time on the giant 8-meter Gemini telescope in Hawaii so followup observations of the newly discovered nebula could be made.
Other members of the NGC/IC Project team are Harold Corwin, Steve Gottlieb, Wolfgang Steinicke,Brent Archinal, Steve Coe, Glen Deen, Jenni Kay and Bob Erdmann.
I own a Palm and use it a lot.... telephone directory, address list (a must for xmas cards), calendar, computer inventory at work, and the occasional game to keep me entertained when in a queue. The resident physician staff at the office use theirs to keep track of their procedural experience which must be reported as part of their training. The Palm fits nicely in their breast pocket, is easy to use, and is jolly-on-the-spot when needed.
Of course, I will admit to being forced to use one and that it took a long time to adjust to the non-paper method. Now I wouldn't trade it for the world.
A bit OT, but... I can't help marvel that today on SlashDot we talked about communication via carrier pigeon(surely one of the slower means) all the way to communication with photonics (clearly one of the fastest).
I was also disappointed this article wasn't about the actual navigation system in pigeons. Still, ya gotta give it to the pigeon... clever bird.
Too bad this article didn't discuss what a pigeon does in the dark. It would be interesting to know if their "navigation" system kicks in when there isn't a road to follow or if they just sack out until dawn when the seeing is better.
What bothered me most about this article was not its suggestion that EMFs may be in part responsible for certain cancers. What bothered me was learning this research team failed to publish the results of an experiment which yeilded exactly opposite results from what they expected. Wouldn't this negative result have been just as valuable to the scientific community, even though it was not what was anticipated?
It makes one wonder how often this happens? How much more would we know if negative results weren't suppressed?
I'm no cell biologist, but it seems this process could be used to bring back extinct species as well, or at least a part of them. Think about it. Might it be possible to clone tissue from a frozen Mammoth body onto a mouse to produce Mammoth sperm? Of course, one would then need a female.... maybe an elephant? Afterall, they've crossed cattle and buffalo. Oh well, just a thought.
At first I wondered at the rather large font size too, but after giving it some thought I decided it must be because of all the politicians who are of advanced age. Think about it. How many members of the legislature are over 60? Can't have a bunch of senators reading their correspondance with magnifying glasses, now can we?
Not only would the Hubble servicing mission save one of astronomy's most valuable instruments, it would offer desperately needed aid to the sagging aerospace industry. Keeping Hubble UP is a good thing, not only for science, but for industry.
Personally, I think the troubled aerospace industry is more than a little responsible for Bush's sudden excitement about going to Mars and the Moon. IIRC, not too long ago government was hacking away at NASA's budget at light-speed.
A petabyte is a measure of memory or storage capacity and is 2 to the 50th power bytes or, in decimal, approximately a thousand terabytes.
A terabyte is a measure of computer storage capacity and is 2 to the 40th power or approximately a thousand billion bytes (that is, a thousand gigabytes).
A gigabyte is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is "roughly" a billion bytes. A gigabyte is two to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 in decimal notation.
What's bigger?
An exabyte (EB) is a large unit of computer data storage, two to the sixtieth power bytes. The prefix exa means one billion billion, or one quintillion, which is a decimal term. Two to the sixtieth power is actually 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes in decimal, or somewhat over a quintillion (or ten to the eighteenth power) bytes. It is common to say that an exabyte is approximately one quintillion bytes. In decimal terms, an exabyte is a billion gigabytes.
I'm curious if they did the research to see if this bacteria/fungus works with other heavy metals as well, i.e. Silver, Mercury. If so, it might be possible to adapt this type of process to the removal of heavy metals from soil and drinking water sources.
For the first 20 years of Oscar's history it was traditional for the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars to be awarded to the same film.
Then in 1948, they split for the first time with the Best Director Oscar going to John Huston for "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and Best Picture going to "Hamlet".
Since 1948 the two Oscars have split only 11 more times in the 75 years of Oscar's history. The past 20 years have seen only 4 splits.
This year I suspect there will again be a split with Peter Jackson being awarded the Best Director Oscar and "Lost in Translation" getting Best Picture. There's no way they will allow Jackson's achievement on his 3 fabulous LOTR movies to go unrecognized, but I think it's generally thought that "Lost in Translation" is the better film. So it would seem reasonable they'll split the awards in an effort to recognize both films.
Sprague is claiming he duplicated the screeners and returned the origional plus two copies to Caridi. Caridi is claiming he didn't know Sprague was duplicating the screeners.
Seems to me a search of Caridi's home would be in order. Of course, it's probably too late now. If Sprague is telling the truth, Caridi surely would have disposed of any evidence by now. Too bad.
My neighbors may think I've gone off the deepend, but this sounds a hell of a lot more fun than my treadmill. Forget going to the gym... takes too much time.
Now as I understand it, this DDR game takes several pieces of equipment, right? A board, a playstation(?), and a TV. I have a TV. Can someone give me a quick synopsis of how all this works? Where would one buy it?
This is exactly what I need! On very cold nights when I'm out with my telescope, the only thing that still gets cold are my fingers. The best solution I've found so far is to wear a pair of fingertipless gloves that have mitten flaps which flop over the ends of the fingers. Into the mitten flap pocket I insert a chemical warmer packet(REI). When I need to focus the scope I flip the mitten flap back. It works quite, but it's nowhere near as elegant a system as Dr. Ma's heatpipe-driven gloves.
... maybe trying to do more is a bad thing. Diversity breeds excellence. To site the rather colorful discussion on yesterdays thread... Women love to shop. Alas, it is true! Wouldn't it be awful is there was only one manufacturer of women's clothing? Talk about cramping our style!
So Google... stick with what you do best and just keep improving it. It's better to do one thing well than to do several things mediocre.
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Or better yet, try Phil Plait's review... on his Bad Astronomy website
Military technology indeed! What would the Internet be without the military's efforts on the original DOD backbone on which the Internet was founded?
Breast cancer hits one in eight women at some time in their life. One in eight! That's a frightening prospect, yet this is the risk that faces our mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters.
This new tissue transplant procedure in mouse provides what, up until now, has not been available... living human breast tissue on which to experiment.
Despite massive funding of breast cancer research over the past 20+ years, we still know very little about the cellular mechanism by which breast cancer takes hold. I'd say this new procedure is a move in the right direction and gives the female population new hope.
Perhaps he's interested in plumbing. Ya think?
Ah.... The great K-T extinction debate continues....
For those interested in reading about the supporting data and possible causes of the K-T extinction,
here's a good discussion" by Dewey M. McLean of the Department of Geological Sciences,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Favorable "word of mouth" advertisement is better than gold. I'd think the game manufacturers would jump at the chance to get the word out their game was "hot", before it hit the shelves. Of course, if their game really sucks I can understand why they might not be too excited about providing a free peek.
Many of the objects amateur astronomers observe can be found on the NGC/IC Project website. This is a particularly fine reference because it includes many corrections to the current NGC(New General Catalogue) and IC(Index Catalogue).
As a point of interest, Brian Skiff of Lowell Observatory and a team member of the NGC/IC Project, was instrumental in assisting McNeil in securing telescope time on the giant 8-meter Gemini telescope in Hawaii so followup observations of the newly discovered nebula could be made.
Other members of the NGC/IC Project team are Harold Corwin, Steve Gottlieb, Wolfgang Steinicke,Brent Archinal, Steve Coe, Glen Deen, Jenni Kay and Bob Erdmann.
I own a Palm and use it a lot.... telephone directory, address list (a must for xmas cards), calendar, computer inventory at work, and the occasional game to keep me entertained when in a queue. The resident physician staff at the office use theirs to keep track of their procedural experience which must be reported as part of their training. The Palm fits nicely in their breast pocket, is easy to use, and is jolly-on-the-spot when needed.
Of course, I will admit to being forced to use one and that it took a long time to adjust to the non-paper method. Now I wouldn't trade it for the world.
A bit OT, but... I can't help marvel that today on SlashDot we talked about communication via carrier pigeon(surely one of the slower means) all the way to communication with photonics (clearly one of the fastest).
Cool!
I was also disappointed this article wasn't about the actual navigation system in pigeons. Still, ya gotta give it to the pigeon... clever bird.
Too bad this article didn't discuss what a pigeon does in the dark. It would be interesting to know if their "navigation" system kicks in when there isn't a road to follow or if they just sack out until dawn when the seeing is better.
What bothered me most about this article was not its suggestion that EMFs may be in part responsible for certain cancers. What bothered me was learning this research team failed to publish the results of an experiment which yeilded exactly opposite results from what they expected. Wouldn't this negative result have been just as valuable to the scientific community, even though it was not what was anticipated?
It makes one wonder how often this happens? How much more would we know if negative results weren't suppressed?
I'm no cell biologist, but it seems this process could be used to bring back extinct species as well, or at least a part of them. Think about it. Might it be possible to clone tissue from a frozen Mammoth body onto a mouse to produce Mammoth sperm? Of course, one would then need a female.... maybe an elephant? Afterall, they've crossed cattle and buffalo. Oh well, just a thought.
At first I wondered at the rather large font size too, but after giving it some thought I decided it must be because of all the politicians who are of advanced age. Think about it. How many members of the legislature are over 60? Can't have a bunch of senators reading their correspondance with magnifying glasses, now can we?
Not only would the Hubble servicing mission save one of astronomy's most valuable instruments, it would offer desperately needed aid to the sagging aerospace industry. Keeping Hubble UP is a good thing, not only for science, but for industry.
Personally, I think the troubled aerospace industry is more than a little responsible for Bush's sudden excitement about going to Mars and the Moon. IIRC, not too long ago government was hacking away at NASA's budget at light-speed.
Thanks to the definitions page:
A petabyte is a measure of memory or storage capacity and is 2 to the 50th power bytes or, in decimal, approximately a thousand terabytes.
A terabyte is a measure of computer storage capacity and is 2 to the 40th power or approximately a thousand billion bytes (that is, a thousand gigabytes).
A gigabyte is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is "roughly" a billion bytes. A gigabyte is two to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 in decimal notation.
What's bigger?
An exabyte (EB) is a large unit of computer data storage, two to the sixtieth power bytes. The prefix exa means one billion billion, or one quintillion, which is a decimal term. Two to the sixtieth power is actually 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes in decimal, or somewhat over a quintillion (or ten to the eighteenth power) bytes. It is common to say that an exabyte is approximately one quintillion bytes. In decimal terms, an exabyte is a billion gigabytes.
I'm curious if they did the research to see if this bacteria/fungus works with other heavy metals as well, i.e. Silver, Mercury. If so, it might be possible to adapt this type of process to the removal of heavy metals from soil and drinking water sources.
I checked out the new screenshots of the new Beta version. Beautiful graphics!
Is it only me or is there actually a big similiarity to the look of the recent mega-hit LOTR film trilogy?
For the first 20 years of Oscar's history it was traditional for the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars to be awarded to the same film.
Then in 1948, they split for the first time with the Best Director Oscar going to John Huston for "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and Best Picture going to "Hamlet".
Since 1948 the two Oscars have split only 11 more times in the 75 years of Oscar's history. The past 20 years have seen only 4 splits.
This year I suspect there will again be a split with Peter Jackson being awarded the Best Director Oscar and "Lost in Translation" getting Best Picture. There's no way they will allow Jackson's achievement on his 3 fabulous LOTR movies to go unrecognized, but I think it's generally thought that "Lost in Translation" is the better film. So it would seem reasonable they'll split the awards in an effort to recognize both films.
Only time will tell.
I was certain my first new car would be on this list. Sure enough... tied for first, the 1971 Chevrolet Vega.
It took only 8 months to burn a valve. I immediately dumped it and bought a used 67' Plymouth Fury III. Now THAT was a great car!
This is interesting, sort of a capitalist's popularity contest.
Here are the standings between the top 4 Democratic contenders:
Dean $385 from 33 contributions for an average of $11.67 per contribution
Clark $545 from 34 contributions for an average of $16.02 per contribution
Kerry $964 from 27 contributions for an average of $35.70 per contribution
Edwards $475 from 18 contributions for an average of $26.39 per contribution
Gee, Bush doesn't have any contributions. Surprise, Surprise!
Sprague is claiming he duplicated the screeners and returned the origional plus two copies to Caridi. Caridi is claiming he didn't know Sprague was duplicating the screeners.
Seems to me a search of Caridi's home would be in order. Of course, it's probably too late now. If Sprague is telling the truth, Caridi surely would have disposed of any evidence by now. Too bad.
My neighbors may think I've gone off the deepend, but this sounds a hell of a lot more fun than my treadmill. Forget going to the gym... takes too much time.
Now as I understand it, this DDR game takes several pieces of equipment, right? A board, a playstation(?), and a TV. I have a TV. Can someone give me a quick synopsis of how all this works? Where would one buy it?
Thanks.
This is exactly what I need! On very cold nights when I'm out with my telescope, the only thing that still gets cold are my fingers. The best solution I've found so far is to wear a pair of fingertipless gloves that have mitten flaps which flop over the ends of the fingers. Into the mitten flap pocket I insert a chemical warmer packet(REI). When I need to focus the scope I flip the mitten flap back. It works quite, but it's nowhere near as elegant a system as Dr. Ma's heatpipe-driven gloves.
Is Duke Nukem as bad as this article makes it sound? I'm tempted to buy it just to take a look.
... maybe trying to do more is a bad thing. Diversity breeds excellence. To site the rather colorful discussion on yesterdays thread... Women love to shop. Alas, it is true! Wouldn't it be awful is there was only one manufacturer of women's clothing? Talk about cramping our style!
So Google... stick with what you do best and just keep improving it. It's better to do one thing well than to do several things mediocre.