I love the internet. Love, love, love it. I find so much there.
For example, I read a book many years ago. I was visiting my grandparents as a young teenager and checked out a bunch of books from the Cuyahoga County Library. I really enjoyed one of them and it’s stuck in my mind for [...]
I finished listening to an old EconTalk podcast, during my commute this morning. Russ Roberts was talking to Karol Boudreaux about her fieldwork on property rights and economic reforms in Rwanda and South Africa. They spent the first half of the conversation talking about Rwandan reforms and the second half talking about South African reforms. [...]
Michael Lynch, the former director for Asian energy and security at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, debunks some of the claims surrounding peak oil, in an op-ed at the New York Times. Here’s a few of the highlights:
On the claim that oil companies are extracting increasing amounts of water [...]
Coffee Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
A 21-year study finds that moderate coffee drinkers are much less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Well, no hope for me then. I can’t stand the taste of coffee.
Is Alzheimer’s disease caused by cold sores? Possibly.
The virus behind cold sores is a major cause of the insoluble protein plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers, University of Manchester researchers have revealed. They believe the herpes simplex virus is a significant factor in developing the debilitating disease [...]
A genetic mutation may hold an AIDS cure.
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease. The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, [...]
This is cool. It’s amazing how far and fast medical technology is developing. I can’t wait to see what will be available by the time I need serious medical help.
In 2001, the FDA approved the use of capsule endoscopy, which uses a capsule size camera [1.2 inches long by 0.4 inches in diameter]. [...]
Meet some high school students that are working their way through school:
Almost every weekday, 14-year-old Tiffany Adams rises before 6 a.m. in the Newark, New Jersey, home she shares with her grandmother and sisters. She dons her school uniform and catches two New Jersey Transit buses across the city, arriving at Christ the [...]
I’ve been wanting to get back into shape. These new pills could be the perfect solution.
In a series of startling experiments in mice, the drugs improved the ability of cells to burn fat and retain muscle mass, and they substantially prolonged endurance during exercise. Using one of the compounds for just a month, [...]
Telecommuting — the next generation. This is how I need to work from home.
Programmer Ivan Bowman spends his days at iAnywhere Solutions Inc. in much the same way his colleagues do. He writes code, exchanges notes in other developers’ offices, attends meetings and, on occasion, hangs out in the kitchen [...]