squirm

my favorite megacolon

relaxing at charite's medical history museum

elderly people benefit from caloric restriction

not the words of a holocaust denier - but the results of a study conducted at the university of münster. see - it was just a big health improvement program - kind of like pilates, only with striped gym outfits...

meet the new doom

superbugs created by uncontrolled pharmaceutical pollution:

"When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked. Enough of a single, powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000.

And it wasn't just ciprofloxacin being detected. The supposedly cleaned water was a floating medicine cabinet — a soup of 21 different active pharmaceutical ingredients, used in generics for treatment of hypertension, heart disease, chronic liver ailments, depression, gonorrhea, ulcers and other ailments. Half of the drugs measured at the highest levels of pharmaceuticals ever detected in the environment, researchers say."

- Margie Mason, AP
and don't forget the impending pig borne ebola apocalypse either

New Hope for the Wretched

A recently study at the University of Hamburg indicates that brain plasticity persists among the elderly and thus you CAN teach an old dog new skills. The problem remains, however, that those skills must be achievable by bodies which age has made weak and infirm. But all in all, good news as we move into late summer - inside and out.

a long time ago

in a galaxy far, far away - i was a youthful chemistry nerd.

in other sad science news

its going to be a lonely endgame for the tuatara...

the experiment requires that you continue

i scoff

at those who fret over doomsday scenarios emitting from CERNs attempts to create micro black holes at their Large Hadron Collider. the threat of persistent singularities and renegade strangelets is small when compared with the real danger of planetary apocalypse resulting from the activities of a few unregulated aural archaeologists who endanger the entire human race with their careless tinkering with ancient Aztec Whistles of Death!

the phoenix mars lander has found ice on mars!

but has failed to indicate which flavors...

waking up this morning

was an exercise in ominous dystopianism. global equity markets collapsing like dominos, worldwide economic recession, food prices set to rise for the remainder of the century, and those busy boys in white are cheering their newest invention, Ebola-Lite. I suppose they've been too busy tinkering with their spectrometers and centrifuges lately to get out to the cinema. i suppose what goes up must come down, including civilization itself but before all hell breaks loose i need to get myself new pelts and furs, polish up the old club and start practicing my hunting and gathering....so rusty...