My brother just sent me these articles. They’re good stuff. The first one deals with a possible cure for AIDS, always good news, and the second deals with time travel. As for the AIDS article — fantastic! Let’s get some testing done on this idea! Time travel . . . c’mon guys. We’ve seen the [...]
Before we get too far, let me just preface this by saying I’m not sure how good a source I’m working with, here. Some of the phrases used in the article give me pause, particularly the phrase “Big Pharma”. I’m used to hearing that out of people who are about to go off on a [...]
nd now, a post with some actual substance:
In recent weeks, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has been taking fire for a leaked draft regulation defining abortion as “any of the various procedures — including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action — [...]
n ancient Babylonian general was once involved in a plot to overthrow the king. His plot included a number of followers in the upper ranks of the army. However, his plot was uncovered, and the king threw him in jail. The king sentenced him to death without a trial.
From the jail, he was able to [...]
s I may have mentioned a time or two, I’ve spent a fair amount of time these last couple of weeks writing. I’ve noticed a few things while I’m pounding away at the keyboard. For one, my typing skills have gone straight in the shitter, and for another, I chain smoke. (Well, not smoke, per [...]
irst, a quick site announcement: If I may, I direct your attention to the new and improved CHP Gift Shop. Mostly, it’s new and improved because I paid for it. Coming soon to a CHP Gift Shop near you — new designs! Well, soonish, anyways.
And now, a toast to The Golden Compass, now playing [...]
o the common cold, which is apparently done screwing around with us:
Clinicians should keep their eyes peeled for a mutated form of adenovirus 14 that has caused at least 10 deaths, most of them among adults, the CDC warned.
Noting that control of adenovirus is “challenging,” the CDC urged health care practitioners to take extra care [...]
t’s 7:30 in the morning, and thanks to the charming little cold I’ve picked up, I can’t sleep. I was actually dead to the world up until about an hour ago, but I woke up just enough for small things to begin to settle in. My back ached a little. My nose was a little [...]
h, that pesky Bill of Rights! — Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
I expect we’re going to see a lot more of this in the next couple of years. Since we can’t get [...]
here’s an interesting bit of news on the AP today about those RFID chips you can have implanted in your pets and/or kids. RFIDupdate.com reports that several small studies may indicate that these chips, implanted in pets and children to help with identification if the pet or child is lost, might cause a malignant cancer.
When [...]
