Posts for August, 2009
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Björn Brembs
A politically savvy attack on gravity – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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Quote: "On a garden hose: "May cause cancer in California"" – Egon Willighagen
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
It’s a common misconception that all plants that enjoy heat need heat to survive. Anastasia says as much when she “goes out on a limb” to suggest that spinach won’t survive at -40℉, and then conflates spinach in winter with tomatoes in winter. I’m going to abuse proprietorship to point out both that [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Good video explaining the dimensions of the universe and the principles of the Hubble Telescope
Showing 10,000 galaxies, the overwhelming Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the most amazing, most humbling image in history, demonstrating how tiny and precious we are. This video explains how it was taken, and shows it in three dimensions.
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Björn Brembs
Restriction of dopamine signaling to the dorsolateral striatum is sufficient for many cognitive behaviors. – http://www.citeulike.org/user…
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (10 August 2009) The striatum is a vital substrate for performance, procedural memory, and learning. …
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Recommended reading is a weekly summary of interesting posts and selected links I posted on Twitter
ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION: Physical Activity, Diet, and Risk of Alzheimer Disease
Source: JAMA current issue
Context Both higher adherence to a Mediterranean-type diet and more physical activity have been independently associated with lower Alzheimer disease (AD) risk but their combined [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
I was cleaning out a mailbox the other day, and came across a message from Karl Haro von Mogel, who is quite well known around these parts. He was advising me that his new pollination video — on Cucurbits — had just been uploaded to YouTube. And I forgot to write about it. [...]
Against Monopoly
Rob Pegoraro writes, “Over the past two days, two different commercial DVD-copying programs have gotten shot down by court rulings link here. ” The judge found that copying DVDs for backup was perfectly legal, but Congress in its wisdom and under the spell of Hollywood, forbade making machines to do so.
After explaining the ins-and-outs, [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Shades of gray — local is good — in the organic vs conventional sterility. Yay!
Lawyers wannabe farmers. They’ll need this font.
Bartenders wannabe farmers too.
Well 2.0 — mobile phones to control irrigation.
Mango seeds source of biocides.
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Mystery Rays from Outer Space
[Cancer] mortality has been systematically decreasing among younger individuals for many decades. … the cancer mortality rates for 30 to 59 year olds born between 1945 and 1954 was 29% lower than for people of the same age born three decades earlier. … substantial changes in cancer mortality risk across the [...]
Brain Blogger
Most couples promise to love each other in sickness and in health when reciting marriage vows. Now, simply saying those words may lead to better health. Numerous studies have extolled the benefits of marriage on overall morbidity and mortality, but a recent study reports that mental health may, in fact, be preserved, in married [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Luigi dug up this great article — Devil’s Dung: The World’s Smelliest Spice — which reveals more about asafoetida than you could possibly ever have wanted to know. Lord but it is strange stuff to cook with, and yet I do like what it does for a dish. But I digress. Buried in [...]
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Björn Brembs
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D – http://www.youtube.com/watch…
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Chocolate is not an antidepressant. Interaction between chocolate and neurotransmitter systems in the brain, such as serotonin, that contribute to appetite, reward and mood regulation were studied but no antidepressant mechanism of chocolate was found.
Most possible psychoactive substances in chocolate are metabolized in the blood by an enzyme (monoamineoxydase A), these substances [...]
Chris Pietschmann
The ASP.NET AJAX ScriptManager makes it really easy to include JavaScript references and register JavaScript blocks into the rendered Page output of an ASP.NET WebForms application. However nice the ScriptManager control is, it’s still just a WebForms control for use with ASP.NET AJAX; thus it’s use isn’t really supported with ASP.NET MVC. Also, to [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
Canine Venereal Tumor phylogeny
Bayman commented, after reading this post:
So isn’t the real question why can’t all tumors be transmissible? If you believe the tumor immunologists, all tumors should be capable of avoiding T cell attack…no??
I don’t have answers, but I can speculate a little. 1
Very quick background: In general, tumors are unique. [...]