What Is JJ Abrams Trying To Tell Us?
19 May 2009 | Interesting | No Comments
Fans of Lost, Fringe and the new Star Trek may have noticed a couple of recurring themes running through JJ Abrams’ work, making us think that he’s trying to tell us something. But what?
“Hulk” screenwriter gives Megan Fox the role of a lifetime
19 May 2009 | Interesting | No Comments
Screenwriter John Turman turned a childhood love of comic books and science fiction into a career writing for TV and features. His HULK pitch to Universal ended up with his first big studio gig and a co-writing credit on the 2003 film. An acclaimed unproduced draft for SILVER SURFER wound up being used as the story for…
Bruce Lee Like Strength Without Ever Going to a Gym
8 March 2009 | Interesting | No Comments
Bruce Lee was a paragon of cool and an icon of the ultimate bad-ass. Not only were his martial arts skills incredible, but he had such an impressive physique that even bodybuilders in the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger admired him.
More impressively is that Bruce trained his body without ever stepping into a gym and with very little use of…
Protein reverses Alzheimer’s brain damage
10 February 2009 | Interesting | No Comments
Injections of a natural growth factor into the brains of mice, rats and monkeys offers hope of preventing or reversing the earliest impacts of Alzheimer’s disease on memory. The benefits arose even in animals whose brains contained the hallmark plaques that clog up the brains of patients.
HIV Mutates to Death With New Drug
10 February 2009 | Interesting | No Comments
HIV is notorious for its ability to mutate and evade drugs designed to destroy it. Now scientists are testing a new drug that actually speeds up that rate of change in the hope that the deadly virus will mutate itself to death.