Archives for February 2008
Dr. Kawashima declines $22 million in Brain Age royalties
9 February 2008 | Interesting | No Comments
With 17 million copies of Brain Age sold since its release, Dr. Kawashima is due to earn $22 million in royalties. The shocker? He doesn’t want a single penny, and instead puts his royalties towards funding other research projects. “Everyone in my family is mad at me but I tell them that if they want […]
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Why We Love the Sweet Life
9 February 2008 | Health | No Comments
I agree with nutritionists that breakfast is the most important meal, and my idea of the perfect breakfast is an ultra-sweet frappucchino and a brownie, a brownie with chocolate frosting, that is. A workshop on glycoscience organized recently by the European Science Foundation has underscored the vital role of complex sugars in biological systems.
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What makes a cancer cell tick
9 February 2008 | Science, Health | No Comments
A couple of papers appeared in last week’s edition of Science that looked at the same problem: how do you identify the genes that help keep a cancer cell dividing? It’s the uncontrolled division that makes these cells dangerous, and blocking that is the goal of cancer therapeutics.
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The Science of Superheroes
9 February 2008 | Sci Fi | No Comments
Our resident Hollywood physicist examines how even the most righteous crime fighters still manage to break the most important laws of all. we don’t get too upset when the science portrayed in them comes from some alternative universe. Nevertheless, it can be fun and instructive to point out the violations and/or conflicts with the […]
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100 Year Old Tortoise Acts As Mom To Baby Hippo
9 February 2008 | Interesting, Nature | No Comments
A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa.
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