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Um… if, as this article suggests, hair goes gray because the body is “forcing the [damaged stem cells in hair follicles] to mature” in preference to killing them off, why would the same scientists suggest that “we may soon have anti-graying creams for aging populations”? Wouldn’t you want those cells to mature, rather than continue …
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The periodic table was hard enough to memorize twenty years ago, but they keep adding more elements. It’s almost as bad as having to memorize the list of presidents. Our children will curse the names of these scientists for their entire seventh-grade science course. Maybe the scientists can redeem themselves by naming the thing after …
It looks like science is further along on this than I thought.
An interesting potential solution to a problem I’ve mentioned here a couple times before, of funding investigative reporting in the Internet age.
I don’t know about the speed, but it’s interesting because he’s only the second person in documented history to be hit by a meteor.
If they can do it, it’ll be very significant — for one thing, there’s little need to hibernate or suspend a system that boots up essentially instantly.
Got a broken-down Apollo command module sitting in the back yard? Now you can get it running again. 😉
An interesting solution to the mobile device power problem.
More uncommon-sense from security expert Bruce Schneier.
Better late than never, I guess.