Darpa is investigating
headsup Instapundit
...Darpa is making a long-shot request for an all-out replacement to antibiotics, the decades-old standard for killing or injuring bacteria to demolish a disease. In its place: the emerging field of nanomedicine would be used to fight bacterial threats.... The agency is already funding tobacco-based vaccine production, prescient viral infection detectors and insta-vaccines to inoculate against unknown pathogens.
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CNN has a photo essay on the "invisible man":
Yes, but that $160 a month is a lot more than they could earn in their home countries, and one suspects the dormatories were better than their bamboo houses or slum dwellings they live in at home.The men were anonymous, their faces were shielded from the sun, while their work barely registered with the majority of the population, which spent the day sheltered from the elements inside air-conditioned buildings.
Chancel began visiting their building sites and dormitory camps unannounced, shooting "very fast and very sharp" to capture realistic representations of the men and their surroundings. On one occasion he was arrested.
Having seen the squalid conditions in their dormitories, which he likened to a prison, he became further intrigued to discover the men, who earn salaries of about $160 a month, seem to accept their plight.
That doesn't justify the exploitation, but it does point out that poverty is driving the problem.
headsup MigrantRights.
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The tabloid the UK Mail has an article on the increase in children born with ambiguous genitalia.
Plastics, hormones in the water supply from the pill or from being used in animals, or just better ways to diagnose the problem?
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Instapundit writes: CLIMATEGATE 2 EMAILS: They’re real and they’re spectacular.
Anyone reading history knows that climates change (the world is almost as warm now as during the Roman empire), and the problem of pollution is real, but the "religion" of climate change, that insists we need a one world dictatorship and the destruction of prosperity to "stop" the problem is unraveling as more and more lies are uncovered.
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Cancer treatment goes to the kitchen.
We have long used freezing ( cryotherapy) for skin, eye, cervical and other cancers.
Now they are starting to cook them: Radiofrequency ablation.
more information HERE.
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and the really, really important story of the day:
Dog caught driving in Australia
Picture: PATRINA MALONE, NT NEWS
SALES assistant Phil Newton could not believe his eyes when he saw a dog driving a 20-tonne, double-decker bus through Darwin's industrial zone.
"I thought, 'What the ... '!" he said.
"This was weird, even for the Territory."
Mr Newton, 30, said the dog was sitting in the driver's seat with its paws on the steering wheel.
He chased after the runaway bus, leapt through an open window and rammed on the handbrake.
"It ran for a couple of hundred metres, swerved across the road, went up on the footpath and was just about to run into a parked car when I stopped it," he said.
Woodley, a two-year-old German koolie, was unrepentant.
apparently, Woodley only wanted to drive home.
headsup Dave Barry
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