Jul 06 2009
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“ South Korean scientist Myung-Haing Cho modified a lentivirus, a genus in the Retroviridae family which includes most mammal immunodeficiency viruses, to deliver to lung-cancer tumors a gene, which inhibits cancer cells from reproducing in mice’s lungs. Their method of choice? A nasal spray. They had various cancer-ridden mice sniff the modified lentivirus twice a week for a month, and they found that the modified virus completely halted the progression of the lung cancer without harm to the non-cancerous tissue. In some cases, existing cancer cells even died off without further therapy.
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vancouver
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At 33 meters (3.28 ft) deep, the Nemo tank in Belgium is the world’s deepest manmade pool. It is loved by scuba divers around the world.
from nemo33.com
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John Gottman: The Magic Relationship Ratio
Take a little more than a minute out of your day and find out the important ratio that best predicts which couples will stay together and which ones won’t.
(And, if you’re interested in stuff like this, Gottman is your man - a titan in the field who has been studying couples for decades now, and learned some fascinating things)
Wow. Negative things have 5 times the impact of positive things.
Stability - 5:1
Divorce - .08:1
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Watching Season 1 of Flight of the Conchords.
Kristen Schaal=super cute.
Agreed. Isn’t the second season coming out on DVD soon?
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“ Even amidst all this embracing of change, Stackpole reassured his audience that digital formats were not sounding the death knell for paper books. “Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books. It _will_ change the way they are written and retailed.
