Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

The other day I told you to stay tuned for James Nachtwey’s TED Prize project. It has been released and is very powerful

TB is a terrible disease. I watched my grandfather waste away from it when I was a kid.
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via: Greg Laden
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Well in the world of particle physics it’s definitely a good thing :), but what about politics? Interesting article in New Scientist on voice/face recognition/analysis as applied to political speeches.
BLINK and you would have missed it. The expression of disgust on former US president Bill Clinton’s face during his speech to the Democratic National Convention [...]

I love his vision. Space is where we have to go as a species, I have always believed this since I read my first science fiction novel as a kid, nothing will change my mind on this. I wish I live long enough to see this become a reality.

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ReWalk devised by Argus Medical Technologies allows the paralyzed to walk again via a very minimal exoskeleton, This video is of a person who has been paralyzed from the waist down for 20 years, walking again.

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Damn think of the money you wasted on buying those X-Ray glasses from the back pages of your favourite reading material.when it turns out you had x-ray vision all along
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The Story
In November, 2007, a small group of six citizens - two screenwriters, a physicist, a marine biologist, a philosopher and a science journalist - began working to restore science and innovation to America’s political dialogue. They called themselves Science Debate 2008, and they called for a presidential debate on science. The call [...]

The NYT article A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash is a must read for anyone wanting to understand just how bad things have become for science in the classroom, why the US is falling behind in science internationally, and why the GOP have been so successful.
ORANGE PARK, Fla. — David [...]

via: CBC
Despite ongoing safety concerns from parents, consumer groups and politicians, a chemical used in baby bottles, canned food and other items is not dangerous, federal regulators in the U.S. said Friday.
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Food and Drug Administration[/tag] scientists said the trace amounts of bisphenol A that leach out of food containers are not a threat to infants [...]

This is awesome news.
Working in mice infected with HIV, a team used a method called RNA interference to knock down three genes in T cells, protecting them from the virus. This method seemed to prevent HIV from jumping between cells in the mice.
“For the first time, we’ve used RNAi to dramatically suppress HIV infection in [...]