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POPSHistory-Making Edits, Before Photoshop While some people enjoy adding individuals to their images, others prefer to edit them out – as in the cases of these photographs of Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini respectively. In each of the first three photos there was a political compatriot who, after falling from favor, was removed entirely from the scene and thus erased from a part of history. In the final image, a horse handler was edited out to convey a greater sense of grandeur. Perhaps it is simply selective and subjective, but it seems strangely fitting in some way that most of the edits of of American heroes are additive while those of other infamous world leaders are subtractive – but who knows what other manipulations we have yet to catch.
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POPS It Takes a Proverb to Run a Village "Give a man a fish, he will eat today. Promise a man a million fish, he will contribute heap big wampum to your tribal election campaign fund." Iroquois "The happy man has two chickens; the wise man shares one with the man who has none. The prudent man reports the happy man to the authorities, so they can wise him up." Cuban "Do not waste your time talking to the yak. Because yakkity yak don't talk back." Mongolian "Even the wisest turtle cannot understand the sea. Get real dude, he's a fucking turtle ." Samoan "If your canoe springs a leak, drill a bigger hole to let the water to drain out." Arapazowee (extinct tribe) "Do not barter your ox if it is still under warrantee." Tamil "The single lotus blossom that brushes against river jade can defeat an army of steel fire-dragon. Well, okay, maybe that's just the opium talking." Chinese
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POPSColony Collapse Disorder Universal Prion 19 Aug 99 webmaster Could a bee sting cause scrapie? Yes, indeed -- there was an apparent near miss 23.6 million years ago in a common ancestor of sheep and cow -- a retrotransposon event that might have boosted prion protein production to levels fostering sporadic TSE. Ruminants contain a 1220 bp mariner retrotransposon in their 3' UTR portion of their mRNA. This element, with its terminal inverted repeats, are described by Lee as a fossil transposase pseudogene with homology to the Mellifera (bee) subfamily. It is probably an old insertion shared by all ruminants since it has 7-8 frameshifts and 5 stop condons -- figure 3 of the Lee paper shows a guided translation and the correct flanking human gene alignment. The insertion in cow/sheep occured between 27587 and 27588 in terms of human 3' UTR numbering, just downstream of the Bov-tA3, greatly increasing the length of ruminant mRNA.
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POPSPrioNet Canada: prion network join in PrioNet Canada is a Network of Centres of Excellence for research on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, and other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies or prion diseases. The PrioNet Canada web site was built to serve as a portal for members and non-members alike, to access the latest findings in prion science and to discover the wealth of possibilities provided by the network concept. Prion Video Watch a short video on prions produced by the Alberta Prion Research Institute. PrioNews Read the Jan-March 2007 issue of PrioNet's newsletter. Mad Cow Mysteries Science journalist Jay Ingram is hosting a four-city prion public lecture series this month. Register now in your city! High Impact Fund PrioNet Canada establishes fund to support research urgencies in real-time BSE/TSE events.
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POPSA Tale of Two Soundbites “Mao’s responsibility for the extinction of anywhere from 40 to 70 million lives brands him as a mass killer greater than Hitler or Stalin.” Hey, that’s pretty impressive when they can’t get your big final-score death toll nailed down to closer than 30 million. Still, as President Obama’s communications director might say, he lived his dream, and so can you, although if your dream involves killing, oh, 50–80 million Chinamen, you may have your work cut out.
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POPSThe kiwifruit (kiwi) was once called the Yangtao The kiwifruit (kiwi) has been around for more than 700 years? Our knowledge of the kiwifruit goes back to the Yang-tse river valley in China, where it was called “Yangtao.” The court of the great Khans considered the Yangtao to be a delicacy and it was cherishedfor its delicious flavor and emerald-green color. The small, brown, fuzzy “Yangtao” fruit (kiwi) grew wild on vines that wrapped around trees.
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POPSPrasugrel Gets Priority Review This is important because some on Wall Street had been arguing that if prasugrel didn't get priority review, that might mean the FDA saw new advantage over Plavix, from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis. That, in turn, might decrease the chance of approval.
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