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POPSThe Kennedy Dynasty Continues to Crumble The Kennedy political dynasty is shaking in the aftershock of U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s earth-shattering election, with a new poll showing U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy losing ground as he faces a well-financed GOP foe backed by Brown’s top strategists. Last year Ted Kennedy, Jr. was asked if he had decided whether or not to run for public office, and he replied “I haven’t crossed that bridge yet.” Um, okaayy. I’ll take that as a “no” then. But driving skill genetics aside, Scott Brown’s win and Patrick Kennedy’s decline might force the whole family completely out of politics and back into bootlegging booze. Update: Patrick Kennedy says that Scott Brown’s election is “a joke.” Obviously Patrick hasn’t seen the above polling number yet or he’d be distracted by an even funnier one. Patrick Kennedy who once said “I’ve never worked a f **** g day in my life” http://bit.ly/aekFhf http://dougpowers.com
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POPSDepopulation By Government Edict This is one of the most incredible articles I have read. It is lengthy but worth the history lesson in this horrific field! Life seems to be incredibly cheap! Please, please take the time to read this to the very end..there are 2 parts.
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POPSSuper-drug could eradicate Alzheimer's and diabetes and let us live into our 100s World renowned geneticist Dr Nir Barzilai said several laboratories were now in the process of creating a pill that mimics the genes and expects the first to be ready for testing within three years. Dr Barzilai's team examined the DNA of 500 healthy Ashkenazi Jews with an average age of 100 to determine if they shared traits that could explain their longevity. Amazingly, a third of the centenarians were either obese or life-long heavy smokers, said Dr Barzilai, a director of the Institute for Aging Research and Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The chances of living to 100 are one in 10,000 but the study group - which shared relatively few common ancestors - was 20 times more likely to hit the century. Rhea Tauber gives the reasons for her longevity as, "Giving head, playing poker and smoking 50 cigarettes a day."
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POPSBelief Affects Our Genes Reality is alive, dynamic and interconnected. Science has been saying so for nearly a century, and we experience it every time we walk on a beach or look into another's eyes. Yet most of our cultural, societal, political and economic structures act as if it's not so. We can no longer afford to indulge outdated worldviews. In order to deal with the crises we now face, we've got to act on the new realities and understandings revealed by science.
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POPSWhy Your DNA Isn’t Your Destiny But the potential is staggering. For decades, we have stumbled around massive Darwinian roadblocks. DNA, we thought, was an ironclad code that we and our children and their children had to live by. Now we can imagine a world in which we can tinker with DNA, bend it to our will. It will take geneticists and ethicists many years to work out all the implications, but be assured: the age of epigenetics has arrived.
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POPSCan Genetics Bring an Extinct Species Back to Life? Imagine the possibilities: Jurassic Park, an opportunity to resurrect and bring to justice history's great mass murderers, revive the greatest scientific minds, etc. Puts a whole new picture on whether one opts for internment or cremation.
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POPSMaryland tummy tuck surgeon explains the benefits Tired of that pooch belly? Maryland tummy tuck surgeon explains the benefits of a tummy tuck procedure in creating the ideal body you desire. If your body has suffered the ravages of pregnancy or weight loss and your tummy needs tightening and firming, this procedure may be just the thing for you. Read more about it on the page here.
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POPSMYJ | 1968 Nobel winner passes; studied protein synthesis
Blogger Note | Cancer survival patients like me owe much to a previous generation of great scientific researchers like Marshall Nirenberg. Almost no day expires without finding reports like this about any one of the members of a legion of great scientists to whom we all owe a great debt. QUOTING THIS SOURCE | "We feel like losing our close friend who has created the base of the current molecular biology and translational medicine," Akira Kaji of the University of Pennsylvania and Hideko Kaji of Thomas Jefferson University, who both studied protein synthesis at the time of Nirenberg's key discovery and interacted with many researchers in his lab group, wrote in an email to The Scientist. "In our opinion, his contribution is one of the greatest among Nobel laureate who received the prize in physiology and medicine. He discovered common language used throughout the living matter from the simplest virus to the most complicated living matter, human being ." ___ SOURCE
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POPSBaaaaaaaaad Idea: Eco-Warriors are Attempting to Breed Sheep That Don't Burp More scientific studies from religious eco-evangelists harnessing the gospel of burps and farts: British Agriculture College Harnesses Cow Poop Power: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/british_agricul.php A Stinky Solution to a Stinkier Problem: Using Garlic to Fight Cow Farts: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/garlic_cow_farts.php
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POPSStudy: Men Evolving Faster than Women (well, that is if Men equals the Y chromosome...) There are a couple of reasons Page and Hughes cite for Y being such an evolutionary powerhouse. One is that it stands alone and isn't part of a pair like 44 other chromosomes. So when there are mutations there's no matching chromosome to recombine and essentially cover up the change, Hughes said. Because women have two X chromosomes, the X chromosome doesn't have this situation.
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POPSThe Commonality of Diverse Animal Calls "Our results indicate that, for all species, basic features of acoustic communication are primarily controlled by individual metabolism, which in turn varies predictably with body size and temperature. So, when the calls are adjusted for an animal's size and temperature, they even sound alike." (James Gillooly, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of biology at UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a member of the UF Genetics Institute)
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POPSLearn.Genetics Great site for. check out the CELL SIZE AND SCALE section - fun and educative.
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POPStechnology innovation technology- always makes me think of the "new and improved" line just cuz it is new? doesn't necessarily mean it is improved.............oh well- we all love life's little conveniences - etc.......
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POPSA Giant Virus Discovery Trumps SciFi Some viruses become so large that other viruses can infect them, tiny super-specialized parasites piggy-backing their genetic code on their huge cousins. Others simply fail, their patchwork genomes not up to the challenges of the environment. The Marseillevirus has stolen ten percent of its chromosomes from bacteria it once infected, and anther five percent from the amoebic host of the party. It's even infiltrated other giant viruses, taking parts of the mimivirus for its own purposes. Don't worry about any mass-media scare stories: this thing is no threat to us and there isn't a shred of evidence to suggest otherwise. Not that the latter necessarily affects the former.
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POPSGenetically Modified CONTROL Steve Silberman sends us "A major AP expose of how Monsanto uses secret licensing agreements for its genetically manipulated crops to squeeze smaller seed companies, lock out competition, and keep food prices high.". Monsanto's methods are spelled out in a series of confidential commercial licensing agreements obtained by the AP. The contracts, as long as 30 pages, include basic terms for the selling of engineered crops resistant to Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, along with shorter supplementary agreements that address new Monsanto traits or other contract amendments...
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