The first breast-cancer-gene-less baby has been born in the U.K, hopefully ushering in the era when designer babies can be created by anyone with anything for any reason at all.
With the final goal of achieving perfection in humanity.
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And so it begins…
Posted in news, tagged breast cancer, celine dion, human genetic manipulation, perfect human on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
a rehydration recipe
Posted in news, tagged Ben Goldacre, cholera, dehydration, diarrhoea, Vibrio cholerae, WHO rehydration recipe on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
delicious:
You can fix yourself a pair of pints in your own kitchen following this deliberately memorable recipe: simply stir one level teaspoon of salt, and eight level teaspoons of sugar, into one litre (5 cupfuls) of drinkable water. Then sit back on your balcony, toast the fact that you don’t really have cholera, and savour [...]
Maker’s Notebook Goes Online
Posted in news, video, tagged backyard scientists, DIY, inventions, MAKE, tech enthusiasts on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Check it out:
from the MAKE blog:
Ask tech DIY enthusiasts, backyard scientists, and makers what their ultimate workshop notebook would look like (as the folks over at MAKE magazine did recently) and you’ll get a truckload of ideas, opinions, and preferences. So the MAKE & CRAFT editors and staffers put their heads [...]
The Pope may be abandoning us
Posted in news, perspective, tagged Gabriel Fuenes, Holy See, original sin, outer space, pentecost '08, space aliens, The Pope, Vatican on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not necessarily in this lifetime, as we still haven’t even sent a human past the moon. However, it is a question of when, not if, we meet intelligent extraterrestrial life, because they may be free of original sin.
This possibility was implied by Father Gabriel Fuenes (the Vatican’s chief astronomer) in the Vatican’s official newspaper.
World Net [...]
The Bird Flu, Shorty
Posted in music, news, video, tagged bird flu, Gucci Mane, South Korea on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The BBC says: “South Korean officials say they have killed the entire poultry population of Seoul to curb the spread of bird flu.
Quarantine officers destroyed 15,000 chickens, ducks and turkeys in farms and restaurants across the capital
… Bird flu is currently relatively difficult for humans to catch, but health authorities fear it could mutate into [...]
