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Ayn Rand Institute Offers Impact Newsletter for Free

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

The Ayn Rand Institute is now offering its Impact newsletter for free. Go here to get it.

2008′s Best Science

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Wired’s 2008 Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs are pretty impressive indeed. Scientists had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2008. The Large Hadron Collider fired up for the first time, a temple of science opened its doors, several companies promised cheap genome sequencing and President-elect Obama hired a fantastic team of science advisers. After decades of [...]

Anti-Aging Drugs – Just What the Doctor Ordered?

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Very cool: Early but intriguing research on mice suggests a new mechanism of aging, and possibly a way to stall it. Drugs designed to target one aspect of aging also seem to help repair DNA damage and regulate gene activity, preventing them from going haywire with the stresses of time. “In principle, we now could [...]

Marines Kick Ass, Take Names

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Via Power Line, some good news from Afghanistan: “A good day for the Marine Corps“: Michael Ledeen highlights this stirring account of Marines fighting in Afghanistan: FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan — In the city of Shewan, approximately 250 insurgents ambushed 30 Marines and paid a heavy price for it. Shewan has historically been a safe haven [...]

Victory in Iraq

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Victory in Iraq Day, via Little Green Footballs. I’ll go with that. Good job, guys and gals.

Lots of Ice Water on Mars

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Water is necessary for human survival. There’s lots of water on Mars: Giant glaciers buried under the surface of Mars at much lower latitudes than any previously known ice are a potential source of drinking water for future astronauts. The discovery, made using ground-penetrating radar on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, offers new possibilities in the [...]

More Good News: Woman’s Lungs Repaired with Her Own Tissue

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

I’d mentioned that today was good-news-from-the-world-of-science day. Here’s more: The development of patient-specific tissues and organs for transplantation is a major target for many researchers working in biomedical engineering. A shortage of organ donors, and the necessity to knock out the recipients’ immune systems to prevent graft rejection, are both serious issues facing transplant surgeons, [...]

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