Reports about President Kweisi Mfume will be stepping down from his position, and that the organization will be looking for a new for a new candidate. Callers at C-SPAN have offered their views; Jesse Jackson, Barak Obama, Julianne Malveau, Colin Powell etc. Save for the last one I think each of them would be horrible, […]

Searchmiracle.com seems to have hijacked my browser. I keep getting links inserted on my own blog that I did not insert. I would not care much but it insists on highlighting as a link the first four letters of the word ‘analogy’. Does anyone know how to take it back from them? I’ve tried everything […]

I seem to be hearing a lot about this little bit of genetic material in popular culture these days; The New York Times goes into a pretty indepth article for a media that is scientifically illiterate. In a report on CNN about Yushchenko’s appearance there was an explanation by a doctor that extreme stress could […]

Well, McDonalds thinks you will One thing I will criticize about our consumer culture (and believe me I normally have little problem with it) is that it takes someone like Heidi who would normally not come within 100 meters of fast food, and turns them into their spokesmodel. I mean, wouldn’t Michael Moore be a […]

Interesting article over at the Boston Globe by Peter Skerry discussing the political beliefs of muslims. Posted by scottm at 03:58 PM

That’s the conclusion of this blogger who points out that the only real answer to constant lefty whining about tragedies in third world countries is to bring back western colonialism in those failed states. I agree, either we do that, or just shrug and ignore it. But if colonialism is our route we must make […]

The Scotsman reports that rates of HIV-AIDS infection are soaring in England, most of those being in and around London. The causes? The majority of new cases diagnosed in the UK are the result of people migrating from countries with the biggest HIV problem, especially Africa. Something else to consider in the immigration debate. GFA […]

Just got back from seeing the Oliver Stone insult to the hellenes “Alexander” and I thought I would offer a few thoughts. First, if you are considering seeing this movie because you like war flicks, don’t. The battle scenes are so confused and a little bizarre (at one point the entire screen becomes tinged with […]

Ray Bradbury has a really good short article in the WSJ about what it will take to get mankind back into the space race. Or, most incredible of all, imagine that the Vatican decided that Pope John III wished to build a spacecraft titled The Holy Ghost in order to fly across the universe in […]

Nature reports today that the platypus has five chromosomes determing sex “What we’ve discovered is that these five Xs and five Ys line up in a great big long chain, that go XY XY XY XY XY XY, and then all the X chromosomes move to one pole, and all the Y chromosomes move to […]

The AP reports that the European Union justice and interior ministers want to start forcing integration onto immigrants. A simple statement that we in the U.S. could learn from Verdonk said. “If you want to live in the Netherlands, you have to adhere to our rules … and learn our language.” It’s a sad state […]

Patrick Cox over at TCS has a new article up comparing politcal vote by county in the 2004 election and population density. He does not give into the folly of trying to give absolute answers to the correlation, as many pundits have, but mearly makes observations and proposes some theories. The one thing he does […]

MSNBC reports about a company called Intellectual Ventures that makes nothing, owns nothing tangible and is set to make millions. How do they do it? To generate patentable ideas, Intellectual Ventures hired a dozen top scientists as part-time consultants to participate in several all-day gabfests each month, which the company calls “invention sessions.” Lawyers transcribe […]

Biomedical researchers at Vanderbilt University have discovered that low-intensity infrared laser light can be used to stimulate neurons. In the immediate future, this process will be able to more accurately identify and map specific areas of the brain, as there is no “Halo effect” like seen when an electrical charge is used for mapping. But […]

I know we all like to rip on Bush for his lax immigration policies that seem designed to increase the latino population to be used (foolishly) as a voting bloc for Republicans, but here is some good news that seems to have gone unnoticed. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deployed 80 agents assigned to “fugitive […]

The CDC reports that Birth Rate for Young Teens Lowest Since 1946. The cause? CDC researchers said the drop in births among girls aged 10 to 14 might be a sign that programs emphasizing abstinence and other forms of birth control were having an impact on this high-risk group. Jorcelyn Elders must be furious. Posted […]

In an internet discussion with a friend the issue of military IQ came up and I thought readers/posters on this site might be able to help. Here are my questions; does anyone know estimates on what is the mean IQ of the military? What is the estimate on the lowest IQ score one could have […]

Link to a UCLA study thanks to Fly, about a team that is activating telomerase in HIV specific CD8(+) T cells (here’s the abstract). This is an effort to resuscitate an infected patients immune system as the HIV virus specifically attacks these cells and over time the cells “age” by losing their telomeres through successive […]

I offer this as a way to get us off of European immigration politics for a bit. The quest for a SARS-CoV vaccine progresses. Addendum The mechanism for this vaccine is a production of an antibody (in animal models) that has as it’s antigen a portion of the Receptor binding domain of the virus, a […]

For years a long-standing origin theory of the emergence of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in the human population is that it was a zoonotic disease (i.e. it was transfered from a different infected primate species than man) that crept out of sub-saharan Africa, this is also a belief that has crept into the lay public’s mind. […]