Feb 19 2009
As the product of three generations of award-winning educators and as someone who has run the public education gauntlet, even if there is no conclusive way to teach genius, there are certainly things we could do to improve education. We may not be able to produce genius with any consistency, but then again genius is [...]
Feb 19 2009
1. As far as my understanding goes, as long as the strain inhabits our physical universe, left alone it has no alternative but to follow natural selection.
2. How does this help in the search for extraterrestrial life?
3. Really, I think these “scientists” have basically created a glorified virus.
4. I smell future headlines: Mutant Humanoid [...]
Feb 19 2009
This shouldn’t be proof-positive fetal stem cells therapy doesn’t work, or that this type of progressive therapy causes cancer. It does raise ethic issues, but not necessarily about the use of stem cells.
“[Because] the patient’s immune system was impaired, it’s not yet clear whether the increased risk of cancer is specific to patients with [...]
Feb 13 2009
I hate to say I told you so…but, I told you so. On the rare occasion I can find someone who’ll not only listen to my ranting but take it seriously, I’ll usually get some kind of “pshaw!” rather than any feedback. For what it’s worth—and it’s not worth much—another one of my hair-brain theories [...]
Feb 12 2009
Have you ever seen the movie The Thing, where seemingly normal people had been transformed into mutant aliens? Or Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where an alien virus survived by eliminating emotion, transforming seemingly normal people into zombies? In The Thing, there was a way to tell if a person had been turned. By taking [...]