Every year Thanksgiving involves us getting up early, eating a light breakfast and loading the car to head out to some family members home. This year we’re having dinner at Chris’s folks, but we’re not eating until 3:30 and since they only live about five miles away we don’t have to be anywhere until 3:00.
Every Friday morning around 7:30, while we’re on our way to work, NPR plays a StoryCorp recording. StoryCorps is an NPR oral history project that started in 2003. They travel the country collecting stories from every day people. Any one can sign up to spend time in the StoryCorps booth. I love StoryCorps. Every time
OK, maybe cows aren’t so threatening now, but cattlelike beasts called bovids could be responsible for bringing tuberculosis to North America long before Europeans arrived. Rheumatologist Bruce Rothschild and paleontologist Larry Martin have found fossil evidence suggesting that this is true. They found that bovids with Asian origins like bison and bighorn sheep had bone
I don’t know what’s up today, but I have been on high energy mode all day. I only had two cups of coffee this morning. It’s like I can’t slow down. I can’t sit still and I’m all fidgety. I finished my work about an hour ago so I’m done for the day. Yes I
A retrovirus called VRX496 has demonstrated that gene therapy has the potential to treat HIV and other serious human diseases. VRX496 is a genetically altered AIDS retrovirus that impairs HIV viral replication. It’s sort of like a Trojan Horse, but instead of carrying soldiers it carries genetic material that inhibits HIV replication. Five patients with
For the past year and half Iâve been under this cloud of general malaise. I have all these things I want to do and all these ways that I want to âfixâ? myself but I just canât muster the energy to do anything about it. I guess you could say that Iâve been depressed, but
I think all of us at one time or other has been caught preening in front of a mirror. This is a basic behavioral trait. We share this trait with primates and dolphins. Primates and dolphins recognize themselves in mirrors. This behavior is thought to be related to empathy. Now a research team from Yerkes
