NBC News Working at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Artist Diemut Strebe made the replica of van Goh’s ear using living cells from Lieuwe van Gogh, the great-great-grandson of Vincent’s brother Theo. “I use science basically like a type of brush, l[...]
Archive for April, 2016
April 4th, 2016 - 1:20 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: SCOTUS Overturns One Person One Vote
Back when the Constitution was written, only the Southern states had large numbers of slaves. Counting salves as part of the population would greatly increase the South’s political power. The Southern states argued in favor of counting slaves. Northern states disagreed. The delegates compromi[...]
April 4th, 2016 - 1:08 am § in Misc.
Sanders: The Inevitable Hypocrisy
“The candidate who pledged last May that his campaign would not be about Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, but “about the needs of the American people”; the candidate who boasted he’d never run a negative political attack in his life; the man who said he would be “driven by issues and[...]
April 3rd, 2016 - 5:51 pm § in Misc.
Presidential leadership in biomedicine should be an issue in the Wisconsin primary
Opposing views of Clinton and Sanders on biomedical research Opinions about science matter. This especially true in the case of stem cell biology where Republican religious views of human life have obstructed an entire field of biology. Tomorrow’s primary is in the state where stem cell [...]
April 3rd, 2016 - 2:53 pm § in The Ave Scene
Seattle: The New Wall Street Runs Along Lake Washington
David Brewster The super-rich are definitely getting richer, but they are also changing in composition. And there is a lot of turnover at the top, with less wealth being inherited and more being self-made. The new rich now come more from technology, finance, and mass-retail chains; while energy and [...]
April 3rd, 2016 - 2:29 pm § in Misc.
Turkey’s Erdogan Says Obama Spoke ‘Behind My Back’ On Press Freedom
Istanbul – Istanbul – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused U.S. counterpart Barack Obama of going behind his back for criticizing Turkey’s press freedom…Read More »[...]
April 3rd, 2016 - 8:55 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Krugman wants Bernie to drop out
Krugman: Bernie Needs To Drop Out And Act Responsibly The Sanders campaign has come much further than almost anyone expected, to the point where Sanders can have a lot of influence on the shape of the… HUFF.TO[...]
April 3rd, 2016 - 8:43 am § in Donald Trump, Misc.
Reductio ad absurdam: we need to confine pregnant women to assure they do nothing to murder their incubus.
St Thomas Acquinas pioneered the use of “reductio ad absurdam” for theological arguement. So .. if a conceptus .. the cell ball we all begin from from, is a baby, then yes abortion is murder. This leads in directions that some may not like. About 1/3 of all conceptions end in a spontaneo[...]
Male Orangutan Dies at Woodland Park Zoo.
I spent my Sunday afternoon at the Zoo… not my first choice for good drawing time but it was a nice day so why not. Regrettably when I got to the Orangutan exhibit I heard that their male Orangutan, Towan, had died of respiratory problems the week before. He was 48 years old. I feel […][...]