What we need to know before we send people there. And they don’t even discuss the gravity issue.
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Eric Berger says that Elon is between a rocket and a hard place. I don’t think that taxpayer money should to go build giant rockets, whether by SpaceX or Boeing.
A very nice, but long piece on the current state of the art, over at Gizmodo.
Derek Lowe isn’t impressed.
@Rand_Simberg @Dereklowe @Eaterofsun Maybe they could just install Windows 10 into the tumors?
— Tech_Noir (@LV__666) September 21, 2016
This seems like too much work for me, given that I’ve never had a good cup of coffee (it’s just a matter of to what degree it tastes less awful), but here’s a guide to roasting your own.
Speaking of evolution, this looks like an interesting paper.
…may prevent and treat migraines. I don’t suffer from them, but I know a lot of people who do.
[Update a while later]
The news media’s miscalculation about Hillary’s health.
A new breakthrough drug to halt it in its tracks?
Faster, please.
Of course, there’s always this: “Despite it being a small sample there appeared to be a slowing of cognitive decline and functional decline. The group with a high degree of amyloid removal were basically stable. If we could reproduce this it would be terrific.”
Yes. Yes it would.
…is finally starting to be treated as the disease that it is.
This has been a philosophical battle, but we’re finally making headway. I hope it’s not too late for me.
Does going to the moon increase risk of heart attacks?
I can’t tell from this study, because I consider it insufficiently controlled. For instance, they don’t say what generation they pulled the data from. A sixty-year old today is likely to be in a different state of health than one from thirty years ago. For all I know, the Apollo astronauts got their heart attacks from terrible dietary advice in the seventies, as my father did.