When it strikes incumbents.
This is why they resort to binders and Big Bird.
Heading Back To LA
No posting until later this afternoon.
“Not Optimal”
Here are some other things that aren’t.
ISPCS Morning Session
Clark Lindsey has notes on both the commercial crew and ITAR sessions this morning.
A Trojan Horse In California
Why California voters should oppose Proposition 31.
The Preference Cascade
Just in time for Halloween, a scary campfire story.
If you’re an Obama supporter, that is.
ITAR Reform
The session on it just finished at #ISPCS2012. As we go to lunch, the PA system starts playing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”
Candy Crowley
The analogy seems a little mild to me. It’s more like she let Obama commit a facemask on Romney, but he was still running toward the end zone, so she helped tackle him.
Binders
The Amazon reviews, by and for women.
I’m not impressed. I keep a bunch of supermodels in an accordion file, myself.
[Update a few minutes later]
Frank J.: “Binders of desperation.”
Young Blood
…the fountain of youth?
Tissue from the hippocampus of old mice given young blood showed changes in the expression of 200 to 300 genes, particularly in those involved in synaptic plasticity, which underpins learning and memory. They also found changes in some proteins involved in nerve growth.
The infusion of young blood also boosted the number and strength of neuronal connections in an area of the brain where new cells do not grow. This didn’t happen when old mice received old blood.
To find out whether these changes improved cognition, the team gave 12 old mice eight intravenous shots of blood plasma either from a young or an old mouse, over the course of one month. They used plasma rather than whole blood to exclude any effect produced by blood cells.
The mice then took part in a standard memory task to locate a hidden platform in water. The old mice that had received young blood plasma remembered where to find the platform much quicker than the mice on the old plasma.
Of course, this is the theme of many a science fiction story in which a rich evil codger kidnaps youth to drain their blood and preserve his own vitality. But I hope it turns out to be right, and they can figure out how to extract and manufacture whatever it is.