…grown from a spinach leaf. Well, that’s…different. But whatever works.
Mary Katherine Ham
A very nice profile on an up and comer. I’ve met her a couple times (but a decade ago), great person.
A New Lung Function
Turns out that bone marrow isn’t the only place that blood is made.
I think a little humility is in order on how much we still don’t understand about the human body.
[Update later morning]
Surprise, surprise, the testes are connected to the immune system.
A Pen And A Phone
Trump plans to undo Obama’s wealth-destroying “Clean” Power Plan this week.
And no, this has nothing to do with asthma.
NAD+
In the latest paper, the scientists revealed new details on how NAD+ works to keep cells young. Sinclair put drops of NAD+ into the water of a group of mice, and within a couple of hours, their NAD+ levels started to rise. Within the first week, the scientists saw obvious age reversal in muscle and improvements in DNA repair. “We can’t tell the difference between the tissues from an old mouse that is two years old versus a young mouse that is three to four months old,” Sinclair says.
I’ve started taking it myself. And this is interesting, too:
“The idea is to protect the body from radiation exposure here on earth, either naturally occurring or doctor-inflicted,” he says. “If I were going to have an X-ray or a CT scan, I would take NMN beforehand.” He already has plans to go even farther than earth: NASA is collaborating with Sinclair’s group on the human tests to see if it’s possible to insulate astronauts from the effects of cosmic radiation in space.
That would be nice.
[Sunday-afternoon update]
This looks like a promising similar breakthrough.
[Bumped]
The Republican ObamaCare Debacle
Byron York has a good analysis. This is a key point, which was entirely predictable:
‘The Art of the Deal’ doesn’t work with ideologically-driven politicians. The pundits mentioned Trump’s most famous book thousands of times during the Obamacare negotiations. But in dealing with the doctrinaire conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus, Trump was facing differently-motivated partners than in the deal-making recounted in his 1987 book. If the president wants to succeed in Washington, he’ll have to learn how to deal with people who aren’t in it just for the money.
I'd also note that today was the day that Trump finally figured out that he's not the CEO of the country, and the limits of the presidency.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) March 25, 2017
[Update a few minutes later]
Inside the Trumpcare meltdown.
Rookies.
How To Ruin Sex
Apparently it’s a bad thing for men to take pleasure in pleasuring women.
[Screaming orgasm]
“Was that good for you?”
“Stop oppressing me, you brutal tool of the patriarchy!”
The Team Obama Leakers
They should. This was a crime, and if there are no consequences, it will continue. But they got away with so much other criminality over the past eight years they just figured they were immune.
The Benefits Of Sperm
I don’t care how many there are, still nope. Also not going to cook with it. But it might be useful news for women (and some men).
Fine, Investigate Trump
…but also investigate Obama:
Whether Barack Obama ordered the surveillance of Donald Trump during the transition is not the question. He would never have had to. In fact, he would have been highly unlikely to have done so for obvious legal and practical/political reasons. Instead, supporters of the then president in a position to authorize or activate such surveillance would normally know or assume his wishes anyway without having to be told and could act accordingly.
That is the way of the world since there was a world.
Yup. I noted the same thing in the IRS situation (though it wouldn’t surprise me at all if there were exchanges between the White House and Lerner that we’ve never seen because they destroyed the emails).