Is Maleness Overrated? Pity the mice. On countless occasions, mice without any say in the matter stand in for humans. And what we do to them can be perverse or bizarre – just so we can understand us a bit better. Or not. So now male mice have been “conceived” in the laboratory who only […]
Fict or Faction? (12/30/13)
The New Rules for Unreality Is what you read true or false? Institution after institution – from science to the media – is deciding they don’t know. Often, they don’t care. Instead, many say if you want to know if something’s true, you must decide yourself. Presuming you have the time, means, interest and ability. […]
Learning From the 400,000 Year Old Man (12/18/13)
Where We All Come From Is North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un scared of a thighbone? One that’s 400,000 years old? He should be. A bedrock of North Korean ideology since the 1940’s has been North Korean’s racial homogeneity and superiority over everyone else – particularly hybrid Americans. It’s one way you can keep a […]
Statins and the New Numbers Racket (12/9/13)
The Old Numbers Racket One way to keep a population unhealthy is to endlessly worry them about getting sick. For the last few decades, purveyors of cholesterol as the core of heart disease have created a medical industrial complex that has been hard to suppress. Now that complex is changing its spots again with new […]
Does Depression Age You? (12/2/13)
The Tale of the Telomeres If you ever get depressed, you will age much faster. Or at least that’s what some recent articles proclaim. The latest – a study from Amsterdam of 2400 people and their genes – looked at their telomeres, the “buffers” of DNA sequences at the end of chromosomes which prevent them […]