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Doctors May Be Able to Reverse Blindness

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Researchers say they've had success reversing a rare disorder that causes blindness.

ElBaradei’s moral blindness

FresnoZionism.org -- ציונות פרסנו (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Mohammed ElBaradei, the outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is shockingly biased, and should never have held that position. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency downplayed Israel’s concern over an Iranian nuclear threat on Wednesday, telling a New York audience, “Truth is in the eyes of the beholder…” “If you look from [...]

'Precious' makes a 'surreal' premiere in Hollywood

reesuq3nh | yesterday

LOS ANGELES – The cast and crew of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" continued their unexpected journey from a scrappy little screening 10 months ago at the Sundance Film Festival to a star-studded gala at the legendary Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. "I'm speechless," said director Lee Daniels at an event hosted by the American Film Institute on Sunday.

Fort Hood; how many more times?

Blowing San #1 (Free subscription) | yesterday

I don't know where to begin. For two days I've had this topic in my mind. Two days alternating between disgust and outrage. Disgust at the continued blindness of our politicians and their lapdog MSM. Outrage that this could happen on American soil, to American military members with so little hue and cry over it. May God have mercy on the souls of the dead and on their families. The only wish I have...

New Labour's social engineering.

The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday

The state can now decide who is entitled to have a baby and remove the child from those they claim are not intelligent enough. A heavily pregnant woman and her fiance have gone on the run after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth. Kerry Robertson, 17, and Mark McDougall, 25, had been told that she was not bright enough to raise their child and that they would have to give him...

The final loss…

The Mercy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Church is called to announce the Good News of Jesus to all people and all nations. Besides the many works of mercy by which the Church must make Jesus’ love visible, it must also joyfully announce the great mystery of God's salvation through the life, suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus. The story of Jesus is to be proclaimed and celebrated. Some will hear and rejoice, some will...

First Thoughts From The Interface Conference

Zoomtard (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

(Following Michael Paul Gallagher’s keynote address) Proposition: The best theology lectures end with you wanting to hug the presenter. Your Correspondent, Had his aspect blindness rectified.

Frightwig You May Only See Box

jellybean weirdo with electric snake fang (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

in death is our collective anomie perfected for in being alive at all we disturb the primal gestalt if this is not known to you you are like a photon trapped eternally between two mirrors and your master's voice is the call to deafness blindness and antinomianism for the priest of entropy is extropy and extropy is a drunken policeman whose diaper is an amoeba sun bracelet's jasmine hog-be-flower displacement...

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Joseph Kim, MD, MPH (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

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re: Ft. Hood murders

American Orthodox Patriot (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

On the one hand we have the reliably, willfully, self-imposed PC blindness of the mainstream media’s initial reaction- “Gee, what could his motivation possibly have been'” On the other hand, we have those who, lacking PC blinders, note that Maj. Nidal was reported to have shouted “Alla Akbar!” before opening fire, had listed his nationality as [...]

The illusion of time: Perceiving the effect before the cause

Neurophilosophy (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

A novel temporal illusion, in which the cause of an event is perceived to occur after the event itself, provides some insight into the brain mechanisms underlying conscious perception. The illusion, described in the journal Current Biology by a team of researchers from France, suggests that the unconscious representation of a visual object is processed for around one tenth of a second before it enters...

What Was I Doing?

Nancy's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Two weeks ago Western Washington University released a study on "inattentional blindness," which means you don't see something because you're paying attention to something else. Specifically, they wanted to know how much talking on a cell phone "blinds" you to other sensory input. Test subjects were in one of four states: talking on a cell, walking in pairs, listening to music on...

Paterson Rolls Out Ads For 2010 Election

Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

Embattled by the state's economy and some of his (and his staff's) own missteps , Governor Paterson is considered an underdog to run for governor next year. But here he is, releasing television ads touting his case. The NY Times says of the pair of ads , "The two ads, each 30 seconds long, highlight his biography and address criticism Mr. Paterson has faced from labor unions and business interests...

The Session #33: Framing Beer

Bottles of Barley (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

This month's version of The Session is about "Framing Beer". I'm not sure what Andy had in mind exactly but my mind seized on this sentence: I have not done much blind tasting, and I would be intrigued to hear about this ‘frameless’ evaluation of beer. Well, I have never done any blind tasting and I have always wanted to do one. This installment of The Session gives me the perfect...

Modfied HIV Delivered Gene Therapy Could Treat Many Diseases

advanced nanotechnology (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

In a pilot study of two patients monitored for two years, an international team of researchers slowed the onset of the debilitating brain disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) using a lentiviral vector to introduce a therapeutic gene into patient's blood cells. Although studies with larger cohorts of patients are needed, these results suggest that gene therapy with lentiviral vectors, which...

• Gene therapy technique slows brain disease - Eurekalert
• Gene therapy technique slows ALD brain disease - Physorg
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

'Precious' makes a 'surreal' premiere in Hollywood

reesuq3nh | yesterday

LOS ANGELES – The cast and crew of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" continued their unexpected journey from a scrappy little screening 10 months ago at the Sundance Film Festival to a star-studded gala at the legendary Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. "I'm speechless," said director Lee Daniels at an event hosted by the American Film Institute on Sunday. "I'm humbled and speechless....

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cynthiafreeman2009 | 10/29/2009

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anthonythompson2009 | 10/29/2009

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