Hal and I watched another episode of James Burke's BBC series Connections last night. Wow this is fascinating stuff! I never watched the series when it aired in the late 1970s, but it holds up surprisingly well for television that's three decades old. Burke is a science historian, and each episode traces the scientific and technological ( Read more... )

Holy shit. An article in New Scientist: Cheap, Safe Drug Kills Most Cancers says that there is an existing drug that kills cancer cells, and only cancer cells, in cultures of human cancers, and radically shrinks cancers in lab rats. Apparently, cancer cells are unique in that they don't use their mitochondria, which contain the self-destruct ( Read more... )