Interesting Links for 04-01-2015

[andrewducker]

• Slaves endure 'a living hell' on remote South Korean islands
  (tags: korea slavery )
• Kafka’s Joke Book.
  (tags: funny )
• Ten things an Irish woman could not do in 1970
  (tags: feminism women ireland )
• Eleven things women in Saudi Arabia can't do
  (tags: women saudiarabia )
• Today in robotentacle news - a surgical tentacle tying knots, and a laser snake.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. I would be quite grumpy, I suspect!

[resonant]

So depressing, most of those.

[andrewducker]

Think about how much better things are in Ireland from 45 years ago!

And how awesome robotentacle surgeons are!

And at least people are more aware of the slavery, so something might happen!

And you'll never be bothered by autoplaying videos again!

[firecat]

Emphasis mine: In both mice and a Phase 1 human clinical trial involving patients receiving chemotherapy, long periods of not eating significantly lowered white blood cell counts. In mice, fasting cycles then “flipped a regenerative switch,” changing the signaling pathways for hematopoietic stem cells, which are responsible for the generation of blood and immune systems, the research showed.

Unless I'm missing something, the article says that the regeneration part happens only in mice.

[andrewducker]

Dammit - I meant to put in a "In Mice" at the end of the title. Sorry!