FDA orders personal genetics company 23andMe to stop selling tests - Claims company ignored repeated efforts to get safety data and approval. Hmmm.

Mushrooms 'Make Wind' to Spread Spores - Fungus farts? Really?

How cool is the airplane of the future? - I miss the stratoliner.

Redefining the habitable zone: where should we look for life? - Desert ( Read more... )

Cars, Cards & Carbines - Multi-Genre Fiction Anthology - A Kickstarter for a project in which I have a story.

The Lord of the Rings personality type chart - Snerk.

When I Finally Realized What I Was Seeing, This Was The Coolest Thing Ever. Look Closer. - Mmm. Cars. (Via ( Read more... )

Chilly temperatures foster cancer growth in mice - And we've been doing a lot of cancer studies at lower temperatures. (Via Dratz is Old.)

Sceith Ailm’s Beautiful Lord of the Rings Themed Tarot Cards - Wow, these are cool. (Via Lisa Costello.)

Black Swallower - Ick. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Rapture prophets can’t celebrate 50th ( Read more... )

Tumor Paint: Changing the way surgeons fight cancer

Street music in Paris - Note the photo credit at the top of the article. I apparently get around.

Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene - A fascinating piece. (Thanks to Ron Spirko.)

Salvaged: The extraordinary family album that turned wrecks into art - More than 200 stricken vessels were ( Read more... )

Living vs. Dying - Deirdre Saoirse Moen talks more about some of my recent posts.

Doing Gender with Wallets and Purses - This is fascinating.

Honoring Female Pioneers in Science - ‘Extraordinary Women in Science and Medicine’ Offers Up Little-Known Details.

Solar lasers, ocean power and volcanoes: unusual energy sources of the future

Fast-Paced ( Read more... )

We Are All Strange - The final video edit.

The 2014 John Picacio Calendar - A Kickstarter for a project of which I am a small part.

14 Ways to Tick off a Writer - Because reasons.

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin rules out sharing Westeros - (Via Scrivener’s Error.)

★What are some of the funniest and most clever advertisements? - Heh ( Read more... )

Baltimore's 'arabbers' keep horse-cart vending alive - This is cool. (Via Lisa Costello.)

How the Rube Goldbergs of Credit Cards Fly First Class for Free - “Manufactured spending”? (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Can Genomics Blow Up the Clinical Trial? - Genomic technology could accelerate patient trials of new cancer drugs that are targeted to ( Read more... )

The Tree of Life - John Picacio does an art project involving me and my good friend photographer Scott Frey.

Infant immune systems set on low to encourage microbiome growth - Keeping the immune system in check helps the development of healthy gut bacteria.

Coupling an Electronic Skin Tattoo to a Mobile Communication Device - What could possibly ( Read more... )

Bilingual? Dementia May Be Delayed

Giant Ball of Fungus Removed from Farmer's Lung

Mannequins Give Shape to a Venezuelan Fantasy - Ah, gender. Sigh.

The Yupno Body Count System - (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

The Tail's The Tell: Dog Wags Can Mean Friend Or Foe - (Snurched from Steve Buchheit.)

Confused Asteroid Sprouts Tails… Six of Them!

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Report: 1 in 3 adults aren't screened for colorectal cancer - I’m here to tell you, if you’re one of those unscreened adults, get your ass into the doctor. A colonoscopy may be annoying, embarrassing or expensive, but dying of colon cancer as I am now doing is far, far worse.

Drug Combination Therapy Causes Cancer Cells to 'Eat Themselves' - ( Read more... )