- Toothless No More – Researchers Using Stem Cells to Grow New Teeth
- Interesting... "So far, teeth have been regenerated in mice and monkeys, and clinical trials with humans are underway, but whether the technology can generate teeth that are nourished by the blood and have full sensations remains to be seen." You'd think that their mice / monkey experiments should at least give them some preliminary results to those remaining questions.
- A men’s centre at Simon Fraser University raises questions
- I'm a bit surprised: "The men’s centre, assuming the budget passes a final vote, will get $30,000 next year. That’s the same amount that the women’s centre, started in 1974, will receive. ... many students have questioned whether the men deserve funding. Along with that, a debate has emerged over whether women—who make up 55 per cent of undergraduate students at SFU—still need their own women-only space."
- The Funniest Graph I've Ever Seen About Why the Euro Is Totally Doomed
- "Compared across more than 100 factors measured by the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report, from corruption to deficits, JP Morgan analyst Michael Cembalest calculates that the major countries on the euro are more different from each other than basically every random grab bag of nations there is." The most assuming example of a grab-bag of countries in the figure: all countries with names starting with "M"
- Licorice: The Candy That Fights Diabetes
- It's definitely important to get your medication - Marshmallows may be great for some health issues as well. I'll ignore for a few moments the issue of high salt levels in some Dutch licorice.
- Iran must quash human rights lawyer’s conviction ahead of prison term
- "Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who is a co-founder of Iran’s Centre for Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), was sentenced in July last year after being convicted of charges including “membership of an association [the CHRD] seeking the soft overthrow of the government” and “spreading propaganda against the system through interviews with foreign media” ... Mohammad Ali Dadkhah has represented many prominent clients such as prisoner of conscience Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, facing a possible death sentence for alleged “apostasy from Islam” and Ebrahim Yazdi, the 80-year-old former leader of the banned Freedom Movement"
- Data Signals Economic Trouble in China
- "China announced Thursday that growth in imports had unexpectedly come to a screeching halt in April — rising just 0.3 percent from the same period a year earlier, compared with expectations for an 11 percent increase."
- Never Mind Europe. Worry About India.
- Per the article, economic growth in India seems to be slowing, with lowest rates of growth amongst the poor. Here a lot of the problems seem governmental in origin if you buy the article's argument - basically barriers to investment and retroactive taxation. On cell centers: "these economically segregated islands of higher productivity suggest that success is achieved by separating oneself from the broader Indian economy, not by integrating with it."
- Foster children have grim prospects
- Once they age out of the system they fair even worse than the children of
single divorced mothers (Kids raised by widows do better than those raised by divorcees).
- Evil Clown hired for stalking, threats and a pie in the face
- The byline: "An 'evil' clown who stalks and threatens kids is being hired by parents as a birthday treat."
- Markets, Risk, and Fashion: The Hindenburg’s Smoking Lounge
- One interesting comment: "The Zeppelin company originally preferred the cheaper and more readily obtainable hydrogen, but after 48 of 56 passengers on a British airship were killed in a storm in 1930, Zeppelin’s engineers planned the new design for the safer, nonflammable helium. Unfortunately for Zeppelin, Congress had passed a law in 1927 banning the export of helium because it was a strategic gas with military aviation potential. There was thus no alternative to hydrogen, despite its risks."
- Political Polarization: In the Eye of the Beholder?
- "According to a new study, the people who most strongly believe that the political system is dividing into two extreme camps with little to say to each other themselves have relatively extreme views."
- The disadvantage of an elite education
- Loosely summarized as snobbery, selecting for only a particular type of intelligence, fear of failure, and an implicitly class-based division of society. (The author of this piece, BTW, apparently spent a decade as a professor at Yale).
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