Reason #874 why I love the Times of India.
The article is actually pretty interesting too — apparently the Indian state of West Bengal is losing out on millions of dollars from the international Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use because its chief minister refuses to set an example by kicking the habit. West Bengal […]
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best headline ever
September 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: asia · cancer · india · media · medicine · news
dying professor gives one last lecture
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
The last lecture by Dr. Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, on “How to Achieve Your Childhood Dreams.” He’s amazingly chipper, despite the fact that his pancreatic cancer is likely to kill him in the next few months, and it’s got a bit of a “Chicken Soup for the Soul” feel […]
Tags: cancer · darn tootin' · do something · movies/tv/video · neato · philosophy
rabies-like virus kills brain cancer in mice
March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Very cool article on using a virus related to rabies to fight brain cancer:
Now researchers at Yale University have found that a virus that’s in the same family as rabies effectively kills an aggressive form of human brain cancer in mice. Using time-lapse laser imaging, the team watched vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) rapidly home in […]
