More Posty Post
Nov. 19th, 2008 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semiotic_pirateBefore the posty goodness begins, I will type a little about the "torture" I just put myself through. Enjoyable torture though. Finally got back to my personal training - got assigned a new trainer - and it went brilliantly. Excellent workout, just what I wanted, etc. Pushed me into muscle failure in a good way. Enough positive reinforcement to keep me motivated but not giving me any slack when I didn't need it, challenging me here and there when I was doing really good at something. I left feeling like a big bowl of quivering jelly and happily satisfied.
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Work it stem cells, work it!
Wait, wait… Senator-elect Franken? Al Franken? Neat! Let the recount begin so he can get on with his job! (CoB, want to move to Minnesota?)
Using humor as a tool in psychiatry. It is helpful for the patient and the caregiver. Who could've imagined that humor, laughter, could affect the humours?
Plastic water bottles and the linings of soft drink and food cans… BPA may interfere with chemotherapy. Interesting, that BPA is being found to act on cancer cells similar to the way estrogen does - by inducing proteins that protect the cells from chemotherapy agents.
Warning labels containing caffeine content are being considered for "energy" drinks. Some of which have the equivalent of 15 cans of soda. The American Beverage Association is opposed… of course. This, while another study links these "energy" drinks to increased riskiness in teen behavior. Like teens need another boost on top of their hormonal fluxes to induce risky behaviors.
In other news, a fan in a baby's room can lower the risk of SIDS.
Limited data is touting the effects of a new, unusual bandaging tape called Kinesio tape. Comes in a wide range of colors. Company website here.
What the heck is a Petaflop? Breaking barriers in supercomputing.
Tongue-in-cheek notice delivered upon the release of the Monty Python YouTube Channel as reported here.
BRILLIANT!
Brilliant stuff concerning Doctor Who (before the Tardis) from the BBC. Newly released documents, which reveal the 1960s conception of Doctor Who, show how nervous the BBC was about producing a sci-fi show.
Alternatives to the Tardis were discussed…
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Work it stem cells, work it!
Wait, wait… Senator-elect Franken? Al Franken? Neat! Let the recount begin so he can get on with his job! (CoB, want to move to Minnesota?)
Using humor as a tool in psychiatry. It is helpful for the patient and the caregiver. Who could've imagined that humor, laughter, could affect the humours?
Plastic water bottles and the linings of soft drink and food cans… BPA may interfere with chemotherapy. Interesting, that BPA is being found to act on cancer cells similar to the way estrogen does - by inducing proteins that protect the cells from chemotherapy agents.
“It’s actually acting by protecting existing cancer cells from dying in response to anti-cancer drugs, making chemotherapy significantly less effective,” said Nira Ben-Jonathan, a professor of cancer and cell biology who has studied BPA for more than 10 years.
Warning labels containing caffeine content are being considered for "energy" drinks. Some of which have the equivalent of 15 cans of soda. The American Beverage Association is opposed… of course. This, while another study links these "energy" drinks to increased riskiness in teen behavior. Like teens need another boost on top of their hormonal fluxes to induce risky behaviors.
In other news, a fan in a baby's room can lower the risk of SIDS.
Limited data is touting the effects of a new, unusual bandaging tape called Kinesio tape. Comes in a wide range of colors. Company website here.
What the heck is a Petaflop? Breaking barriers in supercomputing.
Tongue-in-cheek notice delivered upon the release of the Monty Python YouTube Channel as reported here.
"For three years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube," the tongue-in-cheek notice rants. "We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell. But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we've figured a better way to get our own back."
BRILLIANT!
Brilliant stuff concerning Doctor Who (before the Tardis) from the BBC. Newly released documents, which reveal the 1960s conception of Doctor Who, show how nervous the BBC was about producing a sci-fi show.
Alternatives to the Tardis were discussed…
The Doctor without his time-travelling police box is difficult to imagine, but its creators initially proposed he journey through space in an invisible machine covered in light-resistant paint.
When BBC producers were devising the show in the early 1960s, they thought viewers should see no machine at all, only "a shape of nothingness".
The BBC's head of drama Sydney Newman, who commissioned the first series, insisted an invisible machine would not work and the doctor's vehicle should be a strong visual symbol.
Wisely, writers also said a transparent, plastic bubble would be "lowgrade". But a seed of the Tardis idea is sown when they suggest using "some common object in the street" like a night-watchman's shelter.
These discussions are revealed in six previously unpublished documents, now digitised on the BBC Archive website.
...A plot written for the original Doctor but rejected, called Troubleshooters, can be seen in Torchwood.
