A genetic mutation may hold an AIDS cure.
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease. The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, [...]
A free market economy is always generating new ideas, finding new ways to use people and materials, finding new ways to cut waste and improve lives. For today’s example, look no further than the grass on next Sunday’s football games. In most cases, that’s not grass that’s FieldTurf. It’s not just a clever product. It’s [...]
This is cool. It’s amazing how far and fast medical technology is developing. I can’t wait to see what will be available by the time I need serious medical help.
In 2001, the FDA approved the use of capsule endoscopy, which uses a capsule size camera [1.2 inches long by 0.4 inches in diameter]. [...]
Meet some high school students that are working their way through school:
Almost every weekday, 14-year-old Tiffany Adams rises before 6 a.m. in the Newark, New Jersey, home she shares with her grandmother and sisters. She dons her school uniform and catches two New Jersey Transit buses across the city, arriving at Christ the [...]
I’ve been wanting to get back into shape. These new pills could be the perfect solution.
In a series of startling experiments in mice, the drugs improved the ability of cells to burn fat and retain muscle mass, and they substantially prolonged endurance during exercise. Using one of the compounds for just a month, [...]
Beth Hanley, I weep for thee.
Armed with a Georgetown University diploma, Beth Hanley embarked in her 20s on a path hoping to become a professional world-saver. First she worked at nonprofit Bread for the World. Then she taught middle school English in central Africa with the Peace Corps. Finally, to certify her idealism, [...]
I cheer globalization, even when American workers lose their jobs to non-Americans. Why? Because the world’s poor are always made better off. To be blunt, I feel far, far more sympthathy for the poor of the world than I do for America’s newly unemployed. One group of people gets to enjoy fresh food year round, [...]
From the New York Times, this is kind of innovative idea that gets me excited:
Mr. Agassi is not planning to make cars, but instead wants to deploy an infrastructure of battery-charging stations in the United States, Europe and the developing world. The new system will sell electric fuel on a [...]
Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus - New York Times
In 1988, the surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, proclaimed ice cream to a be public-health menace right up there with cigarettes. Alluding to his office’s famous 1964 report on the perils of smoking, Dr. Koop announced that the American diet was [...]
Various teaching methods intrigue me. What makes a good teacher or a bad teacher? What makes a kid learn or sleep through class? How can we best prepare the next generation to face an increasingly complex world?
I tend to largely agree with Alex Tabarrok: Heroes are not Replicable.
You know the plot. Young, [...]