Thursday, April 9, 2009

House Dust Yields Clue to Asthma - Roaches - NYTimes.com
Some crazy scientist decided to study what's actually in people's houses, giving them allergies, and found it was bits of roach.  Cleanliness is important!


Brain Power - Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory - Series - NYTimes.com
This is simultaneously creepy and awesome.  Pro: perhaps memory can be improved with this drug.  Con: your memories can be erased.  Some people think erasing bad memories would be beneficial, but I disagree.  How would we know what to avoid, what to work for, if we didn't have our memories of how things were?


Category:Nephila pilipes - Wikimedia Commons
I've been meaning to show a picture of one of the spiders we've got here in Taiwan.  These things are huge - when they walk on the wood of my closet, I can hear their feet thumping softly. 

http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Araneomorphi
You can also see some more pictures if you click here:
Nephila


Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot
This is something I've been meaning to link to for a while.  The government tells us to greatly fear these people...but...I think we should be more concerned about them harming themselves.


Oh, and something somewhat related:
Why hasn't America been attacked since 9/11? - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
A series of eight essays, proposing different reasons why we haven't been attacked, ranging from the "terrorists are idiots" theory, all the way to "they don't need to right now - they are waiting until they can do the most possible damage again."


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