I started stationary bicycling last Monday.
Here it is, 11 days later, and I’ve gained 8 pounds.
Category: Health
John Roberts, Supreme Court Chief Justice, Hospitalized After Seizure
John Robert’s seizure may not have any particular significance in the course of the court. It appears at this time that he is fine and suffering no ill effects.
He has had a prior seizure, in 1993, but there are no indications of anything that would prevent him serving, though having a second seizure, even after a 14 year interval might indicate a need for him to go on some prophylactic anti-seizure medication.
My diagnosis is that he had an attack of conscience, about once every 14 years for that sounds about right for a Republican, but I’m an engineer, not a doctor, dammit!*
*Man…I just love it when I can go all “reverse Doctor McCoy”!!!!
Tyson to Sell Antibiotic Free Checken
Antibiotics have been banned in Holland for years.
It just requires a bit more cleaning. Real end cost is less than $0.05/pound.
That’s not much of a price to pay for not creating a superbug.
Tyson is using it to go up market though.
TheStar.com – News – DNA `junk’ appears to have uses
I’ve always wondered if DNA outside the nucleus, like the malformed DNA that causes Creuzfelt-Jakov (mad cow) disease might have other, more basic, effects on how creatures develop.
Then again, I’m an Engineer, Not a Doctor, Dammit!!!!!!
I Love it When I can Mangle a “Dr. McCoy” line.
DNA `junk’ appears to have uses
Jun 14, 2007 04:30 AM
Joseph Hall
health reporterA groundbreaking study says scientists may have to substantially alter their long-held conception of life’s basic blueprint, DNA.
In a departure from traditional thinking, the four-year study says that genes can no longer be considered the only active parts of DNA and that huge segments thought to be ‘junk’ may play a significant role in such individual traits as susceptibility to diseases.
‘A lot of these regions that previously we were thinking were junk DNA, or vast deserts of non-functionality, have been found to be a lot more active,’ says Steven Jones, associate director of the British Columbia Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre, and one of numerous authors of the scientific paper published today in the journal Nature.
‘This was the surprise … they seem to be doing things from a biological level.’
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