http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/20167996473/the-mastery-of-non-mastery/los-angeles-review-of-books-the-mastery-of-non-mastery MT @ilparone: The Mastery of Non-Mastery... reflections of an anthropologist: the normality of abnormal http://t.co/48WrZEC6 #x ]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:06:16 -0700 http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/20167996473/the-mastery-of-non-mastery/los-angeles-review-of-books-the-mastery-of-non-mastery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7QvOX8LVk&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Thu, 19 May 2011 01:51:45 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7QvOX8LVk&feature=youtube_gdata http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/01/malaria-caught-breaking-and-entering-red-blood-cell.html The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution.

The Plasmodium parasite responsible for malaria is transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes, and is thought to kill almost 1 million people worldwide each year.

Jake Baum at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues used transmission electron microscopy, immuno-fluorescence and 3D super-resolution microscopy to record thousands of high-definition images of separate invasion events, a process that takes… ]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:54:00 -0700 http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/01/malaria-caught-breaking-and-entering-red-blood-cell.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:47:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc&feature=youtube_gdata http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/overhyped_placebos_of_doom/ Let’s say a new drug appears to be effective in combating a condition like chronic anxiety and is the subject of popular news stories. When the drug enters clinical trials, patients who take the drug report significantly less anxiety. But so do patients who were given sugar pills. Because FDA regulations require that any proposed drug perform significantly better than a placebo, the drug isn’t approved, and the pharmaceutical company developing the drug must swallow millions in research expenses. The regulations make some sense: Why approve a new drug with potential side effects when a placebo works just as well?… ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:35:00 -0700 http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/overhyped_placebos_of_doom/