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The new Food Pyramid has been trying to encourage people to eat more fruits and vegetables to be “healthier”. The only problem is that it doesn’t work very well, at least if “healthy” means “less cancer”: Five-a-day has little impact on cancer, study finds Eating more fruit and vegetables has only a modest effect on [...]
You do not want to get cancer in general, but pancreatic cancer is one of the worst. 90% of people getting pancreatic cancer die of the disease in the United States. Now there is evidence that drinking soft drinks nearly doubles your risk of getting pancreatic cancer: Study links soda, pancreatic cancer Writing in the [...]
How Carriers and Phone Makers Are Strangling Android (And Google’s Plan to Save It) – “The Google Phone could be a ploy to upset the wireless industry, or it could be an expensive niche device. Either way, it is a bid to take Android back from the companies that seem hell-bent on destroying it…” Scientists [...]
Inventor’s 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world’s poorest see better – “What if it were possible, he thought, to make a pair of glasses which, instead of requiring an optician, could be “tuned” by the wearer to correct his or her own vision? Might it be possible to bring affordable spectacles to millions [...]
Disruptive Change – “In 1981, your $100 got you about a second of HD Video. By 1993, your $100 could cover about a minute of HD Video. By 2000, your $100 got you about an hour and 15 minutes of HD Video. By 2006, your $100 could buy you 1 and 2/3 days of HD [...]
A new way of looking at the world – “An emerging set of tools is making it easier than ever to track and compile all sorts of “data” and display it in a way that’s relatively easy to understand…” How to Use a Cyclotron Particle Accelerator to Fight Cancer – And you thought MRI machines [...]
Envion Oil Generator Turns Plastic Into Fuel – “A proprietary breakthrough technology developed and perfected over the past 15 years, the Envion Oil Generator is the first plastic waste to oil conversion platform of its kind. Utilizing plastic as feedstock, the unit employs a groundbreaking process that produces light oil, medium oil, and emulsified oil [...]
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate – “Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that the troubled collider [...]
Drew Olanoff appears to be a remarkable person to me. He’s very good at using social networking to move people to action. He’s also a cancer patient. He created a meme on Twitter: #BlameDrewsCancer. He hopes that once he beats the disease he’ll be able to get sponsors to donate a dollar for every person who decides to blame something on his cancer by using Twitter. He’s going to donate the money to Livestrong, the cancer foundation that Lance Armstrong founded.
Apple pushed Intel to develop Light Peak cabling – “it reviewed evidence that Apple began talks with Intel in 2007 to develop a new cabling standard with the capacity to handle “massive amounts of data” and replace a variety of existing ports, including USB, FireWire, and DisplayPort…” Canadian team makes cancer diagnostic breakthrough – “Researchers [...]
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