Archive for the ‘Science & Nature’ Category
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
SFGate.com: State's power supply starting to feel strain from record heat wave
It's been hitting over 100∫F here in the East Bay now for the past three days, and well into the 90s for over a week. Yesterday and the day before, I saw the thermometer hit as high as 110∫, ...
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Sunday, July 9th, 2006
Next week I get to be a panelist at the International Conference on Web Engineering at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The panel discussion is entitled: "Web Page Design- Aesthetics Meets Web Engineering."
I think that historically (can I say "historically" in web context? I suppose it's been around long enough ...
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
This exciting piece of news crossed my radar this morning: A paper from researchers at Stanford University outlines a possible path for treatment, and maybe even a cure, for celiac disease:
Rational Design of Combination Enzyme Therapy for Celiac Sprue
Here, we demonstrate that a two-enzyme cocktail comprised of a glutamine-specific cysteine ...
Posted in Gluten Intolerance, Science & Nature | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 24th, 2006
This is a fascinating clip of a scientist showing how evolution has made the eye progressively more and more complex:
Way cool. And this was an experiment to see how to embed YouTube video into my blog. That's cool too!
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
I saw the San Francisco Opera perform Doctor Atomic last night. My opinion: It was amazing, and this is one for the ages.
Now first off, let's get the criticism out of the way: There were a couple of spots that just dragged on nebulously, and I started to just get ...
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