From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 01:23:48 MST
Well ... I got practically no response, so here we go again with another
set of news.
regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark
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Will Smith Winds Up 'Robot'
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http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=1847157
Fox has wired Will Smith to star in sci-fier "I, Robot," an adaptation of
the 1940s Isaac Asimov short-story collection that set the groundwork for
robot films ranging from "The Terminator" to "A.I."
Eyes in the Back of Your Mouth
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/start.html?pg=9
The brain doesn’t care where visual input comes from. So why not see with
a camera jacked into your tongue?
Australia Approves Stem Cell Research
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http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/reuters20021205_7.html
Australia's parliament gave the green light Thursday to medical research
on human embryos after the upper house Senate agreed to impose strict
guidelines on research and limit the stem cell lines which can be used.
Mouse clues to human genetics
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2536501.stm
another angle:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993147
The genetic make-up of the mouse has been published for the first time in
a scientific journal. The mouse book of life reveals that humans and mice
share at least 80% of their genes, with only 300 unique to either
organism.
Immune Cell Diversity Key to Preventing Age-related Decline in Disease
Resistance
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http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2002-12-04-2
A discovery about the immune system's training process for pathogen-
fighting cells may lead to new immune-boosting therapies for the elderly
and better vaccines.
Grape-Seed Extract Helps Speed Up Wound Recovery
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The extract seemed to aid wound healing in two ways: It helped the body
make more of a compound used to regenerate damaged blood vessels, and it
also increased the amount of free radicals in the wound site. Free
radicals help clear potentially pathogenic bacteria from a wound.
Hold the Lard! - The Atkins Diet still doesn't work.
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http://www.reason.com/hod/mf120502.shtml
Dr. Eric Westman followed two groups of 60 dieters each, one on a high
carbohydrate diet and one on the high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet.
He reported that the Atkins group lost twice as much weight during the
six-month study period as did the high-carb group. But this is both
unsurprising and meaningless.
Portion Size Matters: Given Too Much, We Eat It
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/12/021204081430.htm
Almost nobody can stop eating at just one normal serving if there's extra
food on their plate, Penn State researchers have shown, and this tendency
coupled with the spread of megaportions may be contributing to the
American obesity epidemic.
And a single article in danish :-s
Det transhumane menneske tror på, at videnskaben og teknologien kan
skabe en forbedret udgave af homo sapiens.
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http://www.weekendavisen.dk/kunst/artikel%3Aaid=4757
MAN kan ikke se noget usædvanligt på ham. *Anders Sandberg* er en nydelig
ung svensker med kommunefarvet glat hår, et par neutrale stålbriller og en
imødekommende manér. Ikke desto mindre optræder den stilfærdige lektor fra
Stockholm Tekniska Högskola som transhumanist.
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