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Monthly Archives: June 2008
mirror, mirror on the wall….
Yesterday, I posted a light hearted post on how looking at attractive people is good for your health and brain. Today, I figured I should look at the [..]
Looking at attractive people is good for your brain
On a lighter note today – can viewing attractive public personalities be good for your brain? Brad and Angelina can serve as examples for this blog piece to [..]
personal genomics controversy
Image via Wikipedia There are a number of companies (23andMe, deCODEme, Navigenics) that offer a service of scanning your genome, using microarray technology, for numerous (500,000 – 1,000,000) [..]
Whole body hacks ?
An example of how it is hard to hack a hacked system follows. Previously I mentioned a quote from Francis Crick (1962 Nobel prize winner for the co-discovery [..]
How to keep your stem cells young
Berkeley Campus:Image via Wikipedia Irina Conboy’s lab, from University of California – Berkeley, has just published a new paper in Nature. If you don’t have full access here [..]
Does smelling coffee wake you up?
Image by DavidErickson via Flickr Monday morning and many of us are consuming coffee to wake up, the interesting question is smelling (over 900 volatile compounds) the coffee [..]
Friday Friends
One of the reasons I started a blog was that I was inspired by a number of different blogs. Two of these which I will discuss today are [..]
Who is the hacker: Nature or God ?
I previously posted a quote in an article from the NY Times that mentioned God as the hacker of us living entities. “”My colleague Francis Crick used to [..]
How would you hack metabolism ?
On the subject of general hacking. Look at the complexity of metabolism (via sigmaaldrich.com) metabolicpathways_updated_02_072 Not so easy to hack a system so complex. Now the reason this [..]
Brain: is a hacked system hackable
Image via Wikipedia I guess I better define the word hack – in the 21st century: (via urbandictionary.com) 1. To program a computer in a clever, virtuosic, and [..]
