THC may fight bacteria, including some drug-resistant strains. Potential like this should not be wasted.
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Tomorrow was yesterday (or vice versa)
On this date in 1966, Star Trek premiered on American TV. Discuss.
[Trek cycle by Timm Williams]
The Arches of Methone and Other Stories
The novel I’m shopping around begins on the moon of a ringed gas giant. You’d better believe that in the next draft, that moon is going to have gorgeous arcs like the ones the Cassini spacecraft imaging team recently found gracing Saturn’s moons Anthe and Methone.Death threats over Large Hadron Collider
It’s not quite pitchfork-bearing mobs, but still.
Scientists working on the world’s biggest machine are being besieged by phone calls and emails from people who fear the world will end next Wednesday, when the gigantic atom smasher starts up….
Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: “Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a t—.”
Fermilab plans a pajama party to celebrate the start of the experiment.
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U.S. Presidential science
I try to keep partisan stuff out of these posts, but somebody needs to note that Obama has responded at some length to 14 questions on science policy issues posed to him by Sciencedebate 2008, representing a truckload of scientific associations. McCain hasn’t answered yet. NPR has a short item about both candidates’ health policies. And the AAAS just put out a “policy alert” on a few of Gov. Palin’s views on evolution, global warming, and other topics. Not always sexy issues to the media, but something for American voters to think about.
[Story tips: slashdot, Framing Science; Political Studies by minkymonkeymoo]