tripping-over-mermaids:

romaniheartthrob:

You can basically just assume, without even knowing what this thing is, that it is from Australia.

is. this. a. motherfucking. pokemon?!?!?! oh god. oh god.

What is it?

Satan has begun his rebellion

obviously pokemon

(Source: annhogs, via csymons)

A Momentary Flow: Web 4.0: The Ultra-Intelligent Electronic Agent is Coming | Big Think TV | Big Think

wildcat2030:

See on Scoop.it - Cyborg Lives

The evolution of the Web today is happening faster than the transition from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 due to processing power, bandwidth and storage, “creating a curve of exponential change.

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Without getting too far ahead of ourselves, it is useful to look…

Aspiring Doctors: A Meeting with Mr. Doe

aspiringdoctors:

I’m sitting on my couch in my sunlit front room, dozing cats on either side of me. I had coffee and cinnamon rolls for breakfast and I’m still in the gnarly sweatpants and sweatshirt I slept in (since the boyfriend is out of town, I don’t have someone whose body temperature is hotter than 1000…

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wildcat2030:

Analysis: Antibiotic apocalypse
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A terrible future could be on the horizon, a future which rips one of the greatest tools of medicine out of the hands of doctors.
A simple cut to your finger could leave you fighting for your life. Luck will play a bigger role in your future than any doctor could.
The most basic operations - getting an appendix removed or a hip replacement - could become deadly.
Cancer treatments and organ transplants could kill you. Childbirth could once again become a deadly moment in a woman’s life.
It’s a future without antibiotics.
This might read like the plot of science fiction novel - but there is genuine fear that the world is heading into a post-antibiotic era. The World Health Organization has warned that “many common infections will no longer have a cure and, once again, could kill unabated”. The US Centers of Disease Control has pointed to the emergence of “nightmare bacteria”. And the chief medical officer for England Prof Dame Sally Davies has evoked parallels with the “apocalypse”. (via BBC News - Analysis: Antibiotic apocalypse)

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wildcat2030:

New Study Validates Longevity Pathway: Findings Identify Universal Mechanism for Activating Anti-Aging Pathway
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A new study demonstrates what researchers consider conclusive evidence that the red wine compound resveratrol directly activates a protein that promotes health and longevity in animal models. What’s more, the researchers have uncovered the molecular mechanism for this interaction, and show that a class of more potent drugs currently in clinical trials act in a similar fashion. Pharmaceutical compounds similar to resveratrol may potentially treat and prevent diseases related to aging in people, the authors contend.
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These findings are published in the March 8 issue of Science.
For the last decade, the science of aging has increasingly focused on sirtuins, a group of genes that are believed to protect many organisms, including mammals, against diseases of aging. Mounting evidence has demonstrated that resveratrol, a compound found in the skin of grapes as well as in peanuts and berries, increases the activity of a specific sirtuin,SIRT1, that protects the body from diseases by revving up the mitochondria, a kind of cellular battery that slowly runs down as we age. By recharging the batteries, SIRT1 can have profound effects on health.
Mice on resveratrol have twice the endurance and are relatively immune from effects of obesity and aging. In experiments with yeast, nematodes, bees, flies and mice, lifespan has been extended.
“In the history of pharmaceuticals, there has never been a drug that binds to a protein to make it run faster in the way that resveratrol activates SIRT1,” said David Sinclair, Harvard Medical School professor of genetics and senior author on the paper. “Almost all drugs either slow or block them.”

(via csymons)

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