British bowel cancer fatality rate related to embarrassment?

Sometimes the bear gets you… and sometimes you get the bear.

Journal Re-Kindles Controversy Over AIDS Research: A study in which investigators are accused of standing by while their subjects acquired the HIV virus, published in the embattled New England Journal of Medicine, is blasted by a number of prominent medical critics including Jerome Groopman and NEJM executive editor Marcia Angell.

Building your body in more than one way.

Rest in peace, Terence McKenna.

NLRB: Students Can Vote on Union! ‘New York University graduate teaching assistants have the right to organize a union, a

federal labor official ruled in the first such decision involving a private college.

Daniel Silverman, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, wrote Monday that he could find

no reason to deny collective bargaining rights to the TAs “merely because they are employed by an

educational institution while enrolled as a student.”‘

Investors Race to Buy ‘Fried Air’

Dutch investors scrambled to buy shares in fictitious firm F/Rite Air (pronounced “Fried Air”), sending more

than $6.5 million in orders to an investment Web site before discovering it was an April Fools prank.

California-based F/Rite Air had been billed as having developed an “air ioniser” that might take the place of anti-depressant drug Prozac and

that was being tested by the U.S. Air Force.

Australian Team Reports Stem Cell Breakthrough

The Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development said its research team was the first to achieve the

controlled, laboratory development of nerve cells from embryonic stem cells.

John Le Carre would love this one: A thief out-foxed a former British spy center by walking off with a rare Enigma machine used by the Nazis to send

coded messages during World War Two, police said.

Yes, but is it art? After the second or third time apologizing for the infrequent updates of a weblog within a week or two, shouldn’t the author consider dropping the project?