First AIDS ‘cure’ in history

A bone marrow harvest.

“Timothy Ray Brown, a 45-year-old San Francisco man previously known to the medical community as “the Berlin patient,” has become the first person to ever be cured of AIDS.

After a stem cell bone marrow transplant, doctors say his HIV, the infection which causes AIDS, was eradicated.

His bone marrow donor was one of a very small percentage of people who are immune to HIV.” (via Raw Replay).

You Bug Me

Now Science Explains Why: “…There are so many things in the world that are just

A ground bug

You bug me

downright annoying.But what makes them annoying? It’s the question that NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca and Science Friday‘s Flora Lichtman set out to answer in their new book, Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us. For instance, why is hearing someone else’s phone call more irritating than just overhearing a normal conversation?” (via NPR)

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