Sorry to those of you who wanted one, but it looks like the cuttings I attempted to root in water for you have surcumbed to stem rot. For some reason they dont seem to root as well in water as they do in soil. I will be able to make another attempt here in a few weeks though, and will keep you in mind.

Happy 4th of July. I may not be happy with the direction this country has taken over the last 200 years, drifting further and further from those ideals we are celebrating today, but I am still an enormous patriot in the sense that I think the Constitution is the most beautiful social contract ever written, and the men who sacrificed their lives to ( Read more... )

I have pimped, and will continue to pimp folding@home, until I'm satisfied that I've made all of you aware of this wonderful way to contribute to scientific/medical discovery.

From their home page:

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related ( Read more... )

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/02/2012252&mode=thread&tid=134&tid=186&tid=214

So, what's going on in ericland ( Read more... )

for some reason, I'm not getting all my comments emailed as I should be, if there is something you wanted me to see, please link to it here or otherwise let me know about it and I'll try to get back to you. I havent been purposefully rude, just need to tweak my email or something

http://folding.stanford.edu/

What happened to a man whose only crime, it seems, was trying to ease his chronic pain. "You know when you have a toothache and the pain is so severe that you absolutely have to be seen immediately by a dentist?" says the man in the wheelchair. "Imagine if you had to grin and bear it for an undetermined period of time. You can't see straight. You ( Read more... )

Anyone out there who knows much about physics know whether the matter/energy farthest from the center of the universe will be the first to be consumed by entropy, vie/versa, or in splotches all over the place... got this little theory/story nuggest but not clear enough on the astrophysics to play with it yet...

1. Either return prescribing power to pharmacists, or remove the need for prescriptions altogether

2. Massive, large-scale drop out of people from health insurance

3. Tort-law reform, or something else that gets rid of the gross number of frivolous lawsuits and removes the need for doctors to carry such incredibly expensive malpractice