Was trying to figure out something interesting to cook and happened upon Tastespotting, which has tons of nice pics of food and recipes on how to make them.
Thought I’d share.
For those using Firefox with Adblock (and probably the Adblock Filterset G Updater), all the images will be blocked unless you remove espotting.com from the domain list.
They’re evil and they only care about your health if it helps their profitability.
It is expected there would be no problems securing funding to explore a drug that could shrink cancerous tumors and has no side-effects in humans, but University of Alberta researcher Evangelos Michelakis has hit a stalemate with the private sector who would normally fund such a venture.
Michelakis’ drug is none other than dichloroacetate (DCA), a drug which cannot be patented and costs pennies to make.
It’s no wonder he can’t secure the $400-600 million needed to conduct human trials with the medicine - the drug doesn’t have the potential to make enough money.
Michelakis told reporters they will be applying to public agencies for funding, as pharmaceuticals are reluctant to pick up the drug.
At roughly $2 a dose, there isn’t much chance to make a billion on the cancer treatment over the long term.
According to research on DCA, formerly used to fight metabolic disease in children, the drug apparently revitalizes damaged mitochondria in cancer cells, effectively triggering cell death and shrinking the cells.
“One of the really exciting things about this compound is that it might be able to treat many different forms of cancer,” explained Michelakis.
This is also a large part of what’s wrong with the American medical system.
Who would ever want a $2 pill that shrinks/kills tumors with no side effects? Don’t be ridiculous. The mere idea of such a thing being desirable is absurd.
First billmon closes up shop (again… but you’ll be back!) and now Berube augers in.
The dynamics of the ebb and flow of blogging are interesting. The demands of always having something to say about whatever it is that is most cutting edge can be draining. Which is why you have so much burnout and turnover. From my experience (and I’ve been doing this since 1997), it’s best to just go fallow for a bit and post when you feel like it. After all, it’s not like the site is going anywhere. If you make grandiose proclamations and farewells… you’re kind of stuck. If you come back, it will have been like staging your own funeral or eleventieth birthday party only to show up at the next summer’s barbecue wearing a hawaiian shirt and birkenstocks.
And no one likes birkenstocks. Except those freaks who wear them. *shudder*
Come on back anytime, billmon and Berube. Our door’s always open. Oh, and someone light a candle for Greenwald. He’s burning his candle at both ends. Would hate to see him end up like JoplinMoonHendrixMorrison. No, really.
Though We, the People, are essentially powerless to stop this insane escalation of an idiotic war as perpetuated by an unaccountable authoritarian/Caligula-liite, I cannot stand idly by as the AWOL preznit sends more of your sons and daughters to die in the sands of Iraq.
No Surge.
No McCain/Lieberman magic pony plan.
No Surge.
No Bush/Cheney oedipal dreams of imperial grandeur.
No more.
If you can call your congresscritters to register your opposition to this latest infernal idiocy (which, by the way, is also a precursor to the likely upcoming naval and air strikes on Iran - this is America, how?). You are not alone and maybe, just maybe, enough voices working together can stop this insanity.
As an experiment, one noble soul decided to try to spend $30 total for all his food for a month.
For the month of November, I'm only spending $30 on food. The only exception will be things that are freely available to the average person salt taken from restaurants, sauce packets from Taco Bell, free coffee from an office. Buying in advance is fine, but at the end of the month, it all has to add up to $30 or less.
Interesting and provocative experience. And he donated his saved money to a food bank, which was an awesome gesture.
Wisegeek has this cool picture gallery (arranged by mass) of what 200 calories looks like. If you’re watching your calories this is pretty interesting. Even if it’s not it’s almost artistic. Almost.