FIGHTING CANCER WITH TARGETED NANOPARTICLES:
Scientists believe they have found a way to block the supply of nutrients to cancer tumours.
Researchers mimicked the action of blood cells known as platelets by creating tiny nanoparticles to create clots to stop blood getting to tumours.
The particles may also be able to deliver chemotherapy drugs to the area, the California University team said.
Bring it on!
ILYA SOMIN: “Like Eugene Volokh and Glenn Reynolds, I too am a big fan of John Scalzi’s recent Science fiction books Old Man’s War and Ghost Brigades. But the New York Times was wrong to describe the Volokh Conspiracy and Glenn as ‘conservative’ in its review of Scalzi’s works.”
True, but on the scale of their errors it’s minor enough that I don’t complain any more. Somin continues: “More fundamentally, it is not clear to me that there really is much affinity between science fiction and conservatism. Most of the prominent ‘conservative’ science fiction writers (e.g. – Robert A. Heinlein, whose work the reviewer compares with Scalzi’s) are in fact libertarian in their ideology.”
That’s true, too, but for many it’s impossible to imagine that anyone other than a “conservative” might favor violence in self defense, or national defense.
CATHY SEIPP offers firsthand health-insurance experience.
“SO THIS IS OUR VICTORY:” Michael Totten reports from Hezbollah-devastated South Lebanon.
STEVE JOBS UNVEILED THE IPHONE earlier today.
UPDATE: Here’s a huge iPhone roundup from Pajamas Media.
Plus, more thoughts from Lou Minatti: “Apple will gain a huge chunk of the market.”
MCCAIN ON THE WAR: At Power Line.
PUSHING THE ZUNE.
GAMER ALLEY, at the Microsoft “booth.” Which is roughly an acre in size. . .
THE WORLD’S LARGEST LCD TV: The 108″ Sharp Aquos. More on that here.
In response to my earlier photo of the wifi-enabled car, reader Jason Norrett emails: “When did we pass into the zone where we needed 100% entertainment 100% of the time?”
Does this answer your question, Jason?
Of course, these are really just show cars and most of them aren’t really drivable. I see them more as testament to the notion that nothing succeeds like excess, at least when you’re trying to draw attention.
IT’S LIKE THIS IS SOME KIND OF MEDIA EVENT, or something.
“TECH BUBBLE? I think you mean the ‘Tech Bubbly,’ sir. Why don’t you try a glass?” And it’s delicious.
I’VE BEEN POSTING A LOT OF PHOTOS HERE, partly because the Popular Mechanics site layout won’t let me make them as big as I’d like. But all the actual reports are over there, including my grueling comparison test involving a Sanyo massage chair versus an actual masseuse. Yes, this is a rough gig.
I MENTIONED THE BALL OF WHACKS a while back. Now reader Douglas Bass emails: “Hello Glenn! Just writing to let you know that all four of my children under the age of 14 found the Ball of Whacks to be both irresistible and unbreakable.”
Yeah, I’m not sure it will regrow hair, but it’s pretty cool otherwise.
THE UPCOMING Socialist Republic of Venezuela?
RUSSIA SHUTS OFF EUROPE’S OIL SUPPLY, as part of its dispute with Belarus. “The move raised further questions over whether Western Europe can trust Mr Putin for its energy supply. Experts said that Russia had a deeply entrenched habit of manipulating oil and gas supplies as a substitute for diplomatic policy.” You don’t say.
A LOOK at Jeff Bezos’ up-to-now secretive space company, Blue Origin.
MORE GOOD NEWS FROM SOMALIA: “British terror suspects have been injured or captured in the recent military action against Islamic extremists in Somalia, it has been claimed. . . . Ethiopia’s prime minister said on Tuesday that many international terrorists had been killed, injured or captured in the fighting in Somalia. Meles Zenawi was quoted by the French newspaper Le Monde as saying that suspected terrorists from Britain were among them.”
A HI-DEF CAMCORDER WITH SURROUND SOUND that records onto a chip. And it’s amazingly small.
BUT THERE’S NO TECH BUBBLE.
THIS IS THE DISPLAY for those wifi-enabled cars I mentioned a while back.
THE VIEW FROM the Popular Mechanics booth window.
STRIKING AL QAEDA IN SOMALIA: I’ve been busy, but Austin Bay has been paying attention.
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