Monthly Archives: March 2010

Myelin is a blessing and a curse

March 31, 2010
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Myelin inhibits axonal growth, and blocking myelin formation improves axonal growth. Wang Y, Khaing ZZ, Li N, Hall  B, Schmidt CE, et al. (2010)  Aptamer Antagonists of Myelin-Derived  Inhibitors Promote Axon Growth.  PLoS ONE 5(3): e9726.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009726 Nogo, for instance, binds to axons and recruits over myelin, to oversimplify. Blocking the Nogo receptor on...

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“Microtubule dynamically challenged” ™ should be new DSM category.

March 30, 2010
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We play a doctor on the internets.

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Flakey flip-floppers have have less visible white matter than pigheaded tea baggers in certain areas of the brain.

March 29, 2010
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Flakey flip-floppers have have less visible white matter than pigheaded tea baggers in certain areas of the brain.

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds and all that.

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Senate Finance Bill Will Shut Out Angel Investors – Kiss That Life Science Start Up Goodbye

March 24, 2010
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Senate Finance bill and law of unintended consequences.

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More on selective aggression: Nazism and serial killers

March 22, 2010
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Can an entire society turn into whacked out paranoiacs?

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Rorschach Test

March 17, 2010
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Rorschach Test

Do you see two ducks dancing?

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Mass delusion caused the financial crisis

March 15, 2010
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Mass delusion caused the financial crisis

How did everyone buy into the delusion?

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Domestic Violence as Monogamous Aggression

March 9, 2010
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Domestic Violence as Monogamous Aggression

Domestic violence as monogamous aggression. Vasopressin, aquaporin-4, testosterone, aldosterones and mineralocortoicoids, and brain/vascular salinity may have something to do with this.

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Happy Groundwater Awareness Week! We have no clue what’s in the water because the regulations have only been sporadically, if ever, enforced as against corporate polluters

March 8, 2010
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Happy Groundwater Awareness Week! We have no clue what’s in the water because the regulations have only been sporadically, if ever, enforced as against corporate polluters

This week is Groundwater Awareness Week and the EPA advises all of us to go out and check our groundwater, but there is no advice to call them to trace the source of the contaminants and then give the polluters a clean-up order.

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The Bimodal Society: 1% Plutocrats and 99% $60K/yr

March 3, 2010
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The Bimodal Society: 1% Plutocrats and 99% $60K/yr

The haves (<1%). The $60K-ers (99.999999%). Bimodal income distribution as a planned society.

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