Lefties

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Hanky Panky

I just had to let this out somewhere. It cracks me up. My sister might name her baby boy Henry. I like that name because you don't hear it much anymore. When he picks up on chicks he'll be able to walk up to them and ask "Do you do the Hanky Panky?" I would do that at least once if I were him.

Unfortunately, I also found out hanky panky is the name of "the world's most comfortable thong".

Digital World!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/

Are we spending too much time on the internet, cell phones etc. How is it affecting the brain?

http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/081015_gary-small-ibrain.aspx

Gary Small M.D. has done research on it - although inconclusive.

Food Inc.

What's going on in America's kitchen?

This is an interesting video. Helped me take another step to reducing my ignorance. Didn't think the gloomy music was entirely necessary but overall a good flick...

Our government has been dominated by the industries that were meant to be regulated. People with expertise in industry some how turn out to be very good regulators.
Centralized power used against farmers, workers, consumers.
Veggie libel laws. Cheeseburger bills. Kevin's law.
It costs more to eat healthy. The carrots need to cost less than the chips.
Eat foods that are in season.
Only eat beef once a week.
Shop at farmer's markets.
Grow a garden.
We have to start demanding good wholesome food.

It was interesting to learn the impact corn has. Cows should not be forced to eat corn.

Contributing Author

Scientific Papers of which I am a contributing Author.

Full-length Characterization of Proteins in Human Populations.
C-peptide microheterogeneity in type 2 diabetes populations.
Population Studies of Vitamin D Binding Protein Microheterogeneity by Mass Spectrometry Lead to Characterization of its Genotype-Dependent O-Glycosylation Patterns.
Population Studies of Intact Vitamin D Binding Protein by Affinity Capture ESI-TOF-MS.

The Greats

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Romantic-era_composers

This is a good wikipedia article that lists many of the well-known composers from the 18th and 20th centuries.

Its nice to hear a tune from Beethoven, Pachelbel, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Unfortunately, this is almost the extent of my knowledge of good classical music.

Fast Genome Sequencing

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1005/revolutionaries-science-genomics-gene-machine.html

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/140/the-gene-bubble.html

How much time and money has been spent on figuring out how to sequence the human genome? It was completed in 2001 and surprisingly humans only have ~25,000 genes. That's 3.5 billion bases. Nowadays many scientists are trying to do it faster and cheaper but to what avail? Even after a fast and cheap method of sequencing the human genome is developed we are many years away from knowing how it will cure diseases.