Wow.
I’m flat-out stealing this from the venerable AnyCheese, [well, her buzz feed anyhow] but this story exploded my thinker.
A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“The patient is fine,” said Dr. Gero Hutter of Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin in Germany. “Today, two years after his transplantation, he is still without any signs of HIV disease and without antiretroviral medication.” – More from CNN
They do point out later in the article that the process is prohibitively dangerous to use in all but the most extreme of situations, and that the process itself kills one in three patients. My thoughts are that the skeptics can tell it to Christiaan Barnard.
I’m not arguing for a technocracy, but when are we going to get The R&D Candidate?
Andrew Koenig, We Hardly Knew Ye
“Andrew Koenig‘s parents wish their son had realized how many people cared about him. “My son took his own life,” dad Walter Koenig said during a police news conference this [Feb 25th] evening. “Obviously, he was in a lot of pain.”” – more at imdb
So ends the life of “Boner” Stabone.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1KynuQwd8]
Beard
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I’m crazy busy today, well, this week really, so I leave you with this disturbing comedic youtube cop out in place of actual content.
Piano and Flute and Acoustic Guitar
Why is on-hold music still so terrible? We’ve obviously got phone and music technology working fairly well these days, why can’t we successfully combine them into a non-iPhone application?
Is there a concern that if they start providing CD quality music, people will call in just to record a swath of “Non-Specific Adult Contemporary Instrumentals vol XIV” for resale on the streets of Bangkok?
Perspective
A screen grab from CNN:
Will spend entire weekend in his room listening to New Found Glory and weepily texting his girlfriend.
It’s a shame the General isn’t in some sort of position to make changes to the way the military operates, it must really tear him up inside to feel so helpless.
Sunday Follies: Trotting Out Another Classic
“My Olympic Event is the 500 Meter Eating-Your-Brain.”
jump, Magic, jump
A screenshot of something I ran across in Google Reader, while adding my Two Gay Uncle-in-laws’ youtube cooking show to my feed.
Dammit, Google – you’ve done it again!
A Brief Refresher
I understand why it’s easy to confuse the two:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBqcEo5CNTQ]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S90z0jJDAQ]
Both were written by the same fellow, Jesse Fredrick.
Jesse Frederick is a film and television composer best known for writing the themes to television shows such as Perfect Strangers, Full House, Family Matters, and Step By Step. – Wikipedia
Chad Allan & The Reflections
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puYjGU27eo0]
Man, The Guess Who were a weird and fantastic band.
I don’t really enjoy the stadium style of BTO anymore – it certainly held a fascination for me when I was twelve – but Randy Bachman is one of the CBC’s greatest assets at the moment.
Er, while this began as a ridiculous Friday night music post, ten minutes of wikipedia has me thinking I may be returning to this topic. Is there a quality book on 1960s & ’70s Canadian rock music?