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I'm too young to have learned about the Vietnam War in school, and as a result I'm forever learning things that folks in their forties and older simply take for granted that "everybody" knows. This 2007 article about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was eye-opening. I was four years old when it was dedicated, and while I've been vaguely aware that some people didn't like it, that's all I knew. It's a pretty interesting story.
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University of Manchester researchers, making a study of hundreds of ancient Egyptian mummies, have found that cancer was exceedingly rare among that cohort. Combined with the paucity of evidence that cancer existed in antiquity, they've put forth the theory that cancer is a disease of modernity, caused by environmental factors.
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The 111th Congress can be accused of a lot, but not inaction—it's been the most productive in decades.
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Forgive me, but I haven’t read the cancer article you linked, just the blurb you wrote up. But I thought I read a few years ago a study that found prostate cancer in mummies. Another point being that if every male could live long enough, that every male would develop prostate cancer – that it so prevalent in males, but not always deadly. Don’t quote me on any of that.
Couldn’t find the exact info I was looking for, but found I study that reported prostate cancer in a 2,600 year old mummy.
It seems a lot of prominent cancer organizations are outraged at this new study and the study’s flaws have been pointed out in the NewScientist.
grs, I don’t think that these two things are mutually exclusive. The theory here isn’t that ancient Egyptians didn’t get cancer, just that they got it at a rate far, far lower than modern man.
Hans, that’s a really interesting response—thanks for that! Though some of those objections seem irrelevant, most of them seem pretty strong. I look forward to seeing what comes out of this.
Anyone going to the Perriello-Hurt debate tonight at PVCC?
I’d intended to, but I’ve been seeing on Twitter that the place is just packed. I’m not eager to drive half an hour to town, only to find I can’t get a seat. :) Luckily, it’ll be streamed live.
Heh… Yeah, me too.
I mean, I sometimes enjoy standing in line for an hour just to get in the door and maybe get a seat not adjacent to a large, smelly dude.
If you had a bit more advance notice, I would have pushed you for a live blog (using CoverItLive or something).
Maybe next time. :-)
If I’m to have a prayer of saying anything useful, I need some time to chew things over. A live blog of a political event from me would have a lot of “OMG he said teh stupid!!1!” :)
HA! Well played… then again, who said blogging ever had to be “useful?” ;-)
My dog is very productive at taking dumps (shovel ready projects) but that doesn’t mean that everything coming out is good. Productivity is an amoral quality, kinda like being historic. It says nothing about what’s being produced. People have taken a look at what this congress did and they don’t like what’s “coming out”.