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King Kong Found!

Friday, December 2, 2005

Well, at least his fossil.
According to this article from McMaster University, an ape that was roughly three meters tall and weighed up to 1,200 pounds was running around Asia at a time when humans also existed. Gigantopithecus blackii, as the giant primate is known in archeological circles, has actually been known for over 35 [...]

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Romulus and Remus?

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

I saw a strange story…
Okay, a really, really strange story, on BoingBoing, about a woman breast feeding two tiger cubs in South East Asia. Obviously, after trying to picture this scene in my head, what I pictured was a kind of Asian Romulus and Remus story.
If you’re not familiar with these two fine lads, [...]

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Immune to HIV?

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Now, that is fascinating!
Apparently, two women in China have been found with a gene that makes them “immune” to HIV. According to the article on ChinaDaily.com, these are the first two people in China, and possibly Asia, found with this kind of mutant gene. Apparently, this gene has been found in Caucasians, but [...]

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Bring in the Clones?

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Well, not in the United States!
This article in Wired News discusses the Korean created cloned human embryo and the stem cells derived from it. In part, it says, the Koreans managed this before us because of our moral and religious leanings. Our politics and medical ethics are derived from our, primarily, Judeo-Christian outlook [...]

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Writer’s Block

Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Okay, so I’ve got writer’s block.
It’s not a crime. It’s more like a disease. An insidious, creeping disease that steals my creativity and locks me away in a horrible nightmare of sad, soggy prose. My problem isn’t that I don’t have ideas galore for stories. And, it’s not that they aren’t original and interesting. [...]

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