Osteoarthritis and Glucosamine

Energy shortages? Already?

I guess the UK hasn't heard BushCo's pronouncements on all the extra energy that there is, and about switchgrass!

Can you say, "Peak Oil"?

I knew you could!!

Arizona drought - and the 'perfect storm'

Rats. I told a friend of mine in New Orleans, for years, about the coming flood.

I still haven't heard from him.

Now, I've been telling people in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Utah about the coming drought (actually, a return to historically normal levels).

I hate when I'm right.

ScienceDaily: Vitamin D Inhibits Progression Of Some Prostate Cancers

ScienceDaily: Vitamin D Inhibits Progression Of Some Prostate Cancers

Mars rock hold carbon!

Wowza! A London museum let some scientists crack open a Mars meteorite; ie. a solid rock.

"I think it's too early to say how [the carbonaceous material] got there... the important thing is that people are always arguing with fallen meteorites that this is something that got in there after it fell to Earth.

"I think we can dismiss that. There's no way a solid piece of carbon got inside a meteorite."

Analysis of the interior revealed channels and pores filled with a complex mixture of carbon compounds. Some of this forms a dark, branching - or dendritic - material when seen under the microscope.

"It's really interesting material. We don't exactly know what it means yet, but it's all over the thin sections of the Nakhla material," said co-author Kathie Thomas Keprta, of Lockheed Martin Corporation in Houston, Texas.

Uh. yeah. Too early to say how carbon got inside a solid rock. Maybe when the rock was formed?

Wowza! I wonder what the born-agains will make of this. Carbon, as we know, only comes from the inside of rocks when carbon-based life dies - either inside the rock, or outside and then is swept up and the melted rock swirls around it or as crystals grow around the carbon. This was not a crystal, though.