Amateur and a pro
Don’t take this the wrong way because I’m a scientist that does cancer research. I was driving home today and I was captivated by this story on NPR So crazy it might work http://goo.gl/cAGXf
Dr. John Brody (http://goo.gl/Djbb5), an expert in pancreatic cancer, goes home to give a speech at his alma mater about thinking outside the box. After his talk, his old music teacher, Anthony Holland, approaches him about an idea. Anthony had been working in his garage on an idea from Royal Rife to use electromagnetic waves to make cells burst like a wine glass when the resonant frequency is used. What really captivated me is when Dr. Brody tried to explain to his friend that his results were meaningless without proper controls. He also tried to explain that when Mr. Holland got support from other scientists, it was also tainted because he had not explained that the control experiments had failed so far.
There are videos about the documentary on this website (I’m linking the synopsis). http://www.thecuredocumentary.com/synopsis
#ScienceEveryday when it isn’t #ScienceSunday
November 17, 2012
Cool. I didn’t get my NPR fix today (actually HPR here). Glad I could catch up on here.
November 17, 2012
Noel Niles if you can, try to catch the re-air. I honestly was captivated the whole commute home.
November 17, 2012
Will do. I can probably download a podcast. Either that or plan a commute very carefully so I can catch the re-air.
November 17, 2012
This is it n’est pas? http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/450/so-crazy-it-just-might-work
November 17, 2012
Yes, I thought I linked it above.
November 17, 2012
Oh….. yeah
November 17, 2012
Buddhini Samarasinghe I think you’ll like this if you can catch it on NPR.
November 17, 2012
Oooh I’ll have a look – thanks for the tag!
November 17, 2012
You like my H&E?
November 17, 2012
Ok I’m having a blonde moment – what is H&E?
November 17, 2012
hematoxylin and eosin, you’re fired!
November 17, 2012
Haha! I don’t do stains, I can’t be fired 😛
November 17, 2012
I don’t either but I do cancer. You’re still fired.
November 17, 2012
Haha! Yeah, Mr MRI I like to see you try some wet lab molecular biology references 😛 That’s cancer too 😛
November 17, 2012
Wow! this just went from a NPR story to a science showdown. My +google has never been so exciting.
November 17, 2012
I recall Chad struggling with a reference to restriction enzymes that cut a palindromic DNA sequence 😛
November 17, 2012
NO! Well those DNA palindromes will get you every time I guess.
November 17, 2012
Hey Chad Haney what does this spell? 😛 No
googlingcheating!TGCCACGCTGAT
November 17, 2012
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess a country in Africa and not chab.
November 18, 2012
Tsk, these young postdocs nowadays don’t know their histology 😛
Well, your mystery sequence is not a palindrome, so it is not a RE recognition site, Buddhini Samarasinghe . So, I’m calling on the genetic code to name our friend Cys His Ala Asp 😉
November 18, 2012
Rajini Rao Haha! Isn’t it cool how his name can be spelled with DNA? Wish I had that!
November 18, 2012
Yes, but he can also be mutated. What if there was an in-frame triplet deletion to Cys Ala Asp? He can also be His Ala Asp. I’ve not even got started with substitutions 😛
November 18, 2012
LOL! Poor CHAD, he must be so lost 😀
I just got home from the lab, I will do the SciSun comm post in a bit and kick things off 🙂
November 18, 2012
I can also jump on for 30 min or so.
November 18, 2012
We’ll let him stay Wild Type for now, as long as he is good.
Great, thanks re. SciSun. I’ve shared a bunch.
November 18, 2012
I finally got my PC at work so things should start to settle down, normalize. I should be able to resume doing some mid-week re-shares.
November 18, 2012
Okay, goodnight then!
November 18, 2012
Trying to find an enticing Hawaii pic again 😛
I did some reshares during the week. I saw Rajini’s nag to add the page on someone’s post, good idea. I’m going to do that from now on 😀
November 18, 2012
Goodnight. Sweet dreams.
November 18, 2012
I also tag the comments with. “Thanks ___, tagging to read later, #ScienceEveryday “
November 18, 2012
You can borrow my H&E slide.
November 18, 2012
Too late, already posted 😛
November 18, 2012
Buddhini Samarasinghe The link for Lionel’s dinner cocktail party doesn’t work for me but I don’t have time tonight anyway.
November 18, 2012
I tagged you in Chad. BTW are you in Yonatan’s original roving dinner party circle? That might explain why you couldn’t see this post. Yonatan should do an update soon I think.
November 18, 2012
I don’t think originally but I think he mentioned adding or updating.