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David Bolinsky's animated journey through a white blood cell is a surprise hit. Even The Matrix's Wachowski brothers are calling. Wired News interview by Kim Zetter.
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Zonk
from the everybody-be-cool-you-be-cool dept.
merryprankster writes "New Scientist reports that Scripps Research Institute scientists have found that lowering the body temperature of mice by just 0.5C extends their lifespan by around 15%. Until now the only proven way of increasing longevity has been calorie restriction — but as this also causes a lowering of body temperature the researchers speculate that this cooling may be the underlying mechanism retarding aging. In this study mice with a defect in their lateral hypothalamus, which has the side effect of cooling body temperature, not only lived longer but also ate normal amounts."
joeljkp writes "The New York Times has an article up discussing how modern humans are 'So Big and Healthy Nowadays That Grandpa Wouldn't Even Know You.' Despite the hyperbole, the article makes several excellent points regarding the impact of antibiotics and modern medicine on humans in their youth. The 'baby boomers' of today have an overall level of health far higher than their parents did in middle age, and reason stands that their children will have even better health to look forward to." From the article: "The biggest surprise emerging from the new studies is that many chronic ailments like heart disease, lung disease and arthritis are occurring an average of 10 to 25 years later than they used to. There is also less disability among older people today, according to a federal study that directly measures it. And that is not just because medical treatments like cataract surgery keep people functioning. Human bodies are simply not breaking down the way they did before. Even the human mind seems improved. The average I.Q. has been increasing for decades, and at least one study found that a person's chances of having dementia in old age appeared to have fallen in recent years."
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timothy
from the sniff-the-air-from-the-vacuum-can dept.
twofish writes "Simon Phipps, the chief open-source officer
at Sun Microsystems, has reaffirmed Sun's
commitment to Open Source in an interview
with computerworld.
The focus of the interview is Simon's efforts to fully open source Java.
He points out that many problems need to be resolved before
Java can be open sourced — ownership, legal, access, encumbrances and relationships
with Java licensees. It took Sun a full five years to solve these issues with
Solaris. However Simon predicts that it won't take anything near this amount
of time to complete the task with Java.
Of course, one of the other concerns for OS Java is the resulting incompatible
versions and breaking of the Java WORA
model (Gosling himself has always been particularly concerned about incompatible
forks resulting in the introduction of an open source version of Java) and this opens
up additional problems for the open source Java model."
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ScuttleMonkey
from the fire-a-broadside dept.
mikemuch writes "The browser wars have heated up again, with Microsoft putting Beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7 out for all to download (not just developers anymore), Firefox coming out with the first beta of its version 2, and Opera releasing version 9. ExtremeTech has a shoot-out of the three browsers, with feature comparisons and tests of resource usage, startup time, and Acid2 standards compliance. Standout features are Opera's built-in BitTorrent support, Firefox's spellchecker for forms, and IE's Quick Tabs view. Firefox is still ahead in extensions, while Opera has some slick UI conveniences."
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timothy
from the sneak-around-the-sun dept.
An anonymous reader writes "From the beginning, Eclipse included tight integration with the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) in order to provide access to change-management capabilities. Now, many projects -- notably those run by the Apache Software Foundation -- are using a different change-management system: Subversion. This article demonstrates how to add Subversion support to Eclipse and how to perform basic version-control activities from the IDE."
