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2008-Jul-17, Thursday 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerSpore:
My sporeprint is beginning to look like a proper zoo. If anyone new wants to participate, feel free to join at any time. Other people are obviously having lots of fun with the creature creator too, as players have quickly submitted more species than are known to exist on Earth. As this story quotes Will Wright, the game's creator:
Planning is still moving along well, and there's only 6 weeks left until the event. We have a few people wanting to present material this year, so that's good news. And this year there were 3 people willing to help arrange the conference, so it's good that it's not all my work and "Terry's conference". I hope it works out well this year. That would bode well for it continuing through future years even if I'm not around to make it happen.
I confirmed yesterday that I will be able to take off from work to attend. During that conversation, my own diagnosis came out. I figured the knowledge would surface eventually since the info about me is plastered all over the web, but it did sort of catch me by surprise yesterday.
HIV/AIDS:
Some researchers at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston think they may have found the way to defeat HIV. According to this story, they are able to isolate antibodies that work in destroying HIV. They got these antibodies from the blood of people who have survived decade-long infection.
Bears:
Other researchers at Cornell University notice that thin people eat differently at buffets than overweight people. It's an interesting read actually.
And for some silly news, scientists find the bottom-most "Bottomonium". Enjoy.
My sporeprint is beginning to look like a proper zoo. If anyone new wants to participate, feel free to join at any time. Other people are obviously having lots of fun with the creature creator too, as players have quickly submitted more species than are known to exist on Earth. As this story quotes Will Wright, the game's creator:
"We hit 100K in 22 hours and a million by the end of the first week. The numbers are just blowing us away."Northern Lights Autism Retreat:
A week ago, the number of creatures in the "Spore" database exceeded the number of known species on Earth.
"It took them 18 days to reach the number of creatures on Earth and, by some accounts, it took God six days," Wright joked during a presentation onstage at the vintage Orpheum Theater.
Planning is still moving along well, and there's only 6 weeks left until the event. We have a few people wanting to present material this year, so that's good news. And this year there were 3 people willing to help arrange the conference, so it's good that it's not all my work and "Terry's conference". I hope it works out well this year. That would bode well for it continuing through future years even if I'm not around to make it happen.
I confirmed yesterday that I will be able to take off from work to attend. During that conversation, my own diagnosis came out. I figured the knowledge would surface eventually since the info about me is plastered all over the web, but it did sort of catch me by surprise yesterday.
HIV/AIDS:
Some researchers at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston think they may have found the way to defeat HIV. According to this story, they are able to isolate antibodies that work in destroying HIV. They got these antibodies from the blood of people who have survived decade-long infection.
A small minority of HIV positive people also start producing the abzymes after decades of the infection. The immune system in some people can cope with HIV after all.Good news.
Bears:
Other researchers at Cornell University notice that thin people eat differently at buffets than overweight people. It's an interesting read actually.
And for some silly news, scientists find the bottom-most "Bottomonium". Enjoy.
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Date: 2008-Jul-17, Thursday 04:53 pm (UTC)