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May 2008
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September 2006Paul Allen’s Institute for Brain Science in Seattle announced today it has mapped the brain. The mouse brain, that is. And though it's smaller, it's applicable to us, because humans and mice share about 99% of their genes. The relevance: the recently completed mapping of the human genome tells us what genes are in our body. This project tells us where in the brain other cells are switched on. The map is now available online free to eve... So we start with a couple of firsts: this is the first blog I've ever written...and it's about my first-ever submarine ride. It probably won't be the last blog I ever write. But as for my sub adventure...well...I'm never doing THAT again! ...The anniversary of 9/11 is Monday. Where were you when you found out the planes hit the towers? Not surprisingly for a TV person, I was watching NBC's Today Show when Matt and Katie shared the horror and talked us through it. I wondered if I could have done as well. And I had to try later that same day. How much has your life changed because of those events? Politics seems a lot more intense right now to me. Does it to you? And I t... We are running a program this Thursday night (9/7) about a variety of cancers, some of which may be sexually transmitted, like cervical cancer. All of which involve naming body parts and describing how to recognize the warning signs of a health problem when its early enough to do something about it. In the copy we mention bod... "10,000 iraqi civilains have been killed since May". |