- Obama to lift ban on stem cell research soon
Obama adviser David Axelrod told “Fox News Sunday” that the President will soon issue an executive order lifting Bush’s eight-year ban embryonic stem cell research. - Seven things you need to know about time
For starters, smokers who are quitting experience time slower than the rest of us; and one group of physicists has recently found a way to do quantum physics without invoking time, which suggests that time really is an illusion. - Pill to erase bad memories: Ethical furore over drugs ‘that threaten human identity’
A drug which appears to erase painful memories has been developed by scientists. Now come the ethical questions brought up by eliminating the experiences that arguably make us human. - New wave for Islamic science
Measures taken to promote science in recent years are having an impact in the Islamic world. Turkey, for example, has doubled its research spending in the past five years and Qatar has set a target to reach the developed-world average of spending 2.8% of their national income on science by the same deadline. - A pharmacopeia of t-shirts
T-shirts emblazoned with molecules are a favorite of chemistry nerds, but you’ll need to expand your wardrobe thanks a website called moleculewear.com, which print shirts featuring over 40 drug molecules, from antidepressants and painkillers to neurotransmitters and even MSG. (via Mind Hacks)
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Originally published February 16, 2009
