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Scientists have discovered a gene that is able to block HIV assembly and replication. The next step is to get it to work in people who need it.
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The Quaranta is a solar-assisted hybrid concept car from the Italian design group Giugiaro. Wired calls it ugly.
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The extended trailer for Iron Man. Sure to be a hit the weekend of May 2nd.
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The tiniest wildcat appears to blur the line between ferocious beasts and housecats. The Sand cat lives in the most inhospitable desert spots of Africa and Asia.
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Astronomers have observed heavenly bodies that later vanished. Or did they? Read the stories behind Hypothetical Planets.
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Of history’s most famous assassinations, who could have been saved by modern medical intervention? Not many of them.
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Food Fight is a video that reenacts famous battles from World War II through the present. But the “actors” are foods from each country!
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The Ed Wood of the 90s? David “The Rock” Nelson makes bizarre movies you’ve never heard of.
Wow, Iron Man trailer looked cool! They may have actually made a comic hero movie I want to see…
posted by Lisa on 3-3-2008 at 6:10 am
Food fight was very creative. The Cold War scene was brilliant.
posted by Audra on 3-3-2008 at 2:19 pm
No Ghandi or Oswald under assasinations?
posted by John P on 3-3-2008 at 2:39 pm
The link to the assasinations was really interesting. To think of how much medicine has evolved… Can you imagine what people will say about our medical procedures 100 years from now?
posted by GTT on 3-3-2008 at 3:22 pm