Cracking open the fridge on a sweltering August day, there is an endless choice of beverages: flavors unnatural or natural; pops or sodas or cokes; beer or wine or alco-pops, but always in the correct order. How to choose? Excepting that packet of Capri-Sun at the back, the better choice is: plastic or glass? While the former is appropriate for the road-trip cup holder, it’s glass that promises refreshment. Given those options, here are the drinks we’d reach for.
WUHAN, China — Denmark demanded more answers Friday following a FIFA investigation into why two men with video cameras were hiding behind a two-way mirror in the team’s meeting room.
The alleged spying happened Tuesday, the eve of Denmark’s opening match against host China at the Women’s World Cup . The men, who the team spokeswoman said were Chinese, were discovered a half-hour before Denmark was to hold a strategy meeting.
If this is going on at the Women’s World Cup, I can’t wait to see what China has in store for the 2008 Olympics. Maybe they have Bill Belichick on their payroll.
The Buck Institute for Age Research is launching a new scientific discipline called Geroscience, which will be focused on the interface of normal aging and age-related disease. A five-year $25 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research will establish an Interdisciplinary Research Consortium in Geroscience at the Institute. The Buck received one of nine Roadmap awards granted in the U.S. This is the largest grant received by the Institute in its eight year history.
The interdisciplinary grants address health challenges that have been resistant to traditional research approaches. At the Buck Institute the award will allow scientists to employ novel and unconventional approaches to studying various diseases in the context of aging, which is the single largest risk factor for disease in developed countries. For example, researchers who study aging using worm models will be designing experiments with neuroscientists. Scientists studying nutrition and aging in fruit flies will be working on projects with a cancer specialist. Experts in human embryonic stem cells will be designing experiments with cancer and age researchers to understand how stem cells age and determine how tumor suppressor genes function as the cells develop. The award also establishes the nation’s first post-doctoral training program in Geroscience.
This week I made the switch from Courier to Consolas, the new monospace font from Microsoft that utilizes ClearType rendering to provide improved on-screen readability. I am now using the font in my e-mail client (Thunderbird/Apple Mail), lab notebook (Journler), and text editor (TextPad/BBEdit). One major benefit to switching is that it renders well on both the Mac and the PC, whereas Courier only looks good on the Mac platform. Courier New looks great on the PC but is too thin on the Mac. Consolas also has better support for international characters, which is helpful when using Greek characters in my lab notebook.