Due to the tremendous response we've gotten, we've decided to give The Rugged Elegance Inspiration Network site room to grow by moving it to a new, improved location:

http://www.ruggedelegantliving.com

Please re-set your bookmarks as all new posts will occur on the new site.

As part of the move we are also transitioning to a Moveable Type content management system, which will allow us to add more editors while providing better search and categorization capabilities.

Thank you your continued support. Growth is good.

-Tim
1:41:54 PM    

Mercury News:

Genomic Health, a Redwood City biotech start-up, has unveiled new cancer screening tests that are intended to pick the best drugs for treating an individual's tumor and predict whether a patient will be a long-term survivor.

The tests are part of a push toward the latest frontier in medical care: the quest for personalized treatments that match the specifics of the patient's tumor.

11:48:04 AM    

Reuters:

Changes in diet and a sedentary lifestyle have fueled an obesity epidemic, but genetics also play a role and could explain why some people put on weight more easily than others, a leading obesity expert said on Friday.

I don't doubt that genes are important in obesity, but it seems clear to me that poor diet and lack of exercise is the key to the obesity epidemic as genetic makeup has not changed in the past 100 years while obesity rates have skyrocketed.

-Tim

5:19:24 PM    

Sci-Fi Today:

Research at the University of Toronto has led to an experimental vaccine in lab animals that halts further infections by prions, the cause of various neurological diseases including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) , commonly known as Mad Cow Disease. Prions are not living organisms; they are instead misshapen proteins that can cause a chain-reaction warping of other proteins that lead to brain-destroying fatal accumulations of prions.

5:14:45 PM    

Mercury News:

Scientists have succeeded in cloning a baby mule, a gangly-legged creature named Idaho Gem -- brother of the world's second-fastest racing mule and the first successful clone of any member of the horse family.

Idaho Gem's creation, a collaboration between scientists at the University of Idaho and Utah State University, raises the possibility that valuable competition horses or endangered equine species could pass on their genes even if they are sterile or dead.

Makes me wonder if Secretariat's DNA is floating around somewhere...

-Tim
1:38:02 PM    

Forbes.com:

Two passengers aboard a Cathay Pacific Airlines flight that originated in Hong Kong were quarantined upon arriving in Los Angeles Sunday after exhibiting symptoms associated with the deadly SARS virus, health officials said Wednesday.

7:19:54 PM    

New York Times by Keith Bradsher with Lawrence K. Altman.

A virus virtually identical to the one thought to cause SARS has been found in a tree-dwelling animal whose meat is a delicacy in southern China and in two other species.

4:43:31 PM    

MarsToday.com

Have you ever wondered what you would see if you were on Mars looking at the Earth through a small telescope? Now you can find out, thanks to a unique view of our world recently captured by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft currently orbiting the Red Planet.

7:20:28 PM