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Immunotherapy-based Cancer Vaccine Moves To Clinical Human Trials at Stanford
A recent Stanford cancer study that cured 97 percent of mice from tumors has now moved on to soliciting human volunteers for a new cutting-edge medical trial.
The trial is part of a gathering wave of research into immunotherapy, a type of treatment that fights cancer by using the body’s immune system to attack tumors.
“Getting the immune system to fight cancer is one of the most recent developments in cancer,” Dr. Ronald Levy, a Stanford oncology professor who is leading the study, told SFGATE. “People need to know that this is in its early days and we are still looking for safety and looking to make this as good as it can be.” via SFGATE.
Photo: Stanford Medicine News Center / Header Photo by Lucas Vasques on Unsplash
Julian Melchiorri’s Exhale Bionic Chandelier
An air purifier, an art object, and a piece of lighting design all in one living, ‘breathing’ chandelier. This is London-based inventor and bioengineer Julian Melchiorri’s Exhale Bionic Chandelier, a microorganism-filled light made from 70 ‘leaves’ that take carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it
PADMAN: the Singing, Dancing Bollywood Film About Menstrual Hygiene
Is this a new trend of socially conscious blockbusters in India? (Or is it just Askhay Kumar’s new deal?)
Following Toilet Ek Prem Katha, comes ‘Padman‘, tackling menstruation taboos.
https://www.afp.com/en/news/828/bollywoods-menstrual-man-movie-targets-indian-taboo-doc-yk63a1
It’s based on the story of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a Tamil Nadu-based social activist who helped to dramatically raise awareness on menstrual hygiene in rural India by producing low-cost sanitary napkins using small machines and locally sourced products. (Largely from the short story from Twinkle Khanna’s book “The Sanitary Man of Sacred Land.”
So far reviews are looking good! Here’s Time, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, and Times Now, which praises the music.
What, you don’t think a musical about menstruation is marketable? Bollywood’s bigger than Hollywood, and the film is having synchronized world-wide openings.
You’d Better ‘Hoof It’ – Why “Walkable” Cities Are Good For Citizens
Research finds significant link between the walkability of a city and the blood pressure and hypertension risk of the people who live there
Eating Like Hippies Is The Hip New Thing
Wholefoods, organic, farm-to-table, anyone?
In his new book, Jonathan Kauffman argues that much of our modern cuisine came from counterculture kitchens.
“Suck On That”
Interview with Tessa Polder, founder of “Suck On That”, a Cambodia-based bamboo straw social enterprise
Join our Event: Plastic Free Cambodia & Cloud Flea Market to mark International Straw Free Day, from 3-8pm at Cloud (Street 9), Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/167859057307913
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New Cooperative Ventures, Around The Globe
Game theory, syntropy, and a multitude of examples of folks collaborating for the common good – in short, hope for a cooperative future.
We Can Buy Your Medical Debt, Wholesale
“On July 25, 2014, my long-time partner and friend in the collections industry, Craig Antico, and I decided to establish ourselves as a 501(C)(3) non-profit called RIP Medical Debt. Our purpose, inspired by Occupy Wall Street’s Rolling Jubilee, was to provide a tax-deductible way for Americans to help us locate, buy and then forgive unpaid medical debt incurred by individuals and families.”
Open Source Artificial Pancreas
Dana Lewis, a University of Alabama graduate who grew up in Huntsville, used social media, computer skills and mail-order parts to invent an artificial pancreas for people with diabetes. Along with co-inventor and husband Scott Leibrand, she’s now giving her discovery away.
(Header image courtesy Wikipedia)
“Even The Queen” – Connie Willis
For Menstrual Hygiene Day, we present an award-winning story by Connie Willis.
In a future where menstruation is optional, women debate going back to cramps, mood swings, bleeding. Winner of 1993 ‘Hugo’ Science Fiction prize for ‘Best Short Story’.
Considering how much science fiction there is about longevity, body modification, transformation — it’s surprising that there isn’t more fiction addressing this physical reality practically all women experience.
Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_the_Queen
Read online: http://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/71143/Willis_-_Even_the_Queen.html
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209712.Even_the_Queen
Buy Online: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0964853906/
Welcome to 2030 [Fiction]
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“Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better“
Science fiction by Ida Auken, MP, Parliament of Denmark. And a rebuttal by Salvatore Iaconesi, founder at Art is Open Source, Human Ecosystems and Nefula.
Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and I don’t know what life is anymore