{"id":2407,"date":"2007-01-27T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2007-01-27T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T05:13:00","slug":"2407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2407","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Brave new world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Isolated tribes in the Amazon are now using satellites, computers, and even Google Earth to guard against threats from logging, agriculture, drug wars, and oil operations.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/01\/070123-amazon-maps.html\" title=\"National Geographic: Amazon Tribes Use Latest Gadgets to Battle Developers\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/\" title=\"Neatorama\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their &#8216;immortality&#8217;. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn10971?DCMP=NLC-nletter&amp;nsref=dn10971\" title=\"New Scientist: Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Somark Innovations announced this week that it successfully tested biocompatible RFID ink, which can be read through animal hairs. The passive RFID technology could be used to identify and track cows to reduce financial losses from Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease) scares. Somark, which formed in 2005, is located at the Center for Emerging Technologies in St. Louis. The company is raising Series A equity financing and plans to license the technology to secondary markets, which could include laboratory animals, dogs, cats, prime cuts of meat, and military personnel.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/story\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196802844\" title=\"Information Week:  Invisible RFID Ink Safe For Cattle And People, Company Says\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;British scientists are on the verge of producing a revolutionary flu vaccine that works against all major types of the disease.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/health\/healthmain.html?in_article_id=425227&#038;in_page_id=1774\" title=\"Daily Mail: The vaccine to prevent every strain of flu\">link<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\" title=\"Shaken &#038; Stirred\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave new world: &#8220;Isolated tribes in the Amazon are now using satellites, computers, and even Google Earth to guard against threats from logging, agriculture, drug wars, and oil operations.&#8221; [link | via] &#8220;It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their &#8216;immortality&#8217;. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2407\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}