Researchers Discover Way to Reverse Immune System Aging
Updated: 2011-03-31 14:41:42
Thanks to Leta Finch for this article. See http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2011/01/researchers-discover-way-to-reverse-immune-system-aging.aspx# Researchers Discover Way to Reverse Immune System Aging Copyright 2011 by Virgo Publishing http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/ Posted on: 01/27/2011 Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a way to reverse the aging process by removing old B lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell in the [...]
The Chinese government may consider lifting restrictions on its notorious one-child policy. Wang Yuqing, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, told the government newspaper People’s Daily that he would like to see a gradual opening of the one-child policy which has been in force since 1979. Read more...
Monday , March 28, 2011 Human Dignity and world population March 28th 1:32:32 AM If the greater good” trumps human rights Marcus Roberts 28 Mar 2011 tags human rights utilitarianism Before I started writing this blog , the topic of demography usually came before my consciousness through the media , in conversations etc in the following form : The world has a problem in that its population is growing too quickly . The world's resources are inadequate to support this huge population . Unless something is done , there will be a major crisis there will be food shortages and many people will die of starvation . This could also lead to wars over food resources . The answer therefore , is to do something What though Implement a Chinese-style one child policy Encourage , sterilisation ,
I’ve indicated over the last few weeks on Twitter that a group of us were recently awarded funding from the Australian Centre for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis – ACEAS – (much like the US version of the same thing – NCEAS) to run a series of analytical workshops to estimate, with a little more precision [...]
By Lester R. Brown In 1994, I wrote an article in World Watch magazine entitled “Who Will Feed China?” that was later expanded into a book of the same title. When the article was published in late August, the press conference generated only moderate coverage. But when it was reprinted that weekend on the front [...]
I recently posted a description of a highly sustainable form of row crop farming that combines high productivity with low environmental impact. This is not just a theoretical vision but something which is actually being practiced on a significant commercial scale (e.g. non-tillage, cover cropping, controlled wheel traffic, variable rate fertilization…). It is difficult to [...]
The latest six cartoons… (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). – Filed under: cartoon, conservation, environmental economics, environmental policy
Remember when the archetypal family was Mum, Dad and 2.4 kids? Apparently in the United Kingdom, far from 2.4 children being the norm, a fertility rate of 1.94 children per woman in 2009 is a “high” fertility rate, at least according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Read more...
Last weekend I saw an interesting headline in the local Saturday paper here in Auckland, The Weekend Herald. It read: “Bachelor Nations Risk Testosterone Overdose”. Looking at the author of the piece, I was even more interested to discover that it was written by one of the historians that I most enjoy reading – Niall Ferguson. Of course, this may not seem that exciting, but for us long-suffering Herald readers an interesting headline and an interesting contributor in the same piece is like receiving manna from heaven after wandering in the wilderness. And then discovering that that manna is wrapped in bacon. Read more...
Here’s another short, but sweet Conservation Classic highlighted in our upcoming book chapter (see previous entries on this book). Today’s entry comes from long-time quantitative ecology guru, Russ Lande, who is now based at the Silwood Park Campus (Imperial College London). – In an influential review, Lande (1988) argued that “…demography may usually be of more [...]
My PhD student, Ana Sequeira, has just written a great little guest blog post for the Environment Institute‘s blog. Given I’m en route to Tasmania for a quick consultancy meeting, I thought I’d let myself off the hook and reproduce the post here. Well done, Ana (and hint to my other students – your time [...]