Problems With Aging Equipment

“Vacuum Erection Device Use in Elderly Men: A Possible Severe Complication,” R.L. Bratton and H.D. Cassidy, Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, vol. 15, no. 6, November–December 2002, pp. 501–2. (Thanks to Ig Nobel Prize winner Richard Wassersug for bringing this to our attention.) The authors are at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida. […]

A Crusade Against the Quest for the Holy Grail

EDITOR’S NOTE: The unusual format and to some degree the content of this article, including personal and even interpersonal commentary, reflects the persistent, entangled nature of the subject. Notes Of A Humble Grail Watcher Regarding New Hope On The Horizon, by Steve Nadis (“SN”) For the past 15 years, I’ve been tilting at windmills bearing […]

DNA (Cutesy)

“DNA Double-Strand Break Repair: All’s Well that Ends Well,” Claire Wyman and Roland Kanaar, Annual Revue of Genetics, vol. 40, 2006, pp. 363–83 (http://dx.doi.org /10.1146/ annurev.genet. 40.110405.090451). (Thanks to S.K. Moses for bringing this to our attention.) The authors explain that: Breaks in both DNA strands are a particularly dangerous threat to genome stability. At […]

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