Per Ardua Ad Astra

I had a decent idea on what to blog earlier, but by the time I’ve finally gotten around to doing so, I’ve forgotten most of what I plan to blog! After some recollection, I think I got most of it back in my grey matter now to regurgitate.

Earlier this week, CNN wrote about the Age of Information Overload. Sad to say, but I’m also one of the people documented here. It’s just like trying to drink from a fire hose trying to process the voluminous quantities of information being posted on websites as they update daily (sometimes hourly). I visit about a dozen sites daily and spend hours going through them and I never get a chance to fully explore them, just highlights. That is the first part of the problem I find on the Internet today. Too much information to sort through.

Second part of the problem? Too much redundant data! For example, the study on our winged mammalian cousin, the bats relating brain and testes size (link to article on NS) caught the attention of SciAm, NS and Economist! To make a long story short, the relation is inverse, big brain for small testes and vice versa (and may apply to us humans too). It seems that being monogamous requires more brain power to get along (probably to fulfill the spousal demands, hehe).

Furthermore, the court tangle in Dover about the ID hullabaloo was covered by every major news network in the ‘States and almost all the major science sites, from CNN and MSNBC to Discover and NS. IMHO, if you want an in-depth insight into the whole story you might as well read the 139 page verdict from Judge Roberts from end to end (be warned, ’tis not for the faint hearted). Well, at least now I understand what the judge referred to as ‘breathtaking inanity’.

And that got me thinking; if only somebody could find a way to stitch all the coverage on an issue together into one compact and succinct summary. In a nutshell it would be a summary of summaries (notice the irony?). I wouldn’t mind if a site can compress all the information from CNN, Economist, MSNBC, Newsweek and Time all into one website and Discover, NatGeo, NS, PopSci and SciAm into another! 10 sites compressed into 2!!! Well, alternatives do exist like WIkipedia, but they lack the detailed coverage and the veracity of the information on Wikipedia is questionable at times. It’s a bloody good business plan IMO, if somebody could just come up with the one stop solution for stuff online by consolidating all the current stops into one. Imagine having only one site housing the trailers and info for all the movies ever made (reviews, photos, updates on the actors and actresses) including ticket booking anywhere in the world? Sadly, that will never happen until the copyright and royalty issues can be resolved, not to mention the networking required.

Now, about business proposals this one is uber cool! This guy became a millionaire just by selling pixels on his website for advertisement! Genius! Enough said.

And to end this blog, users of iPods beware! iPod earbuds could damage hearing! Too lazy to elaborate further, but this warning also applies to Walkman and other Mp3 players too, depending on what kind of earphones you use.

Today, some of us learnt that we just lost a friend for good. We learnt a lesson, life could be short and unpredictable. Some things that really matter, shouldn’t be left aside for later. I got a harsh reminder today. Keegan was a friend, but yet I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t know him as well as I should as a friend. Now, there is no more chances to make amends to him. So I’m just doing the little things I can do for now, including this. Better late than never after all.

The Keegan I (and who knows how many others) knew was the fun loving (Pokemon, Neopets, DoTA and who knows what else?) and chatty guy. The cute and adorable Keegan, as he once loved to label himself some time ago. To be sure, we didn’t share much of the same interest in things (but that’s a lame excuse right?). He was decent company to have around. Well, it’s all gone now. The last time I was with him was driving to AsiaCafe after movies a few weeks ago. I still remember him playing around and chatting away. That would be the first, and now the last time I’ll be driving him around. Too late for more yam cha, movie watching, talking crap together. He’s someplace else now, away from us.

Rest in eternal peace Keegan, and rest well. Hope you are in a really good place now. Gone, but you won’t be forgotten.

To the rest, courage.

Copyright Newsweek 2005

The judge presiding over the Intelligent Design case in Dover has just passed his judgement over the evolution vs. ID case. You can follow the news here, here and here at NS, SciAm and MSNBC respectively. Short story of the 139 page verdict? ID is unconstitutional and is just creationism resurrected, the defence ‘expert witnesses’ (the parents of the children sued the school over the ID issue, so ID proponents are effectively the defendants) hung themselves and the case from their testimony (read how did that happen here). With help from the defendants and good old Biology, the judge have sufficient material to systematically dismantle the defendant’s case and expose ID for what it really is, a plan to discredit science.

So, is the journey from creationism, creation science and finally to intelligent design over now? Would efforts be concentrated to reverse the decreasing trend of American scientists and engineers graduating from schools at last? Far from it.

From what can be gleaned from MSNBC and NS, the IDists view it as a battle lost, but the war yet to be won. So what are they up to now? Protraying themselves as the oppressed ones by accusing the judge as an ‘activist’ in the whole situation, claiming that critical thought and discussions (or debate) on scientific issues are being suppressed. The Discovery Institute, the spearhead behind the Wedge Document tries to squirm its way out of it.

To quote Casey Luskin, an attorney at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, "Discovery’s policy has always been that we don’t think intelligent design should be mandated. We’ve always opposed what the Dover school district did," Luskin said. "We do think intelligent design should be preserved as a constitutional right. I don’t think this decision is going to stop teachers outside the Central District of Pennsylvania from teaching intelligent design." Translation? Now they want to allow teachers to have to decide whether to teach and discuss ID (note, teaching ID is now judged to be unconstitutional in the verdict)  in class, so they’re probably gonna fight this out from the freedom of speech angle.

IMHO, they would do far more in promoting that and much more, including promoting free and frank discussion of science by throwing the current Administration (and their conservative President) out of office! Besides, ID discussions don’t belong in the class, for Pete’s sake! You want to know why the entire scientific community discredits ID? Because it’s unscientific! (more like pseudo-science or meta-science!) But being stubborn headed fools they are, they’ll just keep on trying. Although they’re trying to advance a lost cause, in today’s current unpredictability, you can never tell what lies ahead. Only time will tell. In the meantime let’s see what else they’re going to come up with.

Well, the title sums it all, which is part of the contents in Newsweek’s year end issue.

Here’s what I like most, Perspectives 2005. So, what’s there? The Quotes of the Year!

Here’s two that I like the best :
"You did not notice $25 million was missing from your W-2?"
Prosecutor Ann Donnelly, to former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski at his trial for securities fraud. The ousted executive, who was found guilty, insisted he wasn’t aware the hefty bonus hadn’t been noted on his 1999 tax return.
P.S. Even Bill Gates didn’t lose $25 million from his accounts. Lame excuse.

"If London can survive the Blitz, it can survive four miserable events like this."
Sir Ian Blair, London Metropolitan Police commissioner, on the bombings of the London transit system by terrorists.
P.S. Sir Blair better hope Al-Qaeda didn’t take the hint to heart and make a bigger bang in London next year!

Plus, make sure you check out the Cartoons of the year too! 24 (more like 20 or so) hilarious cartoons parodying some of the news that made the headlines this year. BTW, that’s Tom Cruise standing on Santa(funny take of what he did on Oprah’s talk show), Category 5 refers to Katrina, and Karl’s the one under investigation for the White House leak(hence the police yellow lines).

And now the Newsweek hottest movie of ‘06. It’s yet another adaptation of another book (hint hint), which is the latest trend in Hollywood nowadays (probably saves them money since the script’s already there, thus requiring no more scriptwriters) together with all the sequels (X-Men III, Spiderman 3) and comic book adaptations (V for Vendetta, Pride and Prejudice). Still guessing? It’s about Robert and Sophie running around, starting at the Louvre. That’s right, it’s The Da Vinci Code! If you ask me, casting a younger version of Harrison Ford is a better idea (and would better fit the description of him in the book!). Other than that, other characters and storyline seems ok (I have a few gripes, but they’re mostly minor ones at the moment). So for those who haven’t really done much reading, it’s time to do some catching up again, or you’ll be clueless in the movie theater again! Now, could we have Angels and Demons for 2007? Please?

For Dr. Woo Suk Hwang, a Korean national hero renowned worldwide for his groundbreaking research into embryonic stem cell research, he could be well on his way for a Nobel Prize in Biology.

After all, in May this year he and his team from Seoul National University (SNU) made headlines by creating stem cell lines that are genetically compatible with the patients that donated them. This was done by essentially injecting a skin cell nucleus into a nucleus-free egg from an unrelated donor. This research would have meant that there would be a chance for those with genetic disorders to be cured, by creating a genetically modified stem cell line that is compatible with their own body. Therapeutic stem cell treatments seemed closer now than before. For this and other achievements over the last 2 years (including deriving the first embryonic stem cell line from a cloned human embryo and the world’s first dog clone, Snuppy) SciAm bestowed him the honor of being named the Research Leader of the Year in their annual Scientific American 50, an annual salute to the research, business and policy leaders of technology. That was just less than a month ago.

Today, SciAm has announced that they are retracting the title bestowed here. He was in hospital for stress related problems, first undergoing treatment for an ulcer, and now he’s in the psychiatric ward. SNU launched an internal investigation of his team, and his article published in Science is now on the verge of being withdrawn. First, ethical issues cropped up, and he resigned as Chairman of the World Stem Cell Hub but retains his academic position. Now, even that is in danger of slipping away.

How could it go so wrong?

It all began with allegations that for the May research some of his assistants donated some eggs used in the research (it’s an unethical conduct as the assistants may be subjected to unwarranted pressure in donating) which surfaced weeks ago. He lost his chairmanship position, and went separate ways with Dr. Gerald Schatten at the University of Pittsburgh. Well, that wasn’t so bad. Then, yesterday, NewScientist reported that there were some irregularities with his data here. The short story was the experimental data on the 11 stem cell lines created was strikingly similar, and the photomicrographs provided on the individual stem cell lines looked as if they are photomicrographs of the same batch of cells. At the same time other researchers were puzzling over the data, Dr. Schatten requests his name be removed from the Science article. He hinted at being recently informed that the data may be inaccurate. This was followed by a press conference by Roh Sung-il, who collaborated on that paper, who stated in December to media outlets that "Professor Hwang admitted to fabrication," and that he, Dr. Hwang, and another coauthor had asked Science to withdraw the paper. The controversy was subsequently picked up by Time and SciAm Editor’s Blog.

Adding to the confusion, Dr. Hwang finally managed to speak to the press (you can check BBC here). His side of the story? The admission never happened, but some cell colonies died after being contaminated. He’s confident that after thawing some frozen samples and reassessing the cells his research will be vindicated. So all indications show that the credibility of the rest of his research (Snuppy and the first ESC line) are unaffected, at least for now. The technique for the research is not in question, but the number of lines created is.

However this turns out, he’s most probably not going to Stockholm anymore with that tainted reputation of his unless he can somehow redeem himself. So is he just trying to jazz up his research or fraud? Time till tell. But in John Rennie’s Stem Cell Meltdown blog, the consequences don’t just involve him and his team, but on the future of ESC work! It may be raining even harder now on Dr. Hwang’s parade, but yet another storm cloud starts to gather on Science’s horizons.

Well, haven’t gotten anything worthwhile to blog lately, till I read this. This was just posted on recom.org. It’s about some guy, John Lee ranting about the M’sian education system (plus he wants to write a book about it too!) The thread is here, and an excerpt from the book is here. It’s 14 pages long and is in PDF format, but it’s humorous enough for me to stay right till the end. He’s only 15 years old, so his daring to write it all down is to be applauded, but he still needs to get a few more lessons in life. So, in a sense, humanity should have lots to thank for as he intends to do political/economic science and not social science! =)

His posts are quite a refreshing change to see for once, somebody trashing our M’sian education system to hell in a sarcastic manner. Ben Lo, if you’re reading this he sounds just like you! I’m pretty sure that some of his comments on the education system resonate deeply with some of you out there. But if you examine his literary work a bit closer, one can see that he has lots more to learn and experience (well, being a 15 year old kid, we shouldn’t be too hard on him right?).

Firstly, he asked his readers which is more influential in altering world history. So which is more influential, the Islamic Caliphates or Renaissance; or the splitting of Sunnis and Shiites compared to the Industrial Revolution? I say it’s a redundant question. Without the powerful Muslim empires, the Europeans would have taken longer to rise up from the Dark Ages, if at all (plus the Renaissance and Reformation may never have occurred the way it had). Besides that, if the splitting of Muslims had never happened, the most powerful capital in the world might still be Baghdad today, and not Washington! So he does need more history lessons. Well, IMHO the sticking point is that History focuses too much on the spiritual development of Islam alone and their great thinkers (too many of them, don’t you think?) and less on the ideas they promote. As a result, we have no concrete idea of why the Middle East is the way it is today. For example, I have yet to understand exactly how the Crusades permanently altered the course of history (watching Kingdom of Heaven and playing Age of Empires II helped a bit, but not much), why the Jews got kicked out of the Middle East, and then Europe, and then back to Israel and off to the US. So, we have a pretty good idea to how Islam started, but not much about the 57 year old question that the West has yet to resolve today; does the State of Israel have the right to exist? Does History teach us how that all came about, to avoid history repeating itself (one of the most important reasons to study History?). No!

Then Mr. Lee calls his peers ‘intelligent’ when they are clearly not. It’s like the Thinking Skills argument; a person shouldn’t be denied a job because he is overqualified, but rather because he is under qualified in some other aspect. So, if his peers are adept at memorising but not good at applying theory to practise, that hardly fulfils the definition of intelligent. They’re just ‘good’ at studies and that’s it.

Then he goes on to a bit of Physics and flops. He mentioned that Einstein challenged Newton’s assumptions, and Newton challenged the assumption that gravity is just there. I assumed that he implied that both challenged assumptions of gravity. Actually, I don’t think that’s quite the case. Both of them recognised gravity’s existence, but yet could not explain how they exist but could describe its effects very well. (The graviton was and still is a hypothetical particle in quantum gravity, so it’s not a concrete idea yet in explaining gravity’s existence.) Newton came up with a way to describe this ‘force acting at a distance’. That’s all. He didn’t challenge anything about gravity; he just came up with a way to describe it. What challenge the assumption that gravity is just there, it’s still there! Absurd. How about Einstein? Oh, he abolished the concept of absolute time and dramatically altered the way we view the Universe by the introduction of spacetime, but did he challenge basic assumptions of gravity? I think not. But he came up with a more accurate way than Newton’s to predict gravity’s influence on other bodies. Gravity is still there, but Einstein just extended humanity’s insight of how gravity affects us and the things around us. But in a way Mr. Lee is correct, although in a way that he may not have intended. Newton believed in the concept of absolute time, but Einstein overthrew the idea and introduced the idea of personal time for everything in the Universe. But still, that is a belief and not an assumption so technically it’s still wrong?

The other thing is that he talked about teachers who discourage ‘intellectual curiosity’ as if they only exist in the M’sian educational system. I dispute that. I had my fair share of those teachers when I was in M’sia and S’pore too. And I felt more restricted in my studies over in S’pore too. Perhaps I have been given too much autonomy by my parents on deciding how to study (they never bother as long as I continue to pull in the As) and I’m more comfortable studying here at home than in a hostel. That brings about my idea that our education should be pursued by our own initiative, and it should encompass as much as possible about the world about us in understanding it. Knowledge is power, and time is precious. And without power, we cannot implement change. It is with that in mind that I pursue knowledge single heartedly. So what about school? It’s just there to help complement and guide your intellectual development, not a one stop source of information nor the sole authority that dictates what we should study. Of course, I am only but a tiny speck in the complex and huge biosphere we live in, so my experience may not be the same as the average student. But I think Mr. Lee needs to recognise that the world isn’t more perfect someplace else in the world, just that it is better in some sense and worse off in some other sense. Oh and yes, our educational system still needs a lot of improvements. The quest to be a developed M’sia is and will be a distant dream without those improvements.

This was mailed to me, which I think is worth sharing…

Communications frustration…?

This is a long one but worth the read ..till the end …..

THE COLLEGE THEME PAPER: HE VS. SHE

Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"?

Well, here’s a prime example offered by an English professor at an

American University. "Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person

sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the first paragraph of a short story. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story. The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth. Remember to re-read what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent.

There is to be absolutely NO talking and anything you wish to say must be written on the paper. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached."

The following was actually turned in by two of my English students:

Rebecca-last name deleted, and Gary - last name deleted.

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STORY:

(first paragraph by Rebecca)

At first, Laurie couldn’t decide which kind of tea she wanted.

The chamomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at

home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times,

that he liked chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her

mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought

about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So chamomile was

out of the question.

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(second paragraph by Gary)

Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack

squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think

about than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie

with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris

to Geostation 17," he said into his transgalactic communicator.

"Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far…" But before he

could sign off, a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and

blasted a hole through his ship’s cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent

him  flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.

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(Rebecca)

He bumped his head and died almost immediately but not before he felt
one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman

who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its

pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4.

"Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel,"

Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously

excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of

her youth, when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no

newspapers to read, no television to distract her from her sense

of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must

one lose one’s innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully.

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(Gary)

Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live.

Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu’udrian mothership

launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy

peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through

the congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu’udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet.

With no one to stop them, they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan.

The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The

President, in his top-secret Mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor

off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion,

which vaporized poor, stupid, Laurie and 85 million other Americans.

The President slammed his fist on the conference table.
"We can’t allow this! I’m going to veto that treaty! Let’s blow ‘em out of the

sky!"

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(rebecca)

This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature.

My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.

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(gary)

Yeah? Well, you’re a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts

at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh shall I have

chamomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of F*CKING TEA???

Oh no, I’m such an air headed bimbo who reads too many Danielle Steele

novels."

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(rebecca)

Asshole.

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(gary)

Bitch.

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(rebecca)

Wanker.

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(gary)

slut.

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(rebecca)

Get f*cked.

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(gary)

Eat sh*t.

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(rebecca)

F*CK YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!!

———————————————————-

(gary)

Go drink some tea - whore.

**********************************************

(teacher)

A+ : I really liked this one.

SPOILER ALERT : Spoilers for Aeon Flux and The Island are contained within this blog, so stop reading if you haven’t watched it yet.

Went to watch Aeon Flux yesterday with another bunch of friends. Well, it’s a good movie for those of you who dig Charlize Theron, and watching her kick butt. =) Little wonder that the movie was aimed at young males eh? After all, it has the usual stuff, predictable plot (bad guys die, good people live, sidekicks die fighting, you get the idea), lots of action and the occasional scenes to get the blood racing in the veins.

Now, is it just me or are the directors are favouring futuristic plots to show off their CGI wizardry? I remember Stealth (combat pilots should still be sleeping soundly, if flight AI is still that pathetic). There’s also The Island (TI) (I remember one reviewer commenting about 2 souls exploring copulating, and illogical props). And then there’s Aeon Flux (AF). It’s obvious, without inside help the rebels would have been eradicated long ago. Come on, 400 years and the government could not get a good grip on its 5 million citizens? Either that the society regressed technologically or there’s a renegade section in the government. Since they have portable Gatlings, a quantum computing pool of liquid and strings and some pretty cool ball bearing explosives the former can be ruled out. Simple as that. So turns out that the antagonist is that power hungry brother (surprise surprise!)

And just like TI, it involves cloning and genetic memory. See the similarity? Clones living in an isolated part of the world. Except that in TI, Dr. Merrick (notice the similarity to Merck Inc.?) tries to play God, but Dr. Goodchild wants to preserve humanity. Well, I have no idea how concrete is the idea of genetic memory, although it might help us understand what the other 90% of our brain is used for. But it’s a bit pathetic, they managed to perfect the cloning process, but it leaves everyone sterile?!?! Immortality with a built in population control mechanism? I wonder what Aubrey de Grey has to say about this. He’s the guy trying to achieve immortality within this century, an engineer turned gerontologist. Go figure.

Interestingly, AF incorporated some sort of nanocircuitry embedded in the rebel operatives. Consume a pill or press a button and you enter a ‘conference chamber’. Since it’s real time ‘teleconference’, I wonder why their EM emissions weren’t detected by the regime. And how could they conference and walk normally without hitting anything? Funny isn’t it? Plus, where did the cool looking automatic sniper rifles come from all of a sudden? Too well armed for rebels don’t you think? All the better for a final shootout! =P

Now, about nanotechnology, here’s something I just came across. It highlights a Nature article in which some researchers came up with a novel way to kill tumors. Gold nanoparticles with tumor antigen receptors attached to it. Release in bloodstream through inhalation, injection, skin absorption, and food or water intake, whichever way you prefer and wait for it to attach to the tumor in sufficient quantities. Cool part about it is, put some of it on your skin and they just dissolves into your skin. Kind of scary though. Then heat the nanoparticles to 40 degrees Celsius and the tumor cells are dead! Of course, the test subjects are rats and there’s no successful human testing yet, or else it would headline news. But there was a question raised in the blog (been wondering the same thing myself) where it was asked if nanotechnology could target individual viruses. IMHO, it sounds great since if you have HIV or the mutated H5N1, just a tablespoon of the nanos and you’re cured by nightfall? But would you be comfortable with having millions of these machines in you? A penny for your thoughts. But the short answer is still a no, at least for now.

Of course, there are regulatory concerns aimed at preventing grey goo scenarios. It’s basically the alternative ending of Michael Crichton’s novel Prey. Nanomachines escape from the laboratory and replicates out of hand, consuming everything. Hence the ensuing grey goo (nobody knows if such a huge mass of nanoparticles looks like goo in the first place). But since the most efficient nanomachines of nature have yet to dominate the world (in case you’re wondering, it’s BACTERIA!), this scenario is still in sci-fi author’s imaginations, for now.

Not too sure about you people out there but that phrase always brings to mind a married couple ‘happily’ arguing to me. So what’s the big deal over it? Not much, except that it’s unhealthy. It’s almost common knowledge that chronic stress impairs your immune system. But until now, nobody has any concrete idea how stressful arguments can be on the immune systems for those involved.

According to a new study highlighted by NewScientist, the answer is quite surprising. To quote from the website, ‘The stress a married couple experiences during a 30-minute argument can delay their bodies’ ability to heal a wound by at least a day’! It seems that couples with hostile relationships have exaggerated levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) cytokine after having a heated argument. IL-6 helps to balance the immune response in the body, where increased levels stimulate healing. But when the levels get too high, the result is less than desirable. Consequently, ‘wounds on the hostile couples healed at only 60% of the rate of couples considered to have low hostility’. The result is more pronounced given that ‘young’ couples are involved in the study (wonder if anyone wants to try it out on old couples?).

According to the researchers involved, they commented that the arguments seen in couples under laboratory conditions would be much less extreme than those occurring within the private confines of their homes, so the healing process may be slowed much more. Well, I suppose it can be pretty stressful when the pots and pans do start flying. I’ve read somewhere that arguments are essential to a healthy relationship, but again, it looks like moderation must be exercised at all times. ;P Wonder if it would come to prescribing 30-minute arguments per month? So choose your partners well! =)

Went digging around for new works of Greg Martin to furnish my desktop.I love his works! Well, I wasn’t disappointed when there’s not much in terms of new pictures as I found a gem!

Here it is!

It’s not in it’s original orientation, so if you want to see it in its original form, go here.

P.S. : He’s pretty mad about people ripping his artwork, so if you want it, go over to his websites and get it yourself. If you want to show people the pictures, link it to his website!