Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist.
via Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System | Neuroscience News.
Scholars are just beginning to pore over the text, the oldest known copy of Galen’s “On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs.” It may well provide new insights into medicine’s roots and into the spread of this new science across the ancient world.
via Medicine’s Hidden Roots in an Ancient Manuscript – NYTimes.com.
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Monday’s flooding caused the release of partially treated, disinfected or untreated wastewater from 10 Austin Water facilities.
via Wastewater overflows from 10 Austin plants after flooding | KXAN.com.
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Found this for sale on eBay. It is a scanned photo print of one of the Hughes Intelsat II communications satellites.
If you build Web sites, you probably use Javascript libraries. If so, you are probably grateful to the nameless heroes whomaketheselibrariesnot suck.
One common problem these brave soldiers of the Web have to face is encapsulation. You know, one of them turtles on which the Object-Oriented Programming foundation sits, upon which stands most of the modern software engineering. How do you create that boundary between the code that you wrote and the code that will consume it?
With the exception of SVG (more on that later), today’s Web platform offers only one built-in mechanism to isolate one chunk of code from another — and it ain’t pretty. Yup, I am talking about iframes. For most encapsulation needs, frames are too heavy and restrictive.
What do you mean I must put each of my custom buttons in a separate iframe? What kind of insane…
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