Interesting Stuff Thread

Notable countries with superior forces have often forced Christianity upon indigenous peoples, in some instances annihilating tribes and cultures in the process. The Churchtank embodies this display of might, as a cathedral nestled seamlessly upon the lower half of a tank. Its turret erupting from the cathedral doors with a tiny crucifix barrel sight ready to unleash the commandments of Popes, Cardinals, and Priests in the divine form of 100mm shells. Imagine a Churchthank scouting about the barren rubble of decimated landscapes for non-believers — A dark but pertinent scenario given the ‘holy wars’ that still exist to this day. All hail the Churchtank, may it remind us that religious fanaticism is harmful to the flavor and tastes of the exotic cultures of mankind, and to the individuals that seek their own paths to enlightenment.

Jernal wrote: »

Presumably the power of prayer prevents it being penetrated.

Scientists Claim Brain Memory Code Cracked

Despite a century of research, memory encoding in the brain has remained mysterious. Neuronal synaptic connection strengths are involved, but synaptic components are short-lived while memories last lifetimes. This suggests synaptic information is encoded and hard-wired at a deeper, finer-grained molecular scale.

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The same goes for treatments. “Personalised medicine” is the next big thing in cancer. This term refers to drugs and treatments that target the specific milieu of faults within an individual patient’s tumour. But of course, a tumour isn’t a single thing. If you target mutations on the branches, you only hit parts of the tumour. Even worse, you leave a big “evolutionary reservoir” of unaffected cells, which can adapt to the drugs you’re using and grow anew. A tumour is like the mythical hydra. If you cut off a head, more will grow back; you need to kill the entire body.
This could explain why many current treatments eventually stop working. “We deal with patients, day in and day out, whose disease initially benefits from chemotherapy but who develop resistance over time,” says Swanton. “The only way you can fathom how a tumour can be one step ahead of the clinician at all times is through this type of diversity and Darwinian selection.” To get around this problem, scientists will need to find the “driver mutations” that are present in all parts of a tumour, in its trunk rather than its branches. These will present the most inviting targets for drugs

joseph brand wrote: »

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