Archive - Oct 23, 2008

According to the Wall Street Journal, China is on the verge of implementing “a controversial plan to achieve universal care that would both increase health-care funding and control prices.” The plan’s goal is to cover 90% of the population by 2010 and the rest by 2020.

Critics of Universal Health Care claim that it is only possible in smaller countries. They also cite that the quality of our health care will deteriorate the more people we have to care for. After reading about the Dallas patient that waited over 19 hours in a hospital and never saw a Doctor but was billed $162 for her wait, I do not think our health care can get any worse.  Read More »

Remember the pen used in Men in Black to erase a person’s memory after they saw an alien? That movie was so 10 years ago; let’s try something more recent.

How about Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind where two lovebirds traumatized by their relationship, decide to wipe their memories clean of each other?

Well, it seems science has caught up with Hollywood. Scientists have been successful at selecting and safely removing specific memories from a mouse’s brain.

Joe Z. Tsien, brain scientist and co-director of the Brain & Behavior Discovery Institute at the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, claims, “While memories are great teachers and obviously crucial for survival and adaptation, selectively removing incapacitating memories, such as traumatic war memories or an unwanted fear, could help many people live better lives”  Read More »