Here’s a sample of the great work people in Second Life are doing to promote the July 21-22 Relay for Life.  Be sure to play Tao’s video associated with the Relay logo. And how about a virtual car autioned off for $2,000?

The holy grail for lowering the cost of DNA sequencing is to build a machine that can sequence an entire individual human genome for $1,000. That price-point is perhaps the point at which routinely decoding the full genome as part of an individual’s basic medical data becomes attractive. That achievement is still quite a ways away, but here’s an article ...

Here’s a link to a large list of articles about cancer that the NYTimes has published. The good thing is that these articles will be available free instead of being sent to the fee-based archive

We’ve been having a little email discussion about obesity. It resulted in some links to sites with interesting visuals to contemplate. Randy Moss started with the "Obesity Map." Colleen Doyle offered this Burger King ad posted on YouTube. And Randy came back with this Big Huckin’ Chicken ad. What do you think?