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Drop some facts/stories that you think others may not know. Unique tidbits or facts about the world that may be overlooked or obscure. I will start.
.99999....... = 1

1/3=.33333..... 2/3=.66666....

.6666....+.3333.....=.99999.... 1/3+2/3=1

therefore .999999......= 1
 

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An interesting and exceedingly relevant area in cancer treatment is evolution. An interesting conceptualization of the disease I learned in the past year and a half is looking at it as a population, some of which live and die in an environment (your body). Natural selection is constantly occuring in neoplastic (tumor) populations, because daughter cells that respond and proliferate more after being subjected to selection by internal defenses and treatments will have higher fitness, or reproductive success.

I'm learning about research that has to do with Epigenetics and cancer, in which heritable changes in how genes are expressed (how strongly or weakly, say), occur without actual modification of DNA. This includes everything from DNA methylation to histone modification. This is big, because drugs designed to counteract pro-cancer epigenetic mechanisms could have a huge effect on how certain cancers progress and develop. They are not a bullseye cure for cancer, but as adjuvant therapy it could be vital in the future.

If you want I can post some literature on it as well. Relatively complicated..
 

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An interesting and exceedingly relevant area in cancer treatment is evolution. An interesting conceptualization of the disease I learned in the past year and a half is looking at it as a population, some of which live and die in an environment (your body). Natural selection is constantly occuring in neoplastic (tumor) populations, because daughter cells that respond and proliferate more after being subjected to selection by internal defenses and treatments will have higher fitness, or reproductive success.

I'm learning about research that has to do with Epigenetics and cancer, in which heritable changes in how genes are expressed (how strongly or weakly, say), occur without actual modification of DNA. This includes everything from DNA methylation to histone modification. This is big, because drugs designed to counteract pro-cancer epigenetic mechanisms could have a huge effect on how certain cancers progress and develop. They are not a bullseye cure for cancer, but as adjuvant therapy it could be vital in the future.

If you want I can post some literature on it as well. Relatively complicated..

:ohhh: yeah post them. Interesting subject

Did you see this thread http://www.the-coli.com/locker-room/60678-so-weve-found-cure-cancer.html#.UKqB2yd5nTo

I read a couple of those articles in amazement, this one A virus that kills cancer: the cure that's waiting in the coldc - Telegraph in particular. Seeing how your studying the subject, what is your opinion on these articles?
 

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I think all consciousness actually employs a "lower" dimension which is present at more than its own space-time coordinate than just that space-time coordinate. I think all life is the result of a "force" bleeding through from this or a "higher" spatial dimension. Since all life is a product of that "force" and exists in part in different spatial dimension, it all variating instances of the same thing. Something like that anyway. I'm full of shyt.
 

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It's important to note that the .99 is .99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

to infinity. not just .99
 

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Croissant's were invented when the Ottoman siege of Vienna was lifted in 1529. In celebration, the bakers of Vienna baked roles in the shape of the Muslim symbol. Quite literally, they were eating their enemy for breakfast.

Coffee was also introduced to the western consciousness during this siege.
 

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:ohhh: yeah post them. Interesting subject

Did you see this thread http://www.the-coli.com/locker-room/60678-so-weve-found-cure-cancer.html#.UKqB2yd5nTo

I read a couple of those articles in amazement, this one A virus that kills cancer: the cure that's waiting in the coldc - Telegraph in particular. Seeing how your studying the subject, what is your opinion on these articles?

Here's the literature:
http://sholmes.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2007f/mbb506/01/N Engl J Med 2008 Esteller.pdf
(review article, read first)

Combination Therapy with Vidaza and Entinostat Suppresses Tumor Growth and Reprograms the Epigenome in an Orthotopic Lung Cancer Model
(Drug administration)

As for the DCA treatment, definitely interesting. I'll have to browse more primary literature on the subject, but as far as Pharma companies not backing it because of what it is? Definitely a possibility. It has been patented as an anticancer treatment and it does seem to have an effect. That being said, a lot of the studies im looking at now seem to have adverse effects on mice... though surprisingly good results in humans. Interesting. I would expect something with DCA's chemical composition to actually CAUSE cancer, and that pans out in some of those studies. With short term and strictly controlled dosage though, you might see a lot of success. It does actually seem to have some backing financially, but compared to other pharmaceutical treatments the profit margins are tiny as hell.
 

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Whats the difference between detergent and bleach?

Detergent works by removing the particles that are causing the stain.

Bleach works by chemically altering the particles causing the stain so that they no longer absorb visible light and appear colorless. Organic molecules that absorb visible light and have bright color all have a system of alternating double bonds. Bleach will saturate some of the carbons in the molecule which breaks up the alternating system of carbon bonds and the molecule no longer can absorb radiation in the visible spectrum.

For example here is beta carotin the molecule that makes carrots orange.

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