From Blindness to Functional Sight in One Shot

“Children who were treated with gene therapy are now able to walk and play just like any normally sighted child,” said co-first author Albert M. Maguire, M.D., an associate professor of Ophthalmology at Penn and a physician at Children’s Hospital. “They can also carry out classroom activities without visual aids.” The doctors use a virus [...]

Twisty Ties is on Grooveshark

On Grooveshark, just search Hunter Cross and I will add new songs as they are released.

With a Little Help

“And a few readers have come forward since to say they’d have happily gone $10,000 to commission their own story. Makes me think I’ll ask for $20,000 next time around. I think this is what the economists call ‘price discovery.’” Cory Doctorow’s new project is to create an online-native book that pays for itself and [...]

The Gimli Glider

“On 23 July 1983, Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767-200 jet, ran completely out of fuel at 41,000 feet (12,500 m) altitude…fuel loading was miscalculated through misunderstanding of the recently adopted metric system which replaced the Imperial system.” Who knows what kind of accidents will happen when the U.S. switches to metric.

Studio view

Candacebriceno.com

Candace and I are working together on the newly launched candacebriceno.com. We built on top of a custom version of Joe Tan’s Flickr Photo Album WordPress plugin that allows her to manage the new website conveniently from a Flickr account. Her show in Dallas is still up at Mighty Fine Arts until October 25th, so [...]