Plastic bags can be disolved in 3 months

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/11/anton_wylie_phages/
The Register has an article on a gentleman named Daniel Burd. He has isolated the bacteria that degrade plastic bags in existing landfills.
Now, if only they could identify a solution for Styrofoam.

PC Club – game over

Apparently PC Club is laying everyone off and filing bankruptcy.
Not that many people use them much these days, what with newegg and amazon around…
But it *was* handy to have a local small shop with (occasionally) cheap prices on home-user hardware located (somewhat) close by.

Crocodile Serum Kills HIV (old article)

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&summit=&storyid=2005-08-16T050539Z_0
Ok, so the link doesn’t actually work. I just wanted it listed since it went to the original article. If you search online for the title’s string you’ll see a bunch of other sites that linked to the original article or quoted from it as well.
Once again, proof that cures and breakthroughs are all around [...]

Parkinson’s fix? (old article)

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7619
From the site:
A drug that relieves the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease – but was controversially withdrawn over toxicity fears – has now been shown to stimulate growth of the nerve fibres damaged by the disease.
When delivered directly to the brain, glial cell-line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) had been shown to stimulate regrowth of cells in [...]

Super Water (old article)

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2005/05/67472
From the site:
A California company has figured out how to use two simple materials — water and salt — to create a solution that wipes out single-celled organisms, and which appears to speed healing of burns, wounds and diabetic ulcers.
It is potable too!

HousingMaps.com

http://www.housingmaps.com/
Combination of Craigslist and Google Maps for housing/apartment searching in the US.
Coded by Paul Rademacher. Good stuff.

Malaria cure (old article)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1182008.htm
NOTE – another old news article, again, for reference.
Scientists in Australia have come up with a potential 3-day cure for Malaria… back in 2004. They also claimed it should be on the markets in three years, which would ahve been 2007. So this is no longer a world-wide health concern anymore, right?

Nature.com

http://www.nature.com/
Publications and reports in a variety of medical and scientific studies relating to health.

Huntington’s cure on the horizon? (old article)

http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392335
NOTE – This article is old and for reference only
Scientists have cured a Huntington’s-like disease from rats. Since this article is old, it makes one wonder what the progress has been since it was published.

Renfaire.com

http://www.renfaire.com/
Main website for US-based renaissance faires – locations, dates, links, etc.