Scientists at MIT are developing a new drug that may fight viruses as effectively as antibiotics like penicillin dispatch bacteria. The broad-spectrum treatment is designed to trigger cell-suicide in cells that have been invaded by any virus, thereby halting infection, while leaving healthy cells alone.

This is phenomenal. I guess gauging whether someone has too many infected cells is pretty important.

People with celiac disease are sensitive to gluten, which is a protein found in wheat.

Less than 1% of the American population has even the mildest form of this disease, but at least 20% of SWPLs think they have this disease and demand gluten-free products.

Half Sigma is often wrong in my opinion, but I think he’s hit this one pretty squarely. It’s SWPL-nutrition-fashion.

The mushroom-derived hallucinogen, called psilocybin, is known to trigger transformative spiritual states, but at high doses it can also result in “bad trips” marked by terror and panic. The trick is to get the dose just right, which the Johns Hopkins researchers report having accomplished.

In their study, the Hopkins scientists were able to reliably induce transcendental experiences in volunteers, which offered long-lasting psychological growth and helped people find peace in their lives — without the negative effects.

If this goes legit I’m likely to give it a go.

The mushroom-derived hallucinogen, called psilocybin, is known to trigger transformative spiritual states, but at high doses it can also result in “bad trips” marked by terror and panic. The trick is to get the dose just right, which the Johns Hopkins researchers report having accomplished.

In their study, the Hopkins scientists were able to reliably induce transcendental experiences in volunteers, which offered long-lasting psychological growth and helped people find peace in their lives — without the negative effects.

If this goes legit I’m likely to give it a go.

Skin Scan is a new iOS app that is designed with a single purpose in mind – keeping track of the size and shape of your moles. Just snap a picture, load it into the app and it will be analysed. Keep uploading more pictures of the same mole over time and it will track the changes in size and shape to help you understand if there’s anything to be worried about.

Michael Galpert rolls over in bed in his New York apartment, the alarm clock still chiming. The 28-year-old internet entrepreneur slips off the headband that’s been recording his brainwaves all night and studies the bar graph of his deep sleep, light sleep and REM. He strides to the bathroom and steps on his digital scale, the one that shoots his weight and body mass to an online data file. Before he eats his scrambled egg whites with spinach, he takes a picture of his plate with his mobile phone, which then logs the calories. He sets his mileage tracker before he hops on his bike and rides to the office, where a different set of data spreadsheets awaits.

“Running a start-up, I’m always looking at numbers, always tracking how business is going,” he says. Page views, clicks and downloads, he tallies it all. “That’s under-the-hood information that you can only garner from analysing different data points. So I started doing that with myself.”

This stuff fires me up. Combined with cooking, cooking equipment, cleaning things up, buying furniture, reading, writing, etc.–it’s all about engineering the life you want.

Highly enthused I am.