Physicist Michio Kaku discusses the future of the human mind.
On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 — one day after the release of his new book, The Future of the Mind — theoretical physicist Michio Kaku spoke to a standing room only audience at Milwaukee's Boswell Book Company about the future of the human mind.
Kaku said he interviewed over 300 of the world's top scientists for his new book. Read more...
Milwaukee area educators Jean Creighton and Kathy Gustavson have been selected by NASA...
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium took place this past Tuesday...
The Scientific Method
The scientific method is at the heart of so much of our modern world, whether it’s the development of new treatments for serious diseases, the search for habitable planets around other stars, or your thought process of determining which driving route will get you to work fastest in the morning.
But what exactly is The Scientific Method? Read more...
A study conducted by researchers at the University of California has found....
Over this past weekend, I was interviewed by the Marquette Tribune — Marquette University’s ...
Where is Underground Milwaukee?
Many U.S. cities have some sort of hidden underground. Seattle has its underground downtown, Portland has its Shanghai Tunnels, Kansas City has a 5 million square foot office and industrial complex inside a network of reclaimed limestone mines, and Cincinnati even has a sealed-off subway system (with six completed stations) that never opened for business. Read more...
The new play “Natalie Ryan and the Rogue Traveler” (NR2) at Bay View’s...
In 1896 and 1897, before the first successful dirigible flight had even occurred...
Is generic Remicade (Humira, etc.) in our future? (Update)
There have been several significant developments since I wrote the original article “Is generic Remicade (Humira, etc.) in our future?” back in November 2009. What’s changed, what hasn’t, and are patients any closer to being able to use generic versions of biologics such as Remicade?
Remicade costs several thousand dollars a year per patient. Read more...
Suzanne Rosenthal, one of the co-founders of the National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis...
Yesterday I attended CCFA Illinois’ 17th Annual Patient and Family Education Conference...
Yesterday ((Saturday, April 21, 2012)) I attended CCFA Illinois’ 17th Annual Patient and Family Education Conference. This year’s conference featured a number of great speakers from the U.S. and Canada, and focused on many of the current hot topics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). This article contains links to the speaker presentations, as well as my tweets related to each speaker (drawn from live tweeting done during the conference).
Alternative rock pioneers They Might Be Giants are performing at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater this Friday (October 28), and you could be there! I am auctioning off one ticket for the concert,...
I’m currently mentoring nine individuals who will run or walk the 2011 Las Vegas half marathon as part of Team Challenge. We are two weeks aways from the recommitment deadline,...
My Online Date Auction to benefit Team Challenge1 is now underway! The winning bidder will receive an all‐expense paid evening on the town. In addition, every person2 who donates $30...
Recently I was hospitalized for yet another new (new to me, at least) Crohn’s-related side effect — in this case a nasty blood infection. Unlike most of my Crohn’s issues...
