Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found that if an enzyme called acetyl-CoA carboxylase 2, or ACC2, is blocked in mice, the animals can eat much more food than other mice and still weigh 10 percent to 15 percent less. The researchers said their findings could pave the way for the development of a “fat pill” that would target the same enzyme in the human body, providing weight loss without requiring people to eat less or exercise more.
“This could be a real boon for couch potatoes. They could sit on the couch, eat, and still lose weight.”
From the monthly archives:
March 2001
Eat All You Want, Still Shed Pounds!
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Cannibal Expelled from School
Did you hear about the cannibal who was expelled from school?
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Texas man
A Texas man survived for more than three hours Thursday after he was cut in half by a slow-moving 18-wheeler.
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Judge Takes Children
Judge Takes Children from Church where Pastor Orders Beatings
A judge put 41 children in foster care for a year Wednesday after their parents refused to stop whipping them in church-sponsored beating sessions and forcing teen-age girls to marry.
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mirror sculpture Nottingham
A £900,000 mirror sculpture destined for a square in Nottingham, UK, will have to be shielded to prevent it focusing the Sun’s rays and barbecuing passing birds . Anish Kapoor’s highly polished concave steel mirror is six metres in diameter. Direct sunlight hitting the mirror would be focused into a narrow beam of light as hot as the surface of the Sun.
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Win Ben Stein’s Money
Public Service Announcement
Well the time has come for Chris to make his national television appearance. Chris says, “Brace yourselves and watch with a trained eye because you will not see any better TV in your life.” Here is the time and date for the show:
Win Ben Stein’s Money
June 13, 2001
7:30 pm (Eastern and Pacific)
Episode # 5043
Check comedycentral.com and visit the Win Ben Stein’s Money link to check the TV schedule. They’ve told him that the time can change but it will be updated on the web site if so. If we see that it does change we’ll let you kids know right here.
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Billy Hutchison Blog
Envy
My good friend Billy has redesigned. Again. This guy … I like him. He has the same sort of distaste for what I like to think of as web complacency that I do. Never happy, never satisfied, always improving and learning. The newest iteration of his home on the ‘net, teambilly HQ, is beautifully implemented in PHP and well worth a visit from anyone who wants to see what fluid, simple, user-friendly, standards-compliant, makes-ya-wanna-visit web design is. He’s also a helluva good person. There’s not enough of ‘em in this world.
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content protection
Beauty is Truth
I just stumbled upon an excellent discourse about What’s Wrong With Content Protection. This should be required reading for anyone who creates anything - writing, music, programming, paintings, film, anything. This means YOU. Go. Now. Read it.
link via BrainLog
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Daylight Savings Time
Very Informative: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Daylight Saving Time
link via LarkFarm
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Table-less site design with CSS
I first saw the idea at wrongwaygoback.com several weeks ago. “Neale,” I thought to myself, “how in the &$%# did you get that to work without tables?!” He had changed wrongwaygoback.com into “dynamic ribbon device” and done it all in css. I was pretty impressed. The next thing I knew I read a post on dack.com referencing Neale’s achievement, a related thread on metafilter, and a repository of CSS Layout tutorials. So then I started seriously getting antsy. I found The Layout Reservoir and started reading everything I could at A List Apart. I broke, thrashed, implemented BlogVoices on, and otherwise fiddled around with the code at my group blog, The OceanBlog, until the members were revolting.* I also stole heavily from Stay Awake and the Style Sheet Reference Guide at WebReview. Last night I found Neale on-line and we spent a good hour or so poking around in the css and my blogger template, sending IMs and eMails hither and yon … And now it’s done.** I owe many thanks to Neale. I take back all the rotten things TheBrad said about him. The only tables on this page are the little tiny ones in the sidebars. You can probably only barely tell the difference. That’s a good thing. It’s cool. Not like snowboarding or getting to meet Paul McCartney***, but it’s definitely cool.
*They were already revolting.
**Almost. I can’t seem to get the right-hand edge of the right menu to align with the right-hand edge of the top banner. Anyone know what I’m doing incorrectly?
***I’ve been snowboarding. I haven’t met Paul.
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OceanBlog redesign
I’ve just redesigned the OceanBlog without tables. It’s all done with css now. Very hip. This place is next.
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Available domain names
Available domain names:
- shootingupinvain.com
- westsidecrack.com
- bloggerman.com
- racktastic.com
- beverlyhillscrack.com
- trojanchicken.com
- rockinpneumonia.net
- tornadomonkey.com
- bananaweight.com
- homerdonut.com
- lobsterback.com
- moveoverrover.net
- tragicsoda.com and depressingsoda.com
- secretwaterballoon.com
- dreadfulheadache.com
- tomatomonster.com
- evilcheesegroup.com
- netcraptacular.com
- frenchfrymusic.com
- mycoolcucumber.com
Nobody wants these?!
[Note: I just registered terribleheadache.com for no apparent reason. <grin>]
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Portable Baseball Schedules
The Boston Red Sox 2001 schedule is available on line in a format that is easily imported to Microsoft Outlook and your PDA of choice. How cool is that? You can also download a pocket schedule if you have Adobe Acrobat installed on your machine.
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3,000 Muscovites Vanished Last Year
3,000 Muscovites Vanished Last Year
“Alive or dead, a person is usually found within a year, unless he or she is hiding,” Gorbachev said.
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