Новости за 22.09.2010

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a tragic, but scientifically fascinating, disease.FTD only accounts for a small fraction of dementias in total (estimates range from 2% to 10%), but it typically strikes people aged in their 50s or 60s, i.e. much earlier than the average for Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia. As a result, FTD accounts for a large proportion of early-onset cases.The symptoms are different to those of Alzheimer's, at least in the early stages. Memory problems a

[Ed. note: The audio sex diaries of a 53-year-old San Francisco man in the '90s. Enjoy.] One day I bought a tapedeck from a guy with PECKERWOOD tattooed across his neck. He was selling junk on the side of Market street in San Francisco. This cassette was in the deck. The original is over 60 minutes but this is a shorter mega-mix I made. Enjoy? Read some more here.

Use Your Quantum Translocator to navigate these clever little puzzle levels. Post screenshots if you beat it. This game is kind of hard! (Via.)

The modern ability to carefully measure large-scale social networks has driven new empirical studies and theoretical models of growth, dynamics, influence, and collective behavior in such systems.