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Spinning Tough Spider Silk From Goat Milk - ABC News

Don't recall seeing this. Pretty big breakthrough if it can be mass produced.

Edit: The article is old, and the company in it is actually gone, but a team at University of Utah is said to have 50 goats now. Crazy. Between this and the ridiculously strong, thin carbon molecule things, we could have a materials explosion in the next decade.

Think about it... one-piece hockey sticks that actually stay in one piece!
 
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Fascinating article.

The decline effect and the scientific method : The New Yorker

But now all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain. It?s as if our facts were losing their truth: claims that have been enshrined in textbooks are suddenly unprovable. This phenomenon doesn?t yet have an official name, but it?s occurring across a wide range of fields, from psychology to ecology. In the field of medicine, the phenomenon seems extremely widespread, affecting not only antipsychotics but also therapies ranging from cardiac stents to Vitamin E and antidepressants: Davis has a forthcoming analysis demonstrating that the efficacy of antidepressants has gone down as much as threefold in recent decades.
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The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements - Paul Offit - The Atlantic

On October 10, 2011, researchers from the University of Minnesota found that women who took supplemental multivitamins died at rates higher than those who didn't. Two days later, researchers from the Cleveland Clinic found that men who took vitamin E had an increased risk of prostate cancer. "It's been a tough week for vitamins," said Carrie Gann of ABC News.
These findings weren't new. Seven previous studies had already shown that vitamins increased the risk of cancer and heart disease and shortened lives.
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