This is a remarkable story: Cancer patient recovers after injection of immune cells

The 52-year-old, who was suffering from advanced skin cancer, was free from tumours within eight weeks of undergoing the procedure.

...and change keeps moving faster and faster.

Here's the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's webpage discussing the same case.  Not much more information.

21-leaf clover - World record.

I'm not sure if this should count though as it was "discovered" by a food researcher in Japan who has been cross-breeding clovers as his hobby for years.  He held the previous record at 18 leaves also.

As we relentlessly march into the future scientists continue to discover stuff about stuff.  And you know what we don't forget the stuff we already knew about stuff.  That is the law of accelerating change in a nutshell.

Some of the stuff we learn about stuff we had to already know about some other stuff before we could figure out the new stuff about stuff.

You follow?

Now some fairly bright scientists at Harvard have come across a technique for "starving" cancer cells and thereby curbing their growth. 

When the researchers forced cancer cells to switch to the other form of pyruvate kinase in the lab by knocking out production of PKM2, the cells' growth was curbed.

The paralysed finger

Try this...it is impossible to lift your ring finger.

Essentially your index finger and pinky have independent extensor tendons whereas your middle and ring finger share one.

The index and small finger each have independent extension function through the extensor indicis proprius and extensor digiti minimi.

There you go, now you know.  Maybe you can win some bets at a bar now...

I know you've been curious.

Well here is a fascinating article that talks about how huge Baleen [called Rorqual] Whales feed.

I mean we all know that they open their mouths and let the water flow in and then squeeze it out through the baleen and trap the krill.  But the latest research fills in the details.

Essentially they cruise along at 600 feet below the surface and then open their mouth, dropping their jaw perpendicular to their body.  This causes their whole mouth to act like a giant parachute and stops the forward motion of the whale completely.

What the whale does next came as a complete surprise to the scientists. “It was still swimming, but it was slowing down really fast,” Mr. Goldbogen said. Even as the whale pumps its powerful tail, it comes to a compete stop in three seconds.

And the amount of water that they capture in their mouth during a gulp is truly gargantuan.

Mr. Goldbogen and his colleagues calculate that in just three seconds, the mouth of a 60-foot fin whale fills with more than 18,000 gallons of water. That’s the same volume as a school bus, and weighs more than the whale itself.

Go read the whole article.  It's a fascinating read.