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Clearly these folks have never read any of the novels or watched any of the myriad of science fiction movies that show how these things always end up going south.

A biotech company in the US has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, to test whether parts of their central nervous system can be brought back to life.

Scientists will use a combination of therapies, which include injecting the brain with stem cells and a cocktail of peptides, as well as deploying lasers and nerve stimulation techniques which have been shown to bring patients out of comas.

The trial participants will have been certified dead and only kept alive through life support. They will be monitored for several months using brain imaging equipment to look for signs of regeneration, particularly in the upper spinal cord – the lowest region of the brain stem which controls independent breathing and heartbeat.

The team believes that the brain stem cells may be able to erase their history and re-start life again, based on their surrounding tissue – a process seen in the animal kingdom in creatures like salamanders who can regrow entire limbs.

Source: Dead could be brought ‘back to life’ in groundbreaking project 

CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS NOW!

More than 270 million email accounts with major providers around the world have been compromised, a security expert has warned, with passwords being exchanged by criminals in Russia.

Alex Holden, the expert, says most users of Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email service, have had their account details stolen.

Millions of users of the Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft email platforms have also had their data stored in one of the largest databases of stolen credentials ever discovered, Mr Holden told Reuters.

Hold Security, his firm, found the trove of stolen data after a teenage Russian hacker boasted in an online forum that he had access to millions of stolen credentials.

Source: Millions of email accounts compromised  in massive data breach that includes Google and Yahoo

These juncos (thanks Jeph!), certainly the same pair that nested in the same windowbox last year have returned and are hard at work feeding this year’s brood of four.

My fuck Trump hat is quite popular here.

The long-term effects of this, especially vis-a-vis its impact on the rental market in San Francisco remains to be seen.

Perhaps nothing is more indicative of a cooling market than increasing numbers of listings expiring and being withdrawn from the market without selling.

Q1 2016 saw big jumps in expired/withdrawn condo listings over the first quarters of the previous 3 years. Many such listings end up coming back on the market at lower prices.

It’s chilling: for condos under $1.5 million, the number of withdrawn or expired listings soared 94%, and for condos above $1.5 million 128%!

When these unsold units come back on the market, sellers nurturing any hopes of selling their condos will likely have to swallow a bitter pill: reduced asking prices. And this marks the point when the phenomenal, incredible, breath-taking San Francisco condo boom turns into a bust.

Additionally, the startup boom is floundering. VCs have become skittish. Startups are cutting expenses to stay alive a little longer. IPOs had the worst quarter since 2009, and this has caught the ultimate smart money by surprise.

Source: San Francisco condo boom turns into bust – Business Insider

I just did two VERY San Francisco things: I met Herb Gold and tried Swenson’s Ice Cream for the first time.

Writing swear words all over the place…