Tonight the BC Club of Atlanta hosted a cocktail party with Matt Ryan and Gene DeFilippo. Thanks to the Alumni office for coordinating the details and our local chapter president Kyla Perfetuo. Big congrats to BC Mike for being the driving force behind the event and for giving Gene a very nice intro...

“Goebbels! One Night Only! Live From Hell!” by San Jose writer Scott Munson, directed by Jennifer Daly. Part of Three Wise Monkeys‘ 8th Annual Bay One Acts Festival. Remaining Dates: March 5 (tonight!) & 6 (Thu/Fri): 8 pm, March 8 (Sunday): 7 pm Location: the Eureka Theatre, 2...

Low energy density diet prevents weight gain Children who have a gene linked to an increased risk of obesity can prevent that fate by eating more fruits and vegetables, according to a report from the journal PLoS ONE. Looking at more than 2,000 children, researchers from University College London an...

Gene Krupa (Chicago (Illinois), 15 januari 1909 - Yonkers (New York), 16 oktober 1973) is één van de meest invloedrijke Amerikaanse drummers in de geschiedenis van de jazz. Hij stond bekend om zijn energieke en flamboyante manier van spelen. Zijn ouders kwamen uit Polen. Krupa begon zijn muzikale ...

We are going to start our week of diversions with an awesome little faux trailer made for a little contest being held over at Filmmaking Frenzy. As many of you may know, this is an Austin based website that will just plain rock your world. It has already taken the world of Sweding to a whole new lev...

A Los Angeles clinic is offering the ultimate in designer babies. Want a son with brown eyes black hair and a dark complexion? Or a paleskinned blonde greeneyed daughter?...

An interesting pair of papers on tumour suppressor genes in colorectal cancer was just published in PLoS Biology.  According to the researchers, "Our genetic evidence from Drosophila and previous in vitro studies of mammalian Atonal homolog 1 Atoh1, (also called Math1 or Hath1) suggest an anti-onco...

Twice as much potassium as sodium cuts heart risk Getting twice as much potassium as you do sodium could cut your risk of death from cardiovascular disease in half. That’s the conclusion of a study from Loyola University Health System in Chicago, which looked at people who weren’t asked to chang...

Last we heard, Office scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitski were hard at work trying to pen a new Ghostbusters movie. We haven’t really heard much about the project since last year when those details were revealed, and we just assumed that they couldn’t make the script work. Well it ...

A Neanderthal man, as depicted at the American Museum of Natural History. If we put this fellow in some clothes and sent him on his way, how would he do? As reported previously on Babel’s Dawn, the draft version of the Neanderthal genome was presented in Chicago last week (press release here) and ...