A plant that last flowered when woolly mammoths roamed the plains is back in bloom.

Biologists have resurrected a 30,000-year-old plant, cultivating it from fruit tissue recovered from frozen sediment in Siberia. The plant is by far the oldest to be brought back from the dead: the previous record holder was a sacred lotus, dating back about 1200 years.

The late David Gilichinsky from the Soil Cryology Laboratory in Moscow, Russia, and colleagues recovered the fruits of the ice age flowering plant (Silene stenophylla) from a fossilised squirrel burrow in frozen sediments near the Kolyma river in north-east Siberia. Radiocarbon dating of the fruit suggests the squirrel stashed it around 31,800 years ago, just before the ice rolled in.

By applying growth hormones to the fruit tissue, Gilichinsky and his colleagues managed to kick-start cell division and ultimately produce a viable flowering plant.

Modern day S. stenophylla looks similar to the resurrected plant, but has larger seeds and fewer buds. Modern plants also grow roots more rapidly. Studying these and other differences will reveal how the plant has evolved since the last ice age.

Alan Cooper, director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide, is impressed but cautious, because some supposedly “ancient” plants grown from permafrost have turned out to be modern contaminants. To rule out this possibility, Gilichinsky’s team went to some lengths to verify that the fruit came from undisturbed deposits, they say.

“It is an exciting result and tells us we shouldn’t just look for seeds when trying to generate ancient material,” says Steven Penfield, a plant scientist at the University of Exeter, UK.

Similar fossilised burrows have been identified in Alaska and Canada. “If permafrost continues to melt, I would think it likely that a small fraction of ancient seeds will germinate, survive and grow spontaneously,” says Buford Price from the University of California, Berkeley.

Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118386109

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The Cancer Bats will be performing at several SXSW showcases this year. Confirmed so far are the Raw Power Management, and Alternative Press showcases, with more still TBA. Cancer Bats schedule of confirmed North American tour dates are also listed below.

PRS for music and Raw Power Management Showcase:
Wednesday, March 14th 9:00pm (Cancer Bats perform at 1:00am)
British Music Embassy at Latitude 30
Featuring: Cancer Bats, Charlie Simpson, Cuba Cuba, Spy Catcher and Turbogeist

Alternative Press Showcase:
Saturday, March 17th Noon-6:00pm
Featuring: The Used, Breathe Carolina, The Early November, Cancer Bats, Forever the Sickest Kids

Cancer Bats also has the following upcoming tour dates:

w/ Ringworm, Primitive Weapons
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* no Primitive Weapons

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The Doctors Health Press, a publisher of various natural health newsletters, books and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is lending its support to a new study that makes a connection between heart disease and prostate cancer.

Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 20, 2012

The Doctors Health Press, a publisher of various natural health newsletters, books and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is lending its support to a new study that makes a connection between heart disease and prostate cancer.

As reported in Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin on Monday, February 13, 2012 (http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/heart-health-articles/the-link-between-heart-problems-and-your-prostate), researchers at Duke University found a significant link between coronary artery disease and prostate cancer. They believe the two conditions may have shared causes.

According to the Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin article, coronary artery disease kills more adults in the U.S. than any other cause, accounting for one in four deaths. Risk factors include inactivity, obesity, high blood pressure and cholesterol, cigarette smoking, and diabetes.

Similarly, says the article, prostate cancer is a common killer. It?s the second-most lethal cancer for U.S. men, behind lung cancer, with about 240,000 new cases diagnosed a year, and 34,000 deaths. Previous studies exploring the relationship between coronary artery disease and prostate cancer risk have found conflicting results.

The Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin article reports that, in the current study, the Duke team used data from 6,390 men enrolled in a large study to test the prostate cancer risk reduction benefits of a drug. All participants had a prostate biopsy at the two- and four-year marks. They also provided a detailed medical history that included their weight, incidence of heart disease, alcohol intake, medication use, and other factors.

The Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin article also reports that, among the men in the study, 547 reported a history of coronary artery disease. This group of men tended to be older, heavier, and less healthy, with higher baseline PSA levels (used to predict prostate cancer), plus more incidences of diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. These men were much more likely to develop prostate cancer, even after accounting for everything else.

Having coronary artery disease increased the men?s risk of prostate cancer by 35%. This risk kept rising as time went on. The group was 24% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer within the first two years of the study than men who reported no heart disease. By four years into the study, this group?s prostate cancer risk was 74% higher.

According to the Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin article, what researchers don?t yet know is what is causing the link. But the connection is quite strong and is very much worth considering for all men who suffer coronary artery disease.

(SOURCE: ?Heart disease may be a risk factor for prostate cancer,?

Duke University Medical Center, Feb. 8, 2012.)

Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin is a daily e-letter providing natural health news with a focus on natural healing through foods, herbs and other breakthrough health alternative treatments. For more information on Doctors Health Press, visit http://www.doctorshealthpress.com.

Victor Marchione, MD is the Chairman of the Doctors Health Press Editorial Board. He is also the editor of The Food Doctor and has released a new video revealing 12 fighting foods to help virtually all of your current health problems. To see the video, visit http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/12-fighting-foods.

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Yesterday, 09:59 PM	? #1 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Canada Posts: 76	My SO and I have quite different views on an individual’s right to privacy within a relationship, and I know when I’ve read similar topics on here there have been diverging opinions. Tonight he accused me of “withholding intimacy” because I asserted (what I believe to be) my right to my privacy. A few nights ago he had asked me what I was reading on my e-reader and I said it was a self-help book, without going into further detail — it was a book about emotional unavailability. I avoided telling him specifically which book it was because in the past he has immediately personalized the subject (“Oh, so you think I’m emotionally unavailable??”) and has also mocked me quite nastily for reading self-help books. I did explain this to him at the time and he denied ever doing it — he says I must have misunderstood him. There have also been times that he has criticized the novels that he’s seen me read, saying that they’re “stupid”. So I’m a bit wary of revealing my reading material! Bottom line, unless I’m reading a manifesto on how to murder one’s SO and escape undetected , I don’t see why it matters what I’m reading. Normally he can just glance at the cover of the book and know the answer in a second; he doesn’t have that advantage with the e-reader. So tonight he started in on me about being secretive and said he had just been making conversation, whereas I was “rude and hostile” by refusing to anwer his question about the book I was reading. I explained that, in a general sense, people have the right to not provide information according to their own boundaries — he seems to feel that posing the question obligates the other person to answer, that he is somehow entitled to have his curiosity satisfied. The same if he asks me “What are you thinking about?”. He got pissed off and walked out. Over this. My question: how much privacy can an individual reasonably expect within a relationship?
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Yesterday, 11:32 PM	? #6 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 3,481	TwoDogs, The fact that you are capable of being artfully funny under duress “bolded item below” tells me you are likely highly sane and rational. IMO – there are very few situations in a relationship where you truly are obligated to provide answers. The ebook/what are you thinking examples do not apply. As for his denial of prior bad behavior – be careful if there is a pattern of that. >>>>>>>> Bottom line, unless I’m reading a manifesto on how to murder one’s SO and escape undetected , I don’t see why it matters what I’m reading. Quote: My SO and I have quite different views on an individual’s right to privacy within a relationship, and I know when I’ve read similar topics on here there have been diverging opinions. Tonight he accused me of “withholding intimacy” because I asserted (what I believe to be) my right to my privacy. A few nights ago he had asked me what I was reading on my e-reader and I said it was a self-help book, without going into further detail — it was a book about emotional unavailability. I avoided telling him specifically which book it was because in the past he has immediately personalized the subject (“Oh, so you think I’m emotionally unavailable??”) and has also mocked me quite nastily for reading self-help books. I did explain this to him at the time and he denied ever doing it — he says I must have misunderstood him. There have also been times that he has criticized the novels that he’s seen me read, saying that they’re “stupid”. So I’m a bit wary of revealing my reading material! Bottom line, unless I’m reading a manifesto on how to murder one’s SO and escape undetected , I don’t see why it matters what I’m reading. Normally he can just glance at the cover of the book and know the answer in a second; he doesn’t have that advantage with the e-reader. So tonight he started in on me about being secretive and said he had just been making conversation, whereas I was “rude and hostile” by refusing to anwer his question about the book I was reading. I explained that, in a general sense, people have the right to not provide information according to their own boundaries — he seems to feel that posing the question obligates the other person to answer, that he is somehow entitled to have his curiosity satisfied. The same if he asks me “What are you thinking about?”. He got pissed off and walked out. Over this. My question: how much privacy can an individual reasonably expect within a relationship?
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Yesterday, 11:41 PM	? #7 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 112	Secondly, this is not a question of privacy or boundaries. You weren’t on the toilet. If your husband asks what you are doing on the internet or what you’re reading, you should be willing and forthcoming with the answers. Otherwise, you could quite easily begin issues that are matters of trust. The last thing you want is to end up wondering and feeling insecure about who he is talking to or whose blogs he’s reading. That’s where your “privacy and boundaries” is headed. And when it all starts, you won’t possess the presence of mind to remember you are the one who started that mess. Moreover, you called yourself protecting yourself and preventing an argument, but an argument ensued anyway, didn’t it? And you weren’t so protected afterall. First and foremost, he makes conversation by asking what you are reading, not by criticizing what you read and thereby (and quite insultingly), criticize you and the reading material. However, what he does (and says) is not nearly so important as what you do about what he does (and says). You took it from him and allowed him to judge, belittle, and berate you, and then you allowed him to entirely dismiss your expressions and feelings about his insults by placing the blame, the offense, and the breakdown in communication squarely on your shoulders. He stormed out of the room like a wounded child. In other words….according to him….you offended yourself AND him. What kind of mess is that? Your solutions were to first hide the subject matter of your reading material so as to prevent him belittling you over it, and then you submitted to an entirely different (and pointless) argument about privacy and boundaries. You will forever flip, flop, and fly around in the dust of his wrath if you keep getting caught up like this and not stand up for yourself. The polite and engaging thing for him to do (since he so sincerely CLAIMS he was only making conversation) would have been to further inquire of your reading material in such a way that he proved himself considerate, interested, and engaging (in conversation). You know, he could have shown a little interest and possibly improve himself by it. Honestly though, I don’t know what you are learning if this is example of how you handle things with your husband. Stand up for yourself and rather than constantly trying to sneak and hide to protect yourself from his judgmental and offensive nature, stop him in his tracks when he offends you. Teach him how to treat you. If your feelings are hurt when he says these things, then you know you have no business allowing him to say them. Let him know you do not live your life by his permission or approval. Therefore, sharing with him what you are reading does not give him license to make you out to be two feet tall for reading it. Make sure he understands if he has no nice, considerate, and/or engaging responses, then shut the hell up and keep his opinions to himself.
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Yesterday, 11:47 PM	? #8 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Canada Posts: 76	Quote: if you act secretively, dont be surprised when the partner, rightfully so, feels like you are hiding something and becomes suspicious. SO is a bit of a nosey parker — not much escapes his notice, and his curiosity. He’ll check out the return addresses on my mail if I’ve left it lying on the table and ask me something like “What was that letter from _____ about?” When the voicemail light is flashing he’ll ask who the message is from, and if I don’t listen to it in his presence he’ll ask why I don’t want him to hear it. If my bankbook was out in plain view he’d think nothing of picking it up and flipping through it. All in the name of “intimacy”. (Note that we are not married, and don’t live together, so all of this takes place in my home) I used to think nothing of telling him what I was reading, it’s no big deal. Until he started taking that information and using it against me. He has ridiculed me in front of other people (a fairly intellectual crowd) for reading a low-brow bestseller. During fights he has told me I’m “f’ed up” and neurotic from reading self-books. When I first joined Al-Anon I was immersing myself in program literature, and he commented derisively every few days to ask me if I was ever going to read anything different. So I just got to a point where I felt that I didn’t want to give him any more weapons in my choice of reading material if it was something that would potentially get thrown in my face down the road.
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Yesterday, 11:56 PM	? #9 (permalink)
Forum Supporter ? Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Brentwood, TN Posts: 1,323	Quote: SO is a bit of a nosey parker — not much escapes his notice, and his curiosity. He’ll check out the return addresses on my mail if I’ve left it lying on the table and ask me something like “What was that letter from _____ about?” When the voicemail light is flashing he’ll ask who the message is from, and if I don’t listen to it in his presence he’ll ask why I don’t want him to hear it. If my bankbook was out in plain view he’d think nothing of picking it up and flipping through it. All in the name of “intimacy”. (Note that we are not married, and don’t live together, so all of this takes place in my home) I used to think nothing of telling him what I was reading, it’s no big deal. Until he started taking that information and using it against me. He has ridiculed me in front of other people (a fairly intellectual crowd) for reading a low-brow bestseller. During fights he has told me I’m “f’ed up” and neurotic from reading self-books. When I first joined Al-Anon I was immersing myself in program literature, and he commented derisively every few days to ask me if I was ever going to read anything different. So I just got to a point where I felt that I didn’t want to give him any more weapons in my choice of reading material if it was something that would potentially get thrown in my face down the road. if you are not married or living together and he is being this way, ask yourself, is this the kind of relationship you you really want? it doesnt sound like it, which is fine, but you should move on that. when my exgf would come visit me from australia, i had no problems with her asking me things or going through my things. i loved her and had nothing to hide so i didnt mind one bit.
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Today, 12:00 AM	? #10 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Canada Posts: 76	Quote: Stand up for yourself and rather than constantly trying to sneak and hide to protect yourself from his judgmental and offensive nature, stop him in his tracks when he offends you. Teach him how to treat you. If your feelings are hurt when he says these things, then you know you have no business allowing him to say them. Let him know you do not live your life by his permission or approval. Therefore, sharing with him what you are reading does not give him license to make you out to be two feet tall for reading it. Make sure he understands if he has no nice, considerate, and/or engaging responses, then shut the hell up and keep his opinions to himself. I’ve tried that in the past and he uses the old “I was only joking” defense or he repeats his exact words in a pleasant, neutral tone instead of the actual mocking tone in which it was first delivered and asks “What’s wrong with saying that?” (well, duh, tone is everything!). Then tells me I’m being overly sensitive. I’d have to say that the biggest problems we’ve been having in the relationship lately are due to the fact that I am stopping him in his tracks more often instead of being the compliant little doormat that he was used to.
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Today, 12:21 AM	? #14 (permalink)
Member ? Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Canada Posts: 76	Quote: Sorry, I neglected your use of “SO” and not husband. And, after reading your last two responses, I am happy to know you are not married to this guy………and you NEVER should be. Break away before you find yourself marrying your misery “all in the name of” love. I urge you to self-help yourself now. He is bordering on abusive, and it will only get worse. In fact, the more you complain and try to prevent him, the more tame he will make himself appear…..until you are married. I know you don’t believe me right now, but I hope you are (or quickly become) the kind of person who has the good sense to learn by the mistakes of others. The mistakes of others you ask? Just read these boards. You are not one of a kind. Your SO is not one a kind. Your relationship is not special. Nobody’s is. Everyone just manages to convince themselves otherwise. Everything you have shared here are the very common attributes of disaster. Thank you. I think I know this already, deep down, and just needed some validation? corroboration? He’s intellectually brilliant and is quite skilled at twisting everything around to point the blame at me — he can rattle off an exhaustive list of my personal failings. And I’ve bought into his assessment of me to a large extent. He insists he’s a “great guy” and a “good boyfriend”.
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