Baldness in Mice: Cured!

Baldness has been accidentally cured in mice!  Wait, there are bald mice?

Apparently a bunch of scientists were using super-stressed out bald mice to study the effects of stress on your gut by blocking a particular hormone.  I don't know if their ulcers went away, but the stressed mice grew all their hair back.  Check out details on the study here.

Not sure if it will lead to a baldness cure for humans (though I'm hoping!), but at least Mickey can stop wearing that stupid toupee.

But he'd still better pay Jimmy Conway his money.

Chapter 60.74: Tails of the Future

I was skimming through the commencement speech given by former Sec. of State Madeleine Albright gave at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and I came across a funny little snippet.

Perhaps each night, we should ask ourselves what we have done to prove there is a difference. After all, mice eat and drink, groom themselves, chase each other's tails, and try to avoid risk. How does our idea of “have a nice day” differ from that?

I'm not sure whether the new graduates totally liked being compared to mice -- and the first image that came to me was of mice in a lab, which may be worse -- but her analogy seemed an apt one. Humans do act like lab mice much of the time, whether we're being observed or not. ... I hope to expand on this another time.