I might not have made this clear in my write-up of the article, but Corthals isn't ignoring the immune response at all. What she's positing is that it's a metabolic problem that is the first step which triggers the immune response that's is MS. There's a very good writeup here if you want to read a bit more [asknicola.blogspot.com]
Oh, that wasn't what I meant at all. I was more referring to the specifics of the Gifts of the Magi, which has very little biblical backing behind it. It's part of the Christmas story that's been embellished extensively, giving names and backgrounds to the three kings/magi/wisemen/whatevertheyare which aren't in scripture. The truth of the whole story I'll leave to other people to battle out.
Actually, nothing. All the rhesus monkeys were "spontaneously obese" I believe the term was. Monkeys that made themselves overweight by eating way too much and not exercising.
Yeah, the recoloring and editing of the Incal saga is a bizarre thing. I'm incredibly glad I managed to pick up this guy when it was printed, with the oversized art and original colors. The coloring Moebius did himself is so much better than the redo. [www.humanoids.com]
For some more examples of what was censored and how the new version look, there's a decent discussion here. [deadcowboy.proboards.com]
That twitch you feel just as you're falling asleep is called a 'myoclonic jerk' or 'hypnic jerk' and it's totally normal. Scientists generally think that as you fall asleep and all your muscles relax, your brain misinterprets it as "falling" and tries to stop you by convulsing. Hence the muscle spasm, gasp, and you're awake for a second before going back to sleep.
Close! You're right that it's Before Present, but not because of the Christ thing. For that we have CE/BCE (common era/before common era). BP is used when objects are dated using scientific analysis, and the "present" of BP is actually 1950 to celebrate the discovery of carbon-dating.
Even when not shot at an odd angle, they're bizarre looking critters, and the wiki describes them as "solitary dwelling and aggressive". Charming. [en.wikipedia.org]
The study delves into that a little by pointing out that just about any change will have a short term improvement due to novelty. People get all excited about it for a year or so and there are some better test scores, but then it drops off again.
We'd love to be able to link to the full paper, but unfortunately we're not allowed to. Academic journals tend to be rather fierce about just handing out copies of paper. The best we can do is link to the DOI or the journal's website to facilitate people tracking it down on their own.