Science Time

Because I am a master (mistress) of the little-bit-of-knowledge-about-a-whole-mess-of-stuff school of information, I love the Tuesday Science Times section, where they will tell me a bit about something and I can go off and find out more if I wish (or remember to). Today's roundup?

Doctors are experimenting with spraying chemo drugs directly onto brain tumors--doing an end run around the blood brain barrier which prevents many chemo drugs from reaching the cancer they're meant to fight. This is really cool.

Why, Roland Emmerich not withstanding, the world isn't going to end in 2012. As one of those people who always needs one more thing to worry about, I'm happy to cross this one off the list.

Librarians looking for the perfect perfume might like distilled essence of old book. More usefully, researchers are hoping that understanding the smell of old paper might help librarians tell which books are too fragile to be loaned out, which might need special treatment, and so on.

Dental implants are better than crowns! Now if someone would tell my damned dental insurer this.

And why you may not want to use the restrooms when you take that cruise.

How can you not love stuff like this? Well, if you're me, anyway.

Also: because I messed up a link and gave this one instead: Lucy Kinsley on E-publishing. Enjoy!