One Drug to Shrink All Tumors?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 29, 2013 A single drug has proven capable of shrinking or curing human breast, ovarian, colon, bladder, brain, liver and prostate tumors that were transplanted into mice by overriding a chemical that normally blocks the immune system from destroying cancer cells. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Human Intelligence Peaked Millennia Ago, Scientist Speculates

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 13, 2012 Have we humans been getting dumber since we put down the hunting spear and picked up the trowel? Gerald Crabtree, a geneticist at Stanford University, believes so. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Civilians ‘Terrorized’ in Pakistan Drone War

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 26, 2012 NYU law professor Sarah Knuckey, one of the authors of a new report on the social effects of America’s drone war in Pakistan, talks about the “broad mental health impacts” on people who live in fear of deadly attacks from the sky 24 hours a day. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Conservatives Blame Obama for Sending Allegedly Gay Ambassador to Libya

Staff / Truthdig Sep 18, 2012 Conservative blogs are saying U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was gay and shouldn't have been sent to the Middle East; Google's censorship of the controversial anti-Muslim video proves Web companies have more power than governments; meanwhile, a Stanford University study claiming organic foods are useless is being called fraudulent. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Women Have Higher Genetic Risk of Alzheimer’s

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 16, 2012 Researchers report that a gene variation that appears more frequently in women than men may help explain the long-established fact that females are more likely to develop the debilitating disease. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

America’s Middle-Class Neighborhoods on the Decline

Staff / Truthdig Nov 17, 2011 As America's middle class continues to diminish, it follows that the middle-class neighborhoods they once called home would shrink accordingly. Well, they are, finds a new Stanford University study, which charted changes in Americans' living quarters since 1970. The results are sobering, if unsurprising. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jobs Talks About ‘How to Live Before You Die’

Staff / Truthdig Oct 6, 2011 Steve Jobs never graduated from college, but in 2005 he gave the commencement address at Stanford University. In his speech, Jobs urged students to see the opportunities in life's setbacks, including death itself. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Autism Study Shifts Focus From Nature to Nurture

Staff / Truthdig Jul 5, 2011 Research on autism in recent decades has emphasized the contributing role of genetics, but a new study out of UCSF and Stanford might prove to be a game-changer, ranking environmental factors (e.g., parenting) higher than biology in order of importance. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Condoleezza Rice

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The iPhone as Musical Instrument

Staff / Truthdig Dec 5, 2009 It was a sonorous synthesis of computer science, musical innovation and some of the best kind of product placement imaginable when Stanford University professor Ge Wang convened the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra on Thursday. Here we have a group of people who have figured out how to play compositions including Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" (performed near the end of this YouTube clip) on their smartphones. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )