Really surprised that The River is getting bad ratings. I mean I'm not surprised that a good show is not getting watched, that happens all the time, but given the popularity of the dull Paranormal Activity franchise (I assume its popular), and given this show is sooo much better, I thought it would be a slam dunk.…

That's awesome, well done! I look forward to reading it.

But Charlie Chaplin was funny.....

His guest appearance at Comic-Con was awesome, but at the time I didn't think it was a serious suggestion. Still its an interesting idea, I just don't see it happening.

I kind of partly agree with you. I think he popped up in one of many possible timelines, which prior to his arrival had experienced fairly subtle differences in temporal events. However, once he arrived, the "time-universe" he was previously in and the one he is currently in became one and the same, hence the gradual…

That's remarkably observant - I'd assumed it was Timothy Leary. Wait, maybe Walter's FBI bodyguard in this timeline IS Timothy Leary.

That should be the case and it makes as much sense as anything else. The problem is that if Peter was truly erased from all timelines, then there would be no memory of him for Olivia to tap into as a result of her cortexiphan-aided trans-timeline thought transference. If thats what is going on.

Walter in a psychiatric institution telling someone who thinks he's orbitiing Venus about a conversation he once had with someone called "Tim" about taking LSD. Magic.

Yes, this is cool, but it will be far cooler when it becomes possible to selectively program cardiosphere derived cells to repopulate normal myocardium without having to biopsy them first. In the meantime the increase in viable heart tissue found here looks promising.

The magic bullet concept for cancer intervention has been around for many years, but one of the fundamental problems has been our inability to identify robust cell surface tumor markers and effectively deliver cytotoxic payloads. The great thing here is that the technologies for precision targeting and payload…

Its already patented? Nice work!

The most mysterious feature of their paper is that they apparently haven't come up with a cool acronym for "THREAding Tetra-INtercalATOR".

Yes, in fact, given the high mutation rates of viral and cancer genomes, you have to wonder whether this type of approach may be more useful for targeting "normal" genes to silence expression in a tissue- or disease-specific manner, e.g. peptide hormones, synthetic enzymes, etc.

Agreed. What's more, I'm not sure that an alternate present is necessarily any easier to relate to than an alternate, or actual, past.

Stopped reading at #10. Might want to reshuffle the order.

I vaguely remember Space:1999 and it making an impact on me, but don't remember anything about it - sadly a netfix streaming search reveals no results. Can't agree that TV science fiction is scarce these days - seems to be the space exploration variety that has disappeared. Wonder whether there is more cause or effect…

Presumably, if most of them are blind, The River will be mostly on board the Magus, where they have the automatic cams set up. Otherwise we could be in for some very shaky shaky-cam work.

Agreed. Whats more, seems to me to be an inverse relationship between grossness and awesomeness.

The same thing, but better - actually the only US remake of a Japanese horror movie that I liked better than the orig.

Would never rush out to kill a 28 Days Later-esque "zombie" - would instead rush very fast in the other direction.