![producermatthew:
Cupertino high school student Angela Zhang may know the cure for cancer: As a freshman, she started reading doctoral-level papers on biological engineering. By her sophomore year in high school, she managed to convince Stanford University to let her use their laboratories, and by junior year, she began doing her own research that led her to develop a recipe that boggles even her chemistry teacher.
Zhang’s recipe won her a $100,000 award at a national science competition sponsored by Siemens.
Her method of curing cancer by aiming an infrared light at mutated cells killed cancer in mice; it will be a few more years before it can be determined if the method works in humans. Nevertheless, Zhang’s three years of research is considered a breakthrough. [CBS News]
The most amazing part about this story is that she’s from Cupertino.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxsu4exPTy1qz5ew6o1_500.png)
Cupertino high school student Angela Zhang may know the cure for cancer: As a freshman, she started reading doctoral-level papers on biological engineering. By her sophomore year in high school, she managed to convince Stanford University to let her use their laboratories, and by junior year, she began doing her own research that led her to develop a recipe that boggles even her chemistry teacher.
Zhang’s recipe won her a $100,000 award at a national science competition sponsored by Siemens.
Her method of curing cancer by aiming an infrared light at mutated cells killed cancer in mice; it will be a few more years before it can be determined if the method works in humans. Nevertheless, Zhang’s three years of research is considered a breakthrough. [CBS News]
The most amazing part about this story is that she’s from Cupertino.
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![thedailywhat:
End Of An Era of the Day: The iconic Yahoo billboard — an emblem of a bygone era built over a decade ago during the heyday of the dot-com boom — was brought down today by Clear Channel, which announced last month that the space had suddenly become available.
The move surprised some, considering the billboard’s status among Bay Bridge commuters, and the relatively low cost of keeping the sign up ($65,000 a month).
Is Yahoo! in trouble? A spokesperson told the San Jose Mercury News that the company was merely focused on “new and innovative ways” to market themselves.
Namely the kind that don’t cost a lot of money.
Check out the billboard’s better days below, and on its official Flickr page, which, unlike its subject, is still up.
[sfgate / mercurynews / flickr / photo: shawn.clover.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwl5o40b0U1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
End Of An Era of the Day: The iconic Yahoo billboard — an emblem of a bygone era built over a decade ago during the heyday of the dot-com boom — was brought down today by Clear Channel, which announced last month that the space had suddenly become available.
The move surprised some, considering the billboard’s status among Bay Bridge commuters, and the relatively low cost of keeping the sign up ($65,000 a month).
Is Yahoo! in trouble? A spokesperson told the San Jose Mercury News that the company was merely focused on “new and innovative ways” to market themselves.
Namely the kind that don’t cost a lot of money.
Check out the billboard’s better days below, and on its official Flickr page, which, unlike its subject, is still up.
[sfgate / mercurynews / flickr / photo: shawn.clover.]
(Source: thedailywhat)
If you haven’t seen this yet, do it.
If you’re from The Bay Area and haven’t seen this YOU MUST DO IT.
I can attest to the accuracy of this video.
What it doooooooooooo
Crazy Hills of San Francisco
Håkan Dahlström got this delightful shot of one of San Francisco’s steeper hills, turning his camera so that the road (and not the houses) were at level to convey the extent of the slope.
(Source: snapshotsofmyself, via lemondropstastelikebetrayal)
July 4th.
The photo of Joey & Hayley I like because it just says summer to me. I love that kind of could-be-vintage-if-it-were-a-polaroid/weirdly cropped nostalgiaey stuff.
The fireworks photos are pretty much the only ones I like out of the ~60 I took. I guess I’ve been spoiled by Bay Area firework shows; Tacoma’s seemed really short. I wasn’t even finished playing with my camera’s settings by the time the show was over. :/
