A cure for cancer (and old age)

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7086/extref/nature04652-s6.mov

Gary J. Gorbsky, Ph.D., a scientist with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, has found a way to reverse the process of cell division. The video of it happening is at the above link, if you have iTunes installed it will play (as iTunes has a movie player called Quicktime bundled with it).

I don't think he needed an SOA or ESB to do this. You're right, the economics of a country relies on it's ability to grow. So if we stop, we die. Human procreation and Money Lenders (Banks) are to blame to for this. A Bank will give you a certain percentage return on any investments you have with them (it's called "interest" I think). This means that every company has to offer at least a better return than the Bank to get money from investors. So they have to grow.

If the population remained steady, and The Banks did not give interest on investments, then I see no need for inflation and the mad dash for growth that the west has got itself into. Economics only reflects human nature though which is the real root of the problem. People always want more.

My minor surgery is now scheduled for June 6th and I find it quite humourous that the consultant carrying out the procedure is Mr Christmas.