This is amazing: researchers have discovered a treatment that dramatically reverses the degenerative effects of Alzheimer's within minutes of injection.

1) Aubrey de Grey was right; we really are all going to live forever.

2) I smell a great potential origin for a superintelligent superhero. Or supervillain. Or zombie epidemic.

Via Boing Boing.

Salon has a round-up of 2007's best graphic novels and comics. I'm not that up-to-date on these—I'm only just starting to make my way through the excellent Chris-Ware-edited Best American Comics 2007—but I can assure you that Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman is really amazingly good.