Book reveals the poop on penguins
Warning: Leland Gregory's "Stupid Science: Weird Experiments, Mad Scientists and Idiots in the Lab" contains some naughty bits, which I only noticed after asking my son to review it for me.
Honolulu Advertiser,
Sun Dec 06 04:04:37 PST 2009
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Financial therapy blends mental health, money help
Tensions at home were mounting after Jeremy Field lost a second construction job as the recession hit.
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Sun Dec 06 11:41:09 PST 2009
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Harlem's Education Experiment Gone Right
Anderson Cooper Reports on Education Pioneer Geoffrey Canada's Huge Success
CBS News,
Sun Dec 06 18:00:07 PST 2009
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Human guinea pigs wary of high-paying medical trials
New research shows that people equate large payments for participation in medical research with increased levels of risk. And when they perceive studies to be risky, they spend more time le...
Science Daily,
Sun Dec 06 20:10:09 PST 2009
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ISRO planning experiments on future moon missions : Minister
New Delhi, Dec 3 : Buoyed by the success of discovery of water on moon surface by Chandrayaan I, the Government is considering further mapping of lunar surface and in-situ experiments over ...
New Kerala,
Thu Dec 03 01:17:58 PST 2009
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Atul Gawande: The health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is that a...
Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage. Those gaps have widened to become gr...
The New Yorker,
Sun Dec 06 21:01:48 PST 2009
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Laboratories' outer limits | Mike Hulme
In the furore over our leaked emails, remember the climate debate is not decided just by scientists In 1997, in the lead-up to Kyoto, I helped organise a statement by European climate scien...
Guardian Unlimited,
Sun Dec 06 20:52:00 PST 2009
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Financial therapy blends mental health, money help
Tensions at home were mounting after Jeremy Field lost a second construction job as the recession hit. He spent his days on the Internet and the phone looking for work. His wife, Kelly, who...
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Sun Dec 06 11:41:09 PST 2009
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How Australia's top scientist earned millions from Wi-Fi
David Sygall meets the scientist whose research is the backbone of wireless technology.
The Age,
Sun Dec 06 20:26:08 PST 2009
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Stopping MRSA before it becomes dangerous is possible
Most scientists believe that staph infections are caused by many bacterial cells that signal each other to emit toxins. The signaling process is called quorum sensing because many bacteria ...
Science Daily,
Sun Dec 06 20:09:59 PST 2009
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Family: State failed to protect patient
Dr. Suzanne James broke the law, but regulators let her keep her license, despite charges that she encouraged woman's delusions.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune,
Sun Dec 06 19:38:19 PST 2009
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Human Guinea Pigs Are Wary of High-Paying Experiments When Volunteering for Clinic...
Human guinea pigs do their homework before volunteering for high-paying clinical trials. New research shows that people equate large payments for participation in medical research with incr...
Newswise,
Fri Dec 04 10:29:49 PST 2009
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Failing infrastructure causes big headaches for U.
An old stairway serves as a mechanical shaft in the University of Utah's century-old Life Sciences building, and the original but leaky heating pipes still carry 150-degree water under high...
The Salt Lake Tribune,
Sun Dec 06 18:09:07 PST 2009
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Chicken of the sea? Tuna farming getting a boost
Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild.
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Sat Dec 05 21:34:53 PST 2009
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U.S. OKs first human embryonic stem cells for experiments
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration yesterday approved the first human embryonic stem cells for experiments by federally funded scientists under a new policy designed to dramatically expa...
Newsday,
Wed Dec 02 19:16:45 PST 2009
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French audiences want to laugh and cry
The influx of musicals in France may have Jean-Paul Sartre turning in his grave, but in many ways they represent a renewal with a long Gallic tradition of popular theatre.
Times Online,
Sun Dec 06 15:19:21 PST 2009
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Financial therapy blends mental health, money help
Tensions at home were mounting after Jeremy Field lost a second construction job as the recession hit. He spent his days on the Internet and the phone looking for work. His wife, Kelly, who...
San Francisco Chronicle,
Sun Dec 06 10:39:59 PST 2009
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Aggression-promoting pheromone discovered in flies
Scientists say they have identified an aggression-promoting pheromone that controls such behavior in Drosophila, and have pinpointed the neurons in the fly's antenna that detect this pherom...
Science Daily,
Sun Dec 06 14:24:18 PST 2009
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Financial therapy blends mental health, money help
After Jeremy Fields lost his job, he and his wife began experiencing tensions over money. They were eager to participate in a study at the University of Georgia aimed at merging the realms ...
The Oregonian,
Sun Dec 06 14:20:04 PST 2009
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