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• New Iron-Fortified Rice Reduces Anemia

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  Source: VOA News ( 23 December 2009, Steve Baragona, Washington) – New Iron-Fortified Rice Reduces Anemia Researchers are testing a new way to prevent the world’s most common nutritional problem. Iron deficiency affects an estimated 3.5 billion people worldwide. In adults, it causes fatigue and lost ...
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• Light colored alcohol reduces hangover severity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New York, Dec 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) With the festive season in the air, and with a nip in the air, this news couldn’t have come at a better time. A recent survey has revealed that light-colored alcohol drinks have a lower severity of hangover as compared to the darker alcohol drinks.The researchers in the [...]
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• Hangover Severity Can Be Reduced By Drinking Light Colored Wine

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Madhuri DeyDec. 23, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A recent survey has revealed that while hangover after a drinking binge cannot be altogether avoided, the intensity can be lessened by choosing the right kind of alcohol. A survey was conducted by the researchers in the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies ...
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• Emma Watson Is Back On Filming “Deathly Hallows” Over Christmas Holidays

  
  Sponkit Celebrity Blog — Authority: 448
  sponkit.comsponkit.comEmma Watson is going to spend most of her Christmas holidays filming... [[ Read the Full Story at Spon it.com ]]
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• University Officials Baffled by the Increased Number of Early Applicants

  
  Top Colleges Blog — Authority: 143
  University leaders are just as baffled by the high number of early applicants this year as students and their parents are. While no one is certain why early applications were up this year, one thing is clear – most schools experienced an increase in the number of students sending in early applications. Although a ...
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• Bourbon triggers worse hangover than vodka

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 19 (IANS) American whiskey bourbon triggers a worse hangover than vodka the next day, says a new study.Bourbon has 37 times the amount of toxic chemicals called congeners that vodka has and can cause a worse hangover, though impairment in people’s next-day task performance is about the same for both ...
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• Bourbon versus vodka: Bourbon hurts more the next day, performance is the same

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  Many alcoholic beverages contain byproducts of the materials used in the fermenting process. These byproducts are called "congeners," complex organic molecules with toxic effects including acetone, acetaldehyde, fusel oil, tannins, and furfural. Bourbon has 37 times the amount of congeners that vodka has.
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• Sucker-footed bat hangs upright using “modified sweat”, not suction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, December 18 (ANI): A new study has found that a rare bat which roosts upright clings to slick leaves by secreting a “modified sweat” into pads on its wrists and ankles.Until now, scientists had thought that the bat, which is a Madagascar native dubbed Myzopoda aurita, or sucker-footed bat, used its ...
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• Emma Watson, 19, highest grossing actress of decade

  
  House Of Chatter — Authority: 131
  Emma Watson at 19 has become the decade’s highest grossing actress. The former Harry Potter star who has started college in the US went to work on the movies at the age of 10. Since then, the character of Hermione has made her more money than any other woman in Hollywood. An animation film she starred in, The Tale ...
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• Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Our cells are more like us than we may think. Theyre sensitive to their environment, poking and prodding deliberately at their surroundings with hand-like feelers and chemical signals as they decide whether and where to move. ...
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• Sucker-footed bats dont use suction after all

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- There are approximately 1,200 species of bats worldwide. Of that total, only six are known to roost with their heads pointed upward. Investigators did not know why, because they knew next to nothing about one key group. ...
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• Sleep Better, Faster with RealSleep #1

  
  SLEEP Online Magazine - The SLEEP Blog - All about SLEEP, SLEEPING, and SLEEPINESS — Authority: 127
  Sound technology has been known to be a key catalyst in getting some great sleep and now it looks like NeuroPop Inc. is aiming to help sleep deprived kids sleep faster and stay asleep longer. RealSleep #1 is a CD that plays like any standard audio CD but makes use of three types of nearly inaudible sounds which when ...
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• Obama does not understand soldiers

  
  News World — Authority: 138
  It is now clear that President Obama has no understanding at all of soldiers or of waging war. He made that clear in his speech on Afghanistan before the Corps of Cadets at the US Military Academy at West Point. It’s partly a generational thing: he was born at the end of the baby boom and [...]
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• Federation of American Scientists to teach kids biology via video games

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  Bookmark this categoryAmerican students know their pop music, pro sports, and consumer electronics. But ask them about cell biology and you’ll get a blank stare. To combat that, the Federation of American Scientists has developed a video game, Immune Attack, that takes kids inside a human body.The game is aimed at ...
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• [UK Prime Minister] Gordon Brown: climate-change sceptics are flat-earthers

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  People who doubt that human activity contributes to global warming are “flat-earthers” and “anti-science” The Prime Minister launched an outspoken attack on climate-change sceptics amid growing signs of public doubts about the scientific and political consensus on the environment. Mr Brown has insisted that the ...
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• New Speakers, Sponsor, Partners, for SharpBrains Summit

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 481
  Our inaugural SharpBrains Summit continues to grow momentum – here goes a quick update. New Speakers: Thomas M. Warden is Assistant Vice President and Leader of Allstate’s Research and Planning Center (ARPC). He helps sets ARPC’s research agenda and manage its execution by 60-member ARPC staff, leading ...
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• LRO DIVINER LPSC Symposium, February 2010

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 140
  Its beginning to look like the 41st Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at The Woodlands in Texas, March 1-5, 2010, will be among the very best places to get any advance view of the long-on-promise data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and its seven experiments now in lunar orbit. The Lunar ...
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• ‘World forest observatory’ needed to cut deforestation rates, say scientists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, December 1 (ANI): A research by scientists at the University of Leeds, UK, has determined that a world forest observatory is needed to monitor the commitments that will be made by developing countries at the Copenhagen summit to cut their deforestation rates.The research, led by Dr Alan Grainger, outlines ...
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• Open letter to Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  I am a physical scientist with a PhD from Brown University. My thesis was in quantum mechanical scattering theory. I spent a full career developing strategic weapons before being ordained an Anglican priest. I served several parishes in California and Colorado before moving to the Chesapeake shore. Last year, while ...
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• The End of History or a History of the End?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  A few years ago, Francis Fukuyama was widely criticized for his book claiming that mankind had seen “ The End of History .” Fukuyama contended that liberal democracy had won the debate over which system was best and, therefore, there was necessary no more “moving forward” for man’s social order. While ...
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