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• Christmas carols originated from human speech: Study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec 25 (ANI): The notes of popular Christmas carols like “Jingle Bells” or “We Three Kings” have been borrowed from the sounds we make in everyday speech, reveals an acoustic researcher.According to Dale Purves, director of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, the notes in ...
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• Biological catch-22 prevents induction of antibodies that block HIV

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Scientists seeking to understand how to make an AIDS vaccine have found the cause of a major roadblock. It turns out that the immune system can indeed produce cells with the potential to manufacture powerful HIV-blocking antibodies – but at the same time, the immune system works equally hard to make sure these cells ...
  10 hours ago

• Source: Madoff fell out of bed, injured

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  DURHAM, NC -- A source tells ABC11 Eyewitness News that disgraced financier Bernie Madoff is being treated for serious injuries after he fell out of his prison bed. ABC11 Eyewitness News first reported that Madoff had injuries consistent with an assault. Now, the source says Madoff was not attacked in prison, but that ...
  21 hours ago

• Madoff treated at Duke hospital after falling ill

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Bernard Madoff was transferred from a North Carolina federal prison to Duke University Medical Center earlier this week after he experienced dizziness and high blood pressure.
  23 hours ago

• Protein that could treat aggressive brain tumour identified

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): A protein, called TRPC6, could hold the key to treating one of the most common and aggressive brain tumours in adults, according to biomedical researchers at the University of Central Florida. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the type of malignant brain tumour that killed the late U.S. Sen. ...
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• Secret of the golden ratio revealed

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 701
  The golden ratio describes a rectangle with a length roughly one and a half times its width. Also known as the golden section, golden mean and divine proportion, among other names, it has intrigued mathematicians and artists alike for centuries. The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids, ...
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• "M-A-X spells MAX!" says Max. A stem cell miracle? Who knows....

  
  To The Max — Authority: 472
  This is the week were due to e-mail an update to Dr. Kurtzberg, the wonderful Duke University doctor who did Maxs stem cell transplant in August. Its been four months, and while she said that if we were to see results they would happen at around the six-month mark, she wanted us to get in touch in December. I ...
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• ‘A bias against white males’

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 150
  [tip: Kenneth Anderson ] OPENING ARGUMENT The Rot At Duke — And Beyond Much of academia appears to have a disregard of due process and a bias against white males. by Stuart Taylor Jr. Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009 You might think that a university whose students were victims of the most notorious ...
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• Protein link may be key to new treatment for aggressive brain tumor

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  Biomedical researchers at the University of Central Florida have found a protein that could hold the key to treating one of the most common and aggressive brain tumors in adults.
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• Duke University Develops Next Gen Lens for Telecommunications, Radar

  
  EDA Geek — Authority: 136
  Duke University engineers have created a new generation of lens that could greatly improve the capabilities of telecommunications or radar systems to provide a wide field of view and greater detail. But the lens they fashioned doesn’t look anything like a lens. While traditional lenses are made of clear substances ...
  3 days ago

• Coast to Coast AM – Parapsychology & J.B. Rhine part 10/12

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 159
  09 Mar 2009 Author Stacy Horn discussed her research into the work of Dr. JB Rhine who led the Duke University Parapsychology Lab from 1930 to 1980. Prof. Rhine was the first to apply the scientific method in studying parapsychology and came up with repeatable experiments that showed telepathy, psychokinesis, and ...
  3 days ago

• Duke University Raping White Men Again

  
  Guy White: Making Sense On Race — Authority: 432
  Hat tip to Jay: You might think that a university whose students were victims of the most notorious fraudulent rape claim in recent history, and whose professors — 88 of them — signed an ad implicitly presuming guilt, and whose president came close to doing the same would have learned some lessons. The facts ...
  3 days ago

• Can The Ivies Derive Green From Athletic Marketing?

  
  Sports Marketing and PR Roundup — Authority: 508
  Before the recent economic downturn, the whispers regarding the upgrading of the competitive level of Ivy League athletics were abounding. The large endowments of many of the schools were bringing the institutions to perhaps remove the paperwork and qualification for financial grants and give all students who ...
  3 days ago

• Scientists unravel mystique of golden ratio

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec 21 (IANS) The golden ratio is believed to have guided Egyptians in the construction of the Pyramids and Athenians to erect their imposing architecture.It has even found echoes in The Da Vinci Code, where Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel its mysteries.Golden ratio is a geometric ...
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• Mystery of golden ratio explained

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  DURHAM, N.C. -- The Egyptians supposedly used it to guide the construction the Pyramids. The architecture of ancient Athens is thought to have been based on it. Fictional Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel its mysteries in the novel The Da Vinci Code. ...
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• Academes bias against white males

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 439
  Any parent who would pay to send a kid, male or female, into this hell hole should be charged with wallet abuse. "You might think that a university whose students were victims of the most notorious fraudulent rape claim in recent history, and whose professors -- 88 of them -- signed an ad implicitly presuming guilt, ...
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• Next generation lens promises more control

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University engineers have created a new generation of lens that could greatly improve the capabilities of telecommunications or radar systems to provide a wide field of view and greater detail. Link:  http://www.duke.edu
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• No. 7 Duke 76, No. 15 Gonzaga 41: Duke’s Old Guard Watches a Rout of Gonzaga at the Garden

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Duke guard Nolan Smith combined with his backcourt mate Jon Scheyer to outscore Gonzaga.
  5 days ago

• No. 7 Duke 76, No. 15 Gonzaga 41: Duke’s Old Guard Watches a Rout of Gonzaga at the Garden

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Duke guard Nolan Smith combined with his backcourt mate Jon Scheyer to outscore Gonzaga.
  5 days ago

• Economist Advises: For a Happier Christmas, Spend Less

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 763
  When Dan Ariely recently took his kids to a birthday party, he didnt expect a lesson in how to celebrate the holidays, let alone a tutorial in economics. But as clowns and inflatables entertained the children and the parents feasted on wine and sushi, he found himself pining for old fashioned birthday cake and soda. ...
  6 days ago

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