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• Younger Looking Twins Live Longer

  
  FuturePundit — Authority: 569
  Your face shows how much damage has accumulated in your body. Danish scientists say appearance alone can predict survival, after they studied 387 pairs of twins. The researchers asked nurses, trainee teachers and peers to guess the age of the twins from mug shots. Those rated younger-looking tended to outlive their ...
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• Man evicted for homophobic hate campaign

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 689
  A man who made his neighbours lives hell has been served with a 56-day eviction notice. Richard Leonard, 57, of Baldmoor Lake Road, Erdington, had been accused of waging a homophobic and anti-social hate campaign against his neighbours since May.
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• The Verge and Foliot clock escapment in wood

  
  The Automata / Automaton Blog — Authority: 527
  My appreciation and interest in clock mechanisms is growing all the time. Heres a wood version of one of the earliest of all escapements: the verge and foliot. Wikipedia on the verge escapement: The verge (or crown wheel) escapement is the earliest known type of mechanical escapement, the mechanism in a mechanical ...
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• Delayed ageing could protect from Alzheimer’s

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 14 (IANS) Delaying ageing could protect from symptoms linked to Alzheimer’s disease.The study found that by reducing Insulin Growth Factor (IGF) signalling, activity in brain mechanisms could be boosted to protect against Alzheimer’s. The mice, genetically modified to develop Alzheimer’s disease, ...
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• Why adolescents are more prone to substance abuse

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 12 (ANI): A study into why teens become addicted to smoking more easily than adults and why adolescents are more prone to substance abuse has been carried out.In an evaluation for Faculty of 1000 Biology, Neil Grunberg described the study, as “fascinating” and suggested it “may have implications ...
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• What makes a “good” coordinator”?

  
  Jobs at home - Legit work — Authority: 447
  First of all, what is management?  The dictionary defines management as “the act or art of managing: the conducting or supervising of something (as a business).”  Sounds about right.  But then, Attila the Hun was a coordinator of sorts.  Clearly, there is a big difference between being a coordinator and being ...
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• Wrong to say Kyoto protocol expiring in 2012: China

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  United Nations, Dec 12 (IANS) It is a mistake to say that the Kyoto protocol will expire in about two years, Liu Zhenmin, the deputy Chinese permanent representative to the UN, said here.Liu refuted Friday the argument that the Kyoto protocol will expire in 2012 and that is why people have gathered in Copenhagen to ...
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• Brain activity exposes promise-breakers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Dec 11 (IANS) Patterns of brain activity can tell when you are likely to break a promise, says a new study.Brain activity suggests that breaking a promise spurs an emotional conflict in the violator owing to the suppression of an honest response.Besides, the most important finding of the study enabled ...
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• Comparing (Semi-) Analytic Solutions Used to Model the Impact of...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  Injection of carbon dioxide into deep saline formations is seen as one possible technology for mitigating carbon emissions from utilities. The safety of the sequestered carbon dioxide is the focus of many studies with leakage through faults or abandoned wells as some of the main failure mechanisms. The focus of this ...
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• As of 2009 there are 57 million Americans who have pre-diabetes. Diabetes and its treatments can cause many complications. Examples include congenital diabetes due to genetic defects of insulin secretion, cystic fibrosis-related diabetes, steroid diabetes

  
  Diabetes — Authority: 130
  understanding mechanisms and is since half with not risk as history diabetes, sedentary [94,95]. study first our show is factor after an of previous suggested has effect [...]
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• webm.org: 10 Wordpress Security Plugins To Keep Your Blog Safe

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  On the webm.org site today theres a new post with a list of ten plugins that you can use to help improve the security of your WordPress installation. read more
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• Worms may offer new epilepsy treatments

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 10 (ANI): A new study on worms by researchers at the University of Alabama has shed light on cellular mechanisms that could be exploited to treat epilepsy.The researchers said that the transparent roundworm, C. elegans, helped them identify key ‘molecular switches’ that control the transport of a ...
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• Drug-free technique to wipe out fearful memories

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Dec 10 (ANI): Researchers in the U.S. have found a drug-free way to block fearful memories, opening up the possibility of new treatment approaches for problems such as post traumatic stress disorder.The findings in humans build on studies in rats that showed that reactivating a memory - by showing people ...
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• Brain activity exposes promise breakers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 10 (ANI): The physiological mechanisms in the brain that underlie broken promises have been discovered by scientists.Boffins from the University of Zurich say the patterns of brain activity even enable predicting whether someone will break a promise. The results of the study conducted by Dr. Thomas ...
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• I.cono by Lievore, Altherr & Molina for Vibia

  
  Daily Icon — Authority: 557
  The design for I.cono achieves visual lightness, combining cleanliness and consistency throughout the range. The rotating mechanisms of the head and base seem invisible thanks to the high technical quality in all the processes of creating this light. Available in polycarbonate lacquer, black, white or pistachio. ...
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• Parasite evades death by promoting host cell survival

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 123
  he parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (or T. cruzi), which causes Chagas disease, will go to great lengths to evade death once it has infected human host cells, researchers have discovered.
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• Fully automatic electric crossbow

  
  The Automata / Automaton Blog — Authority: 527
  Granted...this is a little off-topic for this blog, but its overwhelming mechanical awesomeness requires me to repost it. See more amazing crossbow creations on the creators web site . [ Found via Hack A Day ]
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• New approach to fight treatment-resistant colon cancer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): A research team led by an Indian-origin scientist has revealed that adding a small molecule to the cancer drug Temozolomide effectively treats colon cancer cells that are highly resistant to treatment.Lead researcher Satya Narayan has found that addition of a small molecule to the cancer drug ...
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• Minding our Ps and Qs (reprise)

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 622
  By Dave Anderson: Carbon taxes and cap and trade are both attempts to create price incentives to reduce carbon emissions.  The goal is to raise the dispersed and mostly externalized cost of pollution into a concentrated and internalized cost for the polluter.  From here, most polluters will seek to reduce emissions ...
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• The Bearded Gentleman

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Rather than assassinate Iranian citizens abroad, which proved a constant irritant between Iran and host countries, the Islamic Republic has developed much more sophisticated mechanisms to control its exiled population. In recent months, Iran has been conducting a campaign of harassing and intimidating members of its ...
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