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Herpes
Health 2 u —
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Herpes simplex Would you believe herpes gladiotorum? No, it is not another form of herpes. It is the same herpes simplex that may give you a cold sore or worse, plague you with painful genital herpes. Apparently herpes is so common among wrestlers, they have their own name for it. This is because of the unclothed, ...2 days ago -
Scientific American - Kool-Aid Psychology: Realism versus Optimism
Integral Options Cafe —
Authority: 143
Theres much to like in the positive psychology movement, but its rejection of traditional therapeutic work is not one of them. I have had some serious issues with their whole ethos of focusing only on the positive, and Ive mentioned that here before. In this article, Michael Shermer (of The Skeptic) riffs on Barbara ...5 days ago -
Konarka’s Power Plastic Turns Buildings into Power Plants
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 142
Solar energy innovator Konarka is out to prove that you can have your sustainable cake and eat it, too. The Massachusetts-based company has launched a pilot project that will integrate its proprietary Power Plastic solar panels into the non-loadbearing exterior wall of a building, called a curtain wall. Solar ...1 week ago -
Unusual deep sea species
The Art of Science —
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More scientific art. I’m a sucker for pretty pictures and photographs of bizarre animals. Compiled by Scientific American : More than 340 scientists from around the world have been working over the past nine years to complete the Census of Marine Life , a project that has sent out dozens of expeditions to ...1 week ago -
Emit fo worra.*
Communion Of Dreams —
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Nice – here’s another show for “ The Explosions Channel “: Jim Downey (Via MeFi . *Apologies to Sean Carroll. )1 week ago -
On a Roll: Autonomous Navigation Lasers and Robotics Push “Smart” Wheelchair Technology to the Cutting Edge
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 142
Image via Wikipedia One of the latest attempts to build a commercially viable smart wheelchair is leveraging lessons learned from the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge Engineers can build autonomous vehicles capable of cruising city streets without the aid of a human driver, as demonstrated two years ago in ...1 week ago -
Worst Case Scenarios
NEWS, VIEWS & SERENDIPITY —
Authority: 125
"If the worst-case scenario played itself out - not the potential or likely, but the worst - would that be acceptable?"This is the advise that James M. Wilson offers clinical scientists. This comes from experience of the saddest kind. In 1999, James M. Wilson was the head of the institute that ran a gene therapy ...1 week ago -
Setting Boundaries: 10 Guidelines to Save Earth
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 142
Image via Wikipedia Scientists propose a set of safe limits for human impacts on Earth The scale of humanity’s impact on the globe is becoming ever more apparent: we have wiped out species at a rate to rival great extinction events of all geologic time as well as contributing to a rapidly acidifying ocean, ...1 week ago -
Zoning for Oceans: Balancing Our Competing Needs in the Seas
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 142
Image via Wikipedia The time when we could do anything we want anywhere we want in the oceans is over For decades the seas off U.S. shores have been roiled by controversies over where to drill for oil, how to reel in overfishing , and whom to blame for toxic streams of continental runoff. A failure to manage ...1 week ago -
Of Antibiotics and Myths
NEWS, VIEWS & SERENDIPITY —
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You go to a doctor with fever. He recommends a blood test and then scribbles out a almost-undecipherable prescription of an antibiotic course.But wait, have you ever thought what these antibodies are?I certainly didnt.Not until I came across this in the September 2009 issue (Yeah! I know. I am running late) of ...1 week ago -
The Cyber Sea: World’s Largest Internet Undersea Science Station Boots Up
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 142
Image via Wikipedia NEPTUNE Canada, the world’s largest regional cabled undersea network, promises to usher in a new era of ocean science when it goes online December 8* Thanks to a new, wired undersea observatory, when it comes to exploring the deep blue sea, there will be no more of this tethered buoy ...1 week ago -
SciAm Mind - The Psychology of Social Status
Integral Options Cafe —
Authority: 143
Interesting stuff. The Psychology of Social Status How the pursuit of status can lead to aggressive and self-defeating behavior By Adam Waytz Rosemarie Gearhart .atools_holder {border:#e4e0dd 1px solid; width:78px; ...2 weeks ago -
Journal of Participatory Medicine cited on Scientific American blog
e-Patients.net —
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Scientific American writer Robin Lloyd (Twitter: @RobinLloyd99 ) has written a nice, clear, hit-the-nail-on-the-head post on their blog about our Journal of Participatory Medicine .2 weeks ago -
Sunergy Offers 5 Cent Solar Billing With No Credit Check
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 142
Image via Wikipedia You don’t have to get a credit check to buy electricity from a utility. Now you don’t need one to buy your very own solar power supply either. You don’t have to get a credit check to buy electricity from a utility. Now you don’t need one to buy your very own solar power supply ...2 weeks ago -
Hair Dye That Doesnt Stink Coming Soon!
StyleList Fashion Blog —
Authority: 154
Filed under: Beauty , Hair , News , Hair Color In the future, hair dye may actually smell good. Photo: Getty Images Hair dye stinks. Period. Unless you are using the gentler (and less effective) no-ammonia versions, the industrial cleaner smell is just an unfortunate part of the process. Until now. ...2 weeks ago -
The emerging scientific consensus on the SwiftHack emails: get real, denialists
The Way Things Break —
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I: IPCC WGI firmly stands behind its unique procedures and behind the scientific community and their collective work which has been, and continues to be, the basis of unbiased, open and transparent assessments of the current knowledge on the climate system and ...2 weeks ago -
More bad news for Duke Energy
theCLog —
Authority: 145
For too long, all types of industry — not just power companies — have infused our water with crap we don’t need or want, and regulators have let it slide. Obama’s EPA, however, seems to be saying, “No more.” Never forget this: It’s our water. We have the right to know who’s putting what into it. We ...2 weeks ago -
Is it time to kill the Antarctic Treaty?
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 142
Image via Wikipedia Fifty years ago, 12 nations—Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union and the U.S.—agreed to cede their claims to Antarctica. The continent would belong to no nation and become a nature preserve and scientific ...2 weeks ago -
SciAm - Political Science: The Psychological Differences in the U.S.s Red-Blue Divide
Integral Options Cafe —
Authority: 143
The fact that this approach has been replicated across cultures makes it more reliable, but it still feels like a generalization to me, and not a hard reality. Political Science: The Psychological Differences in the U.S.s Red-Blue Divide Psychological research reveals how and why liberals and ...3 weeks ago -
Can We Feed and Save the Planet?
Innovation Toronto —
Authority: 142
Image by IronRodArt via Flickr Challenges of population control and food production need to be tackled in tandem We are eating ourselves out of house and home. Recently, in the September 24 issue of Nature , Johan Rockström and his colleagues proposed 10 “planetary boundaries” to define safe limits of ...3 weeks ago
