Durham, N.C. — Duke University is recruiting female students to take part in a research study involving Tupperware-style parties where sexual toys are discussed and purchased.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police detained more than 100 people for "disturbing public order" during a rally this week to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.
5-Day Uncertainty Track last updated Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:38:54 GMT Wind Speed Probabilities last updated Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:08:44 GMT
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a close vote looming, the U.S. House of Representatives was expected to open debate on Saturday on a sweeping reform bill that would spark the biggest healthcare changes in four decades.
A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky.
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Senate Votes To Restore NASA Budget Cuts
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Senate votes to restore NASA funding House cut , Houston Chronicle "In a strong show of support for President Barack Obama's vision for NASA and manned space missions, the Senate agreed Thursday to hand over all that he asked for: $4 billion to build cutting-edge spacecraft as part of an $18.7 billion budget. The Senate voted 71 to 28 for a ...
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NASA
TEDxNASA: An Invitation-Only NASA Meeting - Unless You Are Lucky
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Keith's note: TEDxNASA , openly promoted by its organizers (some of whom work at NASA LaRC ) as being sponsored by NASA (NASA LaRC is listed as a formal host), have yet to explain how they will be giving out tickets. The tickets will supposedly available on 14 Nov - less than a week before the actual event. By waiting until the last minute, the ...
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Team wins $900K in Space Elevator Games
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Photovoltaic panels, which convert laser light into electrical energy similar to solar panels, are seen on the bottom of the LaserMotive entry in the $2 million Space Elevator Games at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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X PRIZE Foundation and NASA Award $2 Million in Prizes to Masten Space Systems and Armadillo Aerospace
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Today, the X PRIZE Foundation along with NASA hosted an awards ceremony to culminate the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander X PRIZE Challenge (NGLLXPC).
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NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in Laboratory
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NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.
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Ares I-X Rocket Launch a Success for NASA
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NASA's new generation of deep-space rockets is a back-to-Apollo design. But will it get enough funding to significantly move exploration forward?
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Former NASA official sentenced to probation
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WASHINGTON – A former top NASA official has been sentenced to three years probation, six months of electronic monitoring and a $2,500 fine for breaking ethics laws.
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Doctors File Federal Petition to Stop NASA’s Monkey Radiation Experiments
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WASHINGTON—A nonprofit physicians organization is confronting NASA over the space agency’s plan to expose squirrel monkeys to radiation in an attempt to understand the effects of interplanetary travel. In a federal petition for administrative action filed Nov. 5, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) seeks to compel ...
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'As supplies increase things should go better,' says a CDC official, who adds that flu activity is widespread in 48 states and 'virtually everything is H1N1.' More than 38 million doses of vaccine against pandemic H1N1 influenza are now available, 11 million more than were available last week and double the number available two weeks ago, ...
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CDC Adopts Near Real-Time Flu Tracking System
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CWmike writes "The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an effort this week to better and more easily track for H1N1 and other seasonal influenza activity throughout the US. The CDC said it is now tracking data on 14 million patients from physician practices and hospitals stored on a database hosted by GE Healthcare. The data is ...
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Flu fears overwhelm B.C. hospital
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Parents who suspect their children have swine flu are putting so much pressure on the emergency room at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver that officials are asking families to keep their children home unless they have severe symptoms.
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Swine flu in a cat and other matters
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Helen Branswell, the Canadian Press's extraordinary flu reporter, is one of the few reporters who could have written the article, "Flu dogma being rewritten by a strange virus no one pegged to trigger a pandemic" . She's been following flu for years and has watched as one thing after another we thought we knew about flu has been shown wrong -- ...
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Official Endorses Workplace Clinics for Vaccine Distribution
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The federal health official in charge of immunization and respiratory diseases said Friday that swine flu vaccine should be distributed through many outlets, including workplace clinics, to get it to high-risk people as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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H1N1 Vaccine: Do German Politicians Get a Better Shot?
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The German government has ordered two different batches of swine flu vaccine -- one with fewer side effects for government officials and soldiers, another for everyone else. Not only are Germans irate, but they're also avoiding getting the jab
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A videotape of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released on Friday is the Pashto-language version of a tape released several months ago, said IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring firm.
To celebrate the 150th anniversary this month of the publication of On the Origin of Species, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is publishing open access two peer-reviewed articl
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As everyone in the science blogosphere knows by now, banana man Ray Comfort, he who cannot understand sex, is planning to distribute on the order of 170,000 (his claim) copies of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species in late November on various U.S. and Canadian university campuses. The book is prefaced by an introduction (2 Meg PDF) by Ray that ...
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La biodiversité végétale diminue en Guyane
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Des scientifiques des laboratoires "Mécanismes adaptatifs: des organismes aux communautés" (MNHN/CNRS), "Origine, structure, évolution de la biodiversité (Le mot biodiversité est un néologisme composé à partir des mots biologie et diversité. La biodiversité désigne la...)" (MNHN/CNRS) et du Département des jardins botaniques et ...
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El Nino Weather
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At 6am there was an enormous treefall somewhere down in the woods. From the sound of it, it seems to have brought down some additional trees. It ended with a huge thump that shook the ground. I'll have to see what that's all about when it gets light, but I suspect the usual large loblolly pine. They don't grab very deep into our relatively thin ...
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ABPZ20 KNHC 070531 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1000 PM PST FRI NOV 6 2009 FOR THE EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC...EAST OF 140 DEGREES WEST LONGITUDE.. DISORGANIZED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CONTINUES IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE LOCATED ABOUT 120 MILES SOUTH OF PUERTO SAN JOSE GUATEMALA. ...
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Scientists are working to find a genetic marker to determine the effectiveness of Prozac and other SSRIs before they are prescribed.
Cyber criminals are using fake messages claiming to be from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to deliver a virus capable of stealing unsuspecting victims' bank passwords and other sensitive personal information, says a computer forensics specialist.
PHILADELPHIA -- Among eligible Medicare beneficiaries, increased use of carotid arterial stenting (CAS) procedures to treat carotid stenosis -- the narrowing of the carotid artery -- is associated
Tree-dwelling ants generally live in harmony with their arboreal hosts.
Anything that’s 93 million miles away from my forehead, but still has the power to make it go postbox red in about thirty seconds must produce awesome amounts of energy. But until today, I had no idea how awesome. Take a guess how many years you could power the earth for with one second of the energy the sun produces. One year, ten years, a ...
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Here's the description and table of contents for Intersection of Fantasy & Native America: From H.P. Lovecraft to Leslie Marmon Silko edited by Amy H. Sturgis and David D. Oberhelman: A number of contemporary Native American authors incorporate elements of fantasy into their fiction, while several non-Native fantasy authors utilize elements of ...
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Can We Talk About Science? I Mean, Really?
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You should never, ever criticize something a New Atheist says about science and religion. Never tell them maybe it's not the best idea in the world to just go on about science/evolution + religion in whatever way, at whatever time, in whatever manner, for whatever reasons. In fact, you cannot criticize the speech of New Atheists even if your ...
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The Intersection of Fantasy & Native America
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My Name: Matthew Sanborn Smith. My challenge: Write 1000 stories by the time I'm 50 years old. Current story count: 118. Current age: 40. The One-Thousand is made up of stories that are aimed at publication in professional venues. If you like what you see here, please tell your friends. I've been published at Chiaroscuro, Antipodean SF, Albedo ...
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A genetic analysis helped solve some of the mystery about the origins of a species that was once found on islands off the Argentinian coast.
Just days after birth, German and French infants' wails mimicked the patterns of their native languages. Researchers believe they started to pick up on the melodies in the third trimester. They may not be old enough to talk, but babies less than a week old know how to cry in their native language.
The study bolstered evidence of a link between the drug, pulled from the market in June, and inflammatory bowel disease. No medication is as effective in treating severe cases of acne. Teenagers and young adults suffering from severe, scarring acne may ultimately lose the most effective treatment for the condition.
As I was stuffing my face today, I wondered if the Universe cared. The short answer is no. The slightly longer and more depressing answer is: my existence is more marginal than a speck of stray DNA on a grain of sand staring at vast oceans (that's literally true, oh the irony...). Clearly, there's no point to existence except amusement. So, here' ...
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Going to the office . . . in Second Life
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As recession-minded businesses cut back on travel for employees, online communities such as Second Life are filling the void. More than 1,400 companies and agencies now use Second Life avatars to hold virtual meetings and conduct training.
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“As life become more unpredictable, levels of toxic stress increase,” says David L. Shern, the president of Mental Health America, a nonprofit advocacy group based in Alexandria, Va.
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Support for the patient centered medical home in the House health reform bill
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By Thomas C. Bent, MD As the House of Representatives prepares to vote on its historic health care reform bill on Saturday, family physicians are heartened to see the support it gives to the emerging new model of care, the patient centered medical home. The House bill is good news on many fronts. It would provide health [...] Posted at KevinMD. ...
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