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Remember to impose brand recognition on your babies!
http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=622618
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"One of the implications is that your brain is signaling to you that the items have been previously rewarded," Serences said. "Our brain is treating those things differently than those that have been associated with no rewards or those that have been associated with fewer rewards than in the past."
In an unusual finding, the researchers found that the brains of the subjects seemed to remember which targets were more rewarding even if the subjects themselves actually forgot.
Saskatoon university student tries to save beer
http://www.thestar.com/article/558660
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Haakensen has helped discover three new methods of detecting beer-spoiling bacteria, including a DNA-based technique, that has big breweries around the globe hoisting pints in celebration.
Breweries usually have to keep batches of beer for two to three months to make sure they haven't spoiled before cases are shipped out on trucks to liquor stores, says Haakensen.
"What we've done here is, by using DNA methods, we can actually figure out in a matter of one to two days if that beer will spoil," Haakensen says.
"It's kind of a bit like making a cookie recipe. It's not hard to follow a recipe from a cookbook, but it's really hard to come up with that recipe and that idea to begin with."
It's science... sort of. The article even includes a helpful demonstration video.
The Ultimate Fart Silencer
http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-cont...ncer_stick.jpgQuote:
Everyone farts… Whether it be in public, on a date, or during an interview, it happens and we know how embarrassing it can be.
Luckily, a man named “Big Chicken Mushroom” from WuHan, China, has invented the “Fart Silencer”, a small plastic tube that you… um… put in your anus.
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Users are instructed to insert the open end into their anus when they feel a fart is coming. This should eliminate any unwanted sound farts tend to produce.
Users are also instructed to spray a cotton ball with their favorite perfume and put it into the “Fart Silencer” to eliminate any unwanted odor that might occur.
Because farting is so much worse than unzipping your pants and shoving this up your ass when you feel a fart coming.
One small step for hair, one giant leap for Soylent Green:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-nuf122608.php
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Human hair waste provides nutrients to container plants
VERONA, MS—Agricultural crop production relies on composted waste materials and byproducts, such as animal manure, municipal solid waste composts, and sewage sludge, as a necessary nutrient source. Studies have shown that human hair, a readily available waste generated from barbershops and hair salons, combined with additional compost, is an additional nutrient source for crops. Although human hair has become commercially available to crop producers in the past couple years, it has not been proven to be an exclusive source of nutrients in greenhouse container production.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7813114.stm
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More people need to donate their living brain tissue to medical research if cures for diseases like dementia are to be found, UK scientists say.
They say research is being hampered by a gross shortage of brains and are urging healthy people as well as those with brain disorders to become live donors.
Well, depending on the bouqet to be emitted and the use of a scented cotton ball, that could be debated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glenn
Tell the tooth, baby...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...401941_pf.html
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As long as there are hockey players, there will be niche markets for false teeth. But the real news about the future of dentures is that there isn't much of one. Toothlessness has declined 60 percent in the United States since 1960. Baby boomers will be the first generation in human history typically to go to their graves with most of their teeth.
And now comes tooth regeneration: growing teeth in adults, on demand, to replace missing ones. Soon.
Obviously, this research was done by a Detroit suburbanite trying to justify intellectual superiority over the Detroit city dwellers:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/id...ts_your_brain/
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Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it's long been recognized that city life is exhausting -- that's why Picasso left Paris -- this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so.
"The mind is a limited machine,"says Marc Berman, a psychologist at the University of Michigan and lead author of a new study that measured the cognitive deficits caused by a short urban walk. "And we're beginning to understand the different ways that a city can exceed those limitations."
I suppose you could liken that to something like TV vs books. The flash-in-the-pan-now-now-now generation has the largest percentage of people growing up in urban areas.
Luring females to their doom with sex hormones -- how :gutsy:
http://www.wwj.com/MSU--Chemical-Com...mpreys/3693818
Japanese categorizing pussy smells again:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT
Beam me up, Scotty!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-...html?tag=mncol
The sky IS failling!
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/11iridium/
Was I the only one cynical enough to see the headline for that story as "Russia conducts successful test of anti-satellite system"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Uncle Mxy
I expect satellites and strange space junk to fall into Siberia.
http://www.technologyreview.com/file...kebot_x220.jpgQuote:
A snakelike robotic arm may one day medically attend to soldiers as they are carried off the battlefield.
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22045/
Say methylenedioxymethamphetamine 5 times fast...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_3-10195108-42.htmlQuote:
Psychiatrists and researchers are using a notorious party drug to treat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and are asking the Department of Veterans Affairs to expand the program.
Scientists say methylenedioxymethamphetamine produces an experience described as "inhibiting the subjective fear response to an emotional threat." Late-night rave-goers know it as Ecstasy and say it produces an intimate, euphoric groove and makes you grind your teeth.
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies is sponsoring clinical trials to determine potential risks and benefits of using the drug as part of the psychotherapy for treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
Do YOU pass the smell test?
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/...0121236627329/Quote:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to study the possibility that human body odor could be used to tell when people are lying or to identify individuals in the same way that fingerprints can.
http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/a...ertU238Lab.htm
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This was the most elaborate Atomic Energy educational set ever produced, but it was only only available from 1951 to 1952. Its relatively high price for the time ($50.00) and its sophistication were the explanation Gilbert gave for the set's short lifespan. Today, it is so highly prized by collectors that a complete set can go for more than 100 times the original price.
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The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source (Pb-210), a pure beta source (Ru-106), a gamma source (Zn-65?), a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber with its own short-lived alpha source (Po-210), an electroscope, a geiger counter, a manual, a comic book (Dagwood Splits the Atom) and a government manual "Prospecting for Uranium."
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I would be glowing in the dark today if I had that as a kid!
"Brain decline' begins at age 27"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7945569.stm
Not really "weird", but "pretty effing cool" science.
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Veteran LA police detective charged with murder
By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press Writer
Mon Jun 8, 11:33 pm ET
LOS ANGELES – A veteran detective was charged with murder Monday in the slaying of her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986 — a crime that went unsolved for more than two decades as she rose through the Los Angeles Police Department ranks.
Detective Stephanie Lazarus, 49, could be sentenced to death if convicted of breaking into the victim's condominium on Feb. 24, 1986, and repeatedly biting, beating and shooting the woman.
Lazarus, who joined the force in 1983, was identified as a suspect through a recent DNA match of saliva taken from bite marks on Sherri Rasmussen's body, said Deputy Chief Charlie Beck.
Lazarus' husband, Scott Young, who works as a detective in the San Fernando Valley, knew nothing about the slaying, Beck said.
"None of us blames him. I don't know if he's been interviewed yet, but he will be, as will a lot of people," he said.
Lazarus was not a suspect at the time of Rasmussen's death because detectives believed that two robbers who had attacked another woman in the victim's Van Nuys neighborhood were to blame.
The case file mentioned Lazarus because she had once dated the victim's husband, John Ruetten, but investigators did not pursue her as a suspect until DNA tests recently showed the attacker was a woman.
Detectives obtained a DNA sample from their colleague in late May and arrested her Friday at police headquarters, where she worked across the hall from the homicide detectives.
Eric Rose, a spokesman for the Police Protective League, said he didn't know whether Lazarus had retained a lawyer.
Attempts to locate Lazarus' husband were not immediately successful.
Lazarus worked patrol duty in the San Fernando Valley when she joined the force. She eventually was promoted to detective and since 2006 has worked in a unit that tracks stolen art.
Lazarus was being held without bail and is scheduled for arraignment Tuesday.
Prosecutors have not decided whether to seek the death penalty, district attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison said.
Teenage girl discovers not simply a new supernova, but a new type of supernova!
http://www.areavoices.com/astrobob/?blog=37663
Fuck! My daughter better get her shit together.
http://fotosa.ru/stock_photo/ImageSource/p_1795112.jpg
Up damn it! Up!
An interesting read on why modern scientists are boring:
http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.co...s-so-dull.html
Personally, I think it's missing talk about overspecialization, but I might have my chicken and egg mixed up.
And here's some research that I find troubling... I have a hard time thinking of "bitter" as some kind of mental _disease_:
http://www.latimes.com/features/heal...,4544029.story
I haven't read this yet, but this headline makes me think it's going to be ridiculous.
Great white sharks stalk victims like human serial killers
tl;dr version: predators use strategy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gl'enn
Can you hook me up with some, Pharaoh?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm
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Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said.
Thats weird.
Monkey Business
http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...700821,00.html
Is that from xkcd? He's usually cool with that kind of thing.
After I looked up xkcd to find out what it was... no, it's not from there. Xkcd is good stuff though.
Converting a cell phone camera into a microscope for medical analysis in third world countries:
http://fletchlab.berkeley.edu/assets...scope_half.png
http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/globa...ease-diagnosis
A good use for stem cells...
http://www.gizmag.com/stem-cell-contact-lens/11855/
...and a bad use for stem cells:
http://improbable.com/2009/07/26/pla...pill-preparer/
Thats weird