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Posted by Peter Deppisch on 09/13/2010
A brain scan that detects autism in adults could mean much more straightforward diagnosis of the condition, scientists say. Experts at King’s College London said the scan – tested on 40 people – identified tiny but crucial signs of autism, only detectable by computer. Current methods of diagnosis can be lengthy and expensive. But some [...]
03/30/2010Read More
Scientists have discovered a real-life ‘moral compass’ in the brain that controls how we judge other people’s behaviour. The region, which lies just behind the right ear, becomes more active when we think about other people’s misdemeanours or good works. In an extraordinary experiment, researchers were able to use powerful magnets to disrupt this area [...]
03/28/2010Read More
ScienceDaily — Geologists from the University of Leicester are among four scientists- including a Nobel prize-winner — who suggest that Earth has entered a new age of geological time. The Age of Aquarius? Not quite — It’s the Anthropocene Epoch, say the scientists writing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. And they add that the [...]
03/27/2010Read More
“First you trash our balance sheets, then you have the cheek to complain about them”. If Western governments could talk to the international financial markets, this is surely what they would say. Think about it. First, everyone in the financial system – especially the banks and bond traders – made a lot of money using [...]
03/27/2010Read More
Bill Gross, the world’s biggest bond investor, has not been in Greece for 15 years. Yet the welfare of millions of Greeks could improve with only a few kind words from him. Even so, he chooses not to. From the LA offices of Pimco, the investment fund he co-founded nearly 40 years ago, Gross is [...]
03/23/2010Read More
Free-enterprising, impersonal markets may seem cutthroat and mean-spirited. But a provocative new study says markets have been a force for good over the last 10,000 years, helping to drive the evolution of more trusting and co-operative societies. ”We live in a much kinder, gentler world than most humans have lived in,” says anthropologist Joe Henrich of the [...]
02/10/2010Read More
By Dana Blankenhorn- Statins like Zocor, Lipitor and Crestor have been around for decades. They lower your cholesterol level. They have been around long enough that they are in the process of going generic. Zocor is simvastatin. I use it. Lipitor is atorvastatin. It will be a generic next year. The generic name for Crestor is [...]
01/30/2010Read More
The BBC reports – The controlled fusion of atoms – creating conditions like those in our Sun – has long been touted as a possible revolutionary energy source. However, there have been doubts about the use of powerful lasers for fusion energy because the “plasma” they create could interrupt the fusion. An article in Science [...]
01/23/2010Read More
Training Whales – I found information on training a killer whales some time ago. It’s a popular topic for parenting sites–and with good reason. Some of the ‘lessons’ we learn from training killer whales are very helpful to consider when teaching our kids. Eight Steps for Training a Killer Whale Establish clear cut goal which [...]
01/19/2010Read More
Robert Sapolsky studies the universal human ailment of stress, but his main research subjects are the wild baboons of Kenya. We all have some measure of stress, and Robert Sapolsky explores its causes as well as its effects on our bodies (his lab was among the first to document the damage that stress can do [...]
12/29/2009Read More
By Isaac Asimov – What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over [...]
