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"US court rules again against vaccine-autism claims":Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special U.S. court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame vaccines for their children's illness.As I've written before, the connection between vaccination and autism ...
I have a geek question in search of a serious answer or a fresh theory: I just read this article at Eureka! Science News about how the genome of an entire family has been sequenced to track how genetic mutations are handed on. The article states "Scientists long had estimated ...
Art can elucidate.(This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow.)
(Photo: Charles Dharapak / AP, from "The hockey sweater, White House style")The hockey sweater, White House style:Four of us Canadians stood together in the White House briefing room this afternoon for the big moment.One wore a Canadian hockey jersey, one wore the now-famous red "Canada" mittens. We each wore smiles ...
(Video: Joe Pavelski amazing spin o rama goal against predators 3-11-2010,posted to YouTube by FlyingMagicPotatoes)Drew Remenda:Do you wanna know what a hockey player is? A hockey player is a guy that keeps playing, no matter what the situation. Joe Pavelski did not have a very good first or ...
(I wrote a shorter version of this after midnight today at my Facebook page, but decided to bring it here because processing through my recent near-death is what has stopped the dark-of-night panic attacks: Memoir as noticing what is good in the present moment.)I was reading Konagod's blog just now ...
(Bubbles, photo by Keemz)One of the questions you will have to ask yourself with your first post as a blogger is how you will deal with comments. I don't personally know any bloggers who say they would allow absolutely any kind of comment, no matter what it contained. For one ...
(Photo: BBC, "North Tyneside high street 'revived' by fake shop front",described as "The specially-designed facades feature different types of shops")North Tyneside high street 'revived' by fake shop front (2010.03.03):Fake businesses are to be used to lessen the impact of the recession on high streets in North Tyneside.With 140 empty shops ...
(Infographic: Brandon Watson, Reality Distortion Explained)This is from January 6, 2010 -- 21 days before the iPad was announced:The rumor mills and speculation are running at fever pitch. I really should have predicted that 2010 would be the year of the tablet. With bloggers falling all over themselves ...
(Photo: Low-temperature electron micrograph of a cluster of E. coli bacteria,magnified 10,000 times. Each individual bacterium is oblong shaped.Source: ARS Image Gallery Image Number K11077-1by Eric Erbe and Christopher Pooley, via Wikimedia Commons)From the LA Times "Cost of food-borne illnesses is deemed much higher than earlier estimates":A new consumer ...
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