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Posted in Health on Jan 31st, 2005
Consumers wouldn’t dream of banking at an institution that didn’t offer them an ATM card. But when they go to their physician or hospital, they find doctors scribbling notes on paper and handing out prescriptions that may or may not end up listed in their records. While diagnostic technology is everywhere, record-keeping uses the same [...]
Posted in Health on Jan 31st, 2005
First of all, thanks go to junkscience.com for this one:
UP TO 5% of the population may be suffering ill health as a result of radiation from mobile phones and masts, according to a group of Irish doctors fighting for official acceptance of the problem.
The Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association (IDEA) is urging the government to [...]
I have known of green tea all of my life. Mostly, it was just a curiosity. My mom was a huge tea drinker. But, she didn’t like green tea. I tried it a few times, it just didn’t click with me. A week or so ago, Mrs. Moon started making green tea. Not sure [...]
Posted in Global Warming on Jan 27th, 2005
This is just kinda plum weird. Me and a Motley Fool poster ( who shall remain nameless until I’m otherwise notified ), have over the last couple of days, been discussing climate prediction software. He mentioned a program being hosted by NASA, but it favored Unix/Sun Java too much. I recalled a [...]
Posted in Technology on Jan 24th, 2005
……..mingled with the sculptures and glassware, workmen retrieved what looked like lumps of coal which they unthinkingly dumped in the sea. It was not until 1752 and the discovery of an intact library lined with 1,800 rolls of papyrus, that the excavators realised that what they had been throwing away were carbonised books. The site [...]
Posted in Health on Jan 23rd, 2005
Carol Thibault understood the dangers of radon when she tested her house a few years ago for the cancer-causing gas. After all, she was director of the St. Louis County (Minn.) Public Health Department.…..
When a short-term test found the radon level in her basement to be 2½ times what is considered harmful, Thibault didn’t believe [...]
Posted in The Solar System on Jan 22nd, 2005
This is what someone in Quebec ( Jean Chiasson ) has been enjoying since September. Given all the solar activity, we’ve gotten nothing here. They have some incredible aurora pics there. Definitely worth the visit.
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Posted in Travel on Jan 21st, 2005
Richard Branson’s newest adventure is commercializing space travel. Right on the heels of that breakthrough, we now have:
Scientists piecing together data from Europe’s Huygens probe to Saturn’s moon Titan described the hazy satellite today as an environment in which a frequent rain of liquid methane falls through a thick smog onto hills made of [...]
Posted in Travel on Jan 21st, 2005
This is just precious:
Idaho Professor Laments Forgotten Titan Experiment
David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn’s largest moon.
"The story is actually fairly [...]
Posted in Health on Jan 20th, 2005
Y’know, I subscribe to WebMD, and because of my boy, follow all kinds of medical newsletters and such. However, I had to get this medical breakthrough from The Motley Fool:
Some cancers are caused by heterocyclic amines, DNA-damaging chemicals found in cooked meat and fish. When Sakae Arimoto-Kobayashi’s team at Okayama University in Japan fed these [...]