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A recent poll taken in Britain shows that nearly 50% of Briton believe in aliens and almost 80 percent say cancer is the disease which most needs a vaccine. Aliens. 50% of people believe in ALIENS. Britain’s Royal Society found that 66 percent of respondents to a survey to mark its 350th anniversary said that [...]

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First off, let’s just all take a collective “ewwwwww!” before we read about this. Since the mind-19th century the concerns about using human waste and sewage as a source of phosphorus was combated with mining phosphate. A report by the UK organic body suggests that the supply of phosphorus from mined phosphate rock could peak [...]

Filed under: Biology, Environment by JMH
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A month or so ago Limewire got shut down for some legal reason. In May, a judge granted summary judgment in favor of the music industry’s claims that Lime Group, parent of LimeWire software maker Lime Wire, committed copyright infringement, engaged in unfair competition, and induced copyright infringement. In October a judge issued an injunction [...]

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The new trial will be on people that have a progressive form of blindness. Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology said it would start testing its stem cell-based treatment on 12 patients with Stargardt’s macular dystrophy. It is the second trial of human embryonic stem cells to be approved by the FDA this year. Just last month, [...]

Filed under: Stem Cells by JMH
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I think pretty much everyone (besides dog lovers) just assumes cats are smarter than dogs. They get away with doing nothing, they always land on their feet, and they have 9 lives! Clearly any animal that can cheat death is smarter than another right? While it may not prove that dogs are smarter, a study [...]

Filed under: Animals, Biology by JMH
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IF you use Facebook and Twitter (Twitter is the dumbest thing ever invented) you know that you can post your TWEETS to your Facebook page, but you can’t post your Facebook status on Twitter. Facebook also allows you to populate your contacts from your G-Mail contacts, but not the other way around. So…what is going [...]

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Apparently, it was in Beta for the last month, and the privilage to use the Beta? Paying an extra $2 a month. Hulu Plus officially announced as open is now being dropped to $7.99 per month instead of the $9.99 a month all the suckers paid last month. New users will get 1 week free [...]

Filed under: Computers and Internet, Entertainment Media, Home Entertainment by JMH
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Something that I have never really given any thought to before was the relationship between the amount of search queries and stock prices. A study was performed based on historical search volumes from Google since back to 2004 and it was shown that the amount of search volume and trading volume of stocks are linked [...]

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You damn global warming freaks are going to kill us all! A widely accepted strategy to combating global warming is to add iron to the ocean waters. Unfortunately, it appears now that it actually results in promoting toxic blooms in the ocean. DUN DUN DUN! Louisiana State University’s Sibel Bargu, along with her former graduate [...]

Filed under: Biology, Environment, Things that will kill us by JMH
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It has been known for a while that shorter people have to exppend more energy to walk than us tall and handsome fellows (I’m not dark, more just pretty ). How hard is it for your baby taking their first step? Not as hard as figuring out what this guy is talking about, or building [...]

Filed under: Biology, Science by JMH
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