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The sun is one of our greatest sources of energy. Tapping into it for our fuel consumption demands is something we all wish was easier to do. The biggest problem with using solar energy has always been the ability to transport it. To “bottle” it so to say. A process developed by Sossina Haile — [...]

Filed under: Alternative Energy, Global Warming by JMH
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Boys are less likely to smoke. Ladies are violent. This is no surprise . In a study that I give absolutely no credence to, Rani Desai, associate professor of psychiatry and epidemiology and public health at Yale, and colleagues anonymously surveyed 4,028 adolescents about their gaming, problems associated with gaming and other health behaviors. They [...]

Filed under: Video Games by JMH
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You have always heard that cellphones can cause brain tumors. Then you probably heard jokingly that they cause brain tumors, and that they really were no threat. Now, are we being told that they are actually a risk? Just look at some of the history of studying this issue. This article from 2006 claims they [...]

Filed under: Health and Medicine, Things that will kill us by JMH
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There is no tasteful way to discuss this subject so let’s just get it out of the way what we are referring to here. Poop, feces, poo, etc. are a few terms. Now, with that out of the way a problem that’s increasingly widespread: the Clostridium difficile bug, typically caught by patients in hospitals and [...]

Filed under: Biology, Health and Medicine by JMH
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There have been attempts in the past to use a magnetic pill to have it go where the doctors want it to go. The reason for wanting to do this is that pills tend to dissolve in the wrong part of the intestine sometimes so they don’t exactly give the best help to the patient. [...]

Filed under: Biology, Health and Medicine by JMH
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No there is no scientific study that suggests some cavemen were embarrassed by their mother when they cought them looking at a stick carving of Jane on their bedroom cave wall. It has been determined that humans first starting wearing clothing about 170,000 years ago. Darn shrinkage. A new University of Florida study following the [...]

Filed under: archaeology by JMH
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Home testing isn’t just for catching your kids on drugs, or finding out you are having a baby anymore. Scientists may have developed a genome testing system that could take a fraction of the time it currently does, and be available for consumer distribution in as little as 10 years. Scientists from Imperial College London [...]

Filed under: Health and Medicine by JMH
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You are obviously thinking, “what the hell is this guy talking about Army of Bees?” nonsense. Well…it’s kind of a joke that I read about a lot during the show of Lost. If you ever watched Lost you may remember when Jack Sheppard went up to Anna Lucia and asked her if she could help [...]

Filed under: Animals, Environment by JMH
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