Archive for January, 2008
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Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
This Sunday, the Patriots will attempt a fourth Super Bowl victory. Former Patriots offensive lineman Joe Andruzzi will not be there to protect Tom Brady. Last May, the then 31 year old Andruzzi was diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma, an aggressive form of cancer where tumors can double in […]
Here is something I bet you didn’t know.
Submitted by Dr.Kattlove’s Cancer Blog
Birth control pills help prevent ovarian cancer. I didn’t know this either until I started working for the American Cancer Society. I always wrote about risk factors – things that increased the risk of cancer. It was rare that anything was proven to reduce the risk of cancer, other than avoiding […]
US Terror Drill IDs Bloggers, Journos As A Threat
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
Real-World Hackers Attack During Simulated Attack By Hackers
It’s important that emergency drills are conducted to deal with eventualities that could throw society into chaos, whether they come from terrorists or natural disasters. Doesn’t always mean they will cope with all eventualities, however.
Bizarrely enough, there were terror-and-accident related drills being held on […]
Go Fetch Mah Beating Stick, Boy, While I Finish Mah Macchiato
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
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Planet Mercury Researchers Only Live To Discover Weird Surface Formations
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
An ‘added colour’ image of Mercury from the Messenger probe
NASA’s Messenger probe took a swing around Mercury on January 18, and there’s a heap of photos, videos, graphs and laser-spectral-thingy majiggys to be viewed here
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Wild Weather World
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
Snowball Fights In Syria, Floods Carry Crocodiles Into African Towns
Blame climate change, global warming, worldwide media interest or James Bond-esque villains firing up their weather control systems, but there sure seems to be a lot of freakish weather events breaking out across the planet in these first few weeks of 2008 […]
China Declares “All Out War” On Weather Chaos
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
No country in the world has been as severely hammered by chaotic weather in the past three years than China. Monumental floods, typhoons, drought, desertification and now snow storms so intense that entire cities have virtually shut down.
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New Thimerosal Study Takes The Wind Out Of Eli Stone’s Sail
Submitted by Dr. Gwenn Is In Blog
As a parent, what would you tell your children if they worked endlessly to justify a questionable action to you? You’d likely tell them, give it up. Sometimes we have to admit “we were wrong”. That is what ABC should have done at the very least. And, […]
Isn’t It Odd?
Submitted by Louis Moore’s Build A Better Body Blog
Just a few observations in American society:
While people are eating more healthful foods than ever (just take a look at the huge success of Whole Foods Markets), fast food restaurants are thriving more than ever.
While America is growing older, most of what we see in advertising […]
Halston Collection to Be Sold by Net-A-Porter Day After Show
Submitted by Fashion Week News Blog
Halston’s Back! The iconic American label returns to the fashion spotlight!
According to Women’s Wear Daily, the new Halston Collection will be on sale the day after the runway show at New York Fashion Week next month.
Net-A-Porter, an online retailer of designer clothing, has worked out a deal with […]
Valentino’s Retirement Causes Those Around Him to Retire, Too
Submitted by Fashion Week News Blog
From today’s PageSix:
“RUSSIAN model Natalia Vodianova, 25, retired from the catwalk last week after walking in Valentino Garavani’s final show in Paris. To celebrate, the mother of three is taking Valentino to Moscow for a week and then to Brazil for Carnivale. “She may do another show in the […]
Sanofi Aventis - Ketek: subpoenas ahoy!
Submitted by PharmaGossip Blog
Another chapter in the tale of Sanofi-Aventis’ Ketek has opened with the news that the US Congress is to subpoena documents from members of the government and the Food and Drug Administration in connection with a review of the controversial antibiotic.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations […]
REFLATION IS ALL THE RAGE (AGAIN)
Submitted by The Capital Spectator
It’s too soon to say if the bond market will stay on board with the Fed’s new world order. From 10 miles up, however, all looks fine, as our chart below suggests. Rates and spreads have both dropped considerably, delivering an upward sloping yield curve along the way. Mr. Bernanke’s big […]
Just to avoid confusion
Submitted by PharmaGossip Blog
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The story seems to be very popular with US medical school departments, judging by PharmaGossip’s stat counter!
Real Personal Disposable Income: 3.1% in 2007
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
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Cleaning Up The E-Mail
Submitted by NASCAR Ranting and Raving Blog
Man, I get a lot of e-mail. Granted some days are busier than others but I still get a fair bit of e-mail. Some of your emails are good and some are … not so good, but I read each and every single one of them, my problem is […]
Reader Question: Heart rate parameters with a heart rate monitor
Submitted by A Sizable Apple Blog
Today’s update will include a reader question regarding setting up a heart rate monitor. I found the research I found to be pretty valuable, even for those readers without their own personal system.-
I recently bought a Polar heart monitor watch. I guess I do not have it set right because […]
Sony’s Game Division Turns a Profit
Submitted by Video Game Jocks
Posted by Paul on January 31st, 2008
No, that is not an error. Sony’s gaming division, home of the PlayStation consoles, has indeed turned a profit in their fiscal Q3 (October to December).
Sony said that, in that time period, they have sold 4.93 million PS3s worldwide and have turned a […]
Football Frenzy filming
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
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Let’s hit the trail with Sunsetriders!
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Here’s a recording of the wild west bounty hunter game, Sunsetriders!
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Nutrition Mistakes & Carb Recommendations from Alwyn Cosgrove
Submitted by Turbulence Training Blog
This week, Part 2 of my interview with one of the most famous fat loss trainers in North America, Alwyn Cosgrove. Back in 2006, I saw Alwyn speak at a personal trainer’s seminar, and Alwyn showed study after study supporting his fat loss programs.
Today he will focus on […]
Today in Biofuels: Activists hurl insults at Vinod Khosla over new articles on biomass; new algae extraction process; gasoline prices to reach $4 per gallon by summer
Submitted by Biofuels Digest Blog
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“Vinod you are still totally clueless” and “there will be pie in the sky by-and-by” were among comments hurled at billionaire investor Vinod Khosla in response to a second three-part series of articles posted at Grist. The second series focused on Biomass, including regulatory standards, “better agronomy for energy crops”, […]
Brief video of 3 Count Bout
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
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Lackey government to argue for spring hunting at the European Court, wasting tax-payers’ money in the process
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
As reported in The Times, “the government said today that it felt that the European Court was the best place for a final decision on the spring hunting issue and while it would argue its case according to law, it would respect the court’s decision.
The government was reacting […]
On Brussels agreeing to send spring hunting issue to European court, and the San Anton Gardens prison
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
Spring hunting issue to be decided at European Court
Ivan Camilleri reports in today’s The Times:
“The European Commission yesterday instructed its legal services to open a court case against Malta at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over spring hunting.
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