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2019 lunar eclipse: 5 things to know about the 'super blood wolf moon'

Via: perrie-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 50 Comments • 6 years ago

By Denise Chow This weekend, a total lunar eclipse will give skywatchers a chance to see the moon turn a dull red as it slips into Earth’s shadow. The eclipse, which will occur...

Bad Medicine ‘Miracle Man’ wakes up after family removes him from life support

By: perrie-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 26 Comments • 6 years ago

By Perrie Halpern Although the news is presenting this as a feel good story about a guy who defied death, it is actually a cautionary tale. The hospital should have been able to tell if he...

Mideast farmers who use pesticides often find no buyers abroad

Via: perrie-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 19 Comments • 6 years ago

By Linda Givetash AL-KARAMEH, Jordan — Farmers in the Middle East and North Africa are facing roadblocks exporting their crop to Western countries because of the pesticides they use. This is...

LET’S DO FOLLOW THE CLIMATE MONEY!

Via: donald-trump-fan1 • Health, Science & Technology • 7 Comments • 6 years ago

The climate crisis industry incessantly claims that fossil fuel emissions are causing unprecedented temperature, climate and weather changes that pose existential threats to human civilization and...

Her body was moving. Why doctors declared her dead anyway.

Via: perrie-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 18 Comments • 6 years ago

Conjoined Twins Refuse to Be Separated Despite Doctor's Warnings

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Health, Science & Technology • 17 Comments • 6 years ago

Conjoined Twins Refuse to Be Separated Despite Doctor's Warnings People, April 22, 2017 When Carmen and Lupita Andrade were born, doctors said they only had three days to live. The conjoined...

The $35 billion race to cure a silent killer that affects 30 million Americans

Via: perrie-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 11 Comments • 6 years ago

At the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, the liver transplant group is busy handling an onslaught of patients who have come from all over the country in hopes of a chance at life. For many, a...

How to fight the urge to hibernate this winter

Via: perrie-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 32 Comments • 6 years ago

By Vivian Manning-Schaffel The days are shorter, the temperature is dropping , and just like so many other animals in the wild kingdom, we humans can easily find ourselves possessed with...

The Untold Story of Neurosciences Most Famous Brain

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 15 Comments • 7 years ago

Like most famous patients in the history of neuroscience, Henry Molaison—or HM, as he was known among scientists—was famous because his brain was defective. Unlike the other patients, his case...

How chicken soup makes you feel better, according to science

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Health, Science & Technology • 10 Comments • 7 years ago

How chicken soup makes you feel better, according to science Revealed: The secret to chicken soup's medicinal properties. By Brian Nelson, Mother Nature Network, December 26 2018...

CDC warns of respiratory virus affecting kids and adults

Via: jasper2529 • Health, Science & Technology • 13 Comments • 7 years ago

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants to alert you about a respiratory infection that can affect your children and even some adults. As it...

'I'm in your baby's room': Nest cam hacks show risk of internet-connected devices

Via: perrie-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 24 Comments • 7 years ago

By Elizabeth Chuck and Jason Abbruzzese The man’s voice came through the Nest camera of Houston mother Ellen Rigney just before midnight. “I’m going to kidnap your baby. I’m in your baby’s...

The average American man is 5'9" and 198 lbs, and the average American woman is 5'4", 171 lbs.

By: johnrussell • Health, Science & Technology • 136 Comments • 7 years ago

The average American is on the edge of borderline obese. What perhaps is more troubling though, is that these average weights are rising rapidly. The average American adult male is 9 pounds...

Israeli spacecraft gets special passenger before moon journey

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Health, Science & Technology • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

Israeli spacecraft gets special passenger before moon journey by Michael Smith, AFP (reported by MSNNEWS), December 18 2018 © Provided by AFP The general manager...

Can't put down the phone? How smartphones are changing our brains — and lives

Via: perrie-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 74 Comments • 7 years ago

By Lynne Peeples Until a year and a half ago, Samuel Veissiere's smartphone was the last thing he saw before he fell asleep and the first thing that greeted him when he woke up. During the...

Johnson & Johnson knew for decades about toxic baby powder

Via: split-personality • Health, Science & Technology • 28 Comments • 7 years ago

Having failed to persuade the FDA that up to 1 percent asbestos contamination was tolerable, J&J began promoting self-policing as an alternative to regulation. The centerpiece of this...

NASA's Voyager 2 probe enters interstellar space

Via: cb • Health, Science & Technology • 10 Comments • 7 years ago

This illustration shows the position of NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, outside of the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto....

I, holobiont

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 3 Comments • 7 years ago

Cicadas might be a pest , but they’re special in a few respects. For one, these droning insects have a habit of emerging after a prime number of years (7, 13, or 17). They also feed exclusively...

Atheist Professor: Intelligent Design Arguments Should 'Be Taken Seriously'

Via: mbfc-censorship • Health, Science & Technology • 82 Comments • 7 years ago

In a soon-to-be released book, an atheist professor has argued that the critiques of the Theory of Evolution by intelligent design defenders should "be taken seriously." A woman walks beside...

California areas burned by wildfire hit with heavy rain, floods

Via: johnrussell • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 7 years ago

California areas burned by wildfire hit with heavy rain, floods updated at 07:49 via Latest News - UPI.com Strong rains, floods and mudslides have hit...

InSight Is Catching Rays on Mars

Via: dignitatem-societatis • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 7 years ago

First clear view of Elysium Planitia: Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's InSight has sent signals to Earth indicating that its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight on the...

Breakthrough neurotechnology for treating paralysis

Via: pj • Health, Science & Technology • 62 Comments • 7 years ago

Three paraplegics who sustained cervical spinal cord injuries many years ago are now able to walk with the aid of crutches or a walker thanks to new rehabilitation protocols that combine targeted...

The Milky Way as You’ve Never Seen It Before – AMNH SciCafe

Via: dave-2693993 • Health, Science & Technology • 92 Comments • 7 years ago

So, there I was looking for the next in a series of lectures concerning the geology of our Pacific North West and something caught my eye. Turns out a new satellite was recently launched which...

Huge, high-flying 'pseudo-satellite' will stay up for months

Via: perrie-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 7 years ago

By Tom Metcalfe More than an ordinary aerial drone but not quite a satellite, a huge solar-powered airplane with three tails and wings wider than a jumbo jet’s will soon be taking to the...

NASA's Mars InSight lander set for nail-biting touchdown on the red planet

Via: perrie-halpern • Health, Science & Technology • 7 Comments • 7 years ago

By Denise Chow After a roughly 300-million-mile journey lasting more than six months, a new NASA probe is set to touch down on Mars next week, beginning a two-year mission to peer deep inside...

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