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Facebook and Controversy
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
Decapitation videos going into news feeds that can be viewed by anyone, including young people, often as young as 8 or 9, cannot be savory or healthy. Facebook finds itself, once again, in the...
Harvard University's robotic insect takes its first controlled flight (video)
Via: chloe
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/03/harvard-universitys-robotic-insect-takes-its-first-controlled-f/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget There's hardly a...
"The Seed": Vegan Expo in NYC 4/18 & 4/19
Via: michael-c
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
From the Vegan American Princess website : I just wanted to remind you that The Seed 2013 will be taking place on Saturday, May 18th ,from 10am-6pm, and on Sunday, May 19th , from...
Mystery Cause of Irish Potato Famine Finally Solved - Mother Nature Network - May 22, 2013
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
Mother Nature Network Mystery cause of Irish potato famine finally solved. After 168 years, the pathogen that created the blight has been identified and it may never be seen...
A ‘watch’ that stops unnecessary heart attack deaths
Via: buzz-of-the-orient
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
A watch that stops unnecessary heart attack deaths GE is banking on Oxitone wrist monitor to provide a heads-up for someone to get medical assistance before its too late. By Karin...
The world's biggest engines - fascinating information
Via: buzz-of-the-orient
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
My brother just emailed this to me. It is an article about the engines that are used for super-tanker ships and others. I had never seen anything like these before, and it was something I had...
Hamburger-making machine churns out custom burgers at industrial speeds
Via: hal-a-lujah
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
That's correct - a machine is being developed to put fast food workers out of a job. According to Momentum Machines, making burgers costs US$9 billion a year in wages in the United States...
Primary Care Doctor Shortage Set To Get Worse, USA
Via: chloe
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
" The serious shortage of primary care doctors in America will get much worse unless the country reforms its graduate medical education system, researchers from the George Washington University...
Is the average housecat a physics genius ?
Via: petey-coober
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
All I can say correctly is that it took someone with a detailed knowledge of physics to explain how cats do what they do . The good things about his explanation is : 1] He's correct 2] He...
Should We Fear "the End of Work"?
Via: chloe
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
" The economy has been growing slowly, but corporate profits have soared as businesses have embraced new labor-saving technologies, doing everything and anything they can to avoid hiring...
How to prevent mosquitoes from invading your yard
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
But they can also transmit serious diseases including West Nile virus and malaria, and can expose dogs to heartworm. A September 2012 report by the World Health Organization and Environmental...
Smart Meter Antenna Damage Reported in Santa Cruz County- In Light of Government Inaction, Some Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands
Via: wheel
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
As part of the heavily censored internal e-mails released by PG&E to the Bay Area media late last year after their Smart Meter Program Director William Devereaux was caught snooping on...
Finally a theory of black holes
Via: petey-coober
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
The great Dr. Einstein is quoted as saying : Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Explaining what happens in "black holes" has long been badly done . That's...
A Brief Message to my Friends-- 7/26 UPDATE
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
All of us have hard times, and I'm certainly not immune! My mother has been seriously ill, and, as her only child, I've been trying to take care of her long distance. My mother had a seizure,...
Israel leads the world in blindness prevention
Via: buzz-of-the-orient
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Health, Science & Technology
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5 Comments
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10 years ago
Israel leads the world in blindness prevention Advances in prevention and treatment and making them accessible are credited with dropping rates of preventable blindness by more than half....
A 360TB disc that holds data for more than 1 million years?
Via: z
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
I n the future, we might be able to save our history to a glass storage medium that could potentially outlive humankind . The new type of memory also touts mind-blowing specifications, such...
Prostate Cancer needs a new look and possibly a new treatment in many cases. Not Surgery and Chemotherapy ?????
Via: retired-military-ex-republican
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Health, Science & Technology
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4 Comments
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10 years ago
A recent study done in three Different countries finds that Prostate Cancer is way more prevelant than previously believed. When 400 Males in the united States were Given Autopsies for deaths from...
This is an amazing view of life and health, and its relation to stress.
Via: the-irascible-harry-krishner
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Health, Science & Technology
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4 Comments
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10 years ago
Conventional western medicine (AKA "mostly ineffective if not often outright dangerous medicine") does not approve of some of the concepts mentioned in this video. Because, for one thing, if this...
electric motorcycles being used by a police department
Via: petey-coober
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
SJSU police officers switch to electric motorcycles This short video describes the introduction of electric motorcycles for the police at San Jose State U ....
the Love Hormone has two sides to it
Via: petey-coober
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
Love Hormone Gives You Fear & Anxiety - Discovery News 11 hours ago, DNews Oxytocin (aka the Love Hormone) is supposed to make you feel all warm and cuddly. But according to new research, it's...
Improved Shoe Security for Airport Travelers
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Health, Science & Technology
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3 Comments
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10 years ago
The typically long lines at the security check will be cut in half at some worldwide airports thanks to this machine. The Magshoe, created by IDO Security in Israel after the...
Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought
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Health, Science & Technology
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30 Comments
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10 years ago
BEE APOCALYPSE NOW http://qz.com/107970/scientists-discover-whats-killing-the-bees-and-its-worse-than-you-thought/ As weve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees...
A Highly Dangerous Fungus is Escalating in our Southwest
Via: ambivalent
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Health, Science & Technology
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10 years ago
mystery-illness-valley-fever The consequences of this illness are frightening. Scientific researchers believe climate change has a lot to do with its rise.