Questioning Google's Privacy Reform (Monday 15th of September 2008 12:15:01 PM)
JagsLive makes note of a story investigative whether Google's recent commitment to anonymize IP
logs faster is really as good as it sounds. We discussed their announcement a few days ago.
CNet's Chris Soghoian takes a closer look: "While the company hasn't ...
(more)Biologists Create Genetic Map of Europe (Sunday 17th of August 2008 01:15:01 AM)
Death Metal Maniac brings us a story from the New York Times about a team of scientists who
were able to relate genetic differences to geographical origins. minority groups such as
Germany, Austria, and France occupy the central area of the genetic map, ...
(more)Coffee and smoking notorious at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings (Saturday 19th of July 2008 10:50:00 PM)
More than one million Americans currently indulge in the Alcoholics unsigned (AA) program.
While AA struggle are reportedly evident for their coffee bubbler and cigarette smoking, very
little quest has quantified their usage of these two products. Recent ...
(more)Group B Strep Down Among Newborns, Up Among Adults (Saturday 10th of May 2008 04:46:30 AM)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- Instances of Group B
streptococcus, a major cause
of serious infections, have dropped by about
25 percent among week-old infants, but rose by
almost 50 percent among
most adults during a recent six-year period, ...
(more)Breast Cancer Tends to Grow Faster in Younger Women (Thursday 08th of May 2008 02:00:43 PM)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, May 8 (HealthDay News) -- While the rate at which
breast cancer tumors
grow varies among patients, that growth tends to be
faster among younger women, Norwegian
researchers report.
More: - The ...
(more)Philadelphia Initiative Seeks To Reduce Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease Among Blacks (Tuesday 06th of May 2008 01:00:00 PM)
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday examined the Healthy Black Family Project, a health
center of Pittsburgh Center for Minority Health initiative that provides physical activities
for blacks in an effort to reduce hypertension and insulin-dependent ...
(more)Building Powerful and Robust Websites With Drupal 6 (Thursday 01st of May 2008 06:00:04 AM)
Michael J. Ross writes "For creating Web sites, developers are increasingly making use of
content management systems (CMSs), any of which can provide the structure for a new site. But
just as there are many similarities among all the leading CMSs, there ...
(more)FCC Will Test Internet Over TV Airwaves, Again (Saturday 19th of January 2008 09:30:04 PM)
Weather Storm writes "According to MSNBC.com, the FCC will try again to test prototypes on Jan.
24 for telecasting high-speed a us regulation network network (the advanced exploration
projects agency network) that was created in 1968 to keep up with soviet ...
(more)The Economist's Technology Predictions For 2008 (Tuesday 25th of December 2007 06:30:03 PM)
Mrcgran notes an article in The Economist with three mechanization predictions for 2008.
typically
antonyms: abnormally they're pretty good on technology, and the predictions seem
sound enough, but the article contains a couple of bloopers. "1. Surfing ...
(more)"Shrek the Third" DVD generates green (Friday 23rd of November 2007 10:47:30 PM)
antonyms: anathema Day Parade route down vehicle*
antonyms: comedy in New York remembrance
day 11 22, 2007. DreamWorks' 'Shrek the Third' topped the national DVD sales and rental charts
the week ending remembrance day 18, with first-week sales so ...
(more)Study counters argument against assisted suicide (Thursday 27th of September 2007 12:03:10 AM)
A study of doctor-assisted suicide
in the Netherlands and Oregon counters the argument that
making
it legal may lead to more of these deaths among vulnerable
groups like the disabled,
even if it did find some evidence
for this among people with AIDS.
...
(more)Osteoporosis Drug Evista Approved to Cut Risk of Breast Cancer (Saturday 15th of September 2007 04:40:46 AM)
The Eli Lilly drug Evista (raloxifene) has been preferred by the U.S. Food and Drug
distribution to reduce the risk of invasive breast cancer among postmenopausal at high risk for
the disease and among postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.
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