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Month: June 2013

Lighter news…

Museum mystery: Spinning statue turns heads
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/25/world/europe/uk-spinning-statue-mystery/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

Watch the video! Pretty amusing!…

Author TfouiPosted on June 25, 2013Categories Science

Sausage making

The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis
It’s long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-last-mystery-of-the-financial-crisis-20130619

In this case, the …

Author TfouiPosted on June 24, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Government, Law, Politics, Psychology, Society

On a lighter side…

Car crash leaves Australian woman with French accent
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/20/world/australia-car-crash-new-french-accent/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Perhaps not as amusing for the sufferer, but amusing to me considering they are otherwise unimpaired.

I wonder, though, if they really have an ‘authentic’ accent (meaning they make the same …

Author TfouiPosted on June 20, 2013Categories Uncategorized

Everything in moderation, including moderation!

Vitamins: Too much of a not-so-good thing?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/19/health/vitamins-offit/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

This is an interesting issue. Much like the flu vaccine having dubious efficacy (where ‘dubious’ is being kind) over the last couple of decades mega doses of vitamins have been increasingly shown …

Author TfouiPosted on June 20, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Healthcare, Psychology, Science, Society

Quackery!

Opinion: Alternative healing or quackery?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/18/health/alternative-medicine-offit/index.html?hpt=hp_bn13

I particularly like this introduction…

It used to be called “fringe” or “unconventional” medicine — or simply quackery. Today, it’s called “alternative,” “complementary,” “holistic” or “integrative.”

And it has moved into the mainstream. Hospitals

…
Author TfouiPosted on June 19, 2013Categories Healthcare, Science, Society

A SCOTUS decision I can fully agree with

U.S. top court bars patents on human genes unless synthetic
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/13/us-usa-court-genes-idUSBRE95C0PW20130613

It has always stuck in my craw that the simple act of sequencing a gene could possibly be considered ‘novel, useful and non-obvious’, yet we have (had) thousands of …

Author TfouiPosted on June 14, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Government, Healthcare, Law, Politics, Science, Society

Self shooting gun?

$27,500 gun hits targets at 1,000 yards
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/11/news/companies/trackingpoint-gun/index.html?hpt=hp_t5

I am not totally sure that this is as revolutionary as made out to be. Sure, it is hard for ordinary people (i.e., not snipers) to hit targets at that range, but …

Author TfouiPosted on June 12, 2013Categories Stuff

Mars gullies

Marks on Martian Dunes May Be Tracks of Dry-Ice Sleds
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-200

This is quite interesting…

Mars Gullies

Mars isn’t quite the dead planet it has been made out to be. Now, in addition to the dust storms (that sometimes cover the _entire_ …

Author TfouiPosted on June 12, 2013Categories Science

Employment says that unemployment is 24%

Employment is still near a 30-year low
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/06/news/economy/employment-rate/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Using the most generous measurement of employment in the article (for workers ages 25 to 54 — those who should be in the prime of their careers) there is an employment rate …

Author TfouiPosted on June 6, 2013Categories Business, Economics, Government, Politics, Psychology, Society

More good news for MS patients

MS Treatment That Resets Immune System Shows Promise In Safety Trial
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/261536.php

I mentioned earlier about some work using nanoparticles for work attempting to reset the immune system to stop attacking self. Well this article talks about an approach using …

Author TfouiPosted on June 6, 2013Categories Healthcare, Science

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