les nouvelles

Scientists withdraw controversial 'stemcell sperm' paper

Ganging up with Google Android against Apple's iPhone

Shuttle Endeavour Lands Safely in Florida

Plastic surgery to get rid of wrinkles and migraines?

I get migranes about every 3-4 months, and they usually end up with me puking. I guess I'll have to add this one to my list.

Health Buzz: No Added Nutritional Benefit From Organic Food and Other Health News

Bay Area beach water pollution study

Creating Fat That Burns Calories: Researchers find a way to make energy-using brown fat from skin cells

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Solar eclipse pits superstition against science

Endeavour Crew Completes Second Spacewalk

Onetime peer-to-peer bete noir Kazaa relaunches as legitimate music site

Aids: Role of Gay Men in Spreading Virus Is Ignored in Africa, Study Finds

Smog lowers kids' IQs, even before they're born, shows New York study

Scientists discover genes responsible for aging skin

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West Antarctic ice threat revised down; still dire

A new study has found the air in Madrid and Barcelona is also laced with at least five drugs — most prominently cocaine.

... but it says you can't get fucked up from breathing the air- bummer! I can't believe drugs have become part of pollution.

UPDATE 1-Spacewalkers struggle with Hubble steering system

*NASA settles for spare set of gyroscopes

*Telescope battery replacement under way (Updating with problems during spacewalk)

The James Webb Space Telescope will replace Hubble in 2014.

Craigslist: It's hard to be a pimp in 570 cities
The Web's biggest classified ads service is cleaning up its act -- or, at least, making a show of it -- by swapping "erotic" ads for "adult" ones. But will anything really change?

Will Craigslist Ban Boost Street Prostitution?

Twin European telescopes launched to study birth of the universe
European Space Agency looking to unravel mysteries behind the Big Bang theory

How human genes become patented

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Maggots no wonder cure for festering wounds

I saw this on tv... kind of hard to swallow. Interesting that the maggots eat each other as soon as all the dead/dying flesh is gone, and don't burrow into healthy tissue.

AT&T to sell iPhone without two-year commitment

Schools of robofish to sniff out pollution in the Thames

New 'muscle gel' that's tougher than steel could help scientists create super-strength robots

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Internet search engine Google says its Google Mars feature began offering up-to-date images of Earth's planetary neighbor Saturday.

I'm so impressed! Maybe simple softwares such as this is what it takes to get the next generation really passionate about space travel.

The service, a relaunch of GrandCentral, which Google bought in 2007, allows you to choose a local number, which will simultaneously ring up to six phones such as your cell phone, home phone, office phone, and the phone at that vacation home that most of us can only dream about.

In addition to forwarding your calls, it also takes voice messages that you can listen to on the Web, from a phone, or read, thanks to a new feature that transcribes voice messages and sends them as e-mail and text messages.

The worst-case scenarios on climate change envisaged by the UN two years ago are already being realised, say scientists at an international meeting.

Ozone pollution amplifies risk of fatal respiratory illnesses

The Cost-Effectiveness of Virtual Colonoscopies

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Stargazers were in for a real treat Friday night when the full moon lit up the night sky in its brightest display in 50 years.

-> I saw it last night, but for some reason it just didn't sparkle quite in the way I thought it would. Also, it was cloudy for half thr night, so I had to miss out on this great spectacle. I live a few blocks from the beach, and during a night walk to check out the tide, I did notice that it was a lot higher than usual!

Survey Asks: Internet Access or Sex?

why can't we have both? Sex with the internet

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103392.html

-> really bad idea! I'm so sad to see news like this. Everyone in power is forcing the world back into the 1800s.

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Gender-bending chemicals putting our future at risk

-> I find it ironic how the first things to get fucked up is testes...

Survivor of 7/7 bombings fitted with clip-on arm which can fuse with her skin

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Robodoc: surgeon of the future in theaters now

Scientists in Japan say they have successfully cloned a mouse from a body that had been frozen for 16 years, theoretically opening the door to a range of possibilities from preserving endangered animals, to resurrecting extinct animals to cloning Ted Williams.

Astronauts to Vote From Space Station

Biofuels Debate: Point, Counterpoint

Green

I have been registered with only one political party since I turned 18- The Green Party.

I'm just saying that's it's been 6 years. I've cared about the environment since I was a child.

And I've cleaned up pollution, long story about discovering that the wastewater treatment plants were the ones responsible for pollution in all the freshwater watersheds north of baltimore early 2000s...

Does that mean I'm a good person? I'm going to treat this blog as my voice recorder.

disease

"A controversial new theory suggest that man introduced many diseases into the ecosystem..."

I think about that a lot, how humans wiped out many mammals with diseases. I also think about the following a lot:
-environmental pollution
-genetic pollution