When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions [Review]

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Posted to SciTech on Wed Jul 09, 2008 at 11:26:42 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the US space program, NASA and the Discovery Channel recently released a new 6 part documentary chronicling the history of American space flight, from the early Mercury missions right up to the present. The documentary revisits many iconic images, but also contains much footage from the NASA archives that is being shown for the first time.

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How Young Is Too Young?

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Posted to SciTech on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 09:15:06 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

A recently concluded Norwegian study has determined that premature babies are significantly more likely than their full term brethren to develop health complications later in life. They were substantially more likely to die during later childhood, and also were much more frequently found to be infertile when they later tried to have children themselves.

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Science: From beakers and bacteria to quorums and quotas?

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Posted to SciTech on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 04:10:19 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Title IX has long been recognized as a tool for equality in schools and sports between the two sexes. Should it be extended to into the hard sciences of higher education?

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Intelligent Design Gets Expelled

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Posted to Religion on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 05:13:25 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Ben Stein, former Nixon speech writer, game show host, character actor and professor, guides us through the treachery of 'Big Science'.

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HEY! Heyheyhey! HeY!!!! HoW DO yOOou GeT yOUr FIX?

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Posted to Etcetera on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 06:29:58 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

Is America the world's most caffeinated society? Editor's note: the availability of this product may be all the answer you need.

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Science Seducing Us Away From God

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Posted to Religion on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 02:58:07 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Pope Benedict warns us against "the 'seductive' powers of science that overpower man's spirituality", reviving science-versus-religion debate (speech in French) that got him booed off one Rome college campus.

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Separated At Birth, But Why?

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Posted to SciTech on Sat Jan 05, 2008 at 08:27:20 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

On 9 October 1968, twin girls were born in New York and put up for adoption. As part of some study being conducted by "a leading US child psychologist with the co-operation of prestigious New York adoption agency Louise Wise Services ... to discover how identical twins would react to being raised in different family backgrounds", they were placed in separate families and never told about one another.

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Alchemists of Molecular Biology Turn Skin Cells into Stem Cells

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Posted to SciTech on Sat Nov 24, 2007 at 08:03:30 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Scientists on two continents released results in two landmark papers today which will certainly transform the debate on the ethics of cloning and bring hope to thousands awaiting a cure for horrible degenerative diseases or suffering for lack of an organ donor.

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Global Warming Activists Have A Beef With Meat Eaters

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Posted to Politics on Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 10:35:50 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

Environmentalists and animal rights activists have found that their causes have a surprising degree of synergy, particularly when it comes to the issue of global warming.

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Bad Medicine: Injecting Politics Into Healthcare And Science

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Posted to Politics on Wed Jul 18, 2007 at 08:17:21 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

As has happened many times in the past, the Bush administration is coming under fire for stifling science in the name of political expediency. This time it's former Surgeon General, Richard Carmona:

"Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is often ignored, marginalized or simply buried," he said. "The problem with this approach is that in public health, as in a democracy, there is nothing worse than ignoring science or marginalizing the voice of science for reasons driven by changing political winds."

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Keeping The Family Jewels Attached To Spot.

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Posted to SciTech on Tue Jul 17, 2007 at 08:52:36 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

Most people view their pets as friends and members of the family.  Most animal experts strongly suggest that, if you're not thinking about breeding your pet, the responsible thing to do is to have it spayed or neutered.  Most responsible pet owners agree and will have the necessary operation performed soon after they buy their pet.  But some animal owners find it cruel and barbaric to have Spot's testicles removed.  For them, there's a new approach to neutering - an approach which allows the animal to keep all of his original equipment and still protects against overbreeding among dogs.  But, it's a method which has any number of veterinarians uncertain about its efficacy.

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Simple miracle device saves lives

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Posted to SciTech on Thu Jun 14, 2007 at 05:35:37 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

"You have to suck pretty hard at first to get it moist, but after that it's easy," said 35-year-old Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen.

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