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Science, Medicine and Technology
(a monthly brownbag series)

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February 24th - 11:30am
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Science

 
  1. How the turtle's shell evolved
  2. Milky Way's sweetness throughout
  3. Mystery of dolphins' speed solved
  4. Electric fish prefers sexual charge of its own species - life
  5. Brain exercises are 'waste of time' says Scottish professor
  6. Memories may be stored on your DNA - life
  7. Mind - Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real
  8. A New View of the Early Earth, Thanks to Australian Rocks
  9. Deep-voiced men not guaranteed to impress - life
  10. Birth Control Pills Affect Women's Taste in Men:
  11. Test reveals dogs' jealous side 
  12. Religious 'shun nanotechnology' 
  13. Basics - Primal, Acute and Easily Duped - Our Sense of Touch
  14. Hidden Travels of the Atomic Bomb
  15. Dolphin males leave sponging to the females - environment
  16. How Obama tapped into a powerful—and only recently studied—human emotion called "elevation." - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine 
  17.  Black hole confirmed in Milky Way 
  18. Water found in hot planet's orbit 
  19. Kickstarting puberty : Nature News 
  20. Fertile women more open to corny chat-up lines - life 
  21. In The Brain, Justice Is Served From Many Parts 
  22. Revenge of the Nerds -- Zelkowitz 2008 (1212): 2
  23. D. Carleton Gajdusek, Who Won Nobel for Work on Brain Disease, Is Dead at 85 - Obituary (Obit)
  24. The Yawn Explained: It Cools Your Brain
  25. The Evolutionary Origins of Hiccups and Hernias
  26. Scientific Journal to Authors - Publish in Wikipedia or Perish
  27. Dinosaur Dads Took Care of Nest -- Stokstad 2008 (1218): 1
  28. Pain: 'Tis Better to Receive--Accidentally -- Coelho 2008 (1219): 2
  29. Scientists sniff out prion secret 
  30. Observatory - African Fish Need a Little Electricity for Love to Bloom
  31. First vertebrate eye to use mirror instead of lens - life - 24 December 2008
  32. Gems Point to Comet as Answer to Ancient Riddle
  33. China finds major dinosaur site 
  34. New Year to arrive a tick later 
  35. Genes give Africans a better sense of taste - life - 02 January 2009
  36. Brain Boot Camp Makes You Smarter
  37. Magicology: Casting a spell on the mind - life
  38. In Faces We Trust 
  39. It’s Written All Over Your Face 
  40. Love skews your sense of smell - life
  41. The Food Dance Gets New Life When Bees Get Cocaine in an Addiction Study
  42. Haven't I Seen You Before? -- Holden 2009 (106): 1
  43. A New Crop of Scientists Are Using Their Children as Research Subjects
  44. Brain's Arteries Have a Mind of Their Own -- Miller 2009 (121): 1
  45. A billion frogs on world's plates
  46. Single cell 'can store memories' 
  47. Newborn Babies Feel the Beat
  48. Emperor penguins face extinction 
  49. Remote island celebrates pioneer 
  50. Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions
  51. Mars Rover Disoriented Somewhat After Glitch
  52. School Recess Improves Behavior - Well Blog 
  53. Serotonin May Be Key to Controlling Locusts 
  54. The Legal Brain: How Does the Brain Make Judgments about Crimes?
  55. Support Cells, Not Neurons, Lull the Brain to Sleep
  56. Serotonin Makes Locusts Swarm -- Enserink 2009 (129): 2 
  57. Hey, Fish, Got My Back? -- Lester 2009 (129): 4
  58. The Cost of Fearing Strangers - Freakonomics Blog 
  59. Born to Be a Trader? Fingers Point to Yes. 
  60. Findings - Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss 
  61. Basics - Tracking Forest Creatures on the Move 
  62. A Leap for Teleporting, Between Ions Feet Apart
  63. Theory and Experiment Meet, and a New Form of Boron Is Found
  64. Math Backs Limited Profiling in Airport Screening 
  65. Transfer of Mother’s Cells Molds Baby’s Immunity 
  66. A Most Private Evolution 
  67. How your mother might affect your memory: Scientific American Blog
  68. Rapid Thinking Makes People Happy
  69. Born believers: How your brain creates God - science-in-society
  70. Is the Roman Pantheon a colossal sundial? - space
  71. Color Me Creative -- Miller 2009 (205): 1
  72. Parasitic butterflies dupe hosts with ant music - life
  73. Springtime Cue for Lovebirds Found
  74. Women Have Hormonal Cues For Baby Cuteness
  75. Newborn brain cells 'time-stamp' memories
  76. How your looks betray your personality - life
  77. Scientists debunk myth of one in 10 children born to 'wrong' father
  78. Scientists in Germany Draft Neanderthal Genome
  79. What causes schizophrenia?
  80. In Lower Hudson Valley, Bald Eagles Thrill Their Fans
  81. Babies who gesture have bigger vocabularies: study
  82. First Rough Draft Of Neandertal Genome Released
  83. Darwin, Prescient with ‘Origin,’ Is Still Influential 
  84. Observatory - Detecting Brain Injuries in Salmon From Hydroelectric Dams 
  85. Essay - Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live 
  86. Genes Offer New Clues in Old Debate on Species’ Origins
  87. Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life 
  88. Tracking the Flight of Birds, With Tiny Backpacks 
  89. Findings - Historian Richard Milner Performs the Humor in Darwin 
  90. A Smaller, Faster Stimulus Plan, but Still With a Lot of Money 
  91. Write a Song, Win a Prize - TierneyLab Blog 
  92. Pucker up: Scientists study kissing 
  93. Kissing Chemistry 
  94. Dance duet helps male birds mate 
  95. Observatory - Hunted by Puma, It Flees, but Against Fox, It Fights 
  96. Officials Set Timetable for Getting Particle Collider Back on Track 
  97. Perseverence Is Paying Off for a Test of Relativity in Space
  98. Food Flavor Mystery Solved
  99. Anti-aging: A Little Stress May Keep Cells Youthful
  100. Race for 'God particle' heats up
  101. Alien life 'may exist among us'
  102. Rescue Flight - Taking to the Skies With the Endangered Whooping Crane
 

Medicine  Top, Science, Medicine, Technology


  1. Mouse Down's 'eased in the womb'
  2. Brain works better with neurological disease - health
  3. Science News / Lifestyle May Link Depression And Heart Disease 
  4. Fitness and the Brain: Can a Walk a Day Keep Alzheimer's Away?
  5. Brain is rewired in patients with chronic pain syndrome 
  6. Scientist at Work - Rodolfo Llinás - In a Host of Ailments, Seeing a Brain Out of Rhythm - Biography - 
  7. 'Time-bending drug' for jet lag 
  8. Clock-gene variants linked to diabetes 
  9. Cold sores 'an Alzheimer's risk' 
  10. Panel Urges More Screening of Brain Injury in Troops
  11. As Rods Go, So Go the Cones -- Price 2008 (1208): 4
  12. The Evidence Gap - The Pain May Be Real, but the Scan Is Deceiving 
  13. Sparking Recovery with Brain "Pacemakers"
  14. The Evolutionary Origins of Schizophrenia
  15. Reading Minds - Chill Pills - Obesity Genes
  16. Therapy hope for eating disorders 
  17. Psychiatrists Revising the Book of Human Troubles
  18. Does sugar make children hyperactive? Festive myths explored 
  19. Fears raised over new vCJD wave 
  20. Head-banging hammers the brain 
  21. A Mysterious Link Between Sleeplessness and Heart Disease 
  22. 'Clue' to sexes' pain difference 
  23. Disturbed Sleep Tied To Parkinson's Risk 
  24. Starving aging brain of glucose may trigger Alzheimer's: study 
  25. Men more responsive to caffeine 
  26. Immune cells link to Parkinson's 
  27. Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds
  28. Grape extract kills cancer cells 
  29. Marinating 'may cut cancer risk' 
  30. Thiamine 'reverses kidney damage' 
  31. Blood Sugar Control Linked to Memory Decline, Study Says
  32. 15 per cent of people with dementia under 65: Alzheimer society 
  33. Avoid antipsychotic drugs for elderly, experts urge, after death risk study 
  34. Parkinson’s Brain Surgery Works In Older Patients, Too 
  35. Parkinson’s Brain Surgery Works In Older Patients, Too 
  36. Brain-cooling devices developed 
  37. New study: Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are genetically linked : Scientific American Blog 
  38. Premenstrual Syndrome - Reporter's File - A Clash of Science and Politics Over PMS
  39. SketchUp: Why Kids With Autism Love It 
  40. BBC NEWS | Health | 'Visions link' to coffee intake 
  41. Personal Health - Trying Anything and Everything to Cure a Child's Autism - NYTimes.com 
  42. 'Body double' aids stroke victims 
  43. Staying calm, socializing may help prevent dementia: study 
  44. Easygoing, Social People May Get Dementia Less Often
  45. Even 'fake' acupuncture helps in headaches and migraines 
  46. Coffee Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
  47. Darkness, Melatonin May Stall Breast And Prostate Cancers 
  48. Cutting calories 'boosts memory' 
  49. Dead athletes' brains show damage from concussions
  50. Aspirin 'could cut liver damage' 
  51. Sex drive link to prostate cancer 
  52. Vitamin D 'is mental health aid' 
  53. A Sixth N.F.L. Player’s Brain Is Found to Have Degenerative Disease
  54. New York Health Chief’s New Foe - Salt in Packaged Foods 
  55. Vital Signs - Behavior - Electricity to Brain May Aid Motor Skills
  56. Multiple sclerosis 'reversed' with stem cell therapy - health
  57. Disorder linked to high levels of testosterone in womb 
  58. Sound and no fury | The Economist 
  59. Single gene fuels overeating risk 
  60. Well - National Safety Council Urges Cellphone Ban for Drivers
  61. Paul Offit's Book "Autism's False Prophets" Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade
  62. Another reason for a good night's sleep: achoo! 
  63. HRT 'can shrink women's brains' 
  64. Novelties - ‘Fantastic Voyage,’ Revisited - The Pill That Navigates
  65. Irradiation of Food Puts Consumers on Edge
  66. Gastric 'condoms' could help obese avoid surgery - tech 
  67. Peanut Product Recall Took Company Approval
  68. Checking hormone levels may help predict postpartum depression 
  69. Genetic mutations behind some mental disorders, Quebec team finds 
  70. The Father Factor: How Dad's Age Increases Baby's Risk of Mental Illness
  71. One Of History's Most Famous Brains Goes To The Movies 
  72. Summer babies 'tall and strong' 
  73. 5 Questions - A Surprising Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's 
  74. The Origins of Suicidal Brains
  75. What causes schizophrenia?
  76. Mouse brains suggest Ritalin is addictive - life 
  77. Marijuana testicular cancer link 
  78. Protein reverses Alzheimer's brain damage - health
  79. AP IMPACT: Drugmakers' push boosts 'murky' ailment
  80. Postpartum Psychosis Most Likely In Month After Childbirth 
  81. Personal Health - America’s Diet - Too Sweet by the Spoonful
  82. Experts Slam Oprah and Somers' Take on Menopause
  83. Drugs Are Found to Block HIV In Monkeys
  84. Ecstasy's long-term effect revealed - health
  85. Duplication In Genomes May Separate Humans From Apes 
  86. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/health/research/11arm.html?_r=2&ref=science 
  87. More smokers butt out when paid: study 
  88. Obesity During Pregnancy Linked to Infant Birth Defects 
  89. Cure for the Common Cold? Not Yet, but Possible
  90. Court Says Vaccine Not to Blame for Autism 
  91. Birth of Octuplets Puts Focus on Fertility Industry and Risks
  92. Medicare Blow to Virtual Colonoscopies
  93. New Look at Food Safety After Peanut Tainting 
  94. Peanut Products Sent Out Before Tests 
  95. Sanofi Drug Found Promising for Heart Ailment
  96. Music can take the pain away, study finds 
  97. 2nd-hand smoke, cognitive impairment linked: study 
  98. 'Anti-phobia pill' breaks link between memory and fear - health 
  99. Some Find Hope for a Shift in Drug Policy
  100. Picture Emerging on Genetic Risks of IVF
  101. Well - Vitamin Pills - A False Hope?
  102. Sponge’s Secret Weapon Restores Antibiotics’ Power
  103. Beta-blockers Erase Emotion Of Fearful Memories 
  104. Possible Genetic Flag For Brain Cancer 
  105. Alzheimer's study finds parental link
  106. Crestor shows gains in reducing stroke risk
  107. Lifestyle 'doubles stroke risk' 
  108. Heart Stents Found as Effective as Bypass for Many Patients
  109. Hope over peanut allergy 'cure' 
  110. Child abuse leaves lasting 'scars' on DNA
  111. FDA OK's implant to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder 
  112. Warning over child ear infections


Technology



  1. Iran 'fires second space rocket' 
  2. India moon craft hit by heat rise 
  3. Think tank calls for 'home MOTs' 
  4. Nasa jubilant at urine solution 
  5. Apple made to drop iPhone advert 
  6. Actor robots take Japanese stage
  7. The Age of Grainy Web Videos Has Come to an End - YouTube Turns on HD
  8. PlayStation home opens its doors 
  9. Don't be 404, know the tech slang 
  10. The mouse hits 40-year milestone 
  11. Virtual world for Muslims debuts 
  12. Spore at top of the piracy charts 
  13. YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money
  14. Novelties - The Ride Board, Reborn on the iPhone
  15. D-Wave Arms ‘Smoking Gun’ Proof of Quantum Computer - Bits Blog
  16. Observatory - Growing More Corn for Ethanol Makes Pest Control Harder
  17. Basics - There’s Lots of Tech Help, Yes, on the Internet 
  18. Japan Turns to Technology to Lift Fishing Industry
  19. Britannica reaches out to the web 
  20. Pope launches Vatican on YouTube 
  21. Pope praises Galileo's astronomy 
  22. Apple's first Macintosh turns 25 
  23. iPhone gets a touch screen rival 
  24. Karaoke voted 'worst invention ever' 
  25. Microsoft steps up browser battle 
  26. Google plans to make PCs history 
  27. Basics - Sharing Selectively on Social Networking Sites
  28. Google Error Sends Warning Worldwide
  29. YouTube Said to Be Close to Video Deal With William Morris
  30. When Talking on the Phone May Endanger a Child
  31. Experiments Bring Internet to Remote African Villages
  32. Google Earth Goes Deep With Ocean Simulations 
  33. Westchester County Turns Cooking Oil Into Fuel 
  34. A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with One Tweet
  35. Did Google Just Kill All the Other Mobile Social Networks?
  36. U.S.-Russian Satellite Collision Sends Debris Flying 
  37. Cycling Enters Electronic Age With Gear-Shifting System
  38. Utility Looks to Mojave Desert for Solar Power
  39. Amazon.com: Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation): Kindle Store 
  40. Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Sync Beta for iPhone, WinMo and SyncML Phones 
  41. TG Daily - Report: Windows losing market share fast to Mac and Linux 
  42. The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives 
  43. MRI modified for better images
  44. Basics - Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems
  45. Parabolic Templat
  46. From the Desk of David Pogue - Apple Recasts iMovie With Improved Features
  47. A New BlackBerry Curve Loaded With Features
  48. P1 Pico Projector Stands Out From a Small Crowd
  49. Friday Tip of the Week: Read It Later for Firefox - Gadgetwise Blog 
  50. Fabled City of Atlantis Spotted on Google Earth? - Bits Blog
  51. Is Hulu Driving People Back to Piracy?
  52. Chicago Links Street Cameras to Its 911 Network
  53. Facebook Backtracks on Use Terms
  54. Map of Popular Super Bowl Words Used on Twitter - Interactive Graphic
  55. 'Superguns' of Elizabeth I's navy
  56. Nasa delays space shuttle launch
  57. Hackers target Xbox Live players 
  58. TED on porn, malaria and robots 
  59. British Fight Climate Change With Fish and Chips
  60. Upgrade to Warning System on Tsunamis Is Going Slowly

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