Archive for the 'Health' Category
Russians Dumped Old Nuclear Reactors and Radioactive Waste Into Sea
August 30th, 2012Via: Bellona Foundation: Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, according to documents given to Norwegian officials by Russian authorities and published in Norwegian media. Bellona had received in 2011 a draft of a […]
Harvard: Researchers Grow Cyborg Tissues with Embedded Nanoelectronics
August 30th, 2012Via: Harvard Gazette: Harvard scientists have created a type of “cyborg” tissue for the first time by embedding a three-dimensional network of functional, biocompatible, nanoscale wires into engineered human tissues. As described in a paper published Aug. 26 in the journal Nature Materials, a research team led by Charles M. Lieber, the Mark Hyman Jr. […]
Gates Foundation Funds ‘Anti-Vaccine Surveillance and Alert System’ and ‘On-Demand Vaccine Delivery via Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’
August 29th, 2012Via: TechNet21: An anti-vaccine surveillance and alert system Seth Kalichman of the http://www.uconn.edu/ in the USA will establish an Internet-based global monitoring and rapid alert system for finding, analysing, and counteracting communication campaigns containing misinformation regarding vaccines to support global immunization efforts. … On-demand vaccine delivery via low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles George Barbastathis of the […]
U.S. Helicopters Over Bay Area Scanning for Radiation
August 29th, 2012You know, “Natural radiation levels,” *wink* Via: Contra Costa Times: Helicopters will be flying low over San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Pacifica through Saturday to record natural radiation levels, federal authorities said Monday. The flyovers are part of research by two federal security agencies to set baselines for radioactivity in the event of a nuclear […]
New AIDS-Like Disease Found in U.S., Asia
August 29th, 2012Via: AP: Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The patients’ immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. What triggers this isn’t […]
Light from Screens Delays Sleep
August 28th, 2012Via: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: A new study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that a two-hour exposure to electronic devices with self-luminous “backlit” displays causes melatonin suppression, which might lead to delayed bedtimes, especially in teens. The research team, led by Mariana Figueiro, associate professor at Rensselaer and director of […]
Water Shortages Could Force World Into Vegetarianism
August 27th, 2012Soy dogs and free vaccinations for all! Note the following if you click through to the link. Here’s a screenshot: The earliest, strategic decisions that Becky and I made about where we were going to live were driven by factors related to freshwater availability. If we didn’t have sufficient water for gardens and livestock, we […]
Genetically Engineering ‘Ethical’ Babies Is a Moral Obligation, Says Oxford Professor
August 18th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice to screen out personality flaws in their children as it meant they were then […]
‘A Soft Veil of Descending Pesticide’ for Dallas
August 17th, 2012They’re spraying Duet. Via: Dallas News: As the first plane flew over at about 11:05, a baby coyote wandered across Walnut Hill. It was startled by either the reporter or the airplane. It immediatley turned around and ran back into the bushes where it will no doubt enjoy the sweet smell of Duet the rest […]
Antibacterial Agent Triclosan Shown to Hinder Muscle Activity in Mice, Fish
August 15th, 2012Via: UC Davis: Triclosan, an antibacterial chemical widely used in hand soaps and other personal-care products, hinders muscle contractions at a cellular level, slows swimming in fish and reduces muscular strength in mice, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Colorado. The findings appear online in the Proceedings of […]
