What a pleasant surprise. While Google initially suggested it'd be a few weeks before the Nexus One was graced with Android 2.2, TechCrunch's MG Siegler went to plug in his handset last night and, lo and behold, he found an unexpected Froyo treat waiting for him. Not all Nexus One users are seeing the bump yet, but it does seem that Google's starting to roll out the Android 2.2 update on its own phone first. Figures. More »
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Researchers trying to determine the age of deceased individuals are finding success with a new method: looking in people's mouths. Nuclear bomb testing in the 1950s, it turns out, turned everyone's teeth into radioactive clocks. More »
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Going to work for a friend or hiring a friend to work for you means working with someone that you can trust. Or can you? Have you ever found yourself in such a situation? Did you hire or were you hired because you had the proper skills to do the job, or was your friendship the primary reason? How di
Researchers at MIT and the University of Washington discovered that they can stick electrodes in trees and operate electrical devices, such as a low-powered sensor. The power isn't much—only 200 mV per tree. Some skeptics think it's no more than the old potato trick, where electrodes react wit
The April explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oilrig has led some to question the safety of offshore oil wells, especially the ability of blow-out preventers to cap a wellhead when a catastrophic event occurs. Questions that are being asked, and will continue to be asked over the next several months
Benchmarking is a great way to compare yourself to competitors, other industries, and objective measures. But it can also be a tough exercise to carry out — you need to define your goals for the exercise and determine the best metrics for making your evaluation. We recently came across a datab
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My seventh hosted Point of Inquiry episode is now up--it's with Michael Specter of The New Yorker, and yes, it is about denialism. You can stream it here, and download/subscribe here. Here's the write up:
This week, we learned that J. Craig Venter has at long last created a synthetic organism—a simple life form constructed, for the first time, by man. Let the controversy begin—and if New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter is correct, the denial of science will be riding hard alongside it.
In his recent book Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives, Specter charts how our resistance to vaccination and genetically modified foods, and our wild embrace of questionable health remedies, are the latest hallmarks of an all-too-trendy form of fuzzy thinking—one that exists just as much on the political left as on the right.
And it’s not just on current science-based issues that denialism occurs. The phenomenon also threatens our ability to handle emerging science policy problems—over the development of personalized medicine, for instance, or of synthetic biology. How can we make good decisions when again and again, much of the public resists inconvenient facts, statistical thinking, and the sensible balancing of ...
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From the SENS Foundation: "Aggregates of beta-amyloid (Abeta) and other malformed proteins accumulate in brain aging and neurodegenerative disease, leading progressively to neuronal dysfunction and/or loss. The regenerative engineering solution to these insults is therapeutic clearance of aggregates, extracellular (such as Abeta plaques) and intracellular (such as soluble, oligomeric Abeta). Immunotherapeutic Abeta clearance from the brain is a very active field of Alzheimer's research, with at least seven passive, and several second-generation active, Abeta vaccines currently in human clinical trials ... One challenge to optimal vaccine design is matching the specificity of antibodies the range of Abeta aggregates that form in vivo ... agents that sequester one Abeta species may leave other species intact, and in some cases a shift in assembly dynamics can actually promote the formation of one species while clearing or reducing the formation of others ... Although in very early in vivo testing, a new approach has emerged that may offer that promise. This is the use of an Abeta-targeting affibody, i.e., a novel non-immunoglobulin binding protein generated through combinatorial protein engineering."
View the Article Under Discussion: http://www.sens.org/node/785
Read More Longevity Meme Commentary: http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/
Via EurekAlert!: "excess abdominal fat places otherwise healthy, middle-aged people at risk for dementia later in life. ... [The study] included 733 community participants who had a mean age of 60 years with roughly 70% of the study group comprised of women. Researchers examined the association between Body Mass Index (BMI), waist circumference, waist to hip ratio, CT-based measures of abdominal fat, with MRI measures of total brain volume (TCBV), temporal horn volume (THV), white matter hyperintensity volume (WMHV) and brain infarcts in the middle-aged participants. ... Our results confirm the inverse association of increasing BMI with lower brain volumes in older adults and with younger, middle-aged adults and extends the findings to a much larger study sample. ... Prior studies were conducted in cohorts with less than 300 participants and the current study includes over 700 individuals. ... More importantly our data suggests a stronger connection between central obesity, particularly the visceral fat component of abdominal obesity, and risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease ... the association between VAT and TCBV was most robust and was also independent of BMI and insulin resistance. Researchers did not observe a statistically significant correlation between CT-based abdominal fat measures and THV, WMHV or BI."
View the Article Under Discussion: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-05/w-afa051910.php
Read More Longevity Meme Commentary: http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/
From Social Media Examiner:
Wendy Piersall provides some insights into the "dark side" of being popular online:
- Fame does not pay the bills
- Being on the front page of Digg does not bring you success
- It takes lots of work to get internet fame and even more work to maintain the internet fame
See the video interview at Social Media Examiner.
References:
The Dark Side of Blogging Fame (a Wendy Piersall Interview). Social Media Examiner.
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In healthy people, procalcitonin (PCT) concentrations are low, but in those with bacterial infection it occurs at high concentrations in the blood as early as 3 hours after infection. In people with viral infections, procalcitonin (PCT) levels rise only marginally, if at all.
A PCT-guided strategy applied in primary care in unselected patients presenting with symptoms of acute respiratory infection reduces antibiotic use by 41.6 percent without compromising patient outcome.
The FDA Approved an Automated Procalcitonin (PCT) Test in 2008.
References:
Simple test could cut excessive antibiotic use. Reuters, 2010.
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Check out this oversized and hand-painted ribcage jersey shirt by Sass & Bide. Of course it isn’t cheap ($100)… butttt it’s sexy!
