Apple, Dell and other hardware manufacturers are bracing this quarter for an expected hard drive shortage after heavy flooding in Thailand has claimed another tech victim at the world's largest hard drive supplier. More »
Interview of Mike McCormick and Kathy Revoir, speech-language pathologists, brain injury patients, Lucerne Hospital, Orlando, and communication sciences and disorders (formerly communicative disorders) alumni, University of Central Florida (UCF)
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Brain Injury Speech-Language Pathologists - Video
Medical School Pathology, Chapter 5f: Genetic Disorders
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Navy Officers in the Medical Service Corps can excel in any of 22 unique specialties, everything from audiology to social work, biochemistry to research psychology. Available programs provide medical professionals with endless opportunities, and David Rockabrand is no exception. His childhood interest in science has led him to a dream career as a microbiologist in the Navy.
IBM DNA Transistor The Future of Genome Sequencing In an effort to build a nanoscale DNA sequencer, IBM scientists are drilling nano-sized holes in computer-like chips and passing DNA strands through them in order to read the information contained within their genetic code. This research effort is to design a silicon-based DNA Transistor that could help pave the way to easily and quickly read human DNA, generating advancements in health condition diagnosis and treatment
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General Biology Lecture
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Biology 1A - Lecture 1: Course introduction. Introduction to macromolecules. - Video
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Lecture by Kevin Ahern of Oregon State University introducing students to the subject of biochemistry in BB 350.
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http://www.zaneeducation.com - This K12 curriculum online biology and biochemistry video will help students to study the structure and function of carbohydrates and lipids and in particular one carbohydrate, the sugar glucose. Learn about the biological importance of lipids and carbohydrates and learn about the structure and function of glucose
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Part 7 Psychosurgery (1/2) As with the other parts.. I will be conecting this with the source material, however I urge you NOT to watch it. It's horrible..
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13H Refutes CCHR: IOD (Chapter 7) Psychosurgery (1/2) - Video
This video pertains to sections 8 which discusses psychiatric drugs... I'm rushing through 9.
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[Season 3, Episode 25] "Didn't We Almost Have it All?" [Lyrics] The storm is coming, but I don't mind People are dying, I close my blinds All that I know is I'm breathing now I want to change the world, instead I sleep I want to believe in more than you and me But all that...
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Disney's Haunted Mansion is one of those corny staples you just have to hit when you visit the Magic Kingdom. But Disney World is far for some. Why not bring parts of the experience home for Halloween? More »
[Note: ROSAT fell to Earth last night; see this post for details and links to more info.]
Time lapse videos can be breathtaking, lovely, and a joy to watch… but they can also show you something you may not have thought about before. Before I even read the caption for Murray Fredericks’ video called "IRIDIUM", I knew it was filmed in the southern hemisphere. Can you guess how?
[Make sure to watch it in HD, and make it full screen.]
If you live in the northern hemisphere — and odds are very good that you do — then you may have noticed the motion of the Sun and stars looked a bit odd. For example, as you watch the Sun set at the beginning of the video, it does so at an angle moving from the upper right to the lower left. The stars do too. When they rise, they move from the lower right to the upper left.
To me that’s backwards!
If I face west, looking toward the sunset, I see the Sun moving from my upper left and moving to the lower right. As I explain in an earlier post, that’s because when you head south, below the equator, your directions flip. Facing north in the northern hemisphere, west is to my left. Facing south in the southern hemisphere, west is to my right. As I wrote before:
Think of it this way: imagine you’re in a car, driving on a road going through a forest. If you face left, looking out through the driver’s window, the trees appear to pass you from your right (the front of the car) to your left (the back of the car). Now turn around and look out the passenger window: trees move from your left to your right! Directions reverse because you’re facing the other way. The same is true for the sky, so while rising stars appear to move counterclockwise when you look to the north, they appear to move clockwise when you face the south.
So when I see the motions of stars in videos like the one above, I get a little disoriented. I was in Australia a few years ago, and it totally threw me off. The Moon’s crescent faced the wrong way! Orion rose upside-down! My shadow pointed the wrong way! People drove their cars from the passenger side!
Hmph. It occurs to me that in the quote above, I assume the driver’s side of the car is on the left. Between writing that, and still feeling weird watching videos like IRIDIUM, I guess I still have lingering traces of northern hemisphere bias.
Another thing about this: in a lot of movies and TV shows, they use sped-up footage of the Sun rising (usually on a beach or over a city) to denote a jump forward in the plot line to morning, a way to show that we’ve moved ahead a day in the story. I used to wonder why, in many of those scenes, they showed the Sun moving backwards, from right to left, as it rose. I found out that they tend to use sunsets for those clips, then run the video backwards! Why?
It’s because it’s easier to set up a camera in the late afternoon and shoot a sunset; you can see where the Sun is headed, and aim the camera there with time to spare. It’s harder to know exactly where the Sun will rise if you’re outside and haven’t done the calculations and measurements, so getting a sunset is simpler and faster. Also, sunsets tend to be redder than sunrises due to more junk in the air during the day, so it’s more photogenic. And of course it’s also just easier to get a film crew to work a little late to get a sunset on camera than it is to roust them out of bed hours before sunrise in the early a.m.
Astronomy! It affects us all, even Hollywood types.
Which brings us back to the video. It was created as part of a movie called "SALT", about Fredericks’ annual five week pilgrimage to Lake Eyre, a dry salt bed in central Australia. It’s beautiful, and shows what you can see when there’s little or no light pollution. I can only guess how dark the skies must be there, and how incredible it must be to watch the starry vault slide by overhead…
Tip o’ the lens cap to Tom Lowe on Google+.
The Dalai Lama on the Buddhist perspective on evil.
German ROSAT Satellite Has Fallen to Earth, Say NASA Sources, ABC
"The German ROSAT satellite fell back to Earth Saturday evening, U.S. time, NASA sources told ABC News. DLR, Germany's scientific research agency, said the satellite re-entered the atmosphere between 9:45 and 10:15 p.m. ET. It was the second time a satellite large enough to for debris to reach the Earth's surface has fallen from orbit in the past month, an occurence that typically happens only once per year."
Damage From Falling Satellites? Insurance Will Cover It, New York Times
"The odds of a fragment hitting your little patch of earth are extremely low. But not to worry: if you are unlucky enough to have some space shrapnel fall on your house or car, standard insurance policies will most likely cover the damage, says the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group."
Marc's note: According to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) the latest prediction on ROSAT re-entry: Between 22 October 2011, 18:00 UTC & 23 October 2011, 12:00 UTC. Follow the DLR tweets for the latest re-entry updates.
Marc's Update: German satellite hits east of India, centre says, CBC
"Parts of a defunct German research satellite have returned to Earth and likely fallen into the Bay of Bengal, east of India, the chair of the German Aerospace Centre says."
NASA: Pay the Americans now ... or pay the Russians later, MSNBC
"If NASA can't provide as much support for U.S. spaceship-builders as it's hoping for, it'll have to keep paying the Russians $450 million for every year of delay, the space agency's No. 2 official said today. NASA's deputy administrator, Lori Garver, laid out that "pay now or pay later" message at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight in Las Cruces, N.M."
Back space taxis or pay more for Russian rides, Reuters
"The Obama Administration is requesting $850 million for the [commercial] program for the fiscal year that began Oct 1. Bills pending in the House and Senate cut that to $312 million and $500 million, respectively. Without full funding in 2012, the United States' ability to stop buying rides from Russia in 2016 is at risk, NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver said at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, under way in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this week."
NASA may extend Russian contract to fly to space station, Orlando Sentinel
"Top NASA officials are quietly working to extend a contract with Moscow that would continue using Russian rockets to fly U.S. astronauts into space until 2016 and beyond -- a move that underscores how much the U.S. now relies on its former Cold War adversary. Already, NASA is committed to pay Russia $1.5 billion during the next five years to transport its astronauts to and from the International Space Station, a necessary arrangement because the U.S. no longer flies a human-rated spacecraft since NASA retired the space shuttle last summer."
Today, as we continue to learn more about our negative impact on the environment, and the ways in which our lifestyles also contribute to poor health, many cities are making efforts to become greener, healthier places to live. The trend for cities is not to regress, but to progress. To create laws that are more conducive to healthy lifestyles and greener forms of living. However, defying these trends, and really, defying logic is a town in Wisconsin that appears to be regressing as a city.
I am not one to dog on cities, coming from a huge metropolis, filled to the gills with suburban sprawl; huge houses with SUV’s pulling out of garage doors each morning as folks make their extra long commute into the city for work. However, even in my neck of the woods, the idea that it would be good to actually ban walking and biking is just crazy. But this is exactly what Hull, Wisconsin is doing. This small city in the north wishes to ban biking and walking. Banning bikes outright seems pretty draconian and bicycle advocates in Hull, Wisconsin are hopefully aware of these happenings.
Many cities are concerned about pedestrian and cyclist safety, but they put into place far different mechanisms than that which Hull, Wisconsin is proposing. To protect pedestrians and cyclists, their idea is to ban these activities entirely. While this is certain to reduce the number of injuries and issues associated with non-motorized transportation, this seems a pretty extreme way to go about dealing with the problem.
The biggest problem with regard to pedestrian and cyclist safety is sharing the road. In many cities, bike lanes are employed to denote the area of the road reserved for non-motorized transportation. In areas that do not have bike lanes, cars are still generally expected to share the road. This puts a lot of one’s safety on oneself as a cyclist, as you take a risk by commuting in this fashion in an area where it just isn’t safe to do so. As more people are looking towards these healthier, greener ways of getting from point A to point B, more cities are creating bikes lanes, or completely alternate paved routes meant to be used by non-motorized transportation.
The proposed rule in Hull would not ban the use of bicycles or walking in all areas of the entire town, but it would ban these activities on many main roads. The main problem with this is that, for those who use non-motorized transportation to get themselves to and from work need to use these main thoroughfares in order to make efficient use of their time and get to work in a timely manner. What makes this proposed ban most interesting is that this town doesn’t have a big problem with injuries related to non-motorized transportation. There hasn’t been a pedestrian or cycling-related accident for a number of years. Perhaps city officials simply do not want to share the road.
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Chris Keenan is a green and general blog writer. He writes for many sites including Precision Garage Door. Chris also maintains a personal house and garden blog.
A month ago I posted the genetic results of a Malagasy individual of Merina identity. Today I post those for someone of Betsileo heritage. All the technical details are the same. You can find all the ADMIXTURE and PCA files here.
This genotyping was paid for by readers. I’ll update the post with the names of those who contributed below the fold later. If you contributed but don’t want to be named, email me at contactgnxp -at- gmail -dot- com, and I’ll leave you off the list.
How many people do you know reference the yellow phone book when they are trying to look up a business they might need to go to? The answer is probably ZERO. In our day in age, the famous yellow pages phone book is outdated and obsolete. This is the 21st century after all, not the 50′s or 60′s, or 70′s, or 80′s, or even the 90′s. The invention of the internet and major adoption of it in the 2000′s has basically reduced the yellow pages phone book to a really good door stop, or worse, a source of paper for the fire place.
Stop receiving that darn Yellow Pages phone book every year by going to Phone Book Opt Out today. Once you visit the website, you’ll enter in your zip code to find out what types of phone books could be sent to your home. It gives you a list of the which phone books you are elegible to receive. You then select all of the options, for me there were seven different phone books, then you register your name and address with the website. They will then contact those companies and attempt to remove your name from their lists.
Enlisting Yellow Pages Opt Out services might not stop every phone book from appearing at your door. If you still receive them, place a call to the contact numbers on the actual phone book and talk to someone in person for removal. Want to stop more than just unwanted phone books from coming to your home, visit our post on how to reduce junk mail by up to 90%.
The best phone book replacement service to find business online is Google’s free telephone-based GOOG-411 service. Call 800.GOOG.411 and follow the directions.
There is also the gamut of yellow page websites:
yellowpages.com – this one is probably the most well known online business listing due to its brand name, they also have an mobile App for smartphone users including iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and PALM users.
yellowbook.com – this alternative has local coupon deals, in my opinion, has a better website interface, and also has mobile apps for smartphone users.
superpages.com – this other alternative also has local coupon deals, mobile apps galore, and a very friendly user interface.
If you’re currently receiving curbside recycling, chances are, you can toss your yellow pages phone book right into the paper recycling. Check with your local recycling company to be that you are allow to recycle your phone book though.
1-800-RECYCLING.COM is a free, comprehensive recycling database that lists local information about how to recycle plastics, electronics, paper, glass, metal, automotive, and household hazardous materials. It also lists state recycling guidelines throughout the US.
Download the Yellow Pages Sustainability Report 2011.
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