Is stress to blame for preterm births? Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Zapata, after all, was in her second year of medical school. The 23-year-old Milwaukee native had carried her first pregnancy to term and had a beautiful son to show for it: MJ, now 18 months old. At her last doctor visit the week before, ... |
Video: The Milky Way, Life, and Other Things
The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
"This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide. Spain's highest mountain @(3715m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world's best observatories." More
Fukushima Radiations are a Killer: Gerald Celente
They are radiating us to death says Gerald Celente , Fukushima radiations are deadly the same are the radiations from TSA , Gerald Celente then speaks about the collapsing housing market and the rising unemployment rate , the situation in Libya will go on for ever the worst is going to come and now they are selling weapons to rebels we do not know who they are , the rebels are now in the oil business too , terrorism are revenge attacks of which Gerald Celente always warned about the wors is only going to come , get your money out of the banks , because of Bank Holiday you won't be able to get your money out of the bank.
Inability To Post Graphic Images On This Forum
Are others having the same trouble I am, in attempting to post graphic images to threads on this forum using the green camera insert/edit image icon ?
I have posted images numerous times before, but as of today, most of the inset/edit image dialogue box disappears below the bottom of the browser sc
Flat belts versus Vee belts
Engineers! AC 3 phase induction motor 55kw 400v, 1450 rpm 50 hz, driving centrifugal supply fan rpm 900 (speed reduced through V-belt drive).Is it advisable in term of energy saving to replace the existing V-belts drive with flat belts.And as the V-belt has better torque transfer than flat belt will
Honeywell Paperless Recorder(v6 minitrend)
got a minitrend paperless recorder. the normall booting sequence when powered-up will perform scanning on the ff:
System Integrity Checks - indicates healthy
Running Database Integrity Checks - indicates healthy
but when on the next checking sequence on Creating File of 1024, the scanning stuck-u
The value of “open genomics” | Gene Expression
Zack Ajmal has been methodically working his way through issues in the public genomic data sets. Often it just involves noting duplicate samples across data sets, which need to be accounted for. But sometimes there seem to be problems within the uploaded data sets, for example relatively close related individuals. Today he highlights an issue which early on was noticeable in the Behar et al. data set:
Behar as in the Behar et al paper/dataset and not the Indian state of Bihar. The Behar dataset contains 4 samples of Paniya, which apparently is a Dravidian language of some Scheduled Tribes in Kerala.
I had always been suspicious of those four samples since one of them had admixture proportions similar to other South Indians but the other three were like Southeast Asians.
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Since the Austroasiatic Paniya samples originated from Behar et al, I guess at some point before the Behar data being submitted to the GEO database the Paniyas got mislabeled.
I pulled down the Behar et al. data set too, and the Paniya just look weird enough that I just avoided them. Ideally this sort of stuff should be caught, but errors happen. Best to get as many eyeballs looking over everything.
NASA Make Challenge Webcast
Webcast: Makers in Space: Developing Experiments for the NASA Make Challenge
"We're hosting an imromptu webcast for the NASA Make Challenge next Tuesday! Dale Dougherty hosts: The NASA Make Challenge is an invitation for makers to participate in the exploration of space and give students an opportunity to build an experimental kit that can be flown on a future space flight. These experiments will be based on the CubeSat modules. To help makers think about building kits for space flight, we'll bring together some experts who have developed and used the Cubesat program. Wednesday April 19th, 11am PT/2pm ET. Watch at makezine.com/space or on UStream"
Blinkies
Hi all,
Why do CCTV cameras with IR capability have an occasional tendency to "blink" a lot when the IR led's go on? They are fine during the day but indoor or outdoor, when the IR's kick in....
This does not happen with all cameras but when it does, "curing" it seems impossible. Any ideas?
Thank
NASA Commercial Market Assessment Report to Congress
NASA Authorization Act of 2010
"Sect. 403 (2) COMMERCIAL MARKET ASSESSMENT. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress an assessment, conducted, in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, for purposes of this paragraph, of the potential non-Government market for commercially-developed crew and cargo transportation systems and capabilities, including an assessment of the activities associated with potential private sector utilization of the ISS research and technology development capabilities and other potential activities in low-Earth orbit."
Keith's note: This report was due to be delivered to Congress more than a week ago.
VinylLove for iPad Re-Creates That Warm Vinyl Record Sound for Your MP3s [Apps]
I'm sad that I never really got into vinyls because every time I hear a record play, I wish my silly iPod could capture that same texture and warmth. VinylLove for iPad tries to re-create that warm vinyl sound to great success. More »
Evolution may explain why baby comes early | Gene Expression
The Pith: In this post I review a paper which covers the evolutionary dimension of human childbirth. Specifically, the traits and tendencies peculiar to our species, the genes which may underpin those traits and tendencies, and how that may relate to broader public health considerations.
Human babies are special. Unlike the offspring of organisms such as lizards or snakes human babies are exceedingly helpless, and exhibit an incredible amount of neoteny in relation to adults. This is true to some extent for all mammals, but obviously there’s still a difference between a newborn foal and a newborn human. One presumes that the closest analogs to human babies are those of our closest relatives, the “Great Apes.” And certainly the young of chimpanzees exhibit the same element of “cuteness” which is appealing to human adults. Still there is a difference of degree here. As a childophobic friend observed human infants resemble “larvae.” The ultimate and proximate reason for this relative underdevelopment of human newborns is usually attributed to our huge brains, which run up against the limiting factor of the pelvic opening of women. If a ...
The Hot Tub at the Playboy Mansion Got People Sick [Hot Tubs]
Health officials have confirmed that the "whirlpool spa" aka the hot tub aka probably the grotto at the Playboy Mansion was ground zero for a legionella bacteria outbreak. It's being held responsible for causing a number of people to get sick at an early February conference. More »
If Logos Were Honest, They’d Be Exactly Like This [Art]
In a clever art project, Viktor Hertz re-fashioned logos of popular companies and flipped into something a little more...honest. He says the honest logos reveal the content of each company instead of what's hidden behind the branding. I think it's hilariously brilliant. See more at Honest Logos. [Honest Logos via Laughing Squid] More »
African ur-language reconsidered | Gene Expression
Mark Liberman at Language Log has looked through the Science paper Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa. Overall he seems to think it is an interesting paper, but he has some pointed criticisms. Here’s the utility of the post: Liberman uses analogies to domains (e.g., genomics) which are comprehensible to me. My main issue with linguistic evolution is that I’m so ignorant that I barely understand the features being discussed. I may know their dictionary.com definition, but I have pretty much no deep comprehension with which to test the inferences against. By analogy, imagine trying to evaluate a morphological cladistic model with no understanding of anatomy. Here’s the part which may be of particular interest to readers of this weblog:
However, this combination of coarse binning into ranges, for functionally-defined subsets of elements with radically different numbers of members, seems to me to be much more problematic for Atkinson’s purposes. It’s as if a human genomic survey made geographically localized counts of the number of alleles involved in color vision and in blood physiology, divided each set of counts into a few bins (“a little variation”, “a ...
Pokéwalker More Accurate than Other Pedometers in University Study [Republished]
Evaluated against two other dedicated pedometers, the Pokéwalker - an add-on device for the HeartGold and SoulSilver Pokémon titles - is the most accurate device for counting steps, according to researchers at Iowa State University. More »
eBooks Are Now Overtaking All Other Formats [Ebooks]
It's starting to get a little frustrating when people ask whether or not they should get an eReader. Yes. If sales are any indication, whether you opt for a Kindle, Nook, or even your iPhone, ebooks are officially the present. More »
Magma Tidal Effectts?
Is there some truth in that Chinese Professor's story about the position of the sun and moon relative to earthquakes? ChristChurch again? Or, is it just the Pacific Ring of Fire?
Does solar radiation have some effect on the magnetism of earth's magma core (lots of iron), and cause some tidal eff
Woman Is Suing Match.com After She Was Sexually Assaulted [Online Dating]
Online dating is useful—you get to meet people you wouldn't normally meet, find people with compatible interests and go out on dates IRL. But it can sometimes be dangerous—you don't know the people you meet and you don't know what they're capable of. More »
Bagpack Traveller
If a picture does indeed speak a thousand words, then Daniel Murillo Mir’s photojournalistic site speaks volumes. He allows his photographs to be his narratives about the places he has visited. Follow Daniel’s trail of travels, which are presents to us through the lens of his camera.
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