“The death of the chemistry set is almost an unintended consequence of the rise in consumer protection laws.” Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Rise-and-Fall-and-Rise-of-the-Chemistry-Set-173727391.html#ixzz2DF52yWwbWhen I was in my late teens, my younger cousin came to visit us from Italy. From playing with my chemistry set, he had bleached the belly area...
read moreWhat can Kung Fu Nuns teach CERN scientists about cosmic energy? To start with, they would have to convince CERN scientists that 'cosmic energy' actually exists, and they recently got a chance to do that when the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) hosted Drukpa Buddhist's Spiritual Head, His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa. read...
read moreElsevier has launched a new open access, online journal, Leukemia Research Reports. It will publish a range of peer-reviewed short form papers, including brief communications, case reports, letters to the editors, images and debate articles about basic and/or applied clinical research in leukemias, lymphomas, multiple myeloma and other hematologic malignancies. The editors of Leukemia...
read moreAre you a morning or night person? It may help determine when you will shuck off your mortal coil.No one can determine with any accuracy specifically when we will die, but a new study has found that a particular gene variation, the same one that seems to determine if you are a morning person or not, also predicts what time of the day you will die.The adenine-adenine (A-A), adenine-guanine (A-G)...
read moreIn ban-happy modern America, it's fashionable to find someone or something - anything - to blame for why you choose to ingest more calories than you burn on a persistent basis.But during the holiday season, the circus that is health reporting in this country grows even more ridiculous as stories about the worst holiday foods and how to eat healthy on Thanksgiving begin to pop up in the...
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