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Gathering the Jewels/Casglu'r Tlysau: The Website for Welsh Cultural H
This website about Welsh history provides "over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales."Searchable; or browse by county in Wales or by subjects such as agriculture, industry, arts, religion, politics, education, transportation, domestic life, and war. In English and Welsh. From the National Library of Wales. Rants: Crazy Love, Mad Cows
Readers praise the holy temple of Apple, chastise a writer and almost get fired. What a day! Plus: Links to our most popular blog posts. New Drug Helps Hepatitis C Patients Start Antiviral Therapy
A new drug that stimulates the production of blood platelets can enable patients infected with hepatitis C virus to take other antiviral medications they previously could not take to fight the disease, according to the results of a clinical trial led by a Duke University Medical Center researcher. Fishing For An Answer: Wild Or Farmed?
You pass up the farm-raised sea bass in the supermarket fish department, and pay a premium for its wild cousin. Are you getting your money's worth, or was that "wild"fish actually raised on a fish farm and accidentally or intentionally mislabeled"Scientists are reporting development of a method to answer that question. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... Jan. 29, 1964: Duck and Cover
Dr. Strangelove spoofs the notion of nuclear holocaust. We laugh, but underneath the laughter is genuine fear. Compiled by Tony Long. How Badger Culling Creates Conditions For Spread Of Bovine Tuberculosi
A stable social structure may help control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB) among badgers, ecologists have found. The findings -- published online in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Animal Ecology -- have important implications for the role of badger culling as part of the strategy to control bovine TB in the UK. Prostate Cancer Survivors Who Suffer From Urinary Incontinence Benefit
A routine check-up for a businessman three years ago revealed prostate cancer. The cancer was caught in time, but a side effect of his successful surgery was "driving him nuts."Losing urine control because of coughing, laughing, sneezing, or lifting is both frustrating and debilitating for the more than 2 million men worldwide afflicted with the condition. Many of these men are prostate-cancer survivors, having undergone surgery for the treatment of their cancer with the often unavoidable outcome of a damaged urinary sphincter. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Education Center
"This site is for students, teachers, librarians and other educators to access"the many educational resources from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The site features information about Army Corps activities such as disaster response and water resource management, lesson plans about navigation, the "Young Engineer's Club"with games and a searchable database of science experiments, and links to numerous related sites. Direct Route From The Brain To The Immune System Discovered
It used to be dogma that the brain was shut away from the actions of the immune system, shielded from the outside forces of nature. But that's not how it is at all. In fact, new scientific detective work shows that the brain talks directly to the immune system, sending commands that control the body's inflammatory response to infection and autoimmune diseases.
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