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[Stupid] Norwegian Mistakenly Burns Cash for Heat
A Norwegian who felt a bit chilly after a night on the town and decided to stoke his fireplace didn't really have money to burn. It just turned out that way. Echinacea Could Cut Chance Of Catching Cold By More Than Half, Study S
Echinacea, the most popular herbal supplement in the United States, cuts the chances of catching the common cold by 58 percent and reduces the duration of the common cold by 1.4 days, according to a new University of Connecticut study to be published in the July issue of the prominent British medical journal, The Lancet Infectious Diseases. NIMH Study To Guide Treatment Choices For Schizophrenia
A large study for the first time provides detailed information comparing the effectiveness and side effects of five medications -- both new and older medications -- that are currently used to treat people with schizophrenia. Overall, the medications were comparably effective but were associated with high rates of discontinuation due to intolerable side effects or failure to adequately control symptoms. Surprisingly, the older, less expensive medication generally performed as well as the newer medications. Scale Insect World
Images of field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, and other "supplementary material"accompanying a collection of scale insects (plant and animal parasites of the order Hemiptera), most of which were "collected in China and Southeast Asia during the beginning of the 20th century."Includes brief biographies of G.F. Ferris, G. Compere, and T.D.A. Cockerell, the entomologists who produced the material. From the Bohart Museum of Entomology, located on the campus of the University California, Davis. [Ironic] Professional beggars prowling about the streets of Moroccan c
The government plans to crack down on the scam used by faux beggars in growing numbers for a kind of "emotional blackmail", a cabinet minister was quoted as saying... Phonemic Awareness
Articles that provide an overview about this method for teaching beginning reading that involves the "use of the sound structure of oral language in learning to read."Includes information about the stages of phonological development, the roles of rhyme and alliteration, and the relationship between phonics and phonemic awareness. From EducationNews.org. Bio-archaeologists Pinpoint Oldest Northern European Human Activity
Scientists at the University of York used a 'protein time capsule' to confirm the earliest record of human activity in Northern Europe. A team of bio-archaeologists from York were able to provide the final piece of scientific evidence which confirmed that primitive stone tools discovered in East Anglia dated back around 700,000 years -- 200,000 years earlier than any other traces of human colonisation of northern latitudes. Radical 'Ballistic Computing' Chip Bounces Electrons Around Like Billi
Computer designers at the University of Rochester are going ballistic. "Everyone has been trying to make better transistors by modifying current designs, but what we really need is the next paradigm,"says the inventor of the "Ballistic Deflection Transistor,"and it's as far from traditional transistors as tubes. Instead of pushing electrons as if they were a current, the ballistic design bounces individual electrons off deflectors as if playing a game of atomic billiards. New Nano-method May Help Compress Computer Memory
Chemists have devised a simple way to control both the size and the composition of iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires. Nanorods with uniform shape and magnetic alignment are one key to the next generation of high-density information storage. Feb. 21, 1971: Trippin'
A long, strange trip gets longer and stranger when the United Nations decides to police the manufacture of hallucinogens. Compiled by Tony Long.
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