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A Flowering of Affection: Victorian Valentine Cards at the Lilly Libra
This site features a browsable gallery of annotated images "of nineteenth century Valentine cards, from the sentimental to the comic."The site also provides users the opportunity to send electronic postcards of the images. Curated and designed by librarian Erika Dowell of the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot: New Study Suggests Ways To Control Fever-induce
Scientists show that genetic variation in the foraging gene results in different tolerance for heat stress and demonstrate how the use of specific drugs can replicate this effect in fruit flies and locusts. While the findings are at an early stage, the researchers suggest that they could lead to ways to rapidly protect the brain from extremely high fevers in mammals, including humans. The Jewish Guide to the Internet
A searchable, browsable portal to Internet resources related to Judaism. Covers academic Jewish studies, Hebrew, history, Israel, kosher food, and many other topics. Companion to a book by the same title. Maintained by librarian Diane Romm. Researchers Find Gene Variants That Greatly Increase Breast Cancer Ris
Decreased activity within the Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGF-beta) pathway is associated with increased breast cancer risk, according to a study published by researchers at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center in today's Cancer Research journal. Bad Aftertaste? New Sensory On/off Switch May 'Cure' Bane Of Artificia
Nothing leaves a bad taste in your mouth like an aftertaste. The commercially and esthetically inconvenient phenomenon prompts masking or removing bitter tastes (from spinach to saccharin) by depleting nutrition and/or adding calories. The frustrating hunt for acceptable artificial sweeteners suffers a similar fate -- they can't match sugar. Hebrew University researchers found what could be an on/off switch involving signal-terminating kinases that might unlock these taste woes, with potential for application in other sensory areas. Feeling Stressed? How Your Skin, Hair And Nails Can Show It
Pending job cuts at the office. Back-to-back final exams. A messy divorce. An unexpected surgery. What do they all have in common? In a word -- stress. While everyone knows that stress can take a toll on a person physically and psychologically, it also can lead to dermatologic problems, such as acne, brittle nails or even hair loss. Sexy Extras Earn Game Adult Label
The ESRB yanks the desirable 'M' rating from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas after the game's maker admits that the best seller contains racy content that can be unlocked by a third-party hack. Imagining the 10th Dimension
A Flash presentation illustrates a book on superstring theory, and explains each dimension, from the first to the 10th. In Table of Malcontents. A Biomolecule As A Light Switch
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany have uncovered the molecular mechanism of switchable fluorescent proteins, able to switch themselves reversibly back-and-forth between an "on"and "off"state. The discovery could be of importance for, among other purposes, optical data storage in protein crystals. Fisheries Should Be Regarded As Part Of Maritime Environment, Experts
Professional fishery is in many sea areas a serious ecological threat to the maritime environment. On the other hand, changes in the environment, e.g. the increase of fish-eating animals like seals and cormorants, may impact the fisheries. One of the new guiding principles of political decision-making in fishery issues is that a holistic "ecosystems approach"should be used instead of traditional protection of fish populations.
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