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  • Printing with chocolate in your kitchen? We’re there

    Printing food the way you’d print your great unpublished novel? Sure, why not? At least the food will feed you.  Via Lauren Wolf at  CENblog , we’ve become aware of the latest in printing…deliciousness.  Printing icing and cookie dough. No more of those awkward icing-squeezy things: Printing chocolate? We’re there: Printing with Nutella. Could there be anything more wonderful? You can even print glowing toys:…

    Authored by on November 30, 2011

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …e X Extra: A triglyceride can have up to three different fatty acids attached to it. Canola oil, for example, consists primarily of oleic acid, linoleic acid, and linolenic acid, all of which are unsaturated fatty acids with 18 carbons in their chains. Why do we take in fat anyway? Fat is a necessary nutrient for everything from our nervous systems to our circulatory health. It also, under appropriate conditions, is an excellent way to store up…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    Protip: Don’t diagnose based on speculation. by Jessica Wright                Attention journalists: If you’ve been calling people “nuts” or “deranged” in your stories, the Associated Press is recommending that it’s time you stopped. This guideline — along with the common-sense assertion that writers shouldn’t diagnose individuals with a mental illness based entirely on speculation — is part of a new recommendation added to the AP styleboo…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • Blog of the Week: Speakeasy Science from Deborah Blum

    Deborah Blum, who blogs at Speakeasy Science , part of the PLoS Blog network, writes about things chemical and toxicological in ways that travel past the brain and straight to the heart. She is author of  The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York,  which features her characteristic graceful chemical descriptions and deep sympathy for the human condition. Her blog is like her book, blending sc…

    Authored by on November 21, 2011

  • If you try one detox this year, make it this one

    …I eat whole grains and fruit and avoid beef and pork and, after a humiliating experience involving stuffing semisweet baking chips into my mouth with both hands, I no longer allow chocolate in the house. Even though I can run 13.1 miles in one shot, I don’t look like a model. And when it comes to the reckoning on the elliptical with that pink pile of glossy magazine paper in front of me, the images under my nose tell me that my body is riddled wi…

    Authored by on January 21, 2013

  • Autism is not the monster

    Postpartum depression is. And it doesn’t act alone. by Emily Willingham       [Trigger warnings: details of suicide and infanticide] Last week, the mother of a 10-month-old strapped her baby onto her body and leapt from an eighth-floor window. She died, but the child survived, almost uninjured. According to reports, the mother, a lawyer, had written a lengthy suicide note. She had expressed fear that her son had autism or cerebral palsy an…

    Authored by on March 20, 2013

  • Turkey, spice, everything nice: What are those Thanksgiving smells made of?

    Traditional Thanksgiving food. Just looking may evoke smell memories. Via Wikimedia Commons. Spices, turkey, stuffing, those casseroles you never make at any other time of the year. What is it about the smells at Thanksgiving that are so evocative that if you encounter them any other time of the year, your mind flies back again to memories of family, friends, and a turkey or Tofurkey? Well, as Brainpicker’s Maria Popova highlight…

    Authored by on November 24, 2011

  • Depressing genes

    …ch experience — yet it was obvious he didn’t have the knack for it. This student’s dogged pursuit of a mental health career made me wonder what kind of emotional turmoil he experienced which would make him think, at age 19, that psychiatry was the only vocation worth working towards. Then there were the two graduate students who both worked incredibly hard and were both prone to obsess about their experiments. Each burned off stress in quit…

    Authored by on May 17, 2013

  • Is the bar high enough for screening breast ultrasounds for breast cancer?

    …nt movement and legislation to inform women that they have dense breasts. Merits and pitfalls of device approval The approval of breast ultrasound hinges on a study of 200 women with dense breast evaluated retrospectively at 13 sites across the United States with mammography and ultrasound. The study showed a statistically significant increase in breast cancer detection when ultrasound was used with mammography. Approval of a device of this nat…

    Authored by on September 21, 2012

  • Autism and the DSM-5

    …questions in the context of these criteria. I’ve expanded on a couple of these reports at length elsewhere, as have others with an interest in the subject. The short version is that studies overall indicate that at the least, 10% of people who would currently have an autism diagnosis under the DSM-IV-TR criteria would lose that diagnosis under the DSM-5, and some studies go as high as 55% in their estimates. Even more troubling? The committee’s s…

    Authored by on April 23, 2013

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