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  • Science, health, medical news freaking you out? Do the Double X Double-Take first

    …wo are opinion. Also watch for “scientific meeting” and “conference.” That means that this information was presented without peer review at a scientific meeting. It hasn’t been vetted in any way. 3. Look at the words in the article. If what you’re reading contains words like “link,” “association,” “correlation,” or “risk,” then what the article is describing is a…

    Authored by on April 27, 2012

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

    …ll selection of different materials: bricks, mortar, iron, glass, and wood. Arranged in different ways, these few materials can yield a huge variety of structures. We encountered functional groups and the SPHONC in Chapter 3. These components form the four categories of molecules of life. These Big Four biological molecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They can have many roles, from giving an organism structure to be…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • What does ‘safe’ mean when we’re talking about chemicals?

    …ns as risk evaluations.  At the lower risk end, I would include things that have 1) solid, evidence-based records of few or no harmful effects, 2) relatively few/unusual circumstances in which it produces harmful effects, and 3) statistics favoring my likelihood of emerging unscathed. Here are some things I would consider lower risk  within the parameters of my life: Eating spinach. Yes, spinach contains oxalic acid, which is linked to kidney s…

    Authored by on June 4, 2012

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    …almost twice as likely to say that they don’t want to live or work near a person with mental illness if they read an article about a person with mental illness involved in a mass shooting, according to a study published March 20 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Interestingly, this tendency is the same even if the article avoids any mention of mental illness. This may be because this link between violence and mental illness is deeply engrain…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • Explosions, Just a Bit More Than Fireworks

    …an element (within a compound.) The original definition can easily be shown in terms of explosives. The simple mixing of hydrogen and oxygen with the addition of just a bit of heat, will form water in an explosive display: 2H2 + O2 –> 2H2O The little flame used to catalyze the reaction in the video is actually much more energy than is necessary to cause this reaction to occur, but it’s difficult to get an even littler source of heat…

    Authored by on July 4, 2012

  • A behind-the-scenes look at the fungal meningitis outbreak

    Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s tabulation offungal meningitis cases and related deaths as of 12/3/12. Watching the meningitis outbreak unfold has been watching a tragedy in the making. As of this writing, 541 people in the United States have developed the disease, and 36 of them have died. The source of the outbreak was fungus-contaminated injections of an immunosuppressant steroid from a compounding pharmacy. The com…

    Authored by on December 7, 2012

  • What’s on your wishlist?

    …board for that iPad or iPhone? Look no further than the Cube Laser Digital Keyboard ($180) . What about other great gadgets? The DOTKLOK (from $150) is an open-source and hackable digital clock. It also consumes 2W for power! Runners and cyclists who love their gadgets may like the Garmin Forerunner 610 GPS watch ($320). Track your workouts, train like a pro, and analyze all the data this watch feeds to you for the height of fitnes…

    Authored by on November 23, 2012

  • Circumcision shuffles the penis ecosystem

    trial, the authors measured 150,000 bacteria (16S ribosomal RNA copies) per swab in the control arm and 200,000 bacteria in the interventional arm. A year later, they found 57,000 copies on the uncircumcised men, compared to 38,000 on the circumcised ones. That difference, they say, is significant (albeit with a p value of 0.048 — right on the line, statistically speaking). The authors don’t address the fact that both the interventional an…

    Authored by on April 16, 2013

  • #DispatchesDNLee: Handling lady-business in the field

    An African-American woman and scientist in Tanzania by Danielle Lee, Ph.D. Actual field diary entry,  Tuesday, August 7, 2012,  ~8:30 am I cried this morning. In the shower. I was trying (poorly) to suppress screams of pain as I let the water run on my leg. I knew it was going to be bad when I saw blood on my pants as I pulled my field cover pants off.  I had been running into the same bush on line 3 between traps C and D every day. It has scrap…

    Authored by on February 21, 2013

  • Motherhood Defined: It is in the heart of the beholder

    “Motherhood”: Sculpture at the Catacumba Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Motherhood.  It can mean many things, and our own definition of it is largely defined by our individual experiences.  To one person, motherhood might simply mean the act of raising children; to another, motherhood might be what defines them.   It is not uncommon to generalize the concept of “motherhood” and lump everyone who upholds a singl…

    Authored by on May 11, 2012

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