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  • As Seen on TV! Age Your Wine in 10 Seconds!!!!

    …ould be aged! All wines actually go bad over time, including many of the usual types you may see in the store. That time may be pretty long, but you don’t want to just buy any bottle, stick it in your basement, and wait 20 years to drink it – most of them won’t taste good. According to my source, the days are gone where you might buy bottles of wine and put them in a cellar for your children. (Who has a wine cellar now anyway? I live…

    Authored by on May 14, 2012

  • Why is the sky pink?

    On Mars, the sky is pink during the day, shading to blue at sunset. What planet did you think I was talking about? On Earth, the sky is blue during daytime, turning red at as the sun sinks toward night. Scattering light Well, it’s not quite as simple as that: if you ignore your dear sainted mother’s warning and look at the Sun, you’ll see that the sky immediately around the Sun is white, and the sky right at the horizon (i…

    Authored by on March 12, 2012

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

    …molecules themselves break down into a surprisingly small number of building blocks. The proteins that make up all of the living things on this planet and ensure their appropriate structure and smooth function consist of only 20 different kinds of building blocks. Nucleic acids, specifically DNA, are even more basic: only four different kinds of molecules provide the materials to build the countless different genetic codes that translate into all…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • Unicorns and Brainbows

    Brainbow is a mouse with a rainbow brain. By Jeffrey Perkel    A couple weeks ago I wrote about the beautiful world right under our noses, a world visible only under the microscope. The cover image for that post was this picture, a “‘Brainbow’ transgenic mouse hippocampus,” which placed 18th in the 2008 Nikon Small World Photomicroscopy contest. Brainbow technology also won the 2007 Olympus Bioscapes contest, with this be…

    Authored by on May 6, 2013

  • Friday roundup: Nature is beautiful, weird, terrifying, & gross, and vaccines are a social responsibility

    d to head up the Pentagon’s 100-year Starship project . Nature is beautiful. Nature is weird. Nature is terrifying. National Geographic has collected together its best “Photo of the Day” selections from 2012, and this one has stayed with me since I saw it earlier this year. Astonishing.  Otters chase a butterfly . You may know that a group of crows is called a “murder.” But did you know that a group of otters…

    Authored by on January 14, 2012

  • How chili powder can kill

    Source. Credit. How can chili powder kill a child? Dr. Rubidium explains. by Dr. Rubidium, Ph.D., DXS contributor On the evening of Sunday, January 6th, 2-year-old Joileen G. was pronounced dead at a San Bernardino hospital. A few hours into Monday, Joileen’s caregiver for that Sunday — Amanda Sorensen — was arrested. On Wednesday, Ms. Sorensen, who is also the girlfriend of Joileen’s father, was charged with “…

    Authored by on January 21, 2013

  • 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

  • Think pink? I’d rather raise a stink

    Are some of these possible signs of breast cancer presentin a famous work of art? Image: public domain, US gov by Liza Gross, contributor [Ed. note: This article was originally posted on KQED QUEST on October 3, 2012. It is reposted here with kind permission.] Just a generation ago, October belonged to the colors of fall, when “every green thing loves to die in bright colors,” as Henry Ward Beecher said. (Growing up back East, you read…

    Authored by on October 8, 2012

  • YES. The CDC childhood immunization schedule is safe. For reals.

    …report, the IOM took up study of the CDC vaccination schedule because there has been concern in some circles that kids get too many shots too soon. The 14 diseases that the current schedule protect against mean kids get up to 24 shots by the time they turn 2, including up to five shots in one visit sometimes. It does sound like a lot. It *literally* sounds like a lot if your kiddo is a crier. But that’s only part of the story. As the IOM no…

    Authored by on January 24, 2013

  • To Cut or Not to Cut…Cirumcision Decision

    …sex. The risks of circumcision are most commonly bleeding, infection or the wrong amount of tissue snipped off, and this happens in about 1 of every 500 newborn boys (0.2 percent). Other studies found the rates higher, up to 2 to 3 percent, but these complications were still just minor bleeding. They even offered a comparison of a similar surgery as the one I discussed above: complications involving severe bleeding from tonsillectomies occur abo…

    Authored by on September 14, 2012

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