The list of species that global warming zealots claim will be wiped out by climate change is long: Antarctic penguins; Arctic polar bears; Australia’s koalas; British dragonflies …   
But in what could be a case of Darwinian evolution in action, the BBC reports that “great tits cope well with warming.” Presumably, great tits won’t do […]

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an age-related and irreparable brain disorder that strikes slowly and causes memory loss, behavior and personality changes, and deterioration of mental capacities. These losses are brought about by the collapse of the links between nerve cells in the brain and the ultimate death of most of these cells. The natural course […]

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According to the Lancet, (an esteemed British medical journal) the high blood pressure vaccine has just gone through stage II of it’s testing, and so far so good.
There were some sore arms and “flu like” symptoms after the shot, and a few people had problems that were listed as “adverse reactions” but probably were not […]

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Welcome to the meat of the future: lab grown meat.
No, it’ not science fiction, and it’s not tofu burger. It is growing meat from a cell similar to how scientists grow tissue cultures, but in this case, it would be taking stem cells, manipulating them to produce muscle in tissue culture, resulting in sheets of […]

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In an article posted on AOL News, an environmental group tested cats and dogs and found some had higher levels of chemicals than humans.
The analysis, released today, by the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group found levels of brominated flame retardants (used in furniture, fabrics and electronics) in cats 23 times higher than in humans, and […]

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Assalamualaikum, Islamic Greetings of Peace
Peace Tv is a household name not only in Pakistan  but also  entire Muslim world.because it has presented a convincing picture of Islam through wise talks, debates and dialogues.
Infact Ijaz ul Haq, son of late Zia ul Haq, a minister in Musharaf’s government is a big fan of Dr.  Zakir Naik. […]

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Last week, six planes coming in to land at Sydney airport have had green lasers pointed at their cockpits in what seems to be a coordinated attack, in which three or four different lasers were pointed at airplanes landing at that airport.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the attack was bad enough that they closed […]

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This is a question we should consider every election year. A “DesManCon” is a DEStructive MANipulative CONtrolling personality.
I was a mental health counselor for 25 years. Early in my career, I began noticing a disturbing personality profile I had not studied or found in any diagnostic manual. This “type” embodied traits of several unfortunate diagnoses […]

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Here in the Philippines, Ampalaya is a common vegetable for our meals, but it also has a long use in Chinese herbal medicine for diabetes. The problem is that nobody knows why it works, or if it works, but nevertheless it is one of the herbs sold over the counter here in the Philippines.
The Philippine […]

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The tainted heparin scandal widens.
An article posted on Medscape reveals:
The heparin-contamination saga is continuing, with the latest countries to recall products being France, Italy, and Denmark… the heparin medicinal products from Rotexmedica and the heparin API from Opocrin had all been manufactured using products sourced originally from China by four Chinese companies…
Meanwhile, another US heparin […]

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The silly season must be with us again, because two economists have done a study in Europe that correlates happiness with blood pressure. The higher the blood pressure, the less happy the people.
From a report on Medscape (registration required).
David G. Blanchflower, PhD (Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire) and Andrew J. Oswald, DPhil (University of Warwick, […]

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Unconfirmed reports are coming in that a group of mad and moderately drunken German scientists working at a place called the Innovationszentrum Wiesenbusch Gladbeck have not only succeeded in developing a refrigerator which has harnessed the sun’s energy to cool the little beer they seem to have left, the ammoniac-water absorption process they devised also suddenly […]

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Washington, D.C., 3/5/08—The new Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report “Going for Growth 2008” (available at www.oecd.org) confirms that Americans work more hours than Europeans. “As the saying goes, Europeans are lazy, but Americans are crazy”, said Jørgen Elmeskov, Acting Chief Economist at OECD.
The difference comes from the fewer hours that European women work, […]

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After many experts at first mistakenly assumed that the face actually belonged to that strange old fat broad neighbor lady from downstairs, Scottish forensic scientist Kate Connolly has confirmed that the face she just reconstructed in Germany is none other than the one that once belonged to the legendary and long dead baroque composer Johann […]

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It’s still on line, and it’s scary. An open threat to bomb buildings and the homes of those they consider their enemy. Yet except for a few segments on the TV show “Law and Order”, it is a topic that rarely hits the news: the ongoing threat to scientists who do research on animals so […]

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Eat your heart out, Indiana Jones – and all those others who have been searching for the Ark of the Covenant for the last 2,700 years.  It’s been found in a small museum in Harare, Zimbabwe.  “I felt a shiver down my spine… a strange sanctity seemed to shine from it…”
 
The hero who claims to […]

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“Music has charms to soothe the savage breast; to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
– William Congreve, English dramatist (1670 - 1729)
When William Congreve wrote these words into his play, “The Mourning Bride”, he was not making an anatomical reference by his use of the word “breast”. In his time, […]

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(Westminster, UK) Parliamentarians of all parties have signed early day motion 874 supporting Autism Sunday - the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. The Autism Sunday EDM was tabled in the House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster by leading parliamentarian, David Drew.
Autism Sunday, the International Day of Prayer for Autism […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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Not even the German Ministry for Consumer Protection was prepared for such shocking results, and they have been ministering to consumers for years. A study made by Germany’s Federal Institute for Food and Nutrition has determined that Germans have become lazy and overweight no-good bums, and this despite the fact that many of them have […]

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Years ago, before I went to Africa, I arranged to spend time at the Gallup Indian Hospital, doing high risk Obstetrics.
Growing up in a large city with many immigrants, I was aware of cultural differences in treating patients, so I asked the local nurses for a book that would allow me to understand Navajo culture.
They […]

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Hillary Clinton’s official campaign Web site states: “Hillary has spent her lifetime as an effective advocate for parents and children” and without a modicum of shame or irony, promises that she favors “Protecting children against violence and sexual content in the media and studying the impact of electronic media on children’s cognitive, social, and physical development.”
Hillary […]

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By Honey Gillard 

“What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does . . . the totals have grown exponentially.”
- The Washington Post 
According to the United Nations about 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of which are children. Imagine […]

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(Westminster, UK) A leading peer from the House of Lords, Baroness Pola  Uddin called on Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Secretary of State for Children, Ed Balls to set up an Autism Taskforce to look into the serious issues concerning parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. Peers also called for the taskforce […]

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On January 11th, The Washington Post ran an article about a new method of harvesting stem cells from embryos. Researchers at Advanced Cell Technologies (ACT) in Massachusetts claimed that their technique of removing only one stem cell from an eight-celled embryo should qualify them for federal funds.
The technique used by researchers is the same used by infertility clinics when conducting genetic testing […]

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A recent press release from the James Martin Center for Non Proliferation studies, at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, (http://cns.miis.edu/) lists the ten most significant proliferation related events of 2007.  (http://cns.miis.edu/cns/media/pr080108_cns_top10.pdf)
One of the events sited in the article, is the Iranian government announcement that Iran has reached a goal of having some 3000 operational centrifuges […]

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I’ve written before about the problems with the “Body Count” article published just before the US 2006 Congressional elections in Lancet. LINK LINK2
BizzyBlog has a summary if you aren’t familiar with the story: that right before the US Congressional elections, the Lancet published an article claiming a large number of deaths since the US invasion: […]

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Unable to otherwise explain why it is that German men are so tight in their spending and anxious about their economic futures even while the German economy continues to boom on without a hitch, scientists have discovered that these men cannot really help themselves because evolution wants it that way. These were German scientists doing […]

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I once worked in Winslow Arizona, where the main tourist attraction is a nearby meteor crater that they tout as the “best preserved meteor crater in the world”.
the photo is from their website, and if you ever get out there, consider a trip to the site.
It’s not as much fun as the Roswell museum, […]

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U.S. Fertility Rate Tops Among Industrialized Nations
Other Industrialized Nations Not  Reproducing
What’s Behind the American Burst of Babies? 
A stark difference between the United States and Europe.
For the first time in 35 years, the U.S. fertility rate has climbed high enough to sustain a stable population, solidifying the nation’s unique status among industrialized countries.
The overall fertility […]

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