What's News This Month
in
Science, Medicine and Technology
(a monthly brownbag series)
Bill Nye will be back
when normal programming returns
to WVIA after their fundraising campaign.
(email suggestions-questions to either Tim Cannon, Gary Kwiecinski, Ed Kosmahl, Satya P. Chattopadhyay, Phil Yevics, or Sarah Sitoski)
Thursday, December 8th, 11:30am, Brennan 205
Science, Medicine,
Technology
Science
- Undergraduate Bioethics
Journal (Can we contribute?)
- Reform
School, Contd. - How to reinvent higher education.
- Scientists Find
Fossils in Sexual Union - Yahoo! News
- NASA
discovers interstellar 'chocolate' | csmonitor.com
- 'Intersex'
Fish Found Off Calif. Coast
- Revealing
Behavior in 'Orangutan Heaven and Human Hell' - New York Times
- Philosophers
Notwithstanding, Kansas School Board Redefines Science - New York Times
- Brain
memory area modifies its 'wiring diagram' during the female cycle
- Loneliness
could be in your genes
- Discovery
Channel :: News :: Squirrel-Speak Deciphered
- Leap
second talks are postponed
- Moons
captured in ring encounter
- Reptile
fossil is 'early turtle'
- What
would it be like to live to 175?
- Glowing
meat alarms Australians
- ASU
Web Devil - Prof's studies suggest life molded from clay
- Bat
guano beats burgers for blind salamanders - For cave-dwelling
salamanders, bat droppings are part of a balanced diet.
- The
food you eat could change your genes
- Scientists
engineer mice to mimic Alzheimer's therapy
- Science
'must teach experiments'
- CO2
'highest for 650,000 years'
- Montreal
climate summit to begin
- Probe
'gathers asteroid material'
- How
coal is cleaning up its act
- Hamsters
Get the Winter Blueshttp://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051202/clf017.html?.v=33
- A
prime minister's unlucky stars - Nov 21, 2005
- Butterfly
wings work like LEDs
- Timid
Mice Made Daring by Removing One Gene
- Nobelist
Henry Taube is Dead at 89
- Enough
to Make an Iguana Turn Green: Darwin's Ideas - New York Times
- Zeroing
Out the Messenger
- Growth
hormone levels' IQ 'link'
- Creativity
determines sexual success, research suggests
- UK
stargazers enjoy 'Lucky' break
- US
rejects Blair's climate hopes
- CO2:
This time it's personal
- Radar
sees ice deep below Mars
- Study
treads on footprint claim
- Rock
marks record water scorpion
- Dopamine
blockers lead faithful voles astray
- Coffee
Boosts Short Term Memory
- Creative
people 'luckier in love'
- Radar
sees ice deep below Mars
- Ocean
changes to cool Europe
- A
sea lily
- Climate
change 'will dry Africa'
- Warm
Oceans Threaten Caribbean Coral Reefs - Los Angeles Times
- Battle
Lines Set as New York Acts to Cut Emissions
- SCI-BYTES
- What's New in Research - Year 2005
- Romantic
love 'lasts just a year'
- Dinosaurs,
evangelicals and the state
- Wiring
up the 'Victorian internet'
- The
first laugh: New study posits evolutionary origins of two distinct
types of laughter
- Einstein
equation marks 100 years
- Staff
'crisis' threatens physics
- Mass
grave yields Mayan secrets
- Researchers
Find Missing"Piece of the Pie"in Understanding Taste
- The Brontosaurus -
Monty Python's flying creationism. By William Saletan
- Report
Accuses EPA of Slanting Analysis
- In
Mongolia, an 'Extinction Crisis' Looms
- The
Claim: Never Drink on an Empty Stomach - New York Times
- The Hubris of the
Humanities
- Love like
a drug, scientists say
- Poison
gas 'caused' great dying
- India
joins nuclear fusion club
- Better
Bananas, Nicer Mosquitoes
- 'New
mammal' seen in Borneo woods
Medicine
Top, Science, Medicine,
Technology
- Cannabis drug
available in the UK
- A
Self-Effacing Scholar Is Psychiatry's Gadfly
- Brain
deficits found in relatives of autism sufferers -
Unaffected family members show characteristic abnormalities.
- Ecstasy
may damage the brain’s physical defences - Breaking News
- Why
can't the Daily Mail eat humble pie over MMR? -- Fitzpatrick 331
(7525): 1148 -- BMJ
- Light
exercise a tonic to keep the brain young
- 'Sharp'
older brains are not the same as younger brains
- Cartilage
grown from stem cells
- China
has first bird flu fatality
- Could
sneeze meters combat pandemics? - Researchers call for better ways to
identify highly infectious individuals.
- How the
NHS could learn from Sweden
- Zinc
good for children with HIV
- Cranberries
'block tooth decay'
- Olive
oil's heart effect located
- Worm
eggs may tackle inflammation
- Breastfeeding
'good for mothers'
- Crammed
orphanages have lasting effects - Neglected babies show depressed
hormones for years.
- Schizophrenics
'come off drugs'
- Decaf
coffee linked to heart risk
- Cervical
cancer risk 'lingers'
- 'Tourists'
harming India's health
- New
Scientist Breaking News - Anti-smoking drug may cut crystal meth craving
- Poisonings
From a Popular Pain Reliever Are Rising - New York Times
- Drug
disorder schizophrenia link
- Drug
'doubles' fatal crash risk
- Fruit
bats may carry Ebola virus
- Alcohol's
health benefits doubted
- Global
Warming Trends Are a Current Affair, Study Finds - Los Angeles Times
- Study:
U.S. Fisheries Discard 22% of Catch
- SUV
Sales Down Sharply
- University
cancels creationism class
- Beat
Alzheimer's with exercise - Study shows how exertion keeps brain cells
healthy in mice.
- 'Copying'
nerves broken in autism
- Hot
on Parkinson's Trail
- Coffee
reduces liver risk - Dec 5, 2005
- Obesity
stops jabs hitting target
- Woman has
first face transplant
- Gimme
an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales - New York Times
- Lifestyle
blamed for many cancers
- Breastfeeding
cuts gut disorder
- New
study is boost to homeopathy
- Roller-coasters
'can stop hearts'
- Number
with HIV 'at highest yet'
- Aids may
help spread of bird flu
- Molecule
'may offer Down's hope'
- 'New
mammal' seen in Borneo woods
Technology Top, Science, Medicine, Technology
- High-speed
college network closes
- Sony
recalls copy-protected CDs
- MIT
maps wireless users across campus
- Technology
News: Privacy : Internet Heavyweights Back Adware Whitelist Effort
- White
phosphorus: weapon on the edge
- UN
debut for $100 laptop for poor
- US
army cuts teeth on video game
- Kazaa
to install anti-piracy tool
- Clothes
of 1924 head for Everest
- Intel
deal for iPod memory chips
- Skype
adds in video to net calls
- GTX
Global Develops the First True Artificial Intelligence: Financial News
- Yahoo! Finance
- Interactive
3-D atlas of mouse brain now available on web
- Kazaa
to install anti-piracy tool
- Net
thinkers look to web's future
- Court
blow for Blackberry maker
- Classic
poets' voices go online
- Overhaul
for Firefox web browser
- Scientists
drill 'smallest holes'
- Open
media to connect communities
- Xbox
360 to kick off console wars
- America
takes world gaming crown
- Wi-fi
venture tests Philadelphia
- Data
disasters dog computer users
- Wikipedia
tightens online rules
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