What's News This Month
in
Science, Medicine and Technology
(a monthly brownbag series)
Now we have our own blog!!
If you want to suggest a link for inclusion here, please post it on the blog; we'll take care of it.
You can also post your thoughts about any What's News article on the blog.
Let's get blogging!


(email suggestions-questions to either Tim Cannon,  Satya P. Chattopadhyay, Gary Kwiecinski, Ed Kosmahl,
Declan Mulhall, Phil Yevics, or Sarah Sitoski)
Thursday, February 24th--11:30am, Brennan 205

All participants are encouraged (not required) to choose a topic (or topics)
about which they would like to facilitate a discussion.
Support materials, if needed, can be on the web or hard copy -
we have a document camera available.  We'll start
each What's News event with these facilitated discussions
before moving to our free ranging
ramblings.


Science, Medicine, Technology
Science

  1. Fuel Efficiency and the Economy
  2. Novel Bacteria in Alaskan Ice May Be 32,000 Years Old
  3. Looking for Personality in Animals, of All People
  4. The Next Einstein? Applicants Welcome
  5. NASCAR uses Leaded Gas
  6. Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon
  7. Studies Underscore Genetic Involvement in Nicotine Addiction and Aggressive Hostility
  8. Eye contact triggers threat signals in autistic children's brains
  9. Pact to curb mercury is rejected
  10. Manuscripts 'treated as fossils'
  11. Genesis crash may yield results
  12. Finger length 'key to aggression'
  13. Critics silenced by scans of hobbit skull - Comparisons with pygmies and chimps bolster new species claim.
  14. Passive smoking killing thousands
  15. Vital organs gave snakes their venom - Specific toxins evolved from tweaks to key proteins.
  16. EPA Distorted Mercury Analysis, GAO Says (washingtonpost.com)
  17. King Tut 'died from broken leg'
  18. Whale stranding cases 'increase'
  19. Experts weigh super-volcano risks
  20. Expelling mercury from science labs - Mar 6, 2005
  21. Study: Two brain systems regulate how we call for help
  22. Navy Probes Dolphin Strandings
  23. Scientists unearth early skeleton
  24. Higher levels of mercury seen polluting region
  25. Top head says keep online science exam
  26. Upper limit placed on star growth
  27. Meteor Crater formation revisited
  28. US scientist wins religion prize
  29. Bush-Backed Emissions Bill Fails to Reach Senate Floor
  30. How tunes get stuck in your head
  31. A Physicist Follows His Muse
  32. Himalayan glaciers 'melting fast'
  33. Voyager probes in funding crisis
  34. New Nasa chief set for nomination
  35. Pigs domesticated 'many times'
  36. Europe tells US: 'Come to Europa'
  37. Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens (washingtonpost.com)
  38. Same face builds trust, not lust
  39. Chicks used to create nerve cells
  40. Love at first … smell
  41. Boston University team finds link between high cholesterol and better cognitive performance
  42. The New York Times > Health > Mental Health & Behavior > Hypomanic? Absolutely. But Oh So Productive!
  43. Palm Sunday plan to save parrots
  44. Seabed Shifts Pose New Perils in Tsunami Region
  45. Study Reveals New Difference Between Sexes
  46. NASA Proposal to Reduce Spending for Aviation Research by 20% Dismays Experts
  47. Surprisingly complex behaviors appear to be 'hard-wired' in the primate brain
  48. Vanderbilt News Service: expert sources, science, arts, business, law, religion, engineering, education, politics, radio actualities
  49. Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens (washingtonpost.com)
  50. Princeton University - structure
  51. Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene
  52. New EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data (washingtonpost.com)
  53. Mars still alive, experts agree
  54. Female chromosome has X factor
  55. Genes link to alcohol consumption
  56.  'Animal free' stem cells created
  57. Lab fireball 'may be black hole'
  58. New Asian quake threat warning
  59. New row on climate 'hockey stick'
  60. Mars rover gets new lease on life - Mar 15, 2005
  61. Call to demolish polluting homes
  62. Fishy secret of why men attract
  63. GM study shows potential 'harm'
  64. Builders threaten Panama forests
  65. Spitzer sees far-off planet light
  66. You Can Run, but So Can He
  67. Picking on Einstein
  68. Face blindness runs in families
  69. Jeff Hawkins' Bold Brainstorm Unveiled
  70. Two-limbed tiptoe aids octopus camouflage - Novel underwater walk helps creatures slip away unnoticed.
  71. T. rex fossil has 'soft tissues'
  72. Why some see colours in numbers

Medicine
 Top, Science, Medicine, Technology
 
  1. Olfactory receptor cells may provide clues to psychiatric disease
  2. Left blind-spot 'gives ADHD clue'
  3. An A.L.S. Puzzle on the Soccer Field
  4. Laughter 'boosts blood vessels'
  5. A happy marriage can help mend physical wounds
  6. Testicular cancer screening hope
  7. HIV 'set to infect 90m Africans'
  8. Britain reveals flu pandemic plan
  9. Ecstasy use 'link' to depression
  10. A Pacemaker for Depression? -- Holden 2005 (303): 2 -- sciencenow
  11. Autism rises despite MMR ban in Japan
  12. Pregnant Depression Question (washingtonpost.com)
  13. Sports drinks 'dissolving teeth'
  14. Cockroaches linked to asthma risk
  15. Study suggests 'type 3 diabetes'
  16. Smoking damages foetal cell DNA
  17. Food poisoning kills 29 children - Mar 9, 2005
  18. Laughter boosts blood-vessel health - A sense of humour may improve cardiovascular response.
  19. Report: Milk alone not best for bones - Mar 7, 2005
  20. A silent killer of rural women
  21. Oiling up babies stops infection
  22.  'Hot' treatment option for cancer
  23. Stroke Warning Signs Often Occur Hours or Days before Attack
  24. Beyond Balco: After a Young Athlete's Suicide, Steroids Are Called the Culprit
  25. Women 'too meek' over men snoring
  26. Stomach bug's secrets uncovered
  27. 'Obese' man sues over 55lb tumour
  28. 'Right-to-life' baby 'improving'
  29.  Korean dish 'may cure bird flu'
  30. Experts fear soaring cancer rate
  31. Crohn's 'mistaken for anorexia'
  32. Virginity pledges do not reduce STD risk: May encourage high risk sexual behavior
  33. College Alcohol Problems Exceed Previous Estimates, March 17, 2005 Press Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  34. Yahoo! News - Possible Mercury, Autism Connection Found in Study
  35. CNN.com - Baby at center of life support case dies - Mar 15, 2005
  36. New Scientist Breaking News - Women more affected by binge drinking
  37. Laughter's Link to Health May Be in the Blood (washingtonpost.com)
  38. Alzheimer's plaques imaged in living brains
  39. Scanners 'can treat depression'
  40. Compound to cut fatty food risk
  41. Cooking chemical 'no cancer risk'
  42. Obesity 'could cut US life spans'
  43. Under 18s 'shouldn't use sunbeds'
  44. Citizens' Group Wants Hyperactivity Drug Taken Off the Market
  45. Fish oil holds promise in Alzheimer's fight
  46. Pharmacists' Rights at Front Of New Debate (washingtonpost.com)
  47. Superbug kills two-day-old baby
  48. BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Less exercise is 'just as good'



Technology  Top, Science, Medicine, Technology
  1. Yahoo celebrates a decade online
  2. Creator of first Apple Mac dies
  3. Digital radios outstrip analogue
  4. Fossett launches record attempt  
  5. Hotspot users gain free net calls
  6. BBC leads interactive Bafta wins
  7. Pupil tormented by video bullies
  8. Ultra fast wi-fi nears completion
  9. SpaceShipOne retires to museum
  10. Fossett sets solo flight record
  11. Nokia halts mobile fuel cell plan
  12. Software legend joins Microsoft
  13. Ante Up at Dear Old Princeton: Online Poker Is a Campus Draw
  14. Tax collector employs technology to snare deadbeats - Mar 9, 2005
  15. Thai king aims high over drought
  16. Have hackers recruited your PC?
  17. Revolutionary bike 'too quiet'
  18. IE 'Unsafe' 98 Percent Of 2004, Says ScanIT > March 25, 2005
  19. Sony answers PSP dead-pixel gripes | CNET News.com
  20. Sony PSP handheld console hits US
  21. How BlackBerry conquered the world - Mar 23, 2005

Top, Science, Medicine, Technology