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, Gary Kwiecinski, Ed Kosmahl,
Satya P. Chattopadhyay, Phil Yevics, or Sarah Sitoski)
Thursday, November 18th--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. Astronomers chart asteroid threat
  2. English elm 'brought by Romans'
  3. Titan moon 'geologically alive'
  4. Iraq sulphur fire breaks records
  5. Cats suffer stress, experts say
  6. Green taxes 'would hit poor most'
  7. Mozart's relatives face DNA tests
  8. Eton or the zoo?
  9. Mexico rats survive cat onslaught
  10. The New York Times > Science > Miniature People Add Extra Pieces to Evolutionary Puzzle
  11. BBC NEWS | Health | Sperm's solution to promiscuity
  12. The New York Times > Health > Long After Kinsey, Only the Brave Study Sex
  13. Yahoo! News - NASA Studying 'Rain Man's' Brain
  14. Neuronal excitability may hold key to age-related decline in learning and memory
  15. ScienCentral: Birds and Language
  16. Male Fish Producing Eggs in Potomac River
  17. Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Mouse Study Sheds Light on Nicotine's Addictive Power
  18. Brain regions activated by food craving overlap with areas implicated in drug craving
  19. news @ nature.com - California says 'yes' to stem-cell researchbreaking science news headlines
  20. Discovery Channel :: News :: Bats Sing Sexy Songs
  21. Article: Dolphins' big brains evolved in spurts | New Scientist
  22. Prescription for Trouble: Antidepressants might rewire young brains: Science News Online, Oct. 30, 2004
  23. Researchers Bowled Over by Glutamate Transporter's Elegant Architecture
  24. Taste challenge 'a state of mind'
  25.  Rover gets mystery power boost
  26. Sperm's solution to promiscuity
  27. Mars moon emerges from the dark
  28. Saturn moon may have ice volcano
  29. Solar sail craft gets launch date
  30. New claim on location of Atlantis
  31. Dolphin, Human Brain Size Not So Different
  32. Sexual Competition Drives Evolution of a Sex-Related Gene
  33. Exhumed skull tested for Mozart's DNA  - Nov 4, 2004
  34. Dinosaurs scorched to death - Oct 27, 2004
  35. What a drag! Earth warps space surrounding it - Oct 21, 2004
  36. CAncient Roman cosmetic cream found - Nov 3, 2004
  37. Mars rovers working overtime - Nov 4, 2004
  38. 'What does it mean to be human?'
  39. Spider webs untangle evolutionbreaking science news headlines
  40. Electric currents boost brain powerbreaking science news headlines
  41. Evidence that learning is consolidated during sleep
  42. Marine worm sports two kinds of 'eyes'breaking science news headlines
  43. CNN.com - Some worry evolution dispute hurts image - Nov 12, 2004
Medicine
 Top, Science, Medicine, Technology
 
  1. Red wine 'wards off lung cancer'
  2. Iraq death toll 'soared post-war'
  3. Prozac use 'risky for children'
  4. Asthma risk 'greater for smokers'
  5. Asthma risk 'fixed before birth'
  6. S Africans 'as fat as Americans'
  7. Molecule offers Alzheimer's hope
  8. Vaccine against cervical cancer
  9. Aids warning over bushmeat trade
  10. Abortion row fears over eye cure
  11. Egg Injection Boosts Fertility
  12. Girl with rare disease doesn't know pain - Nov 1, 2004
  13. ScienCentral: Caffeine Withdrawal
  14. Nicotine's Good Side: Substance curbs sepsis in mice: Science
  15.  News Online, Nov. 6, 2004
  16. Surgery on addicts halted
  17. Scientists raise concerns about second wave of 'mad cow' prion infection
  18. Excessive criers' later problems
  19. Stress impairs thinking via mania-linked enzyme
  20. Scans monitor cholesterol therapy
  21. Hospital superbug treatment hope
  22. Promiscuous 10% 'fuel sex crisis'
  23. Epilepsy drug 'lowers baby IQs'
  24. 'Ovary-arm' transplant a success
  25.  I Beg to Differ: A Diabetes Researcher Forges Her Own Path to a Cure
  26. Health | Rare meningitis 'treatment hope'
  27. Women's Health: Depression and SAD
  28. BTests may end Tutankhamen mystery
  29. Brain inflammation link to autism
  30. Large Doses of Vitamin E May Be Harmful
  31. FTC sues 6 firms over deceptive weight-loss claims
  32. Obesity tied to brain decline / Study finds 'apple shaped' seniors more likely to suffer mental loss
  33. Article: Mothers' genetic skew linked to gay sons | New Scientist
  34. Mice regrow damaged spinal cordbreaking science news headlines 
  35. Can flu vaccine be stretched? - Nov 4, 2004
  36. Nicotine dependence & psychiatric disorders
  37. Girl with rare disease doesn't know pain - Nov 1, 2004

Technology  Top, Science, Medicine, Technology
  1. BUS sues student 'song swappers'
  2. Oxford pair suspended for hacking
  3. Hitchhiker gets 1m web listeners
  4. Pandas benefit from wireless net
  5. Camera phones are 'must-haves'
  6. Joke e-mail virus tricks users
  7. Robots learn 'robotiquette' rules
  8. US rolls out most expensive jet
  9. Firefox browser takes on Microsoft
  10. US top of supercomputing charts
  11. Even Digital Memories Can Fade
  12. Microsoft seeks top search spot
  13. Search wars - which is the best?
  14. BBC News website scoops award
  15. Spinach Power Adds Muscle to Batteries
  16. What's Next: Trying to Make the Pen as Mighty as the Keyboard

     
     
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