//////////////////WELLNESS How to eat less when snackingDon't take the whole box of crackers (or container of other snacks) with you to the computer desk for a pre-meal snack. Instead take a handful and return if you're still hungry. You'll eat much less than if you had taken them all with you in the first place.
//////////////////////COOKING How to make broccoli taste goodRight after I married my wife, she got me to try ketchup on my broccoli. I thought it sounded repulsive, but I agreed to try it once. It was so delicious that I've been eating steamed broccoli that way ever since - including tonight!
////////////////////Happily Marrieds Have Lower Blood Pressure than Social SinglesHappily married adults have lower blood pressure than singles with supportive social networks. Both men and women in happy marriages scored four points lower on 24-hour blood pressure than single adults. Having supportive friends did not translate into improved blood pressure for singles or unhappily marrieds. (Embargo expired on 20-Mar-2008 at 00:00 ET)Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 20-Mar-2008—Brigham Young University
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//////////////Dairy Products Consumed by Children Too High in Fat? A study published in the November 2007 issue of The Journal of Pediatrics looks at children's dairy intake.
///////////////Autism and Vaccine Link On March 6, a federal court granted compensation to a Georgia girl because she developed autism-like symptoms after receiving childhood vaccines in 2000. Officials did not say the vaccines caused autism; rather, they concluded the vaccines aggravated a preexisting condition. Do you agree or disagree with the court's decision to award compensation?
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////////////////Symptom Profile of Common Colds in School-Aged Children The common cold in school-aged children is characterized by nasal congestion, cough, and runny nose. Signs and symptoms usually continue for at least 10 days.
//////////////////CME Cognitive and Neuromotor Impairments Seen at 5 Years in Children Born Preterm Results from a study show that in children born before 33 weeks' gestation, cognitive and neuromotor impairments by 5 years of age increase with decreasing gestational age.
//////////////////Topical Emollients Improve Survival of Very Premature Neonates Skin barrier therapy in the form of topical application of sunflower seed oil or Aquaphor reduces mortality in very premature neonates in hospital settings, according to results of a study from Bangladesh.Reuters Health Information 2008
////////////////////Apnea After Immunization Predictable in Some Hospitalized Neonates Multiple factors, including severity of illness, predict apnea following immunization in hospitalized infants, researchers report in the March issue of Pediatrics.Reuters Health Information 2008
//////////////////New Research Confirms Childhood Stroke More Common in Boys Two large studies into childhood stroke confirm earlier findings from smaller studies that stroke is more common in boys.
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//////////////////////Oxygen Therapy for Hospitalized Infants With Bronchiolitis Determines LOS Oxygen supplementation is the prime determinant of the length of stay (LOS) for infants hospitalized with acute viral bronchiolitis, Scottish researchers report in the March issue of Pediatrics.Reuters Health Information 2008
///////////////////Court Ruling Does Not Confirm Autism-Vaccine Link, CDC Says Federal health officials said on Thursday the government has not conceded that vaccines cause autism even after a Georgia girl won federal compensation in a case arguing a vaccine led to her autistic condition.
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//////////////////AMJ=Exactly 150 years ago, a hot summer and the effluent from growing numbers of water closets reduced the river Thames in London to what was publicly termed a 'great stink'. Today, at least one-sixth of the world's population lives in slums and shanty-towns as unhealthy as those in Britain's 19th-century towns and cities, with similar health and social problems.http://abcmail.net.au/t/111460/603940/2381/0/
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Quantum entanglement is a strange telepathic link which allows particles to influence each other's properties. Some have suggested the power travels at millions of times the speed of light. The notion defies our idea of common sense. Einstein dismissed the theory as too spooky to be real. But entanglement is more than just a product of the equations of quantum theory. It exists and plays a part in the real world. It is at the forefront of a technological revolution. It can be used in encrypting information. It is unbreakable. The race is on to bring quantum cryptography to a worldwide market. It will be used to protect financial transactions and information flow. It will be used to drive quantum computers. Michael Brooks's book, Entanglement is a thriller based on the power of entanglement falling into the wrong hands.
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This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and occasional difficulty in identifying speakers.
Robyn Williams: Physics can be really mind-boggling. Try Entanglement. That's both a concept in physics and the title of a gripping novel by Michael Brooks. If you think solid light is a worry, entanglement is beyond belief.
Michael Brooks: Around five years ago a researcher called Nicolas Gisin performed a strange experiment in the mountains of Switzerland. He and his team sent million of photons, the quantum particles of light, whizzing through optical fibres between two villages 11 kilometres apart. The photons travelled at the speed of light which, according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, is supposed to be the fastest anything can move through the universe. However, the photons were connected via a phenomenon called quantum entanglement, a strange almost telepathic link that allows particles to influence each other's properties. Gisin measured how fast that influence travelled and clocked it at least 10 million times the speed of light.
Quantum entanglement defies all our notions of common sense. When you entangle a pair of particles by letting them interact, all the information about those two particles-their size, their momentum, their electrical charge or whatever-no longer resides on one or the other, it lives in both of them, which means they can continue to affect each other no matter how far apart they are. Even if you send one of an entangled pair of particles to the other side of the universe, you can still tweak that particle's properties instantaneously by tweaking the particle you hold in your hand. It is almost like having a remote control for the universe.
Einstein hated the idea of entanglement. Even though experiments have shown that it doesn't pass information at more than the speed of light and so it doesn't strictly contravene relativity, it was nevertheless too strange for him, belonging more to the realm of magic and fairytales than to science. He dismissed it as too spooky to be real. Though it was a product of the equations of quantum theory, he felt it showed there must be something wrong with the theory. Unfortunately Einstein died before experiments showed that entanglement was more than just an artefact of quantum equations. It does exist, and it plays an important role in the real world.
Entanglement is actually everywhere. Any two subatomic particles that interact in some way become entangled, sharing that spooky link. When you see light coming from a faraway star, for instance, the photon, the particle of light, is almost certainly still entangled with the atoms way up there in the star that emitted it. Next time you look up at the heavens you can marvel at your spooky link with the stars too; when your eye absorbs the energy of that starlight you become, in some small way, linked in with the distant constellations.
The constant interactions between electrons and the atoms that make up your body mean that you yourself are a mass of entanglements. In fact it might even explain why you are alive while the chair you are sitting on is not. The physicist Paul Davies has suggested that a better understanding of quantum entanglement might help us work out what it means for something to be alive, something that biologists are still struggling to understand.
Quantum entanglement is not just about esoteric and strange wonderings about the nature of life or our links with the universe however. It is also at the forefront of a technological revolution. Gisin, for instance, is now working with a Melbourne-based technology company called Senetas to put entanglement to work as a means of encrypting data. At the end of last year, this Swiss-Australian collaboration made entanglement's first real-world contribution to data protection when it used quantum entanglement to lock down the security of the Swiss national elections. The elections were protected by a technology called quantum cryptography where information is transmitted securely in photons of light that have been entangled together. It is an unbreakable encryption because it is rather like putting a seal on a document. The only way to read the information is to disturb the entanglement, and any such tampering is, like a broken seal, immediately obvious.
After their success in Switzerland, Nicolas Gisin's company, id Quantique, is now working with Senetas to bring Quantum encryption to a worldwide market. They face stiff competition in this. Companies all over the world are trying to exploit quantum entanglement for data security. Plans are afoot to use this same idea to protect data and therefore money in electronic bank transfers, for example. US government researchers are going a step further. They have sent entangled photons for quantum cryptography into space to reprogram a satellite without anyone being able to eavesdrop on the transmission.
The US government has a very good reason to be so interested in quantum cryptography, it is the only kind of encryption that can withstand an attack by the other technological revolution that entanglement brings; the quantum computer. Quantum computers use entanglement between atoms to perform incredibly fast number crunching. In the quantum world an atom can be used to encode several different numbers at once, and if you entangle enough atoms together you increase that power exponentially. Entangle together just 250 atoms and you can simultaneously encode more numbers than there are atoms in the entire universe. So quantum computing with even a modest number of entangled atoms can be like having several thousand computers working together on a problem. The world's most secret codes are only secret because it requires too much computing power to crack them. When the quantum computer fulfils its potential, these codes will be extremely vulnerable to attack.
Building a truly powerful quantum computer is fraught with difficulties, but Australian researchers are at the centre of one of the most impressive and promising efforts. That's because, in 1988, University of NSW researcher Bruce Kane had a brilliant idea. Kane bypassed all the laborious efforts to use exotic new tools to bring the quantum computer to life, showing instead that techniques currently used to make normal computers could be harnessed to make a quantum version. Overnight, building a quantum computer became a plausible idea.
Within a year of Kane's proposal being published, the Australian government had put millions of dollars into establishing the Australian Centre for Quantum Technology, now led by Robert Clark of UNSW. Making Kane's idea work is not easy but the project is still leading the race to make the first quantum computer. Just now quantum computers are at a very early stage of development and not particularly threatening in their code-cracking abilities. However, the machines of the future will be very impressive indeed and very threatening if, like the US government, you have secrets that you want to keep safe. The threat would be especially serious if the technology should fall into the wrong hands, a scenario that is not beyond the realms of possibility.
Shortly after Kane published his paper, I was at a meeting at the European Union headquarters in Brussels. Senior administrators were trying to decide how much money Europe should be putting into quantum computing research. In order to work this out they were asking a series of questions, such as how far the Americans have got with quantum technology. Their final question was rather more unexpected. 'Is there,' they asked, 'any mafia involvement?' The possibility hadn't occurred to me until then but when the question was raised I was suddenly aware what was at stake. The idea of cracking government codes would surely be of enormous interest to those who wanted to sell military secrets, say, or hack coastguard communications in order to send shipments of narcotics around the world.
And that was the point at which my novel Entanglement was born. The premise comes right from Kane's breakthrough; what if someone out of the blue showed you how to make a code-cracking quantum computer and then disappeared? It wouldn't be long before people were knocking at your door. You'd just have to hope that it wasn't the organised crime syndicates that got to you first.
The first truly powerful quantum computer has yet to be built, as far as we know. But the fact that quantum technology is now being pursued by governments shows how far we have come since Einstein dismissed entanglement as nothing more than 'spooky' half a century ago. Entanglement is very weird, yes, but it's also very real. Sometimes even the greatest minds get it wrong.
Robyn Williams: Michael Brooks writes about physics for New Scientist magazine. His novel Entanglement is both a thriller awash with blood and a quantum physics primer.
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//////////////Dairy Products Consumed by Children Too High in Fat? A study published in the November 2007 issue of The Journal of Pediatrics looks at children's dairy intake.
///////////////Autism and Vaccine Link On March 6, a federal court granted compensation to a Georgia girl because she developed autism-like symptoms after receiving childhood vaccines in 2000. Officials did not say the vaccines caused autism; rather, they concluded the vaccines aggravated a preexisting condition. Do you agree or disagree with the court's decision to award compensation?
////////////////TRASH AND CASH
////////////////Symptom Profile of Common Colds in School-Aged Children The common cold in school-aged children is characterized by nasal congestion, cough, and runny nose. Signs and symptoms usually continue for at least 10 days.
//////////////////CME Cognitive and Neuromotor Impairments Seen at 5 Years in Children Born Preterm Results from a study show that in children born before 33 weeks' gestation, cognitive and neuromotor impairments by 5 years of age increase with decreasing gestational age.
//////////////////Topical Emollients Improve Survival of Very Premature Neonates Skin barrier therapy in the form of topical application of sunflower seed oil or Aquaphor reduces mortality in very premature neonates in hospital settings, according to results of a study from Bangladesh.Reuters Health Information 2008
////////////////////Apnea After Immunization Predictable in Some Hospitalized Neonates Multiple factors, including severity of illness, predict apnea following immunization in hospitalized infants, researchers report in the March issue of Pediatrics.Reuters Health Information 2008
//////////////////New Research Confirms Childhood Stroke More Common in Boys Two large studies into childhood stroke confirm earlier findings from smaller studies that stroke is more common in boys.
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//////////////////////Oxygen Therapy for Hospitalized Infants With Bronchiolitis Determines LOS Oxygen supplementation is the prime determinant of the length of stay (LOS) for infants hospitalized with acute viral bronchiolitis, Scottish researchers report in the March issue of Pediatrics.Reuters Health Information 2008
///////////////////Court Ruling Does Not Confirm Autism-Vaccine Link, CDC Says Federal health officials said on Thursday the government has not conceded that vaccines cause autism even after a Georgia girl won federal compensation in a case arguing a vaccine led to her autistic condition.
/////////////////80% HMLESS IN LNDN DRG USRS?
////////////////////HS CRSS-TTP2
//////////////////AMJ=Exactly 150 years ago, a hot summer and the effluent from growing numbers of water closets reduced the river Thames in London to what was publicly termed a 'great stink'. Today, at least one-sixth of the world's population lives in slums and shanty-towns as unhealthy as those in Britain's 19th-century towns and cities, with similar health and social problems.http://abcmail.net.au/t/111460/603940/2381/0/
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//////////////////METHADONE OD-ODAD
/////////////////5000 MAMMAL SPECIES THERE
//////////////////IN WILD,MORE SLEEP MORE CHANCE OF SURVIVAL AND PASS ON GENES
/////////////////ABC=Quantum entanglement
Listen Now - 15032008 Download Audio - 15032008
Quantum entanglement is a strange telepathic link which allows particles to influence each other's properties. Some have suggested the power travels at millions of times the speed of light. The notion defies our idea of common sense. Einstein dismissed the theory as too spooky to be real. But entanglement is more than just a product of the equations of quantum theory. It exists and plays a part in the real world. It is at the forefront of a technological revolution. It can be used in encrypting information. It is unbreakable. The race is on to bring quantum cryptography to a worldwide market. It will be used to protect financial transactions and information flow. It will be used to drive quantum computers. Michael Brooks's book, Entanglement is a thriller based on the power of entanglement falling into the wrong hands.
Show Transcript
Transcript
This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and occasional difficulty in identifying speakers.
Robyn Williams: Physics can be really mind-boggling. Try Entanglement. That's both a concept in physics and the title of a gripping novel by Michael Brooks. If you think solid light is a worry, entanglement is beyond belief.
Michael Brooks: Around five years ago a researcher called Nicolas Gisin performed a strange experiment in the mountains of Switzerland. He and his team sent million of photons, the quantum particles of light, whizzing through optical fibres between two villages 11 kilometres apart. The photons travelled at the speed of light which, according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, is supposed to be the fastest anything can move through the universe. However, the photons were connected via a phenomenon called quantum entanglement, a strange almost telepathic link that allows particles to influence each other's properties. Gisin measured how fast that influence travelled and clocked it at least 10 million times the speed of light.
Quantum entanglement defies all our notions of common sense. When you entangle a pair of particles by letting them interact, all the information about those two particles-their size, their momentum, their electrical charge or whatever-no longer resides on one or the other, it lives in both of them, which means they can continue to affect each other no matter how far apart they are. Even if you send one of an entangled pair of particles to the other side of the universe, you can still tweak that particle's properties instantaneously by tweaking the particle you hold in your hand. It is almost like having a remote control for the universe.
Einstein hated the idea of entanglement. Even though experiments have shown that it doesn't pass information at more than the speed of light and so it doesn't strictly contravene relativity, it was nevertheless too strange for him, belonging more to the realm of magic and fairytales than to science. He dismissed it as too spooky to be real. Though it was a product of the equations of quantum theory, he felt it showed there must be something wrong with the theory. Unfortunately Einstein died before experiments showed that entanglement was more than just an artefact of quantum equations. It does exist, and it plays an important role in the real world.
Entanglement is actually everywhere. Any two subatomic particles that interact in some way become entangled, sharing that spooky link. When you see light coming from a faraway star, for instance, the photon, the particle of light, is almost certainly still entangled with the atoms way up there in the star that emitted it. Next time you look up at the heavens you can marvel at your spooky link with the stars too; when your eye absorbs the energy of that starlight you become, in some small way, linked in with the distant constellations.
The constant interactions between electrons and the atoms that make up your body mean that you yourself are a mass of entanglements. In fact it might even explain why you are alive while the chair you are sitting on is not. The physicist Paul Davies has suggested that a better understanding of quantum entanglement might help us work out what it means for something to be alive, something that biologists are still struggling to understand.
Quantum entanglement is not just about esoteric and strange wonderings about the nature of life or our links with the universe however. It is also at the forefront of a technological revolution. Gisin, for instance, is now working with a Melbourne-based technology company called Senetas to put entanglement to work as a means of encrypting data. At the end of last year, this Swiss-Australian collaboration made entanglement's first real-world contribution to data protection when it used quantum entanglement to lock down the security of the Swiss national elections. The elections were protected by a technology called quantum cryptography where information is transmitted securely in photons of light that have been entangled together. It is an unbreakable encryption because it is rather like putting a seal on a document. The only way to read the information is to disturb the entanglement, and any such tampering is, like a broken seal, immediately obvious.
After their success in Switzerland, Nicolas Gisin's company, id Quantique, is now working with Senetas to bring Quantum encryption to a worldwide market. They face stiff competition in this. Companies all over the world are trying to exploit quantum entanglement for data security. Plans are afoot to use this same idea to protect data and therefore money in electronic bank transfers, for example. US government researchers are going a step further. They have sent entangled photons for quantum cryptography into space to reprogram a satellite without anyone being able to eavesdrop on the transmission.
The US government has a very good reason to be so interested in quantum cryptography, it is the only kind of encryption that can withstand an attack by the other technological revolution that entanglement brings; the quantum computer. Quantum computers use entanglement between atoms to perform incredibly fast number crunching. In the quantum world an atom can be used to encode several different numbers at once, and if you entangle enough atoms together you increase that power exponentially. Entangle together just 250 atoms and you can simultaneously encode more numbers than there are atoms in the entire universe. So quantum computing with even a modest number of entangled atoms can be like having several thousand computers working together on a problem. The world's most secret codes are only secret because it requires too much computing power to crack them. When the quantum computer fulfils its potential, these codes will be extremely vulnerable to attack.
Building a truly powerful quantum computer is fraught with difficulties, but Australian researchers are at the centre of one of the most impressive and promising efforts. That's because, in 1988, University of NSW researcher Bruce Kane had a brilliant idea. Kane bypassed all the laborious efforts to use exotic new tools to bring the quantum computer to life, showing instead that techniques currently used to make normal computers could be harnessed to make a quantum version. Overnight, building a quantum computer became a plausible idea.
Within a year of Kane's proposal being published, the Australian government had put millions of dollars into establishing the Australian Centre for Quantum Technology, now led by Robert Clark of UNSW. Making Kane's idea work is not easy but the project is still leading the race to make the first quantum computer. Just now quantum computers are at a very early stage of development and not particularly threatening in their code-cracking abilities. However, the machines of the future will be very impressive indeed and very threatening if, like the US government, you have secrets that you want to keep safe. The threat would be especially serious if the technology should fall into the wrong hands, a scenario that is not beyond the realms of possibility.
Shortly after Kane published his paper, I was at a meeting at the European Union headquarters in Brussels. Senior administrators were trying to decide how much money Europe should be putting into quantum computing research. In order to work this out they were asking a series of questions, such as how far the Americans have got with quantum technology. Their final question was rather more unexpected. 'Is there,' they asked, 'any mafia involvement?' The possibility hadn't occurred to me until then but when the question was raised I was suddenly aware what was at stake. The idea of cracking government codes would surely be of enormous interest to those who wanted to sell military secrets, say, or hack coastguard communications in order to send shipments of narcotics around the world.
And that was the point at which my novel Entanglement was born. The premise comes right from Kane's breakthrough; what if someone out of the blue showed you how to make a code-cracking quantum computer and then disappeared? It wouldn't be long before people were knocking at your door. You'd just have to hope that it wasn't the organised crime syndicates that got to you first.
The first truly powerful quantum computer has yet to be built, as far as we know. But the fact that quantum technology is now being pursued by governments shows how far we have come since Einstein dismissed entanglement as nothing more than 'spooky' half a century ago. Entanglement is very weird, yes, but it's also very real. Sometimes even the greatest minds get it wrong.
Robyn Williams: Michael Brooks writes about physics for New Scientist magazine. His novel Entanglement is both a thriller awash with blood and a quantum physics primer.
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Monday, 17 March 2008
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Severe Respiratory Infections Associated With Proton Pump Inhibitors
MONTREAL (EGMN) - The association of proton pump inhibitors with an increased risk of severe respiratory infections is dramatically pronounced in the first 2 weeks of drug therapy, according to a new study.
However, the reasons for this particularly high risk are not clear, Dr. Laura Targownik said at Canadian Digestive Diseases Week. “I reported the data because they are very dramatic, but the question remains, is it a protopathic effect?” she said in an interview, describing the possibility that patients’ early symptoms of pneumonia might mimic gastro-oesophageal reflux and prompt a prescription for a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). “Then they go on to develop obvious pneumonia, but the PPI actually played no role in it,” said Dr. Targownik of the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
////////////////Reclaiming the Aral Seaby Philip Micklin and Nikolay V. AladinRecklessly starving the world's fourth-largest lake to irrigate crops turned rich waters into a barren wasteland. Now the northern part, at least, is coming back
////////////////////The Doping Dilemmaby Michael ShermerGame theory helps to explain the pervasive abuse of drugs in cycling, baseball and other sports
///////////////////sci am=The Colors Of Plants On Other Worldsby Nancy K. KiangOn other worlds, plants could be red, blue, even black
///////////////////High cholesterol and memory loss
Memory loss is a common complaint among people as they age. Roughly one in ten older Americans are mentally impaired, with symptoms ranging from mild memory problems to severe dementia. Many people want to know -- is there a way to keep my mind sharp and healthy?
Scientists now believe that lowering your cholesterol may be part of the answer, at least for women. While cholesterol has long been associated with heart disease, researchers in California have found that women who have gone through menopause and have high cholesterol levels may be more likely to suffer from dementia and mental sluggishness than those with normal cholesterol levels.
////////////////////We all worry about the security of our homes, especially when we have a family to take care of. How do we make our homes as threat-proof as possible without turning it into Fort Knox? Obviously, nobody wants to live in a prison, but is there anyway of making your home completely safe from all intruders? The answer to this question is quite obviously a no! If someone wants to get into your home, they will do, but there are many ways and means of ensuring that your home is as protected as it can be and also for ensuring that it doesn't look like an easy target. Intruders look for homes that appear vulnerable. If you have an open window or gate, or valuables in full view of anyone that happens to pass by, you are increasing the dangers of your home security being breached. One way in which you can repel any intruders is by having a clearly visible alarm fitted to the front and back of your home. You can get some great bummy?alarms that are less costly than full home security systems, but still look like the real thing. It just means that it isn't worth the intruder breaking in to find out whether or not it is real! More on Protect your home with Home Security System
//////////////////Best time to buy gasBuy gas early in the morning or late in the evening on weekdays. Gas stations tend to change their prices between 10 a.m. and noon, so buy gas early morning if gas prices are on the rise. Go later in the day if prices are falling. Try not to buy gas on weekends because gas prices are often slightly higher, as stations try to profit from leisure travelers.
///////////////////Eating Yogurt on a Low-Carb DietIt seems as though it should be simple: Read the label and there's the carb count. Or even, knowing that yogurt is just milk with bacteria added, figuring that plain yogurt should have the same amount of carbohydrate as the milk is was made from. This makes perfect sense, but it turns out to be wrong. There are some surprises when it comes to yogurt and carbs.
//////////////////////NIST Creates Perpetual Motion ... But Only for 10 SecondsMichael Asher (Blog) - December 3, 2007 11:09 AM
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(a) In a donut, shaped, or “toroidal” trap, atoms mostly exist in a red ring and do not reside in the center (blue region), which represents an energy hill they cannot climb. (b) Image of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in the donut trap. (c) When there is no fluid flow around the donut and the trap is turned off, atoms (red) rush to the center. (d) When fluid flows around the donut and the trap is turned off, the current around the donut persists and does not rush to fill the hole. (Source: NIST)"Practical" applications still years away for perpetual motion
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, in conjunction with the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute, created a short-lived "proof of concept" of perpetual motion. Using an exotic type of matter known as a Bose Einstein condensate, or BEC, the team demonstrated true perpetual motion. Though the state persisted only ten seconds, team members say it will one day lead to real-world applications.
The so-called "fifth state of matter," Bose Einstein condensates were predicted as early as 1925, but it took 70 years to demonstrate them in a laboratory setting. They form when matter is cooled to the point that the atoms collapse to the lowest energy state, allowing quantum effects to manifest on a macroscopic scale. BECs, also known as "superfluids," have a number of strange properties, such as a total lack of any form of friction and the ability to spontaneously flow out of an open container.
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Cooking Healthy Part 3: Brewing Tea
As an outspoken proponent of tea, I have long encouraged coffee drinkers to switch to green tea for its heart-health benefits: green tea polyphenols help protect the heart by lowering cholesterol and improving fat metabolism.Try an electric kettle
/////////////////////Blueberries, Exercise and Your Brain
By Staff Writer Maggie SpilnerA new study shows that the combination of exercise and epicatechin, a compound found in blueberries, tea and other foods, is your best bet for keeping your mind sharp as you get older.
///////////////////Phytosterols Lower Cholesterol
By Staff Writer Carey RossiNew research shows that taking phytosterols can reduce your LDL cholesterol levels, even if your diet contains foods high in cholesterol.
////////////////////Magic Beans for Breast Health?
By Staff Writer Carey RossiMore research shows that the isoflavones found in soy can reduce a woman's risk of developing breast cancer and improve overall breast health.
/////////////////Reduce Your Body Fat with Fish Oil
By Staff Writer Gale Maleskey, MS, RDFish oil can help you lose body fat, even if you don't change your diet! A new study finds that fish oil can do this among a multitude of things for your health.> Read More
///////////////////Green Tea Better than Coffee for Diabetics
By Staff Writer Gale Maleskey, MS, RDResearch shows that green tea may help prevent and control diabetes symptoms by improving insulin sensitivity and stabilizing blood sugar.> Read More
/////////////////// new discovery could change future diagnosis and therapy of depression
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered that a change in the location of a protein in the brain could serve as a biomarker for depression, allowing a simple, rapid, laboratory test to identify patients with depression and to determine whether a particular antidepressant therapy will provide a successful response.
The research is published in the March 12 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
"This test could serve to predict the efficacy of antidepressant therapy quickly, within four to five days, sparing patients the agony of waiting a month or more to find out if they are on the correct therapeutic regimen," said Mark Rasenick, UIC distinguished university professor of physiology and biophysics and psychiatry.
Despite decades of research, the biological basis of depression is unknown, and the molecular and cellular targets of antidepressant treatment remain elusive, although it is likely that these drugs have one or more primary targets.
Rasenick said the discovery could help millions who suffer from undiagnosed depression or receive unsuccessful treatment.
"We discovered that in depressed individuals a signaling protein is located in specific areas of the cell membrane called lipid rafts," he said. This protein, called Gs alpha, activates adenylyl cyclase, a link in signal transduction, and is responsible for the action of neurotransmitters such as serotonin.
////////////////////Specialized natural killer cells in human tonsils pack a punchTonsils are a source of sore throats and an excuse for ice cream. But they also provide an important protective service, their immune-cell-rich tissue acting as the body's first defense against the germs about to be swallowed or inhaled. Researchers have known that tonsils are packed with B cells, which flag invaders for other cells to attack. But a new study by Rockefeller University scientists shows that tonsils also house a different, very specialized cell that helps protect against the Epstein Barr virus (EBV).
////////////////Soy compound may halt spread of prostate cancerA compound found in soybeans almost completely prevented the spread of human prostate cancer in mice
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Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.(Michael Shanks)
///////////////////HAPPY PI DAY: March 14th (3.14) is day and all around the world mathematicians are celebrating this compelling and mysterious constant of Nature. Pi appears in equations describing the orbits of planets, the colors of auroras, the structure of DNA. It's everywhere.Humans have been struggling to calculate Pi for thousands of years. Divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter; the ratio is Pi. Sounds simple, but the devil is in the digits. While the value of Pi is finite (a smidgen more than 3), the decimal number is infinitely long:3.14159265358979323 846264338327950288419716939937510 58209749445923078164062862089986280 3482534211706. ..More at http://www.geom. uiuc.edu/ %7Ehuberty/ math5337/ groupe/digits. htmlSupercomputers have succeeded in calculating more than 200 billion digits and they're still crunching. [NOTE: So far Pi does not contain any repeat sequences.]The weirdest way to compute : throw needles at a table or frozen hot dogs on the floor. Party time!
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MONTREAL (EGMN) - The association of proton pump inhibitors with an increased risk of severe respiratory infections is dramatically pronounced in the first 2 weeks of drug therapy, according to a new study.
However, the reasons for this particularly high risk are not clear, Dr. Laura Targownik said at Canadian Digestive Diseases Week. “I reported the data because they are very dramatic, but the question remains, is it a protopathic effect?” she said in an interview, describing the possibility that patients’ early symptoms of pneumonia might mimic gastro-oesophageal reflux and prompt a prescription for a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). “Then they go on to develop obvious pneumonia, but the PPI actually played no role in it,” said Dr. Targownik of the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
////////////////Reclaiming the Aral Seaby Philip Micklin and Nikolay V. AladinRecklessly starving the world's fourth-largest lake to irrigate crops turned rich waters into a barren wasteland. Now the northern part, at least, is coming back
////////////////////The Doping Dilemmaby Michael ShermerGame theory helps to explain the pervasive abuse of drugs in cycling, baseball and other sports
///////////////////sci am=The Colors Of Plants On Other Worldsby Nancy K. KiangOn other worlds, plants could be red, blue, even black
///////////////////High cholesterol and memory loss
Memory loss is a common complaint among people as they age. Roughly one in ten older Americans are mentally impaired, with symptoms ranging from mild memory problems to severe dementia. Many people want to know -- is there a way to keep my mind sharp and healthy?
Scientists now believe that lowering your cholesterol may be part of the answer, at least for women. While cholesterol has long been associated with heart disease, researchers in California have found that women who have gone through menopause and have high cholesterol levels may be more likely to suffer from dementia and mental sluggishness than those with normal cholesterol levels.
////////////////////We all worry about the security of our homes, especially when we have a family to take care of. How do we make our homes as threat-proof as possible without turning it into Fort Knox? Obviously, nobody wants to live in a prison, but is there anyway of making your home completely safe from all intruders? The answer to this question is quite obviously a no! If someone wants to get into your home, they will do, but there are many ways and means of ensuring that your home is as protected as it can be and also for ensuring that it doesn't look like an easy target. Intruders look for homes that appear vulnerable. If you have an open window or gate, or valuables in full view of anyone that happens to pass by, you are increasing the dangers of your home security being breached. One way in which you can repel any intruders is by having a clearly visible alarm fitted to the front and back of your home. You can get some great bummy?alarms that are less costly than full home security systems, but still look like the real thing. It just means that it isn't worth the intruder breaking in to find out whether or not it is real! More on Protect your home with Home Security System
//////////////////Best time to buy gasBuy gas early in the morning or late in the evening on weekdays. Gas stations tend to change their prices between 10 a.m. and noon, so buy gas early morning if gas prices are on the rise. Go later in the day if prices are falling. Try not to buy gas on weekends because gas prices are often slightly higher, as stations try to profit from leisure travelers.
///////////////////Eating Yogurt on a Low-Carb DietIt seems as though it should be simple: Read the label and there's the carb count. Or even, knowing that yogurt is just milk with bacteria added, figuring that plain yogurt should have the same amount of carbohydrate as the milk is was made from. This makes perfect sense, but it turns out to be wrong. There are some surprises when it comes to yogurt and carbs.
//////////////////////NIST Creates Perpetual Motion ... But Only for 10 SecondsMichael Asher (Blog) - December 3, 2007 11:09 AM
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(a) In a donut, shaped, or “toroidal” trap, atoms mostly exist in a red ring and do not reside in the center (blue region), which represents an energy hill they cannot climb. (b) Image of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in the donut trap. (c) When there is no fluid flow around the donut and the trap is turned off, atoms (red) rush to the center. (d) When fluid flows around the donut and the trap is turned off, the current around the donut persists and does not rush to fill the hole. (Source: NIST)"Practical" applications still years away for perpetual motion
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, in conjunction with the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute, created a short-lived "proof of concept" of perpetual motion. Using an exotic type of matter known as a Bose Einstein condensate, or BEC, the team demonstrated true perpetual motion. Though the state persisted only ten seconds, team members say it will one day lead to real-world applications.
The so-called "fifth state of matter," Bose Einstein condensates were predicted as early as 1925, but it took 70 years to demonstrate them in a laboratory setting. They form when matter is cooled to the point that the atoms collapse to the lowest energy state, allowing quantum effects to manifest on a macroscopic scale. BECs, also known as "superfluids," have a number of strange properties, such as a total lack of any form of friction and the ability to spontaneously flow out of an open container.
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Cooking Healthy Part 3: Brewing Tea
As an outspoken proponent of tea, I have long encouraged coffee drinkers to switch to green tea for its heart-health benefits: green tea polyphenols help protect the heart by lowering cholesterol and improving fat metabolism.Try an electric kettle
/////////////////////Blueberries, Exercise and Your Brain
By Staff Writer Maggie SpilnerA new study shows that the combination of exercise and epicatechin, a compound found in blueberries, tea and other foods, is your best bet for keeping your mind sharp as you get older.
///////////////////Phytosterols Lower Cholesterol
By Staff Writer Carey RossiNew research shows that taking phytosterols can reduce your LDL cholesterol levels, even if your diet contains foods high in cholesterol.
////////////////////Magic Beans for Breast Health?
By Staff Writer Carey RossiMore research shows that the isoflavones found in soy can reduce a woman's risk of developing breast cancer and improve overall breast health.
/////////////////Reduce Your Body Fat with Fish Oil
By Staff Writer Gale Maleskey, MS, RDFish oil can help you lose body fat, even if you don't change your diet! A new study finds that fish oil can do this among a multitude of things for your health.> Read More
///////////////////Green Tea Better than Coffee for Diabetics
By Staff Writer Gale Maleskey, MS, RDResearch shows that green tea may help prevent and control diabetes symptoms by improving insulin sensitivity and stabilizing blood sugar.> Read More
/////////////////// new discovery could change future diagnosis and therapy of depression
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have discovered that a change in the location of a protein in the brain could serve as a biomarker for depression, allowing a simple, rapid, laboratory test to identify patients with depression and to determine whether a particular antidepressant therapy will provide a successful response.
The research is published in the March 12 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
"This test could serve to predict the efficacy of antidepressant therapy quickly, within four to five days, sparing patients the agony of waiting a month or more to find out if they are on the correct therapeutic regimen," said Mark Rasenick, UIC distinguished university professor of physiology and biophysics and psychiatry.
Despite decades of research, the biological basis of depression is unknown, and the molecular and cellular targets of antidepressant treatment remain elusive, although it is likely that these drugs have one or more primary targets.
Rasenick said the discovery could help millions who suffer from undiagnosed depression or receive unsuccessful treatment.
"We discovered that in depressed individuals a signaling protein is located in specific areas of the cell membrane called lipid rafts," he said. This protein, called Gs alpha, activates adenylyl cyclase, a link in signal transduction, and is responsible for the action of neurotransmitters such as serotonin.
////////////////////Specialized natural killer cells in human tonsils pack a punchTonsils are a source of sore throats and an excuse for ice cream. But they also provide an important protective service, their immune-cell-rich tissue acting as the body's first defense against the germs about to be swallowed or inhaled. Researchers have known that tonsils are packed with B cells, which flag invaders for other cells to attack. But a new study by Rockefeller University scientists shows that tonsils also house a different, very specialized cell that helps protect against the Epstein Barr virus (EBV).
////////////////Soy compound may halt spread of prostate cancerA compound found in soybeans almost completely prevented the spread of human prostate cancer in mice
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Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.(Michael Shanks)
///////////////////HAPPY PI DAY: March 14th (3.14) is day and all around the world mathematicians are celebrating this compelling and mysterious constant of Nature. Pi appears in equations describing the orbits of planets, the colors of auroras, the structure of DNA. It's everywhere.Humans have been struggling to calculate Pi for thousands of years. Divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter; the ratio is Pi. Sounds simple, but the devil is in the digits. While the value of Pi is finite (a smidgen more than 3), the decimal number is infinitely long:3.14159265358979323 846264338327950288419716939937510 58209749445923078164062862089986280 3482534211706. ..More at http://www.geom. uiuc.edu/ %7Ehuberty/ math5337/ groupe/digits. htmlSupercomputers have succeeded in calculating more than 200 billion digits and they're still crunching. [NOTE: So far Pi does not contain any repeat sequences.]The weirdest way to compute : throw needles at a table or frozen hot dogs on the floor. Party time!
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BLACK HOLES
Scientists at the University of St Andrews have used lasers to simulate a black hole in their laboratory.
Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Friedrich König used intense light pulses to create an artificial `event horizon' - the defining feature of a black hole known as `the point of no return'. The development may allow researchers to test Professor Stephen Hawking's theory that black holes are not black at all but in fact radiate light.
It is the first time that scientists have successfully simulated an event horizon using light. There is no danger however of the scientists being sucked into deep space by an intense pull of gravity, since the tabletop device only acts on light in optical fibres and is perfectly harmless.
/////////////////Gold is one of the world’s most misunderstood assets. There are many reasons for this unfortunate situation, but one stands out. Gold exists in an environment in which there are many powerful forces fiercely hostile to it. Most notable among these are governments and the myriad of vested interests that feed from the public purse or rely upon some government-issued license or privilege. Governments have confiscated gold, taxed it, propagandized against it and even outlawed it.Gold does not have any powerful sponsor championing its cause. In fact, the opposite prevails. Apologists for central banks as well as government toadies clamoring for continued state control of money have worked hard to discredit gold where possible, for example, by blaming it for things it was not responsible – like the Great Depression – and by denigrating gold as a fondling of speculators or a superstition better suited for primitive economies.
/////////////////////Is there a hole in the universe? - NASA researchers discovered an immense area of space totally empty of stars, planets and matter -- a hole far larger than anything they had ever seen before.
//////////////Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. -- Denis Waitely
/////////////////////ARTISTIC FUTURISM
//////////////////Wallowing in corruption like a rhinoceros in an African pool.E. L. Godkin (1831-1902) on James G. Elaine, American politician
//////////////////You see things as they are and you say, "Why?"But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"”
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Friedrich König used intense light pulses to create an artificial `event horizon' - the defining feature of a black hole known as `the point of no return'. The development may allow researchers to test Professor Stephen Hawking's theory that black holes are not black at all but in fact radiate light.
It is the first time that scientists have successfully simulated an event horizon using light. There is no danger however of the scientists being sucked into deep space by an intense pull of gravity, since the tabletop device only acts on light in optical fibres and is perfectly harmless.
/////////////////Gold is one of the world’s most misunderstood assets. There are many reasons for this unfortunate situation, but one stands out. Gold exists in an environment in which there are many powerful forces fiercely hostile to it. Most notable among these are governments and the myriad of vested interests that feed from the public purse or rely upon some government-issued license or privilege. Governments have confiscated gold, taxed it, propagandized against it and even outlawed it.Gold does not have any powerful sponsor championing its cause. In fact, the opposite prevails. Apologists for central banks as well as government toadies clamoring for continued state control of money have worked hard to discredit gold where possible, for example, by blaming it for things it was not responsible – like the Great Depression – and by denigrating gold as a fondling of speculators or a superstition better suited for primitive economies.
/////////////////////Is there a hole in the universe? - NASA researchers discovered an immense area of space totally empty of stars, planets and matter -- a hole far larger than anything they had ever seen before.
//////////////Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. -- Denis Waitely
/////////////////////ARTISTIC FUTURISM
//////////////////Wallowing in corruption like a rhinoceros in an African pool.E. L. Godkin (1831-1902) on James G. Elaine, American politician
//////////////////You see things as they are and you say, "Why?"But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"”
~ George Bernard Shaw
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//////////////////Go with your gut – intuition is more than just a hunch, says Leeds research
Most of us experience ‘gut feelings’ we can’t explain, such as instantly loving – or hating – a new property when we’re househunting or the snap judgements we make on meeting new people. Now researchers at Leeds say these feelings – or intuitions – are real and we should take our hunches seriously.
According to a team led by Professor Gerard Hodgkinson of the Centre for Organisational Strategy, Learning and Change at Leeds University Business School, intuition is the result of the way our brains store, process and retrieve information on a subconscious level and so is a real psychological phenomenon which needs further study to help us harness its potential.
//////////////////Drinking beer 'better for brain'Marie Claire.co.uk - 2 hours agoDrinking wine is more damaging to the brain than both beer or spirits, scientists have revealed. According to new research, wine particularly affects the part of the brain connected to memory and spatial awareness, known as the hippocampus.
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Telegraph.co.ukSurgeon uses DIY drill to remove brain tumourTelegraph.co.uk - 2 hours agoBy Stephen Adams A leading brain surgeon used a £30 DIY drill to carry out a successful operation on a fully conscious patient. Henry Marsh used a Bosch PSR960 cordless drill because he did not have his normal equipment on him.
LAMAW=LOOKING AT MASTER AT WORK
///////////////////Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
////////////////////Those whom the gods love grow young.
/////////////////DARK MATTER NUGGETS
//////////////////OSCAR WILDE=Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
/////////////////////Health Through Simplicity By this, Swenson mostly points towards minimizing the complexity in your life. Have a home that’s just big enough, not too big (so you’re not wasting extra time and money and energy on maintenance). Don’t buy a lot of stuff that you have to pick up and maintain (eating time and energy). In other words, strive to nail the basics rather than getting bogged down in the complex
////////////////////As brains age, they slowly lose the ability to generate new neurons, which results in a diminishing ability to learn new things and retain memories. But today a group of neuroscientists in Florida announced a strange cure for what amounts to brain decay: blood from the umbilical cords of human infants. When the researchers injected this blood into aging rats, it kickstarted a new round of neurogenesis in their brains, helping them to grow new neurons and shed some other effects of brain aging. Essentially, effects of aging were rolled back. There's tremendous potential here for helping aging humans to regain the plasticity of their youthful minds.
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//////////////////Go with your gut – intuition is more than just a hunch, says Leeds research
Most of us experience ‘gut feelings’ we can’t explain, such as instantly loving – or hating – a new property when we’re househunting or the snap judgements we make on meeting new people. Now researchers at Leeds say these feelings – or intuitions – are real and we should take our hunches seriously.
According to a team led by Professor Gerard Hodgkinson of the Centre for Organisational Strategy, Learning and Change at Leeds University Business School, intuition is the result of the way our brains store, process and retrieve information on a subconscious level and so is a real psychological phenomenon which needs further study to help us harness its potential.
//////////////////Drinking beer 'better for brain'Marie Claire.co.uk - 2 hours agoDrinking wine is more damaging to the brain than both beer or spirits, scientists have revealed. According to new research, wine particularly affects the part of the brain connected to memory and spatial awareness, known as the hippocampus.
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Telegraph.co.ukSurgeon uses DIY drill to remove brain tumourTelegraph.co.uk - 2 hours agoBy Stephen Adams A leading brain surgeon used a £30 DIY drill to carry out a successful operation on a fully conscious patient. Henry Marsh used a Bosch PSR960 cordless drill because he did not have his normal equipment on him.
LAMAW=LOOKING AT MASTER AT WORK
///////////////////Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
////////////////////Those whom the gods love grow young.
/////////////////DARK MATTER NUGGETS
//////////////////OSCAR WILDE=Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
/////////////////////Health Through Simplicity By this, Swenson mostly points towards minimizing the complexity in your life. Have a home that’s just big enough, not too big (so you’re not wasting extra time and money and energy on maintenance). Don’t buy a lot of stuff that you have to pick up and maintain (eating time and energy). In other words, strive to nail the basics rather than getting bogged down in the complex
////////////////////As brains age, they slowly lose the ability to generate new neurons, which results in a diminishing ability to learn new things and retain memories. But today a group of neuroscientists in Florida announced a strange cure for what amounts to brain decay: blood from the umbilical cords of human infants. When the researchers injected this blood into aging rats, it kickstarted a new round of neurogenesis in their brains, helping them to grow new neurons and shed some other effects of brain aging. Essentially, effects of aging were rolled back. There's tremendous potential here for helping aging humans to regain the plasticity of their youthful minds.
/////////////////////SPECIEST,SENTIENTIST
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