Health

Researchers develop smartphone reader for quicker infection testing | Tina Hilding

Dr. "Bones" from the Star Trek TV show uses a "tricorder" to diagnose a medical condition. "He's dead, Jim." April 24, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Washington State University researchers have developed a low-cost, portable laboratory on a phone that works nearly as well as clinical laboratories to detect common viral and bacterial infections. The work could lead to faster and lower-cost lab results for fa ...

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The public perception of Stormy Daniels, “porn stars” and “hookers.” | Mickey Z.

By DonkeyHotey (Stormy Daniels - Caricature) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 19, 2018 “The reasons a woman only has to make one porn film to be a ‘porn star’ are similar t ...

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Homeless women need support, not pep talks | Mickey Z.

CC0 Public Domain Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 8, 2018 George Bernard Shaw (a very famous and successful white male who married into financial independence and later became legit wealthy thank ...

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The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet | Ellen Brown

April 4, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitor ...

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Obesity rates keep rising for U.S. adults | Dennis Thompson

Photo: martin.mutch, flickr (CC BY 2.0)March 23, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Obesity rates have continued to climb significantly among American adults, but the same hasn't held true for children, a new govern ...

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Western diet depletes artery-protecting immune cells | Dalia Gaddis and Catherine Hedrick

Cross section of an aorta from a mouse that was fed a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet, which accelerates the build-up of plaque. The large red plaque on the inside of the aorta was labeled with oil b ...

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Newborn babies who suffered stroke regain language function in opposite side of brain | Elissa L. Newport

Individual scans of two healthy controls and two individuals with a left-hemisphere (LH) perinatal stroke. The orange/yellow activation shows the normal language areas of the left hemisphere in healt ...

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MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols | Caroline Trippel, Daniel Lustig, Margaret Martonosi

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Feb. 11, 2018 (arXrv.org) -- The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerab ...

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Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 Feb. 5 Date under the New START Treaty by which the United States and Russia are to comply with the treaty's central limits on strategic arms (700 deployed interc ...

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How to (really) Help Homeless Women | Mickey Z.

Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 1, 2018 For my entire adult life, I’ve tried to help homeless people. For years, I wrote for Street News -- a once-popular advocacy newspaper most ...

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The Dream of a Perfect Diet | John Michael Greer

Jan. 31, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to spend the last couple of days writing an essay about the astral plane, because this is the fifth Wednesday of the month, and we’ve established an informa ...

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Researchers develop smartphone reader for quicker infection testing | Tina Hilding

The public perception of Stormy Daniels, “porn stars” and “hookers.” | Mickey Z.

Homeless women need support, not pep talks | Mickey Z.

The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet | Ellen Brown

Obesity rates keep rising for U.S. adults | Dennis Thompson

Western diet depletes artery-protecting immune cells | Dalia Gaddis and Catherine Hedrick

Newborn babies who suffered stroke regain language function in opposite side of brain | Elissa L. Newport

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols | Caroline Trippel, Daniel Lustig, Margaret Martonosi

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 | FCNL

How to (really) Help Homeless Women | Mickey Z.

The Dream of a Perfect Diet | John Michael Greer

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