http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_128602.html FRIDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) — A simple form of meditation can help stave off feelings of loneliness and may cut the body’s inflammatory response — which can trigger serious illness — to distressing emotions, a small new study suggests. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh […]
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Interesting article in NEW SCIENTIST looking at Cliodynamics – mathematical modelling of social events that looks for patterns from which to make predictions of the future. Reminds me of the section in the film Choice Point that talks about understanding patterns http://www.choicepointmovement.com/Members/Movie
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528761.800-quantify-thyself-tracking-your-life-from-food-to-mood.html Interesting article in NEW SCIENTIST on the rise of the consumer health gadget. Putting the power back in to the hands of the consumer? Track your every move, brainwave and bodily function with a new breed of personal gadgets and you could become fitter, healthier and happier IT IS a few minutes before midnight and I am pacing […]
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2012/07/mina-bissell-experiments-that-point-to-a-new-understanding-of-cancer.html Its the environment stupid! Interesting Ted talk about the link between form and function…
Computers used to be just for programmers, but these days most people own at least one. Now a similar revolution in access to drugs and other chemicals could be on the cards. A team of researchers led by chemist Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow, UK, has made a selection of chemicals using a digital blueprint […]
An interesting Audio clip on the world tipping point site…. http://worldwidetippingpoint.com/2012/01/biomimicry-and-architecture-for-the-future-janine-benyus/ I am ecstatic to have Janine Benyus in the tipping series not only because its relevant to have a few scientists in these dialogues, but also because she is one of the leading voices in the emerging field of Biomimicry, which can be explained […]
Some interesting psychobiology news that may shed light on alcohol drinking choices…. http://www.newswise.com/articles/deprived-of-sex-jilted-flies-drink-more-alcohol Newswise — Sexually deprived male fruit flies exhibit a pattern of behavior that seems ripped from the pages of a sad-sack Raymond Carver story: when female fruit flies reject their sexual advances, the males are driven to excessive alcohol consumption, drinking far […]
Researchers Find Electricity Generated by Tree Recently it was unveiled that maple trees can be used to produce electricity to power small gadgets. A report published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology says that maple trees produce a rather small but still measurable quantity of electricity. Those of you who have heard about potato batteryprobably are aware that the plant material […]
Very interesting article in New Scientist this week: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328553.100-exotic-electrical-effect-pops-up-in-soft-mammalian-tissue.html Exotic electrical effect pops up in soft mammalian tissue 07 March 2012 by Maggie McKee issue 2855. Prized for its potential to enhance computer memory, ferroelectricity could soon be the basis for drugs that switch off cholesterol and bio-RAM for implants AN ELECTRICAL phenomenon called ferroelectricity, used in […]
8 February 2012 by Wendy Zukerman Interesting effect of pulsed magnetic fields – a new era in medicine? ZAPPING the brain with a weak magnetic pulse can wipe out unwanted neural connections in mice at least. The discovery could be turned into a treatment for conditions associated with abnormal neural circuitry, such asschizophrenia. In transcranial magnetic stimulation a magnetic coil […]
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