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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN News, Nov 04, 2011


Scientific American Intern
Scientific American (blog)
Scientific American is currently accepting applications for its spring editorial internships. The interns will be involved in the editorial process and will conduct research and fact checking as assigned. Primary duties may also include writing news...
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In the first issue of Scientific American: Centrifuges and levitating haystacks
Boing Boing
By Maggie Koerth-Baker at 4:11 pm Thursday, Nov 3 Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in America, began life on August 28, 1845 as a 4-page, black and white newsletter. There were only a couple of illustrations. ...
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Boing Boing
American Scientific Resources Announces Private Labeled VeraTemp(R ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Shoppers Drug Mart will clearly catch the attention of other major retailers with this being the single most significant customer for American Scientific Resources to date. This order demonstrates the VeraTemp's position as the up and coming world ...
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FTL neutrinos and climate change deniers (or why I call the latter PSEUDOskeptics)
ScienceBlogs (blog)
Tom, who teaches science journalism at MIT, isn't a climatologist, but whenever he writes about climate science or politics, it's usually worth a look. Apparently, the folks at Scientific American agree, and they recently invited Tom to contribute a ...
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Idea that men are intimidated by sex toys is a myth - it's WOMEN who are ...
Daily Mail
Sex toys are now a $500million industry in the US according to Scientific American. Indeed, a 2009 study by Ms Herbenick, found that half of all Americans use vibrators, and 45 per cent of men admitted to owning one to please their girlfriend or wife. ...
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Daily Mail
DFINE, American Scientific and Z-Medica tout new government contracts
Mass Device
Group purchasing organizations Premier and Amerinet sign deals with Z-Medica andAmerican Scientific; plus, the VA awards a five-year contract to DFINE Inc. Group purchasing organizations Premier and Amerinet inked supply deals with Z-Medica and...
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UCB Reinforces Long-Standing Commitment to Rheumatology at American College of...
MarketWatch (press release)
UCB continues to demonstrate its aspiration of being the patient-centric global biopharmaceutical leader that transforms the lives of people living with severe diseases through scientific research, advocacy and programming. ...
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Magazine Awards Revamped, Again
Adweek
One of the new categories, Finance, Technology and Lifestyle Magazines, lumped GQ with Bloomberg Markets and Scientific American. “This was the one category everybody scratched their heads about,” said Sid Holt, chief executive of ASME. ...
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#SciAmBlogs Thursday – Eukaryotes, neutrinos, Pluto, Daylight Saving Time and ...
Scientific American (blog)
About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.
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OUR VIEW: 7 billion people isn't the problem
Appeal-Democrat
The Scientific American fretted that we could be running out of energy for such a large population, "Simply put, is there enough energy that can be harnessed to provide a rewarding lifestyle to however many billion of us inhabit the planet? ...
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The film butt controversy: Statistical smoke and mirrors?
Globe and Mail
Recently another smoking-in-movies study, reported in Scientific American, claimed that movies with smoking are even bad for studios' health because “even after controlling for factors such as total budget and film rating, the researchers found that ...
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Globe and Mail
UCB Reinforces Long-Standing Commitment to Rheumatology at American College of...
MarketWatch (press release)
UCB continues to demonstrate its aspiration of being the patient-centric global biopharmaceutical leader that transforms the lives of people living with severe diseases through scientific research, advocacy and programming. ...
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Stray Methane But Not Fracking Fluids Found in Water near Wells
IEEE Spectrum
The current issue of Scientific American contains a feature article assessing the issue of water contamination in gas fracking operations, a subject also treated in Spectrum last year. Notably, the SciAm article reports academic research in which water ...
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IEEE Spectrum
Human Genome Sciences Announces Multiple Abstracts Related to BENLYSTA(R) and...
MarketWatch (press release)
A total of 13 abstracts - three oral presentations and 10 posters - have been accepted for presentation; seven in the Annual Scientific Sessions and six in the Health Economics Outcomes Research (HEOR) sessions. BENLYSTA is the first in a class of...
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Biotech Visionary G. Steven Burrill Honored With Scrip Lifetime Achievement Award
MarketWatch (press release)
In 2002, Scientific American magazine recognized Burrill as a biotech investment visionary naming him to The Scientific American 50. He has also been honored at the American Liver Foundation's Annual "Salute to Excellence" Gala, which honors the best...
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NAEP: A flawed benchmark producing the same old story
Washington Post (blog)
Instead, NAEP and the National Assessment Governing Board that promulgated the benchmarks have spent the better part of 20 years fending off a consensus in thescientific community that the benchmarks lack validity and don't make sense. ...
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China's Space Program Bolstered by First Docking
New York Times
The policy, imposed by Congress shortly after Beijing's violent suppression of pro-democracy protesters in 1989, restricts scientific exchanges and blocks exports of space technology. Chinese scientists are barred from American space conferences, ...
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DNR official says predator population in Wisconsin at all-time high
Lakeland Times
As described in Scientific American, in 2009 Roland Kays, curator of mammals at the New York State Museum, Abigail Curtis and Jeremy Kirchman tested DNA samples from 686 eastern coyotes and measured 196 coyote skulls. Based on the genetic analyses and ...
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Judge orders 3rd-party help in UVa records case
WJAC Johnstown
The American Tradition Institute and state Del. Bob Marshall, R-Prince William, filed a Freedom of Information Act request in January seeking the emails of former U.Va.scientist Michael Mann, who now works at Penn State. The institute is seeking many...
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Joel Bakan: The corporate attack on kids
Vancouver Sun
And Scientific American recently reported that, “fetuses are particularly vulnerable to … even extremely low levels of some environmental contaminants.” This work provides some grim examples of this threat, such as the diseases and deaths associated ...
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Changes coming to allergy immunotherapy
Pediatric SuperSite
According to data presented during the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Annual (ACAAI) Scientific Meeting in Boston, patients who received accelerated schedules of immunotherapy experienced the benefits quicker. ...
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FDA approves rivaroxaban for stroke prevention in AF patients
TheHeart.Org
First presented at the American Heart Association 2010 Scientific Sessions and later published in the New England Journal of Medicine [2], ROCKET-AF showed that the new anticoagulant, an oral factor Xa inhibitor, met its primary end point, ...
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Combination Therapy Gives Patients With IBD Another Option
Medscape
James Lewis, MD, MSCE, chair elect of the National Scientific Advisory Committee of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, told Medscape Medical News that he finds the study "very interesting." Although thiopurines are commonly used to treat ...
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Yahoo! Livestand- will it sink or swim?
editorsweblog.org (blog)
Yahoo hosts Forbes, Scientific American, the NFL, and Surfer along with AP, Reuters and ABC for news. It's a broad range, but it's primarily a list American organisations, unlike Flipboard's offerings. Then there's the question of advertising in ...
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UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
UPI.com
3 (UPI) -- With ongoing drought, the American West may be entering a period when it will see dust storms on a scale to dwarf the 1930s Dust Bowl era, researchers say. As evidence they point to the giant dust storms known as haboobs that hit Arizona ...
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What's God got to do with it?
Los Angeles Times
Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist forScientific American and an adjunct professor at Chapman University and Claremont Graduate University. His latest book is "The Believing Brain."
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Ex-gay ministry backs off 'all can be cured' stance
The Tennessean
Ninety-eight of its longtime members participated in a study published in the October issue of the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, a peer-reviewed scientific journal. After seven years, 72 still were participating in the study, and of those, ...
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Quacks react to Andrew Weil's proposed board certification in woo
ScienceBlogs (blog)
At this point, the wag in me can't resist pointing out that, given that IM "integrates" pseudoscience with science and that there really are no standards, scientific or otherwise, to guide IM practitioners (mainly because so much of IM is rank ...
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Bringing Biodiversity Data Online, One Leaf At A Time
Popular Science
It is one of more than 8000 samples collected by pioneers who explored the American frontier in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark. The collection is the first scientific record of the native plants of North America before European settlement. ...
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Popular Science
US media need to better cover UNESCO issue
Opelika Auburn News
The American news media are giving insufficient attention to the consequences of our government's termination of dues payments to the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization and other UN agencies that admit the Palestinian...
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A Brief Guide to Embodied ... - Association for Psychological Science
Scientific American: Embodied cognition, the idea that the mind is not only connected to the body but that the body influences the mind, is one of the more counter-intuitive ideas in cognitive science. In sharp contrast is dualism, a theory of mind famously put forth by Rene Descartes in the 17th century when he claimed that “there is a ...Member in the News - Linda Jackson; A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain - Scientific American - November 4, 2011 ...
Association for Psychological Science
SciArt Plugs 5: Lectures, Exhibits, News ... - Blogs - Scientific American
New this week: a New York City gallery is featuring three-dimensional topographic maps designed by cartographer Jeffrey Ambroziak; science artist Lynn ...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2011/.../sciart-plugs-5...
Steve Jobs: A Genius, Yes - Blogs - Scientific American
News · Features · Ask the Experts · Edit This · Extreme Tech · Fact or Fiction · In- Depth ... Opinion, arguments & analyses from the editors of Scientific American ...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/.../steve-jobs-a-genius-yes-a-role...
Why Minnesotans excel at math, and other mysteries of the Nation's ...
Anna Kuchment edits the Advances news section for Scientific American and was previously a reporter, writer and editor with Newsweek magazine. Her first ...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/.../why-minnesotans-excel-at-mat...
An American Cycling in Paris - Blogs - Scientific American
Opinion, arguments & analyses from the editors of Scientific American ... John Matson is an online news reporter for Scientific American focusing on space, ...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/.../an-american-cycling-in-paris-...
The Robots Who Could Have Saved Fukushima Are Coming ...
News; Features; Ask the Experts; Edit This; Extreme Tech; Fact or Fiction ... A Blog Around The Clock; Anecdotes from the Archive; @ScientificAmerican ...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/.../the-robots-who-could-have-sa...
Study Confirms Chest X-Rays Ineffective for Detecting Lung Cancer ...
In its coverage of the story, Scientific American pulls from a commentary written by Professor ... Bat Saliva May Hold Key to Helping Stroke Victims (Valley News) ...
now.dartmouth.edu/.../study-confirms-chest-x-rays-ineffective...
Nyc News - WSJ.com: Uncover Hidden Stories for Scientific American
Uncover Hidden Stories for Scientific American. (Posted on mediabistro.com: MediaNews at Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 05:00PM). No need for breaking discoveries ...
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More Than a Century of Scientific American Comes Online ...
The oldest continually published magazine in the U.S. has placed its entire archive online. From the first issue in August 1845 to December 1989, all of Scientific ...
www.minonline.com/.../More-Than-a-Century-of-Scientific-A...
Cystic Fibrosis Drug Shows Rapid Benefits - Scientific American | e ...
People with an uncommon form of cystic fibrosis started gaining weight and were better able to breathe than their untreated counterparts after just two weeks on ...
esciencenews.com/.../cystic.fibrosis.drug.shows.rapid.benefits
Scientific American Intern
Scientific American is currently accepting applications for its spring ... Additionally, a strong understanding of science news and current issues in ...
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Scientific American Archive Digitized Back to 1845
Nature Publishing Group has announced the complete digitization of the Scientific American, the longest continually published magazine in the U.S. The archive ...
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A Beautiful New Scientific American Archive ... - Richard Dawkins
Check out the new Scientific American archive on Nature.com. It's glorious. Not only has every article ... Jason Palmer - BBC News - Science and... 9 Comments ...
richarddawkins.net/.../643756-a-beautiful-new-scientific-ameri...
Dr. David A. Vaccari Appears in Scientific American for Phosphorus ...
... to NewsPoints, our monthly newsletter. News & Media » News: Recent News. Dr. David A. Vaccari Appears in Scientific American for Phosphorus Resources ...
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Scientific American's archive goes live – all the way back to 1845 ...
TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics ...Scientific American's complete archive, back to volume 1, issue 1, is now ...
www.teleread.com/.../scientific-americans-archive-goes-live-all...
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