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BIOLOGY News, Feb 14, 2012


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Video: Nick Diaz And The Farcical Commission Testing Regime For Pot On The MMA ...
Bloody Elbow
by Kid Nate on Feb 10, 2012 11:56 AM EST in UFC Video Luke Thomas and I recorded another installment of MMA Tete-A-Tete: Coarsening The Discourse yesterday before the official Nick Diaz news broke but we were able to address the rumors.
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EU Kicks Off $15.9M Project to Investigate Cell Fate
GenomeWeb Daily News
Genome Technology's Tracy Vence interviewed Sandra Porter, president of Digital World Biology, and Kristi Holmes, a bioinformaticist at the Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine at ScienceOnline2012. In this video, we speak ...
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Magnetic pulses could overcome depression
IANS
Jennifer Rodger, research associate professor at the University of Western Australia School of Animal Biology, and her team tested the therapy, known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) -- on mice to find out how it can be applied to ...
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IANS
Differential Equations Now Available in MIT OpenCourseWare's Innovative OCW ...
PR.com (press release)
Organized by Professor Haynes Miller and Dr. Jeremy Orloff, 18.03SC Differential Equations (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-03sc-differential-equations-fall-2011/) includes lecture videos, exams and solutions, and interactive Java® ...
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Q&BA: Why spend money on NASA?
Discover Magazine (blog)
During last week's Q&BA live video chat session on Google+, I got the question, "Why spend money on NASA when we need that money here on Earth?" This is a common question, and very apropos given the terrible budget news we got about NASA earlier today.
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Drugs of the future will be computer-designed
The Japan Times
Digital health: Professor Hideaki Fujitani, a bio-computing expert at the University of Tokyo, shows an all-atom simulation video used in drug development. TOMOKO OTAKE "The noise is from the cooling fans," he shouts as he tries to tidy up his hair, ...
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The Japan Times
People in the News
Eagle Tribune
The student team recently launched a new blog filled with 100 videos and animations that teachers and parents can use to excite young people about biology. The blog can be found at guillermopazyminoclaboratory.blogs.umassd.edu.
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This chimp will kick your ass at memory games — but how the hell does he do it?
io9
For those of you unfamiliar with his abilities, this video demonstrates Ayumu doing what he does best: a straightforward working-memory challenge. Cognitive psychologists use the term "working memory" to describe the mind's ability to temporarily store ...
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Laid-back learning sacrifices objectivity
Bangkok Post
Delaying the start of elective courses may allow students to study advanced physics, chemistry and biology, which may provide them with an incentive to pursue physics _ a subject from which students are currently shying away.
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LIVING AND LEARNING: Creationism was taught in my classroom ... twice
Ball State Daily News
I was surprised when my science teacher pulled up a video of the seven days of creation during class. The video was not only cheesy, but it crossed a line that is unconstitutional. When I showed my distaste, my teacher picked on me, prodding me until I ...
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The Scientist Was a Figment, but His Work Was Real
New York Times
“I toyed with making him a physicist or chemist,” he said, but he settled on biologybecause that was a subject he had looked into when writing a previous novel, “Middlesex” (2002), about a person whose sex is ambiguous. As part of the “best and worst ...
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Secrets of NXIVM
Albany Times Union
He left the school at age 16 because he felt the curriculum was holding him back, and enrolled at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, where he picked up bachelor's degrees in biology, physics and math, with minors in philosophy and psychology.
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Deep thoughts at Westwood Elementary Your Students, Your Schools -- Ankeny
DesMoinesRegister.com
The documentary will be made using video cameras, photo imaging software, digital cameras, audio/stereo software and editing software. Northeast Elementary will continue their luau fun with their upcoming book fair. The event will be held in the media ...
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MIT launches free online 'fully automated' course
BBC News
The main difference is that the MITx version has been designed for online students, with a virtual laboratory, e-textbooks, online discussions andvideos that are the equivalent of a lecture. It is expected to take 10 hours per week and will run until ...
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BBC News
news In detail
Knowledgespeak
Spine for the iPad presents the full contents of each issue combined with enhanced features for a more engaging experience, such as multimedia videos and images, the ability to share articles and content via email or social media channels, ...
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If you must read only a few things today, please select from the following:
ScienceBlogs (blog)
... Graduate Student intake and demonstration thing for the Biologydepartment (and I get to spend that weekend at the research station); I've actually done archaeology right on the lakeside, though it wasn't very interesting; And so on and so forth.
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ScienceBlogs (blog)
Beauty Products and Cancer: Know the Facts
PR Newswire (press release)
NCI leads the National Cancer Program and the NIH effort to dramatically reduce the burden of cancer and improve the lives of cancer patients and their families, through research into prevention and cancer biology, the development of new interventions, ...
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Fruit flies drawn to the sweet smell of youth - Biology News Net
Biology News Articles & Current Events, Updated Daily. ... Video of the encounter showed that the male was much more attracted to the young fly. To eliminate physical appearance from the equation, he then conducted the experiment in the ...
Biology News Net
The Brain Biology Behind Video Game ... - Men's Health News
Have you ever wondered why you're bad at video games but your buddy is awesome? Brain science provides a fascinating clue.
news.menshealth.com/video-games/2012/02/08/
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