July 2010
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The Unseen Picture of the Afghanistan War
The unseen picture of the Afghanistan war is now public after one of the biggest security breaches in history! The U.S. Army and Governments secret “War Diary.” Six years, and 90,000 entries. Written by the soldiers fighting it.
What is it? It is the most comprehensive history of a war to have ever been published during a course of a war.
How did this happen? Well, somewhere in the world, in...
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Wu-Tang Clan - Keep Hustlin (Feat. Killah...
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Attacking Muslims Is In Vogue Again Among...
Recently in the land of the demented, it’s become ultra-voguish to hate Americans who are practitioners of Islam. Loud, angry, scare-bears have made their position very clear. Muslims aren’t allowed to have mosques in lower Manhattan or Staten Island or Tennessee or Southern California. In Jacksonville, Florida, anti-Muslim extremists can mount acts of terrorism without being concerned...
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Your Superhuman Brain
Jess Bachman has a cool new infographic out — it’s all about the human brain.
Specifically..
It’s about super savants, you know, like Rain Man. But they are not always handicapped like that. In fact, the ability might be in all of us. It’s also amazing how fundamentally our brains are connected to, and adapted to, music.
Read/see more at: Superhuman: The Incredible...
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#nowplaying “Concrete Eden” by Ed Alleyne-Johnson
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Cheat on the Need to Sleep: Reboot Your Brain with...
Didn’t get enough sleep last night? Grab a quick midday nap just after a cup of coffee.
From Wired’s How To wiki:
Scientists say that a successful midday nap depends on two things: timing and (no kidding) caffeine consumption. Experiments performed at Loughborough University in the UK showed that the sleep-deprived need only a cup of coffee and 15 minutes of shut-eye to feel...
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12 Strategies to Boost Brain Health
One of three Americans over age 80 develops Alzheimer’s disease. While this list is more pertinent to an older group, some parts of it are relevant for younger folk as well. A guiding principle is to remember that what is good for the heart is just as good for the brain.
1. Diversify Your Cognitive Portfolio
Fire up different brain areas for a healthier brain. For example, try Math...
#nowplaying “Orange” by Ed...
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July The Deadliest Month For Hospitals?
Each year, thousands of medical students become doctors. However, instead of simply saving lives, the influx of recent graduates entering the workplace in July in may be the cause of rising death rates, according to a new study out of the University of California, San Diego.
CNN has more on the study:
..Deaths from medication errors increase by 10 percent during July, a so-called July effect...
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Mouse Fight Club
To study how aggression, fighting, and winning change the brain, scientists set up a tournament of mice fights. They watched as the lab rodents took a break from their hum-drum existence and battled it out (however, the researchers broke the first rule of Fight Club by publishing a paper about their findings).
They found clear evidence of the “winner effect,” in which a mouse that...
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Diabetes, know the symptoms.
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World's greatest homeless sign ever!
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Black tea + lemon = fugly coloured tea.
I just made some black tea and added some lemon juice to tea only to have tea turn this fugly brown colour. Apparently it’s the fault of Bathochromic Shift.
This phenomenon called ‘Bathochromic Shift’, which is the change in the ability of a liquid to absorb light of longer wavelengths (red light) caused by the substitution or changes in the molecules of the liquid. So...
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What happens when you get within 65 feet of an oil...
Get withing 65 feet? That’s now a Class-D felony, with the possibility of 1-5 years in a federal PMITA prison.
Following excerpt from article by Georgianne Nienaber:
The United States Coast Guard considers me a felon now, because I “willfully” want to obtain more photos like these to show you the utter devastation occurring in Barataria Bay, Louisiana as a result of the BP...
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Could Toxoplasma gondii help your country win the...
An interesting Slate piece points out a correlation between rates of infection by “cat poop protozoa”—that’s Toxoplasma gondii— and success rates in soccer:
If we set aside the qualifying rounds (in which teams can play to a draw) and focus on matches with a clear winner, the results are very compelling. In the knockout round of this year’s tournament, eight out of...
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