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In short, I review clinical research on an almost daily basis. What I post tends to be articles that are relevant to the readers in addition to some curiosities that have intriguing potential.
As a hobby, I truly enjoy the puzzle-solving play that statistics and programming as in the python language bring to the table. I just do not enjoy problem-solving, I love problem-solving and the childlike inspiration and exploration of that innocent exhilaration of discovering something new.
Enjoy ;-)
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US nuke lab drops Chinese networking kit
Report says Los Alamos ditched H3C kit over security concerns By Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Posted in Security, 8th January 2013 02:31 GMT Free whitepaper – The Definitive Guide to Dispersed Storage The Los Alamos National Laboratory, home of some… Read More ›
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Swiss court relieves farmer of 656-year-old debt to Catholic Church
By Agence France-Presse Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:59 EST Topics: Konrad Mueller ♦ RTS A Swiss court has wiped the slate clean for a farmer and his family, relieving them of an annual debt to a Catholic church dating… Read More ›
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Excessive fructose may be making ‘spoiled appetites’ a thing of the past
Posted by Linda Bonvie January 8, 2013 Back in the day, one of the most common admonitions from moms was “don’t eat that, you’ll spoil your appetite.” But if today’s kids are consuming foods and drinks with higher levels… Read More ›
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‘Liquid gold’: How Tide laundry detergent is being used as hard currency by drug addicts buying crack on the street
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 17:42 EST, 7 January 2013 | UPDATED: 18:00 EST, 7 January 2013 The pricey detergent is known as ‘liquid gold’ on the streets, with a 150-ounce bottle going for either $5 cash or $10… Read More ›
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Could Human Enhancement Turn Soldiers Into Weapons That Violate International Law? Yes
•Subscribe •Renew •Give a Gift •Digital Edition By Patrick Lin New technologies reveal ambiguities and hidden assumptions in international humanitarian law. Alexis C. Madrigal Science fiction, or actual U.S. military project? Half a world away from the battlefield, a soldier… Read More ›
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High Fructose Corn Syrup Direct Correlation with Autism in the U.S. – Clin Epigenetics. 2012
EEV: Highlights Although there are many potential causes. We chose to highlight HFCS, due to its toxin amplification. 1) Ca, Mg and Zn, or losses or displacement of any of these minerals from the consumption of HFCS 2) mercury (Hg)… Read More ›
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John McAfee the Belize spymaster uncovers ‘ricin, terrorist plots’
Tycoon: I gave bigwigs laptops stuffed with surveillance malware By John Leyden Posted in Security, 7th January 2013 15:04 GMT Free whitepaper – A Vision for the Data Centre Infosec daredevil John McAfee claims he became a spymaster in Belize after… Read More ›
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Biofuels cause pollution, not as green as thought – study: Will have small but significant effects on human mortality and crop yields
Sun, 6 Jan 2013 18:00 GMT Reuters * Trees could add to toxic ozone-Lancaster University * Could cause almost 1,400 premature deaths in Europe a year * Study shows biofuels not totally benign vs fossil fuels By Environment Correspondent Alister… Read More ›
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Poison the well: Chinese city fails to report huge toxic leak, cuts off water to 1 million ” Residents were not notified of the spill for days “
Published: 6 January, 2013, 18:31 Edited: 6 January, 2013, 18:31 Authorities have cut off the water supply of over 1 million people in a northern Chinese city due to an industrial leak. Residents were not notified of the spill for… Read More ›
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Someone threw a perfectly good cereal bowl… on Mars
EEV: Awaiting Confirmation, most likely part of the Rover. In any case oops 😉 Thursday, 03 January 2013 Finders keepers! NASA’s Curiosity rover snapped an image on Mars that went viral. Unfortunately for NASA, this image wasn’t edited,… Read More ›
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Simon Burns, minister responsible for train fares, uses £80,000-a-year chauffeur-driven government car to ‘avoid overcrowded trains’
News is likely to provoke more anger from commuters still reeling from the New Year inflation-busting rise in train fares last week. Rob Williams Sunday, 6 January 2013 The minister responsible for rail fares, Simon Burns, is under fire today… Read More ›
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Paradox of Vaccination: Is Vaccination Really Effective against Avian Flu Epidemics?
Abstract Background Although vaccination can be a useful tool for control of avian influenza epidemics, it might engender emergence of a vaccine-resistant strain. Field and experimental studies show that some avian influenza strains acquire resistance ability against vaccination. We investigated,… Read More ›
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New U.S. Law Seeks Answers On Chinese Nuke Tunnels
Jan. 5, 2013 – 11:55AM By WENDELL MINNICK The U.S. military must consider both conventional and nuclear capabilities to “neutralize” China’s underground nuclear weapons storage facilities, according to a Pentagon authorization signed into law. TAIPEI — The U.S. military must… Read More ›
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Poll: Two-thirds of Chinese boycotted Japanese goods over Senkakus dispute
Kyodo Two-thirds of Chinese boycotted Japanese products and almost all Chinese feel anti-Japan sentiment has intensified in the world’s second-largest economy since the government purchased three the Senkaku islets in September, a Kyodo News online survey revealed Saturday. The findings… Read More ›
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Japan scrambles F-15 fighter jets after Chinese aircraft spotted near Senkakus
Jiji The Air Self-Defense Force scrambled F-15 fighter jets after a Chinese aircraft on Saturday approached the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, the Defense Ministry reported. However, the Y-12 propeller plane, operated by China’s State Oceanic Administration, did… Read More ›
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Indian troops raid Pakistani military post, killing one – Pakistani army
Sun, 6 Jan 2013 06:48 GMT Source: reuters By Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Indian troops raided a Pakistani military post on Sunday, killing one soldier and injuring another, the Pakistani military said, an incident that could… Read More ›
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US Nurses fired for refusing Flu vaccine: “the flu vaccine not just it doesn’t protect people from the flu, but it has complicated the health of thousands of people who took it”
Friday, 04 January 2013 An Indiana hospital has fired eight employees, including at least three veteran nurses, after they refused mandatory flu shots, stirring up controversy over which should come first: employee rights or patient safety. The hospital imposed mandatory… Read More ›
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Why 2013 eerily looks like the world of 1913, on the cusp of the Great War.
Eve of Disaster Foreign Policy BY CHARLES EMMERSON | JANUARY 4, 2013 The leading power of the age is in relative decline, beset by political crisis at home and by steadily eroding economic prowess. Rising powers are jostling for… Read More ›
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Saudi jets ‘join US strikes against al-Qaeda in Yemen’
Saudi Arabia said to have secretly joined America’s ‘undeclared aerial war’ against terrorists in Yemen LAST UPDATED AT 09:44 ON Fri 4 Jan 2013 JETS from the Saudi Arabian air force have joined US forces in missions designed to… Read More ›
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California judge rules assault wasn’t rape because woman wasn’t married
By: David Ferguson A California appeals court has overturned the rape conviction of a man charged with raping a sleeping woman, basing the decision on an 1872 law that does not protect unmarried women the same protections as those who… Read More ›
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Cholesterol medicine affects energy production in muscles: Up to 75 per cent of patients
Painful side effects Up to 75 per cent of patients who take statins to treat elevated cholesterol levels may suffer from muscle pain. Scientists at the Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen have now identified a possible mechanism underlying… Read More ›
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Some men voice complaints of shortened penis following prostate cancer treatment
Contact: Teresa Herbert teresa_herbert@dfci.harvard.edu 617-632-4090 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Perceived reduction in penis size linked to regrets of treatment choice BOSTON – A small percentage of men in a prostate cancer study complained that their penis seemed shorter following treatment, with… Read More ›
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The laws of global warming: legal protection when something goes Wrong through Geo-engineering
How to regulate geo-engineering efforts to fight climate change? By: Tom Snee | 2012.12.19 | 09:22 AM ©istockphoto.com/Trifonov_Evgeniy With policymakers and political leaders increasingly unable to combat global climate change, more scientists are considering the use of manual manipulation of… Read More ›
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Foodborne Illness Could Have Sinister Causes : Medications being intentionally added
Contact: Angela Collom acollom@acponline.org 215-351-2653 American College of Physicians Observation Article: Foodborne Illness Could Have Sinister Causes Doctors should consider the intentional addition of medicine to food as a potential cause of foodborne disease outbreaks. The World Health Organization… Read More ›
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Ten More Deaths Blamed on Plavix: ” Plavix plus aspirin (dual therapy) poses a 20 percent increased risk to the patient of suffering bleeding injuries, heart attacks, stroke and death”
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN CHICAGO (CN) – Ten people died from the blockbuster blood-thinner Plavix, which is no better than aspirin against stroke but costs 100 times more, dozens of family members claim in two complaints…. Read More ›
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World’s rich get richer – Top 100 by 241 Billion
Posted by: Usman Ahmed Posted date: January 02, 2013 NEW YORK: The combined assets of the world’s 100 richest people grew by $241 billion in 2012 to almost $1.9 trillion, according to the Bloomberg business news agency. The fastest… Read More ›
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MontCo school suspends 6-year-old for pretend gunshot
December 29, 2012 | 8:00 pm Matt Connolly Examiner Staff Writer The Washington Examiner A Montgomery County elementary school student was suspended for a pretend gunshot a week after Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy… Read More ›
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Plans for the Privy Council to regulate Britain’s newspapers
It was set up in 1231 by Henry III. It met every day under Elizabeth I. But under Elizabeth II it hasn’t been convened for 25 years. So why does David Cameron think this centuries-old club can regulate the press?… Read More ›
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Nicolas Sarkozy DID take $50 million of Muammar Gaddafi’s cash, French judge is told
John Lichfield Wednesday, 2 January 2013 Documentary proof exists that France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy took more than €50m from the late Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, a French judge has been told. The claim, leaked today, was made just before… Read More ›
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Anti-virus products are rubbish, says Imperva
‘Spend not proportional to effectiveness’ By Richard Chirgwin Posted in Security, 1st January 2013 21:15 GMT Free whitepaper – Media and Entertainment Goes Digital A study released in December by US security outfit Imperva has tipped a bucket on the… Read More ›
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Egypt satirist faces probe for insulting president
By Tom PerryPosted 2013/01/01 at 1:43 pm EST CAIRO, Jan. 1, 2013 (Reuters) — An Egyptian satirist who made fun of President Mohamed Mursi on television will be investigated by prosecutors following an accusation that he undermined the leader’s standing,… Read More ›
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Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood cell detained in UAE-paper
Tue, 1 Jan 2013 15:37 GMT Source: reuters // Reuters ABU DHABI, Jan 1 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates has arrested an “Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood cell” that trained local Islamists in how to overthrow Arab governments, a Sharjah-based newspaper… Read More ›
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White House: Health law requires coverage for workers’ children: Not required to be affordable
White House: Health law requires coverage for workers’ children (via Raw Story ) The Affordable Care Act will require employers to offer health insurance that covers their workers’ children too, the Obama administration announced on Monday. While the decision sounds… Read More ›
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Crisis: Greece; Any transaction in excess of 500 euros only be allowed via credit or debit card or by check
Crisis: Greece; cash payments ceiling to drop to 500 euros 31 December, 13:39 (ANSAmed) – ATHENS, DECEMBER 31 – In Greece any transaction in excess of 500 euros will soon only be allowed via credit or debit card… Read More ›
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One in three have online medical record, many without knowledge
More than one in three people have had their medical details uploaded onto a central database accessible by healthcare professionals across the country, many without their knowledge, it has been claimed. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is keen to boost the… Read More ›
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Report: Russia Sends Landing Ships to Syria
<!—-> Dec. 30, 2012 – 11:39AM By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MOSCOW— A Russian warship carrying a unit of marines has left its Black Sea port for Syria amid preparations for a possible evacuation of nationals living and working in the strife-torn… Read More ›
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Population expected to post largest drop in 2012
Kyodo Japan’s population is expected to have shrunk by a record 212,000 people in 2012, the health ministry said Monday. According to estimates by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, the number of newborns in 2012 was expected to… Read More ›
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Chinese Hackers exploiting Internet Explorer Zero Day vulnerability for Cyber Espionage
Author : Mohit Kumar on 12/29/2012 03:37:00 AM Web site for the Council on Foreign Relations was compromised and recently hit by a drive-by attack that was detected earlier this week. Hacker are suspected to be from China… Read More ›
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Ford Class Action
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Ford overstated by 10 mpg the mileage its 2013 Fusion Hybrid and C-Max Hybrids get, a class action claims in Westchester County Court. A similar class action was filed in Santa Ana, Calif. Federal Court.
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CVS Pharmacy Muscle
SAN FRANCISCO – CVS Caremark illegally swipes patient information from competing pharmacies and uses it to try to steal their customers, a class action claims in Federal Court. http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/12/31/53518.htm
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Energy: Egypt still under blackout due to fuel shortage / 15 power stations shut down yesterday, half of country at risk
28 December, 18:37 (ANSAmed) – ROME, DECEMBER 28 – Over 15 power stations have not produced energy since yesterday due to a lack of fuel (diesel, natural gas and mazut), according to the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company… Read More ›
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US may have accidentally helped to start Falklands war by encouraging Argentinians to invade islands, admits ex-CIA chief
CIA boss William Casey voiced concerns over Argentina’s confidence in US Washington admitted they might have inadvertently encouraged Argentina By Brendan Carlin, Mail on Sunday Political Reporter PUBLISHED: 19:00 EST, 29 December 2012 | UPDATED: 19:00 EST, 29 December 2012… Read More ›
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Silent sub: Russian noiseless Borei class nuclear submarine immersed
Published: 30 December, 2012, 17:26 Edited: 30 December, 2012, 18:20 Super-modern, powerful and almost noiseless Russian nuclear submarine Vladimir Monomakh has been put in water to become the third ship of the Borei project. The cruiser is about to… Read More ›
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‘Black Box’ or ‘Spy Box’? US regulators want to make car data recorders mandatory
Published: 29 December, 2012, 00:18 Edited: 29 December, 2012, 00:18 US regulators want to make event data recorders (EDRs), similar to “black boxes” used on planes, mandatory on all cars produced from September 2014. The move has sparked a… Read More ›
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France’s High Court: 75% Tax is Unconstitutional
Sunday, 30 December 2012 France’s Constitutional Council on Saturday rejected a 75 percent upper income tax rate to be introduced in 2013 in a setback to Socialist President Francois Hollande’s push to make the rich contribute more to cutting the… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 