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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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An inconvenient truth: Does responsible consumption benefit corporations more than society?
Are environmental and social problems such as global warming and poverty the result of inadequate governmental regulations or does the burden fall on our failure as consumers to make better consumption choices? According to a new study in the Journal… Read More ›
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China can weigh reconnaissance on US
(Global Times) 08:16, August 28, 2014 China and the US started a two-day meeting at the Pentagon on Wednesday to negotiate a code of conduct on the high seas, in the wake of a Chinese fighter jet intercepting a US… Read More ›
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Stonehenge gets more Mysterious, New Monuments Discovered Underneath it
Wednesday, 27 August 2014 The mystery surrounding Stonehenge has suddenly deepened — literally. A first-of-its-kind study suggests that 15 previously undiscovered or poorly understood monuments lie hidden under the ancient stone monument and its surroundings. For the study, researchers used… Read More ›
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Autism-Vaccine Cover-up Snowballs as Whistleblower’s Identity is Revealed—LATEST UPDATES
William W. Thompson, PhD—an epidemiologist at the CDC’s National Center of Birth Defects and Development Disabilities is alleging criminal wrongdoing on the part of his supervisors, and has expressed deep regret about his role in helping the CDC hide data: “It’s… Read More ›
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Oppossing Forces Ukraine
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Viruses take down massive algal blooms, with big implications for climate
Algae might seem easy to ignore, but they are the ultimate source of all organic matter that marine animals depend upon. Humans are increasingly dependent on algae, too, to suck up climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sink it… Read More ›
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Research Paves Way for Development of Cyborg Moth ‘Biobots’
Matt Shipman | News Services | 919.515.6386 Dr. Alper Bozkurt | 919.515.7349 Release Date: 08.20.14 North Carolina State University researchers have developed methods for electronically manipulating the flight muscles of moths and for monitoring the electrical signals moths use to… Read More ›
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New home for an ‘evolutionary misfit’
Hallucigenia Reconstruction Worm-like creature with legs and spikes finds its place in the evolutionary tree of life One of the most bizarre-looking fossils ever found – a worm-like creature with legs, spikes and a head difficult to distinguish from its… Read More ›
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Enemies Stand Helpless Against BrahMos Missile – BrahMos Aerospace Chief / 3x faster than the Tomahawk cruise missile
“export the BrahMos only to friendly nations, determined by the governments of India and Russia” Enemies Stand Helpless Against BrahMos Missile – BrahMos Aerospace Chief MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) – A supersonic cruise missile BrahMos, developed jointly by… Read More ›
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Chinese Troops Enter Disputed India Territory
Chinese troops have advanced in recent days into disputed territory claimed by India, echoing a similar incursion last year that raised tensions between the two rival giants, official sources said on Tuesday (Aug 19). Chinese troops twice crossed over… Read More ›
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UN Unable to Verify Kiev’s Allegations About Hitting Russian Military Column in Ukraine
UNITED NATIONS, August 15 (RIA Novosti) – After Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said his forces hit Russian vehicles inside Ukraine, the United Nations on Friday said it couldn’t verify the reports but they show a need to resolve the conflict… Read More ›
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Is China wrong to benefit from Iraq?
(People’s Daily Online) 08:48, August 13, 2014 After announcing airstrikes against militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern Iraq, U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview with the New York Times that China… Read More ›
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Filmmaker Crosses US-Mexico Border dressed as Osama Bin Laden
A flamethrowing American conservative activist raised eyebrows in the U.S. on Monday by releasing a video of himself crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico into Texas, dressed as the late al-Qaeda terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. Guerrilla documentarian James… Read More ›
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BREAKING – IS to Declare Beginning of ‘Jihad Against America’
By: Anthony Kimery, Editor-in-Chief 08/08/2014 ( 4:40pm) The Islamic State, formally the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has yet to publish an official response to the US’s military strikes against it in Iraq, but sources close to the IS… Read More ›
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People Fall for NYTimes’ Fake Hacking Story of 1.2B Stolen Passwords
Friday, 08 August 2014 On August 5th, the NY Times published a story titled “Russian Hackers Amass Over a Billion Internet Passwords ” which was, in fact, a “Native Advertising” venture between this once respected newspaper and a relatively new… Read More ›
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Random face formation – Rosetta photo of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ;-)
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China plans establishment of Christian theology
“A five-year campaign to promote Christian theology in China, launched in 2013, will provide theological guidance for church rostrums in China and will promote the positive and correct theological thinking with a range of publications, exchanges, discussions and evangelism.” China… Read More ›
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Equation to predict happiness
The happiness of over 18,000 people worldwide has been predicted by an equation developed by researchers at UCL, with results showing that moment-to-moment happiness reflects not just how well things are going, but whether things are going better The happiness… Read More ›
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FACTBOX: Russia’s Imports from Countries that Imposed Sanctions
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday, banning for a year imports of agricultural and food products from countries that imposed sanctions on Russia. The government is expected to announce the complete “black… Read More ›
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Edward Snowden’s not a one-off: US.gov hunts new secret doc leaker
Poor old Julian Assange – whistleblower went straight to Glenn Greenwald It appears former NSA contractor Edward Snowden is not the only leaker of secret US documents around, as the US government searches for another whistleblower in the aftermath of… Read More ›
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Chinese ships sail in disputed waters after Japan warning ” fears grow over a potential military clash “
→National Aug. 07, 2014 – 06:30AM JST ( 25 ) TOKYO — Chinese coast guard ships sailed into waters off Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea on Wednesday, officials said, after Tokyo’s annual defense paper warned over China’s “dangerous… Read More ›
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Islamic State Seizes Control Over Iraq’s Largest Dam
Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Stand Guard in the Northern Iraq city of Mosul 23:51 03/08/2014 MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti) – The Islamic State militants have seized control of Iraq’s biggest dam, an… Read More ›
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China expands world’s deepest ‘dark matter’ lab
(Xinhua) 11:03, August 03, 2014 – BEIJING – China has begun expanding the world’s deepest underground lab in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, where scientists have been conducting experiments on mysterious “dark matter”. – The second-phase construction of the Jinping Underground… Read More ›
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US Health Agency Holds Patent on Ebola Strain Virus
Sunday, 03 August 2014 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control owns a patent on a particular strain of Ebola known as “EboBun.” It’s patent No. CA2741523A1 and it was awarded in 2010. You can view it here. Patent applicants are… Read More ›
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Ebola antibody treatment, produced in plants, protects monkeys from lethal disease: Even 48 hours after exposure
“antiviral compound prevents Ebola virus infection with limited to no morbidity in treated animals at any point of treatment following infection by this lethal virus” CNO: Re-Posting at request from October 15, 2012 Contact: Caree Vander Linden caree.vanderlinden@us.army.mil US Army Medical… Read More ›
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Islamic State orders total cover-up for women
In this July 29, 2014 photo, militants parade in Beiji, some 250 kilometers north of the capital, Baghdad, Iraq. (AP) LATEST STORIES IN MIDDLE-EAST Arab News BEIRUT: The Islamic State has imposed a strict dress code for women in eastern… Read More ›
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Scientist underlines threat of inevitable ‘solar super-storms’
Public Release: 31-Jul-2014 In this month’s issue of Physics World, Ashley Dale from the University of Bristol warns of the “catastrophic” and “long-lasting” impacts of “solar super-storms” and the dangers we face if the threat continues to go unnoticed. Dale,… Read More ›
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Chinese hackers’ stole data on Israel’s Iron Dome missile shield
Group linked to PLA accused of stealing documents on Iron Dome shield . PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 30 July, 2014, 9:50pm Reuters in Vienna Three Israeli defence contractors behind the Iron Dome missile shield and related systems were robbed of hundreds… Read More ›
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Why the Islamic State has no sympathy for Hamas
An Islamic State fighter gestures as he takes part in a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province, June 30, 2014. Most of today’s Salafist jihadist movements have no interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for the time… Read More ›
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After Iraqi Army Crumbles, Maliki Turns to State TV for Help
NDTV After Iraqi Army Crumbles, Maliki Turns to State TV for Help July 28, 2014 18:20 IST Baghdad: State television is working overtime to persuade Iraqis to help Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki confront an al Qaeda offshoot that has… Read More ›
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6th Circuit Court: Ex-Judge Wade McCree’s conduct ‘reprehensible’ but immune from lawsuit
8:29 PM, July 22, 2014 | Disgraced former Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree, shown in May 2013, who had an affair with a woman while presiding over her child custody case, got some good news from a federal appeals… Read More ›
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Homeseller Need not Reveal Murder-Suicide
By DAVID LEE (CN) – The sellers of homes do not have to disclose “psychological stigmas,” such as murders, to prospective buyers, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled. The state’s highest court unanimously ruled Monday in favor of Kathleen and… Read More ›
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Longest and most powerful military parade of Islamic State with hundreds of Tanks and Convoys
EEV: Pay close attention to the military hardware. The Second Video is for Adults Only, Extremely Graphic but gives a glimpse of what the residents of these countries are enduring. ( The Dream Catcher hanging from the rear view mirror is… Read More ›
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Video: Massive explosion as ISIS destroys Jonah’s Tomb in Mosul
Published on Jul 25, 2014 Militants from Islamic State (formerly ISIS) destroyed the Shrine of Yunus (Tomb of Jonah) Mosque in Mosul on Thursday, July 24, residents of the Iraqi city said. News reports quoting residents said that they were… Read More ›
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Pesticide linked to 3 generations of disease
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 24-Jul-2014 Methoxychlor causes epigenetic changes PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers say ancestral exposures to the pesticide methoxychlor may lead to adult onset kidney disease, ovarian disease and obesity in future generations. “What your great-grandmother was… Read More ›
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Ukrainian PM and Cabinet Resign
Thursday, 24 July 2014 Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigned after two leading political parties said they would pull out of the governing coalition. The far right Svoboda party and the UDAR movement led by former boxer Vladimir Klitschko both… Read More ›
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Alarm Clock Brazil announces dengue fever emergency in GM mosquito trials region
Sustainable Pulse Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:13 CDT Civil society groups today expressed alarm at an increase in dengue incidence, leading to an emergency decree, in a town in Brazil where releases of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes are taking place…. Read More ›
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Brazil to Fight Dengue with GM Mosquitos
// // // © RIA Novosti. Oleg Lastochkin 09:01 24/07/2014 MOSCOW, July 23 (RIA Novosti) – Brazil is going to raise a swarm of genetically modified mosquitos to fight dengue, an acute tropical disease that affects over 50 million people… Read More ›
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China to face widespread flight delays due to three-week ‘military exercises’
PLA exercises thought to be cause of weeks of disruption in Shanghai, Nanjing and elsewhere PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 22 July, 2014, 5:03pm Twelve mainland airports, many of them among the busiest, will be hit by widespread delays until the middle… Read More ›
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Chase Shareholder Can’t Sue Jamie Dimon
By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) – A JPMorgan Chase shareholder jumped the gun in filing a derivative lawsuit against CEO Jamie Dimon in connection with “six recent, high-profile settlements with government agencies and private litigants arising out of allegations of… Read More ›
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Is The Universe A Bubble? Let’s Check
July 17, 2014 Perimeter Associate Faculty member Matthew Johnson and his colleagues are working to bring the multiverse hypothesis, which to some sounds like a fanciful tale, firmly into the realm of testable science. Never mind the big bang; in… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 