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Don't use your mobile before going to sleep?
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:39:30 -0800 (PST)
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012208HA.shtml
Original: http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3353768.ece
Mobile Phone Radiation Wrecks Your Sleep
By Geoffrey Lean
The Independent UK
Sunday 20 January 2008
Phone makers' own scientists discover that bedtime use can lead to
headaches, confusion a ...
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Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:32:16 -0800 (PST)
This is interesting research, but the article itself seems rather
confused about cause and effect.
It isn't clear to me quite how it helps a clinician, faced with an
obese patient, to be aware that he's not neurotic and is extroverted
is going to help him much. Is the supposed to suggest that the person
stays a ...
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Sleep is for weakening brain connections
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:26:58 -0800 (PST)
Study: Brain connections strengthen during waking hours, weaken during
sleep
Most people know it from experience: After so many hours of being
awake, your brain feels unable to absorb any more-and several hours of
sleep will refresh it.
Now new research from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
and ...
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Emotion and cognition are separate things?
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:20:38 -0800 (PST)
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9, 148-158 (February 2008) | doi:10.1038/
nrn2317
Opinion: On the relationship between emotion and cognition
Luiz Pessoa
Abstract
The current view of brain organization supports the notion that there
is a considerable degree of functional specialization and that many
regions ca ...
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Human rsponse to animal emotional vocalisations
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:19:18 -0800 (PST)
Human cerebral response to animal affective vocalizations
Issue Volume 275, Number 1634 / March 07, 2008
Pages 473-481
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2007.1460
Authors
Pascal Belin1, 2, Shirley Fecteau3, Ian Charest1, Nicholas Nicastro4,
Marc D. Hauser5, 6, 7, Jorge L. Armony8, 9
1Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Departm ...
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Naming after a Nazi...
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:06:44 -0800 (PST)
NYT
January 22, 2008
A Nazi Past Casts a Pall on Name of a Disease
By BARNABY J. FEDER
What?s in a disease?s name? Long-hidden shame, perhaps.
In most cases, as with lung cancer or heart failure, names are not
much more than thumbnail descriptions. But for a few common illnesses
like Alzheimer?s disease and f ...
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Politics in other animal species
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:04:20 -0800 (PST)
NYT
January 22, 2008
Basics
Political Animals (Yes, Animals)
By NATALIE ANGIER
As the candidates have shown us in the succulent telenovela that is
the 2008 presidential race, there are many ways to parry for political
power. You can go tough and steely in an orange hunter?s jacket, or
touchy-feely with a Kleen ...
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http://www.couol.com/books/masterpieces -Ponder Awhile
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:24:08 -0800 (PST)
http://www.couol.com/books/masterpieces
Ponder Awhile6 reviews
Mohit .K. Misra
BookSurge Publishing, 2006
ponder awile-a must read
Ponder awhile is one one of the most soul searching books of prose i
have read in a long time-its simplistic style allows the reader to
draw their own spirituality and explor ...
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Vacation Is One Way To Run Away From Stress During Pregnancy
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:43:38 -0800 (PST)
What should you do to have a happy pregnancy? Many things you could
do, but what most pregnant women rarely do is having a vacation. Get a
life and try to relax a little bit. Or take an extended weekend just
to refresh and recharge your batteries.
Downtime is very important, and in a world where nearly all of us ...
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Overfishing and subsidies
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:32:31 -0800 (PST)
NYT
January 21, 2008
Editorial
Until All the Fish Are Gone
Scientists have been warning for years that overfishing is degrading
the health of the oceans and destroying the fish species on which much
of humanity depends for jobs and food. Even so, it would be hard to
frame the problem more dramatically than two ...
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