Breast Cancer Statistics ? How Breast Cancer Survival Rates Increased 50％
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:41:21 -0800 (PST)
Breast cancer statistics show that over 1.2 million persons will be
diagnosed with breast cancer worldwide this year, according to the
World Health Organization. For breast cancer and prevention, it has
long been known that regular physical activity has been shown to
decrease the likelihood of having breast cancer ...
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Have an average day? (Perhaps a little corny?)
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:21:06 -0800 (PST)
Have an Average Day
http://www.utne.com/print-article.aspx?id=13670
by Michael Neill, from Catalyst
I once was talking to my friend and mentor Steve Chandler when he said
to me, ?Have an average day!? Taken aback, I asked him what he meant.
Isn?t the idea to have great days, even exceptional ones?
He tol ...
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Rank129.Ponder Awhile by Mohit.K.Misra,140.As Valkirias (Portuguese)
by Paulo Coelho
Tue, 8 Jan 2008 23:20:48 -0800 (PST)
BODY MIND AND SPIRIT 58,226 books in catalogue
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Edge discussions - Statistical illiteracy
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:14:34 -0800 (PST)
We still have quite an up-hill struggle to get risks and rewards into
perspective. The current off-label drug prescribing problem rests on
pharmaceutical companies being able to evade the consequences of the
risky process of taking untested drugs (for an off-label population).
Few doctors seem to be able to unders ...
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Edge discussions - Sociologist's take on intelligence and evolution
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:41:27 -0800 (PST)
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LINDA S. GOTTFREDSON
Sociologist, University of Delaware; co-director of the Project for
the Study of Intelligence and Society.
The Calculus of Small but Consistent Effects
For an empiricist, science brings many surprises. It has continued to
change my thinking about many phenomena by challenging my presum ...
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Edge discussions - Plasticity of Perception
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:32:54 -0800 (PST)
The opposite point to that about cultural relativism being a bad idea
is that language does affect perception directly, which does suggest
some profound cultural differences do matter.
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LERA BORODITSKY
Cognitive Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience, Stanford University
Do our languages shape the nuts and bol ...
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Edge discussions - You can buy happiness
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:28:29 -0800 (PST)
We've chatted about the Bentham's hedonic calculus, but this puts a
nice perspective on recent findings:
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DANIEL KAHNEMAN
Psychologist, Princeton; Recipient, 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic
Sciences
The sad tale of the aspiration treadmill
The central question for students of well-being is the extent to whi ...
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Edge discussions - Relativism
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:16:10 -0800 (PST)
Some good points about the evils of cultural relativism.
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TIMOTHY TAYLOR
Archaeologist, University of Bradford; Author, The Buried Soul
Relativism
Where once I would have striven to see Incan child sacrifice 'in their
terms', I am increasingly committed to seeing it in ours. Where once I
would have directe ...
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Edge discussions - Human differences
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:14:47 -0800 (PST)
We've discussed this here before, but I think this post made some good
points. Lance has pointed out the dangers in people getting
discussions about race wrong and abusing scientific results for evil
political ends. On the other hand, we have medicine being pragmatic
about the need to understand these differences ...
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Edge discussions - Scientific Politicians
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:11:26 -0800 (PST)
Should Plato's notion that rulers should be philosophers be taken
seriously? Should scientists sacrifice themselves and become
politicians?
I thought this an interesting question. It seems that many of China's
new rulers are technocrats.
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LEON LEDERMAN
Physicist and Nobel Laureate; Director Emeritus, Fermi ...
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