Last week, in a remarkable show of courage, students at one of Tehran's elite universities openly denounced Ahmadinejad as a dictator and a fascist, forcing him to cut short his planned address.
A Christchurch plastic surgeon who tried to get on a plane at Queenstown Airport missed his flight after bloody fluid began seeping from his baggage.
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Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
An Egyptian police officer slaps around a detainee, to the delight of his colleagues. He didn't think anyone was watching.
His report builds on footage shot by ordinary Chinese of clashes between peasants and government hired thugs, and of ordinary people being forcibly evicted from their houses.
Jag har hackat om "recent comments" så att den istället för att länka till det enskilda kommentarsobjektet nu går till bloggposten som kommenteras, och sedan rullar ned till kommentaren.<br><br>Detta gör det förmodligen lättare att ha nytta av "recent comments"-rutan i vänsterspalt.<br>
A report by the General Accounting Office concludes that current patent law discourages drug companies from developing new drugs by allowing them to make excessive profits through minor changes to existing pharmaceuticals.
Researcher Sabine Bahn, M.D., Ph.D., and her colleagues at Cambridge University in England and the University of Cologne in Germany, detected abnormal proteins linked to schizophrenia in the liver and red blood cells of people who have the disorder. It is the first time the same altered proteins have been detected both within brain tissue as well as in non-brain tissue, according to Bahn. In time, Bahn says, these protein "biomarkers" could be used to trace the progression of the disease throughout the body.
Got an hour or two? Check out the 2 part documentary, The God Delusion with Richard Dawkins
There is a growing body of scientific evidence that links calcification to the presence of nanosized particles, particles so small that some scientists question whether a nanoparticle can live and if so, play a viable role in the development of kidney stones. The presence of proteins, RNA and DNA does not prove that nanoparticles are viable living forms because a genetic signature has not been identified, says the study's author John Lieske, M.D., a nephrologist with Mayo Clinic. A genetic signature would prove that nanoparticles are indeed living forms that replicate and can cause disease.
Researchers have learned how the immune system slices and dices genes so that B cells can program antibodies to seek out and destroy invaders.
The results are dramatic: Testosterone levels increased significantly after handling the gun, while they didn't increase at all after a similar task with the game. And the gun-handlers put more than three times as much hot sauce in the water as the game players: over 13 grams, in just an 85-gram container of water, creating a solution that was over 15 percent hot sauce. Klinesmith's team argues that this study shows that simply handling a gun causes men to be more aggressive.
French counterterrorism forces are on high alert going into presidential elections next spring, two of the country's top terrorism officials say, citing three Islamist plots thwarted over the last 18 months — including one to bomb the Paris Métro and another targeting Orly Airport.
The results appeared promising but also suggested that at least some of the positive results were attributable to the dogs' remarkable sense of smell. The report also examines the possibility of ESP in cats and pigeons. Rhine was the first to attempt a scientific investigation of paranormal phenomena of this type, and many of his experimental results have been attacked as being the result of a general lack of stringent experimental controls and the possible falsification of records by his laboratory assistants.
You may here on the news that the situation for the ordinary people is going from bad to worse but why not hear from the Iraqis for yourself.
Adults who classified themselves as vegetarian tended to be five points higher in IQ when they were tested at age 10. Interestingly, the results remained stable after education and social class were controlled for.
The notion that a single small population of incipient modern humans had the perfect genetic combination for ultimate success seems quite improbable. Instead, the long coevolution of modern anatomy and behavior in contact with archaic humans, even as those archaic populations appeared to diminish, provided a rich source of adaptations for the expanding modern population. With current genomic techniques, we are beginning to find these archaic genes. We expect that they will prove central to the story of modern human origins.
Scientists have looked at anger and violence, though, and discovered genetic variations, expressed as concentrations of a particular messenger molecule in the brain, that are both congenital and predisposing to a violent temper. Where is free will in this case? Free will is one of the trickiest concepts in philosophy, but also one of the most important. Without it, the idea of responsibility for one's actions flies out of the window, along with much of the glue that holds a free society (and even an unfree one) together.
Om kabelprojektet förverkligas skulle det minska i synnerhet den kombinerade inhemska produktionen av el och värme och i fortsättningen bromsa upp genomförandet av nya inhemska energilösningar. Allt detta skulle innebära att andelen el som produceras av inhemska energiråämnen ytterligare skulle minska från den nuvarande nivån 34 procent. Detta skulle inte vara en god utvecklingsriktning.
OpenStim is a community that aims to develop a magnetic brain stimulator which you can build and use in your own home.
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