Tag: research
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2012 Arctic Ice Melt Claims Distorted And Inaccurate. It’s the Wind Stupid
from drtimball.com: Recently I identified a counterattack trying to defend the failed anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis. Claims about Arctic ice melt this summer (2012) are another example. Data and analysis are wrong, but they need to scare a disinterested public. I know about arctic sea ice from flying ice and anti-submarine patrols on Canada’s…
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Why Half of America May Have Impaired Brain Function by 2030
from mercola.com: A new UCLA study is the first to show how a steady diet high in fructose can damage your memory and learning. The study was published in the Journal of Physiology. Researchers investigated the effects of high-fructose syrup, similar to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a cheap sweetener six times sweeter than cane…
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Scientists fear increased genetic defects in Fukushima
from fukushimaupdate.com: via DW.de / August 16, 2012 / The effects of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima have now become visible in butterflies. Researchers worry the effects may start to be felt among human beings. The butterflies found to be deformed as a result of radiation from the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima belong to the…
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Destroying Children With The Cloak Of ADHD
from naturalnews.com: ADHD, your child, drugs, corruption… are words that should not be in the same sentence – or same conversation for that matter. Last month, a study was published that makes it questionable whether this generation of children stands even a remote fighting chance against the pharmaceutical companies…. They do if their parents are…
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Report Claims People Still Discover New Music Via Old Media
Nielsen Music 360 Report Says “I Can’t Live Without My Radio” from spin.com: People may be curious enough to Shazam 5 billion songs (11 million of which were Gotye’s), but a new report conducted by Nielsen claims that radio remains the No. 1 way people discover new music. In fact, almost half of the 3,000…
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#BingeAndPurge: Fluoride, Fruit, Fraud and more
Harvard Study: Fluoridated Water Associated with Lower IQs in Children* More Kids Are Living in Poverty and Exposed to Air Pollution* Can eating fruit help you quit smoking?* Tepco releases recordings of Fukushima nuclear crisis* US starts landmark Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam* 4.1 earthquake hits near Yorba Linda, CA* July was hottest month in…
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Internet Archive unleashes 1PB of data through BitTorrent
from computerworld.com: The Internet Archive, a non-profit project established to act as an online library of that preserves digital information, has to date offered up nearly a petabyte of content via the BitTorrent file-sharing site. In a blog post, The Internet Archive said it is offering 1.5 million torrents including live music concerts, the Prelinger…
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Rare snowfall stuns much of South Africa
from ap.org: JOHANNESBURG (AP) — People slowly came outside despite the cold wind Tuesday across South Africa, pointed their mobile phone cameras to the sky and opened their mouths to taste a rare snowfall that fell on much of the country. The snow began Tuesday morning, part of an extreme cold snap now biting into…
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Decade-Long Feeding Study Reveals Significant Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods
from mercola.com: Scientists in Norway have released results from experimental feeding studies carried out over a 10-year period, and the verdict is in: If you want to avoid obesity, then avoid eating genetically engineered (GE) corn, corn-based products, and animals that are fed a diet of GE grain. As reported by Cornucopia.org, the project also…
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Calcium Supplementation Linked to Heart Attacks, Why and How
Real food is your best source of calcium.
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Study Shows Pop Music Too Loud And All Sounds The Same
Comforting news for anyone over the age of 35, scientists have worked out that modern pop music really is louder and does all sound the same.
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Controlling Monkey Brains And Behavior With Light
Researchers reporting online on July 26 in Current Biology have for the first time shown that they can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells.
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Fukushima’s Uncertainty Problem
It’s been well over a year since multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan sparked the worst nuclear crisis in 25 years — and it is remarkable how little we still know about its impact.
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Learned helplessness: The war on you
from brasschecktv.com: Learned helplessness is a technical term that refers to the condition of a human or animal that has learned to behave helplessly, failing to respond even though there are opportunities for it to help itself by avoiding unpleasant circumstances or by gaining positive rewards. Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression…
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Pain Is In Your Brain And How To Fix It
It’s a complex process that’s still being unraveled, but what is known is that your brain, and consequently your thoughts and emotions, play a key role in your experience of pain.