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Sad state of City math

Filed under: Science/Technology — Jaws @ 11:00 pm

CUNY’s got math problem: Report shows many freshmen from city HS fail at basic algebra

How simple are the State exams for students, if by the time they graduate, they can’t even handle basic fractions?

Depressing to say the least….

Wow….just wow!

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Radioactive Monkeys

Filed under: Health/Medicine,Interesting,Science/Technology — Jaws @ 10:13 pm

NAsA is about to start experimenting the effects of cosmic radiation on monkeys.

NASA has been doing similar experiments on mice and rats for a few years now–so this shouldn’t come as much of surprise. (It’s actually really cool how the experiments are set up as well)

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Crackberry

Filed under: Personal,Science/Technology — Jaws @ 3:28 pm

Yes, I’ve taken the plunge and gotten a blackberry.

It was time for a new phone anyway…so may as well make the leap up.

Time to go read the manual…

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Ikea in Space?

Filed under: Science/Technology — Jaws @ 9:57 pm

Huge chest of drawers hoisted aboard space station

I think it would be cooler if they had to assemble the drawers a la Ikea style!

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How about “no”

Filed under: Politics,Science/Technology — Jaws @ 10:29 pm

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

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Fun with vegtables

Filed under: Science/Technology — Jaws @ 10:27 pm

Exploding celery..and what it can teach us

Personally, I’d much rather eat the celery pre-explosion, but this is still really cool

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Mission to Mars

Filed under: Science/Technology — Jaws @ 9:48 pm

This sounds like a promising first step: Six end simulated Mars mission isolation

Now granted, there’s still a lot of other variables to look at (e.g. the effect of a zero-g environment, exposure to cosmic radiation, etc.)

One random thing that came to mind—what would the effects of such a long space mission be on one’s circadian rhythms?

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Unethical research

Filed under: Science/Technology — Jaws @ 10:01 pm

Blood Samples Raise Questions of Privacy

I’m surprised that consent wasn’t required for the States to hold onto these samples. In every sort of trial and/or experiment, informed consent is a must!

Even though the blood was likely stored anynomously, it sorts of seems “unethical” to be doing something like this sans permission.

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THE Science News Cycle

Filed under: Amusing,Science/Technology — Jaws @ 9:02 pm

Science News Cycle.

explained pictorially.

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Fascinating discovery

Filed under: Health/Medicine,Interesting,Science/Technology — Jaws @ 9:40 pm

Something that has long been hypothesized in the field of Sleep Medicine, may actually turn out to be true:

Narcolepsy Is An Autoimmune Disorder, Stanford Researcher Says

Now it’s going to be really interesting to find out how the specified T-cells know to “target” the hypocretin/orexin neurons in the brain.

This is very cool!

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Gawker gets it right

Filed under: Health/Medicine,Moonbats and Wingnuts,Science/Technology — Jaws @ 4:28 pm

Gawker rightfully and nicely digs into the Huffington Post for running this silly article of Jim Carrey’s.
(Warning: reading Carrey’s article could potentially be damaging to one’s intellegence).

Gawker, responds to Carrey in simple terms, saying:

“VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM” is 9/11 Truther hysterical idiocy at its dumbest.

Exactly!

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Beware of equations?

Filed under: Health/Medicine,Politics,Science/Technology — Jaws @ 11:03 am

Michael Barrone penned an editiorial column which starts out with the words: “Beware of geeks bearing formulas”

The column goes on to use the formulas used by “quants”, (which helped lead to the subprime problem) as a warning against using such equations to predict climate change and health care policy.

For the latter, I’m not quite sure how one could really use a formula to shape/modulate health care policy. Sure, one can do some epidemiological modeling, but besides that, what use does a forumla have? (Unless this is a discussion of figuring out how to interpret the Medicare fee-schedule…which is a whole different headache).

Does this mean increased usage of formulas like the CMS hospital rating scale? (The silly nature of the scale is another discussion).

Using modeling and equations have thei place, as one tool in a toolbox, but should not be relied upon exclusively.

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Treif Hot Dog Scandal!

Filed under: Campaign2004,Cleveland/NEO,Jewish Stuff/Judaism,New York City,Science/Technology — Jaws @ 11:01 am

The Post’s coverstory today is titled “Frank Incensed” and is about a Kosher eatery in Brooklyn caught serving unkosher hot dogs.

Interestinly enough, according to the Post, here’s how the discovery was made:

The Torah tussle began when a longtime patron noticed the unusually plump wiener he bought Monday night at Cheskel’s Shawarma King in Borough Park didn’t fit into a challah roll as usual.

Quite a sense of observation on the patron’s part.

It was after the discovery that things got a bit crazy, and of couse there’s video of what happened next.

However, there appears to be more to the story than what the Post reported. Two Jewish blogs, Voz Iz Neias and Yeshiva World News have much more on the story.

The whole treif food in a Kosher eatery scenario reminds me of something that took place a long time ago (this is 10+ years ago–so there’s probably nothing online) back in Cleveland. There was a Kosher chinese restaurant on Taylor Road that at one point was caught purchasing either non-Kosher meat (or was it fish?) from a company. Needless to say, the restaurant soon shut its doors for good.

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Scientific illiteracy

Filed under: Science/Technology — Jaws @ 12:19 pm

The headline says it all: Scientific illiteracy all the rage among the glitterati

Anyone really suprised?

Granted, the “glitterati” in this article also included politicians too (not suprising either)

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What would we do without science?

Filed under: Science/Technology,Wierd Side — Jaws @ 6:58 pm

An article from today’s Plain Dealer: Which retail system is better — queue at each register or one big line? Prof has the answer

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The physics of Santa

Filed under: Amusing,Science/Technology — Jaws @ 2:45 pm

Time for the annual classic (in all it’s geeky goodness!):

The Physics of Santa Claus
and of course, equal time for the

Rebuttal of the physics of Santa Claus

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Fat as fuel

Filed under: Science/Technology — Jaws @ 2:10 pm

No, not necessarily in the sense of a ketogenic of fat-adapted diet.

Rather, a Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon used fat from liposuction patients to fuel his vehicle!

Granted, there’s a bit of illegality involved here (it’s probably illegal to use human medical waste in such a way). What is interesting though, is the mention that some of the major meat/poultry providers are looking to use the extra shmaltz from their plants to fuel their (truck) fleets. Sound pretty cool.

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Gender Bending Chemicals?

Filed under: Science/Technology — Jaws @ 11:39 am

STUDY: Pollutions damaging genitals, threatening ‘male tool kit’…

Does this mean it’s time for men to have to start taking AIs and/or SERMs?

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Newly Identified Neurons

Filed under: Brandeis,Science/Technology — Jaws @ 9:32 pm

Cool discovery out of the alma matter:

Researching Fly Sleep To Advance Understanding Of Human Sleep And Its Disorders

Here’s a link to the abstract

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NYC To build a Medical Mart?

Filed under: Cleveland/NEO,New York City,Science/Technology — Jaws @ 12:47 pm

In what would be a potential head-on competition with Cleveland, there’s talk that NYC may be constructing a Medical Mart

Now, should NYC construct one, than Cleveland really shouldn’t bother. Although, Cleveland (or rather Cuyahoga Country) recently raised its sales tax to fund such a project.

No news from any NYC papers (yet) on the idea of constructing a Medical Mart here, but there are some major questions that stand out.

First off, where will it be located? Second, who is going to pay for it? (Hint: The City and State don’t have the funds).

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