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Coma mis-diagnosed for 23 years
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Are marathons bad for your heart?
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Retinal repair & bionic eyes (retinal prostheses) New
advances in vision medicine
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Evidence
that mercury is NOT linked with autism; read original research
here
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Are autism rates really on the rise?
Read or listen (5min).
Related post below.
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Are vaccines safe for kids?
listen and find out...... D.Y.K.:
that in many cases you can request a version of a vaccine that does not
contain thimerisol (the mercury containing preservative that freaks some
folks out), but you will have to pay extra.
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Can sweat keep your blood from
boiling--listen (~3min)
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Rocks in your ears?
Yep, and they can make you dizzy (read or listen, 4min)
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Thinning Brain Cortex, Heredity, and
Depression; thickness matters listen how the thickness of
your cortex relates to your risk of having depression
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How to amputate an imaginary limb
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You probably have a vitamin D
deficiency (read or listen ~4min)
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Red meat and heart disease
(read or listen ~3.5 min)
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Can early exposure to anesthetics
cause learning disability
(read or listen)
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The little man inside your brain
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Many childhood allergies are
misdiagnosed
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Say goodbye to peanut allergies
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Why you should doodle during lecture
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Do prostate tests really help?
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Lamprey Love Potion
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Alzheimers and Mad Cow Disease;
what's the connection?
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One flu shot for life?
The virus that doesn't mutate.
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Iodine and prenatal health?
Do prenatal vitamins have enough iodine?
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Are you what your mother eats?
Can female diet influence gender (2min
audio/text)
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How circuit boards might allow the
paralyzed to walk: using electrodes to bypass spinal cord
injuries (short magazine snip-it)
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Why your voice might change when
ovulating: the subtle mating signals of
humans
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Famous Amnesiac
passes away:
find out how the world's most famous
amnesiac helped us learn how the brain works. (4 min audio)
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Why you shouldn't
flush pills down the toilet/why you may be drinking your neighbor's
drugs (audio & text)
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Two disorders, one
gene: the battle between paternal and
maternal DNA
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Milkshakes,
neurotransmitters, DNA, and obesity:
how anticipation and gratitude can be
influenced by neurotransmitters.
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Worse then drunk
driving: research on
multitasking while driving
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Meditation reduces
blood pressure
(4 min audio
or text)
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Insects, the food
of the future!
Why space travelers may eat bugs!
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The surprising sex
lives of octopuses--includes
sneaky males (audio 4min)
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Trash is a
resource and raw material: the economic imperative to recycle
and the resource wars (audio and text).
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The neurobiology
of lying--habitual liars have different
brain structure (audio & text)
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It's all in your
head--the placebo effect and the price of pills
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Bacteria cause
snow and precipitation--yep, bacteria are everywhere.
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Peru, Potatoes,
and Climate change--how climate change relates to potatoes
and genetic diversity (audio, text, and pictures)
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Blind people can
hallucinate:
text and audio about the visual
hallucinations of a blind man (and other compensation of the brain)
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Climate change
effects animal migration: 20 min
interview with Princeton ecologist David Wilcove (original aired on
FreshAir)
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Global warming is
NOT a crisis? There
are multiple perspectives on global warming (MP3
file). To view summaries or
stream the full 1.5 hr debate
click here
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Water is a limited
resource: the future and past of water use. Interview
with Robert Gleick (originally aired on freshair.
mp3, 20 min).
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The bacteria in your mouth
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Vibrating could
prevent fat formation (text and audio)
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Local CSULB
professor and graduate do climate change related shark research.
Check out what local professor Dr. Chris
Lowe and CSULB graduate Yannis Papastanatiou do with sharks in the south
pacific (click "listen" for audio. video link below 1st picture)
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The
brain and neurobiology of music:
interview with neurobiologist Oliver Sacks.
Interview originally aired on NPR's Fresh Air. Hope to post MP3
file soon, this links you to streaming audio. More on
Music and memory
with Oliver Sacks
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Cancer, babies
with breasts, & cell phones penetrating your brain:
Start podcast at minute 20:30.
This is an interesting perspective, but don't feel like the sky is
falling.
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Spit, yeast, &
flies; what do they have in common? Gene duplication....read
on. Another great piece by Carl Zimmer
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Nematode worms,
elephantitis, and genetics
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Biology of
Addiction, Nora Volkow (prominent
researcher) discussion how the brain responds to drugs (audio,
originally aired on freshair)
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Interview with
Francis Collins, prominent genomics
researcher who see's no conflict between science and religion
(audio, originally aired on "freshair")
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Interview with
Richard Dawkins, outspoken evolutionary
biologist who feels science and religion are mutually exclusive
(audio, originally aired on "freshair")
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Pollutants cause
sex-changes in frogs
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Why you shouldn't
use antibiotic soap
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Are We Evolved
to get Cancer?
Article,
more info
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Genetic Pollution:
genetically altered rice found in US rice crop
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Preimplantation Genetic Testing (good stuff)
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
more info
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Being too clean
might cause allergies
