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Given all the bad news that science has delivered about brain cells
withering and memory waning as the years mount, older people have a
right to be cranky. But, instead, the over-50 crowd handles life's
rotten realities and finds life's bright side more effectively than
whippersnappers do. In no small part, that's because the aging brain
makes critical emotional adjustments, a new study indicates. http://Louissheehan.BraveDiary.com
Advancing
age heralds a growth in emotional stability |
Louis J Sheehan. State laws that send some individuals under age 18 to trial and
prison as adults have achieved the opposite of what the policy's
proponents intended, a new research review concludes. Transferring
young people into adult systems yields substantially higher rates of
later serious crimes compared with youths handled by juvenile-justice
systems. Moreover, there's no evidence that shifting some young
offenders to the adult-justice system prevents or reduces violence in |
Over the past quarter-century, opponents of physician-assisted death
have argued against the practice on the grounds that vulnerable
groups—the very old, the poor, and the mentally ill, to name
three—would turn to, or be pushed toward, such deaths in
disproportionate numbers. http://ljsheehan.blogspot.com
A review of records from Oregon and the
Netherlands undermines that argument. Instead, people who receive help dying tend to be better educated and better off than the general |
http://ljsheehan.blogspot.com While many cattle are stuffed full of grain, grass-fed cattle have
been heralded as a greener way to get beef because it diminishes the
need to feed the animals antibiotics and has a smaller carbon
footprint, not to mention that it yields beef with less saturated fat.
Those of us lucky (or wealthy) enough to feast on grass-fed beef can
rest easy knowing we have taken a step toward protecting planet
Earth—or so we thought. It turns out there’s a hitch: |
http://louis3j3sheehan3esquire.blogspot.com Nate Silver was bored. He’d graduated from the University of Chicago in economics and gone on to a
typical consulting job, but it didn’t interest him much. Not as much as
baseball, that’s for sure.
The job came with one nice perk, though: access to a cool,
geeky statistics software package. It was just the thing for analyzing baseball
data. Before long, Silver could use it to predict how good a baseball player’s
season would be — and he |
Advances in gene therapy could tempt
some athletes to enhance their genetic makeup, leading some researchers
to work on detection methods just in case. http://louis2j2sheehan2esquire.blogspot.com
In early
August — 8/8/08, to be precise — the curtain will rise on what many experts
believe could prove to be the first genetically modified Olympics.
For the unscrupulous or overdriven Olympic athlete, the
banned practice of “doping” by taking hormones or other drugs to enhance |
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Biomimicry, imitating nature’s designs and processes to create products
for humans, has been heralded as key to creating our sustainable
future. http://ljsheehan.blogspot.com
Innovations such as self-cleaning paint based on lotus leaves,
swimsuits made like sharkskin, and wind turbines in the likeness of
whale flippers have all been inspired by parts of nature. But why stop
there? A number of developers are capturing the movement and grace of
entire animals, giving us robots that crawl,
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New genetic evidence
suggests that evolution has continued to shape our species powerfully
over the past 100,000 years. By looking for signals based on how much
DNA mutates over generations, researchers found clues that as much as
10 percent of the human genome may be linked to these recent adaptive
genetic changes.
Cornell University population geneticist Scott Williamson and
colleagues analyzed over a million genetic variations in DNA samples
from 24 individuals, including African |
Mercury, the solar system’s forgotten planet, is finally
getting its place in the sun. An analysis of data collected during the January flyby of
the spacecraft MESSENGER — which will begin a year-long orbit of Mercury in
2011 — has revealed the origin of the planet’s magnetic field, discovered
evidence of early volcanic activity and provided a first look at the planet’s
surface composition.http://Louissheehan.BraveDiary.com Researchers describe their findings in the July 4 Science. Although |
In 2007, excavators of a remote site in southeastern Iran reported
finding evidence of a writing system that dates back more than 4,000
years.http://louis2j2sheehan.blogspot.com Featuring odd geometric symbols, three baked mud tablets
unearthed near the Iranian city of Jiroft could reveal much about a
sophisticated and independent urban culture that flourished between the
Mesopotamian and Indus Valley civilizations. However, many scholars are
skeptical about the authenticity of the |
At the Mutual UFO Network or MUFON
2007 Symposium in Denver Colorado, UFO researcher Brad Sparks presented
a paper that describes the MJ12 documents as an elaborate
disinformation campaign pepetrated by William Moore, Richard Doty, and
other Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) personnel. http://louis-j-sheehan.bizThe
sources for this information are files dating from 1981 (3 years before
the first alleged MJ12 documents surfaced) that UFO researcher Bob
Pratt gave MUFON |
The Merovingians (or Merovings) were http://louis1j1sheehan1.blogspot.com a Salian Frankish dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region (known as as Francia in Latin) largely corresponding to ancient Gaul from the mid fifth
to the mid eighth century. Their politics involved frequent civil
warfare between branches of the family. During the final century of the
Merovingian rule, the dynasty was increasingly pushed into a ceremonial
role. The Merovingian rule was ended by a palace coup in |
Shamil U. Odamanov used to call his parents
almost daily from Moscow, where he worked as a laborer after moving
from his village in Russia’s North Caucasus region in search of a better job. Then, just over a year ago, the phone calls stopped.
Now, to the family’s horror, they think they know why. They have
identified Mr. Odamanov, 24, as the man beheaded in a video of a double
killing apparently carried out by members of a Russian neo-Nazi group
last year.
“It’s not only that he’s |
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Sir Roy Feddon, Chief of the Technical Mission to Germany for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, stated in 1945:
“ I have seen enough of their designs and production plans to realise that if they (the Germans) had managed to prolong the war some months longer, we would have been confronted with a set of entirely new and deadly developments in air warfare. ”
In 1956, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, Chief of the US Air Force Project Bluebook, stated the following:
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The success of Silvio Berlusconi's hair transplant, four years ago, relied on the fact that the septuagenarian prime minister had enough of a thatch on the back of his head to enable some of it to be transferred to his thinning top. Although hair transplants have advanced to the stage where they are virtually undetectable (no more plugs of hair), they still rely on moving hairs from one place to another. So, though hairlines such as Mr Berlusconi's can be thickened up, or even straightened,
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Walther von Brauchitsch ordered construction of an A-4 Production Plant at Peenemünde, and in January 1939, Walter Dornberger
created a subsection of Wa Pruf 11 for planning the Peenemünde
Production Plant project, headed by G. Schubert, a senior Army civil
servant. [18] By midsummer 1943, the first trial runs of the assembly-line in the Production Works at Werke Süd were made, [19] but after the end of July 1943 when the enormous hangar Fertigungshalle 1 (F-1, Mass Production Plant No. 1)
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For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners shot Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Aleksei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia’s throne.
Some said the prince, a delicate 13-year-old, had somehow survived and escaped; others believed he was buried in secret as the country lurched into civil war.
Now an official says DNA tests have solved the mystery by identifying bone shards found in a forest as those of Aleksei and his sister Grand Duchess
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Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner
In the midst of surgery for a deviated septum, Catey Merriman's muscles began to go rigid and her temperature soared. As the surgical team realized she was reacting to the anesthesia, they halted the procedure, injected a powerful muscle relaxant and packed her body in ice. The Niskayuna, N.Y., teacher woke up in the hospital's critical-care unit and asked herself, "Did I die?"
Anesthetics can trigger malignant hyperthermia, a rare but deadly disorder, in
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From the lofty deck of the Hiva Oa Hanakee Pearl Lodge, the only hotel on the remote South Pacific island of Hiva Oa, the view is of lush forest, crashing cobalt sea and, if it is morning, a very misty Mount Temetiu. Below and for miles beyond, nature runs wild: steep cliffs and deep valleys covered with luxuriant tropical vegetation. No reefs surround the island, allowing the sea to pile wildly onto the sandy, rocky shoreline. The only thing missing is ... people. Which is a good thing when
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