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Goodbye, Honda Odyssey. Hello, Honda SkyDeck concept.
Don't get us wrong – in no way are we saying that you should ditch your sports car and invest in something more spacious. But hey, you could do worse than saving your pennies for the Honda SkyDeck, the six-seat hybrid minivan unveiled at last month's Tokyo Motor Show. The SkyDeck ...
Microsoft layoffs hit again
Microsoft will face another round of layoffs this week. Just two weeks ago, the company's fortunes seemed hopeful. Microsoft said that its quarterly earnings beat analysts' expectations and its newest operating system, Windows 7, sprinted out of the gate. This drove up stock prices and lead to thoughts that maybe the ...
Duracell MyGrid billed as clutter killer
It's happened to all of us – the cellphone charger cord gets wrapped around our ankle, and we lurch forward, pulling the cord from the wall and sending our precious smartphone skittering across the floor faster than Tom Cruise in "Days of Thunder." Call it cord clutter, or cord overload. ...

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Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:34:54 -0500
NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington.
Shuttle lands at California air base
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:17:51 -0500
NASA officials Sunday waved off the first opportunity for space shuttle Endeavour to return to Earth, citing poor weather conditions.
iReporters watch planets, moon align
Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:52:24 -0500


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Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart
CmdrTaco Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:17:00 -0000
D1gital_Prob3 writes "How can a 'smart' person act foolishly? Keith Stanovich, professor of human development and applied psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada, has grappled with this apparent incongruity for 15 years. He says it applies to more people than you might think. To Stanovich, however, there is nothing incongruous about it. IQ tests are very good at measuring certain mental faculties, he says, including logic, abstract reasoning, learning ability and working-memory capacity — how much information you can hold in mind."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence
CmdrTaco Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:49:00 -0000
Noiser writes "New Scientist reports: 'In 2007, Abdelmalek Bayout admitted to stabbing and killing a man and received a sentence of 9 years and 2 months. An appeal court judge in Trieste, Italy, cut Bayout's sentence by a year after finding out he has gene variants linked to aggression.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Placebo Effect Caught In the Act In Spinal Nerves
kdawson Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:07:00 -0000
SerpensV passes along the news that German scientists have found direct evidence that the spinal cord is involved in the placebo effect (whose diminishing over time we discussed a bit earlier). "The researchers who made the discovery scanned the spinal cords of volunteers while applying painful heat to one arm. Then they rubbed a cream onto the arm and told the volunteers that it contained a painkiller, but in fact it had no active ingredient. Even so, the cream made spinal-cord neural activity linked to pain vanish. 'This type of mechanism has been envisioned for over 40 years for placebo analgesia,' says Donald Price, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who was not involved in the new study. 'This study provides the most direct test of this mechanism to date.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

L.A. Times - Science

Obesity puts swine flu sufferers at greater risk, study suggests
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800
A study in California shows that about a quarter of the people hospitalized for H1N1 complications were morbidly obese, even though less than 5% of the population falls into that category. Obesity appears to be a risk factor on a par with pregnancy for developing complications from an infection with pandemic H1N1 influenza, according to the most comprehensive look yet at swine flu hospitalizations.
FDA seeks to reduce drug dosage errors
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800
Its program aims to curb a wide-ranging problems, which take a toll on health and cost $4 billion a year. In an attempt to reduce the deaths and serious health problems caused by misuse of medication, the Food and Drug Administration is trying to identify the most serious threats and find ways to avoid them.
Biologist Richard Dawkins on the evolution debate
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800
Author of 'The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution' shares his passion for spreading an understanding of scientific processes with the layperson. In the 150 years since the publication of Charles Darwin's landmark book, "On the Origin of Species," researchers have accrued massive amounts of evidence in support of evolution and the mechanics behind the process. Yet today only 4 in 10 Americans believe that evolution occurred.

 

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