May 2013
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L.A.: Own a piece of Bob and Dolores Hope's estate →
Thanks for the memories….
CISPA is NOT dead. Here's why... →
April 2013
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“The freedom fighting corporatists think speaking warrants a background check,...”
– Irony: Victims of Gun Violence Subjected to Background Checks by Senate (via purplegem)
Subject for today is anencephalus.
In her best scarecrow voice she sings, ” ….if I only had a brain”
3D printer can build synthetic/replacement tissues →
k273:
Just wow. No need to worry about tissue incompatibility or ethical issue surrounding stem cell R&D.
“… for delivering drugs to places where they are needed and potentially one day replacing or interfacing with damaged human tissues. Because droplet networks are entirely synthetic, have no genome and do not replicate, they avoid some of the problems associated with other approaches to...
March 2013
10 posts
You have your genome or exome (the protein-encoding part) sequenced to help diagnose a puzzling set of symptoms, and something totally unrelated, and unexpected, turns up – a so-called “incidental finding.”
Surprises, of course, aren’t new in medicine. The term “incidental finding” comes from “incidentaloma,” coined in 1995 to describe an adrenal tumor found on a scan looking for something else....
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Yeowsa!
Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, a grassroots organization called Strike Debt claims it has bought and abolished over $1 million in medical debt.
The targets of Strike Debt’s Rolling Jubilee campaign were patients who owed around $900 each for emergency room visits in Kentucky and Indiana. On Thursday, the Occupy offshoot said it bought and then forgave more than 1,000 people’s debts...
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February 2013
7 posts
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January 2013
5 posts
“The DNA of the top fish has been genetically engineered to produce growth...”
– Action Alert: Genetically Engineered Salmon | Cornucopia Institute
“INAUGURAL POEM 2013
It is words that linger as eternal mist
…floating in the...”
– Humanist Voices in Verse: Inaugural Poem 2013
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December 2012
14 posts
“Presenting the 101 most useful websites of 2012. These sites, well most of them,...”
– The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet
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121212 Concert for Sandy Relief Will Be Simulcast... →
thepoliticalfreakshow:
Wednesday’s Superstorm Sandy benefit concert at Madison Square Garden in New York will be the most widely available live concert ever, according to producers.
“12-12-12 The Concert for Sandy Relief” at the Garden will be available on television or online to some two billion people, said producer James Dolan. Thirty-four U.S. television networks have agreed to show the...
“The Merck Foundation says the Boy Scouts’ exclusion of gays from its ranks and...”
– Merck Foundation stops giving to Boy Scouts - Business - Boston.com (via sarahlee310)
“Cutting Medicaid Funding would Harm Women’s Economic Well-Being
Medicaid...”
– Job Loss: The Hidden Cost of Medicaid Cuts to Women | National Women’s Law Center
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“11.26.2012
Earth as Art Earth As Art
Image credit: NASA In 1960, the United...”
– NASA - “Earth As Art”
“A software “worm” evidently unleashed by hackers burrowed through Tumblr on...”
– Software ‘worm’ defaces Tumblr | The Raw Story
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November 2012
26 posts
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“Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this video: Taken from a high-altitude...”
– Australia’s 2012 total solar eclipse video from a balloon at 120,000 feet
Monsanto Ordered to Federal Court Over Seed... →
A lawsuit brought about by 83 food and agriculture groups will finally face off with Monsanto at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. early next year.
Representing 300,000 farmers—nearly 25 percent of all certified organic farms in the U.S.—the group of organizations includes the Cornucopia Institute, Fedco Seeds and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners...
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