Month: January 2017

sewage system, watery bowels

Pristine Pools, Watery Bowels and the Septic American Dream

15/01/2017

There are biological consequences to keeping an open sewer of stagnant water in your garden. Even if you call it a pool....

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Crystal Clear Carbon Capture

14/01/2017

Crystallization method offers new option for carbon capture from ambient air ...

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papa che by Dan Booth

Still Not Listening: Meryl Streep Fails to Charm the Hicks

14/01/2017

Meryl's message may have been astute, but if it ain't coming from a blue collar hick, it's just preaching to the choir....

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A Welcome Side Effect: Alzheimer’s Drug Fixes Tooth Decay

13/01/2017

Natural tooth repair method, using Alzheimer's drug, could revolutionize dental treatments ...

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Skillet

Loitered Lens: Skillet

13/01/2017

Leather, riffs, rock, tattoos, sweat, noise and notepaper - photos of Skillet at Koko...

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To Mow a Meadow (Green Scythe Fair)

12/01/2017

Remember where your food comes from. Remember the hands that toiled for you....

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vitamin c, fruit

Why Exactly Does Vitamin C Kill Cancer?

11/01/2017

Low levels of catalase enzyme make cancer cells vulnerable to high-dose vitamin C...

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bullies, empathy, sympathy

Sympathy/Empathy: The Very Air That Evil Breathes.

11/01/2017

Manipulating the reader's revulsion at the bias of a clumsy attack is now an established technique of political propaganda ...

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dictionay, bilingualism

Que Bueno! Bilingualism Saves Brains

10/01/2017

Bilingualism may save brain resources as you age ...

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Loitered Lens: New Model Army

10/01/2017

A welcome return to protest politics and riot rock at Kentish Town Forum. Photos...

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About Vitamin D and Respiratory Ills (or: Why All those Oldies go to Florida)

09/01/2017

High monthly vitamin D reduces respiratory infections...

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Play the Devil, strippers

Bad Vibes in the Jersey Punchbowl

09/01/2017

Sex, Strippers and Staph Infections in the Jersey 'Burbs...

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Seven years in Tibet? Try 13,000

08/01/2017

Research sheds new light on high-altitude settlement in Tibet ...

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Loitered Lens: Sam Lavery

08/01/2017

Warming up the crowd for Matt Goss, Sam Lavery proves that she too can spellbind a crowd...

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fast radio burst

Where in the Universe did that Fast Radio Burst Come From?

07/01/2017

Cosmic source found for mysterious 'fast radio burst' ...

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Dan Booth cosmic mind

Politics? Environment? In the end, all is transitory.

07/01/2017

The human heart, an inveterate time-traveler, knows its way through the honey-hived portals of time. ...

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woman with megaphone, speaking, stammering

The Mechanics of Stuttering (and the beginnings of a cure)

06/01/2017

Stuttering linked to reduced blood flow in area of brain associated with language ...

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The Ivory Tower, Trump, and the Eclipse of Dignity

06/01/2017

If a Trump win came partly as a reaction to 'the PC brigade', it has to be said they presented an easy target...

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soft drink, sugar free

Are Sugar Free and Diet Drinks Worth It?

05/01/2017

Sugar-free and 'diet' drinks no better for healthy weight than full sugar drinks ...

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Lights from the Sky: Touchstone at the Borderline

05/01/2017

Touchstone's new frontwoman spreads her wings at London's Borderline...

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chicken by Farm Sanctuary

Chicken – Finger Lickin’ Caring and Intelligent

04/01/2017

Review looks at studies on chicken intelligence, social development and emotions...

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Pee and Loathing in New Jersey

04/01/2017

Of all the strippers' pools to be cleaning, it had to be this one.......

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Anti-Aging Therapies – How Close is Immortality Now?

03/01/2017

Anti-aging therapies targeting senescent cells: Facts and fiction ...

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Babymetal Live at Wembley – The Unlikely but Apt Encapsulation of 2016

03/01/2017

Turbulent, divisive and very hotly debated - Babymetal very aptly encapsulate 2016 in their Live at Wembley release...

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cosmic metamaser

Gaze Thee Upon the Cosmic Metamaser

02/01/2017

The Hubble Space Telescope offers some seasonal images of a newly discovered Cosmic Metamaser...

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Matt Goss

Loitered Lens: Matt Goss

02/01/2017

Extravaganza! Matt Goss lights up the Shepherd's Bush Empire. Photos...

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psilocybin, magic mushrooms

Careful Now! : When Magic Mushrooms Turn BAD

01/01/2017

Survey assesses both risky behaviors and positive outcomes of psilocybin use...

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Domkraft, End of Electricity

The End of Electricity (Domkraft)

01/01/2017

Simultaneously doomy and a little dotty, Domkraft freshen the formula with The End of Electricity...

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