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Coffee, Tea Health Benefits: Curb Diabetes Risk With Daily Drink

Posted 12.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Coffee Tea Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Research, Food and Drink, Effects of Coffee Tea on Diabetes, Health, Diabetes, Health Studies, Beverages, Coffee, Tea, Living News

A daily dose of coffee, decaf or tea can reduce the risk of getting Type 2 diabetes by 25 to 35 percent, according to a new study published in the Arc...

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Studying Love Instead Of War -- What If?

Suzie Heumann | Posted 12.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Human, Murder, Research, Middle East, World Population, Kama Sutra, Seven Deadly Sins, Chimpanzee, Relationships, Living News
Suzie Heumann

Do you remember the old folk ballad Down By the River Side - The one that has the line "I ain't gonna study war no more"? What if everyone studied Love instead? What would life be like?

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Obesity And Genetics Study Finds Missing DNA Can Promote Childhood Obesity

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Dna, Leptin, Britain, Research, Children, Childhood Obesity, Genetics, Obesity, Childhood, Chromosome 16, Hormones, Chromosomes, Study, Living News

NEW YORK — Some children get severely obese because they lack particular chunks of DNA, which kicks their hunger into overdrive, researchers rep...

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Why Brain Science Is Bad for Juvenile Justice

Alexandra Cox | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Science, Evidence, Research, Brain, Juvenile Justice, Politics News
Alexandra Cox

Brain research may convince the public that development is a fixed, undisputed path toward rational thought, thus further marginalizing those children who stray from the path of 'normal' development.

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Project Saves Hi-Tech Lab Trash For Scientists In Developing World

Posted 11.23.2009 | Impact

Read More: Developing World, Seeding Labs, Harvard, Research, Lab Equipment, Labs, Impact News

Nina Dudnik went to Harvard in 2001 to pursue a doctorate in molecular biology. Instead, the Boston Globe reports, she found a way to provide labs in ...

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Countering The Sexualization Of Your Youth

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Sexualization, Attractiveness, Youth, Research, Media, Apa, Sex Educator, Objectification, Parents, Bratz, Relationships, Living News
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright

Miniskirts, fishnet stockings, feather boas. It all sounds sexy - 'til you realize it's being sported by that every-girl-wants-one Bratz doll.

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I'd Be Dead By Now -- The New Breast Cancer Guidelines

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Breast Cancer Research, Breast Self-Examination, Ymca, Research, Breast Cancer, Livestrong, Living News
Kathleen Reardon

I'd be dead by now if it weren't for breast self-examination. If breast self-exam gives you greater peace of mind, no set of guidelines should deter you from it.

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Sex And The Memory of Sexual Experience

Suzie Heumann | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Risk Taking, Mind/Body/Spirit, Relationships, Research, Brain, Plasticity, Experience, Tantra, Memory, Emotional Memory, Suzie Heumann, Sex, Living News
Suzie Heumann

Our memories dictate how we will feel about a similar situation because our brain.body is coded from past experience. Bad experiences with intimacy are codified in your brain/body -- affecting our perception.

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Can Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

cnn.com | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Cell Phones, Research, Health, Phones, University of Pittsburgh, Cellphones, Cancer, Scientific Study, Wellness, Radiation, Electromagnetic Radiation, Living News

In the year since a U.S. cancer researcher's warning drew wide attention, more evidence is emerging that long-term cell phone use is associated with c...

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Bats Have Oral Sex

The Guardian | Marc Abrahams | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Bats, Oral Sex, Animals, Research, Mating, Bats and Oral Sex, Green News

A new study helps to answer the question raised in Thomas Nagel's 1974 philosophy essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" A team of Chinese and British r...

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Resisting the Urge to Gossip

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, The Friendship Doctor, Women, Living News, Relationships, Research, Innuendo, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Untruth, Breaking News, Employee, Criticism, Tim Hallett, Rumor, Irene S. Levine, Friendship, Indiana University, Friendship Expert, Gossip, Workplace, Office, Supervisor, Female, Broker, Passive, Breaking Living News, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Managers need to find ways to promote informal communication while minimizing destructive gossip and knife-in-the-back criticism that impairs relationships, lowers morale, and decreases productivity.

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Exercise and Your Immune System: Warding off H1N1 One Dead Rodent at a Time

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Research, Running, Health, Exercise, Swine Flu, H1n1, Fitness, New York Times, Marathons, Vaccines, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Does exercise really boost your immune system? Two new studies examine this connection and the results are not as clear cut as everyone would like to believe.

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When Political Ideas Have Costs

Scott de Marchi | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political Capital, Politics, Capitol Hill, Research, Economics, Decision-Making, Health Reform, Books, Fec, Politics News
Scott de Marchi

Talk and inaction are relatively cheap for US legislators, since their own health care plan will remain the same whether or not legislation passes. Political ideas need to have a cost.

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The Obama Administration and Food, Year One

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Usda, Michael Pollan, Kathleen Merrigan, Research, Tom Vilsack, President Obama, Cafo, Big Ag, Food Safety, Food Policy, Technology, E. Coli, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Green News
Paula Crossfield

A year after Obama's election, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms.

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Nation's Leading Universities Draw Bottom Line on Clean Energy R&D Funding in Senate Climate Bill

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Kerry-Boxer, Breakthrough Institute, Barbara Boxer, Research, John Kerry, Green Technology, Green News, Clean Energy, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Innovation, Technology, Green Energy, Universities, Aplu, Aau, Green News
Jesse Jenkins

Reid and the Senate now have the responsibility to ensure that long-term clean energy R&D efforts are given the funding they desperately need to secure America's leadership in clean energy innovation.

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Science Says Sex With Others Is Better

eSarcasm | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Science, Sexuality, Sex, Hot Chick, Research, Biology, Humor, Insects, Comedy News
eSarcasm

Now, they aren't actually talking about humans -- they're talking about plants and animals able to reproduce both by themselves and with others. But that doesn't make it any less amusing.

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New Bill's Clean Energy Investments Only a Fraction of Expert Recommendations

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Kerry-Boxer, Breakthrough Institute, Barbara Boxer, Research, Green Technology, John Kerry, Innovation, Clean Energy, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Green Energy, Technology, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News
Jesse Jenkins

While the bill is a (very) small step in the right direction, the clean energy R&D investments in Kerry-Boxer still fall far short of filling our energy innovation gap.

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Fight Off Back Aches, Pain With Extra Vitamin D

Medical News Today | Posted 10.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Pain, Seasons, Treat, Research, Solution, Winter, Diet, Help, Vitamin D, Back Pain, Vitamin Deficiencies, Back Ache Treatment, Back, Health, Nutrition, Pain Treatment Topics, Back Pain Treatment, Remedies, Remedy, Living News

It's no wonder that many people feel extra soreness and aches in their backs during winter months -- they're often not getting enough vitamin D. The b...

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Hot Celebrity Gossip!

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fame, Friends, Celebrity, Primates, Research, Social Networking, Entertainment News
Michael Kaplan

Our partners, our relatives, our neighbors and friends may not be glamorous or wealthy, but they can offer something that Angelina Jolie or Tom Cruise never can: they actually care about us.

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A New Direction on Research at the USDA? The Experts Weigh In

Paula Crossfield | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Research, Sustainable Food, Tom Vilsack, Agriculture, Food Safety, Food Security, Csrees, Nifa, Green News
Paula Crossfield

After Tom Vilsack's speech, I've reached out to some key thinkers on agriculture to find out what they would like the USDA's new research body, NIFA, to be focusing on. Here are their answers.

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A Journalism Lesson from King Abdullah's University of Science & Technology

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, University, Islam, Al Watan, Education, Newspapers, Research, Kaust, Saudi Arabia, Science, King Abdullah, Jeddah-Saudi-Arabia, Media News, Media, Freedom of Press, Muslim, Journalism, World News, World News
Faisal J. Abbas

KAUST is the first university in Saudi Arabia to allow a mixed-gender environment. This has triggered a 'showdown' between the press and a senior member of the clergy.

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National Institutes of Energy Needed to Fill Energy R&D Gap

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Research, Alternative Energy, Green Technology, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Clean Technology, Innovation, Technology, Energy Policy, Global Warming, Green News
Jesse Jenkins

Downright paltry private-sector energy innovation spending leaves a massive energy innovation gap that the U.S. government barely begins to fill, investing only about $5 billion annually in energy R&D.

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Bats Find New Homes Under Highways

BBC NEWS | Victoria Gill | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Bats, Caves, Highways, Research, Animals, Cities, Bridges, Green News

Concrete bridges could make better roosts for certain species of bat than natural caves, according to research....

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Nature Makes Us Nicer People, New Study Says

treehugger.com | Jaymi Heimbuch | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Spaces, Green Living, Relationships, Research, Human-Relationships, Values, Nature, Green, University of Rochester, Outdoors, Human-Connection, Environment, Green News

A new study by the University of Rochester found that after looking at nature scenes, people feel closer to their community, are willing to give more ...

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The Washington Post--Union Buster?

Gerald Bracey | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media

Read More: School Reform, Arne Duncan, Washington Post, Research, Data, Charter Schools, Media News
Gerald Bracey

Is a new study favoring charter schools remarkable? Are the results on charter schools in? The short answers are "no" and "no."

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