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In my quest to the right chocolate dose recently discovered a letter in the BMJ about this subject. The authors did a meta analysis. Their results suggest that dark chocolate is superior to placebo in reducing blood pressures of more than 140 mm Hg systolic or more than 80 mm Hg diastolic.
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A collegue of mine pointed out that there is a journal for negative results in biomedical research,the Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine:
Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine is ready to receive manuscripts on all aspects of unexpected, controversial, provocative and/or negative results/conclusions in the context of current tenets, providing scientists and [...]
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Björn Brembs
Modulating decision-making in the isolated leech nerve-chord – http://bjoern.brembs.net/news…
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Argh, wrong timestamp. This post contains some explanations about my experiments here in La Jolla. – Björn Brembs
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Have a look at the comments to this post of ours from a few days back and then tell me that germplasm documentation doesn’t need a social networking makeover.
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August 31 Pavlovskaia experimental station, the commission came from the Chamber to the closed doors to determine whether it is a unique collection of plants Vavilov retained, or to land occupied by the collection, sold by luxury villas. In response, the anarchists staged an unauthorized picket.
A demonstration? By anarchists? In the Russian [...]
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From time to time, maps representing the structure of modern science appear and try to widen our knowledge. You may remember when Wired published the “milky way” map of science or the map contrsucted by Nature using 800,000 scientific papers. Although, I think, these didn’t let us closer to get a global picture of what [...]
Against Monopoly
Via Conceivably Tech, we learn that Microsoft was granted a patent for the shutdown procedure in Windows. If I understand it right, Microsoft is now the sole owner of the procedure asking whether you really want to close an application with unsaved data.
Note that the patent does not seem to cover the most [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
On 31st of August 2010 Pavlovsk Experiment Station of VIR had an unscheduled inspection. The station was visited by representatives of the Public Chamber, the Accounts Chamber as well as representatives of the Russian Housing Development Foundation. This inspection was a result of instruction given by Dmitry Medvedev for this situation to be [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Resilience is in psychiatry the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. In this post it’s used as having an adaptive system that uses exposure to stress to provide resistance to future negative events.
Stress can lead to depression accompanied by atrophy and loss of neurons in the adult [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Resilience is in psychiatry the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. In this post it’s used as having an adaptive system that uses exposure to stress to provide resistance to future negative events.
Stress can lead to depression accompanied by atrophy and loss of neurons in the adult [...]
Mystery Rays from Outer Space
HapMap 3, officially announced in today’s issue of Nature,1 is an “integrated data set of common and rare alleles” in human populations, built from “1.6 million common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 1,184 reference individuals from 11 global populations“.
As well as being a resource for genome-wide studies, there are a number of [...]
Against Monopoly
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated is a mass collaborative artistic re-envisioning of George A. Romero’s 1968 cult classic, Night of the Living Dead.
International artists and animators were invited to select scenes from the film and reinvent them through their artwork.
The full and complete re-imagined work is currently available:
http://www.notldr.com/next/main.html
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Living-Dead-Duane-Jones/dp/B003GUGB8G
A similar artistic endeavor was performed [...]
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86% of MDs use Google on the the Job (Digital Pathology Blog)
It’s not just patients who turn to Google or other search engines to research medical information. According to Google, 86 percent of doctors say they now use Internet on the job. Of that group, the majority start at Google, which they use as a source to [...]
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Conor Friedersdorf over at Andrew Sullivan’s much-trafficked blog points to “an interesting post about craft cocktails and the impulse to protect certain recipes as intellectual property” as well as the reaction to the concept from a third blogger.
Read all about it and get the discussing links here:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/09/keeping-government-out-of-cocktails.html
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