Metousiosis 24Mar11 Links
There was a nice spring snow storm today, enjoy some links:
- Happy 137th Birthday To Harry Houdini
- Sign Your Name to CFI’s Wal-Mart Homeopathy Statement
- Acupuncture for pain no better than placebo and not without harm
- What does it take to discover an earth-like exoplanet?
- Study finds insiders profit as companies falter
- Low serotonin levels make mice more bisexual
- Sperm Grown In a Test Tube
- Herbal Remedies, Street Drugs, and Pharmacology
- Watson computer’s ability to diagnose illness tested
- MRSA infection shown to be seasonal
- Should We Care Whether Others Believe in God?
- Acupuncture is equally effective with simulated needles
- Why regulations are important
- Vitamin D’s anti-cancer benefits not yet proven
- Planned Parenthood May Survive After All
- Ending Violence Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Scientists invent 3D microscope lens
- More men seeking plastic surgery
- FDA halts some food imports from Japan
- Heart attacks, death, sex, and exercise
- The largest known virus
- Information, a vaccine against fear
- Study examines how brain corrects perceptual errors
- Medical bills are still the top consumer woe, CR poll finds
- CAM and Evidenced-Based Medicine
- Scientists crack molecular code regulating neuronal excitability
- The Physics of the Flower’s Bloom
- Carl Sagan on Women
- DIY Scanning Electron Microscope
- Does belief in free will lead to action?
- Scientists get glimpse of how the ‘code’ of life may have emerged
- Great Muslim scientists
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