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There are many ways to stay connected with our family, no matter the distance.
We write e-mails, send letters or speak on the phone. Even with Skype on our computers, many of us still have a land line phone at home to connect with our families locally and worldwide.
Hearing our families' voices brings us closer together, but how were we able to keep in touch before all these technological advances showed up in our homes?
Construction of the first regular phone line was completed in 1877. By the end of 1880, there were 47,900 telephones in the US. Since the first Bell telephone company was established in 1878, phones have evolved from the "candlestick" telephone to rotary-dial and to today's cordless handsets.
The telephone emerged as an improvement to the telegraph. Many credit Alexander Graham Bell with the telephone's invention; he did patent the invention. However, others have been recognized for their contributions including Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci, who developed a voice communication apparatus considered by many as the first telephone.
The phone's design has changed technically and visually since the first 19th century. They have been made of wood, metal and - more commonly today - plastic.
The first model had two parts to speak and listen. In 1890, the phone evolved to the handset, with a one-piece microphone and earpiece The early 20th century rotary dial was replaced by touch-tone phones during the 1960s. By 1970, cordless phones provided a user-friendly telephone that made it possible to communicate from anywhere in our homes.
The history of cellular phones can be traced to two-way radios, but wasn't really developed until the 1960s. The first cell call was placed in 1973. Today, many of us have mobile phones, making communication with our families easier without being restricted to phoning from a specific place.
Computers have also helped with communication since the mid-1970s. With the Internet, communication via the web has increased. What is better than seeing family even if they are far away? All these great communication tools provide easy ways to stay in touch with the people we love.
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Jackie Estacado ain't a man you want to mess with. Firstly, he's a mob boss; the Don of the Franchetti crime family. A man with morals and minions. A man who could have your head on a platter simply for looking at him the wrong way. If this wasn't enough, he's also the vessel for the Darkness, an ancient and unholy being that manifests itself in the form of two demonic arms sprouting from his shoulders. He could also be bat-shit crazy if a scene depicting him as the resident of a mental institution is anything to go by.
The jury's still out on that one, and having now seen more of the game, even more questions have been raised. The new level plays out in an abandoned warehouse. It's dank and dilapidated, littered with mannequins and prostitutes. It's a brothel, in fact, and Jackie's there in search of a very specific hooker by the name of Venus, whose job is to ply him with a gun and point him in the direction of Victor Valente - the boss of The Brotherhood, who are after Jackie and his powers - who is holed away upstairs.
The moment Jackie's fingers interlace with the trigger of the (rather beautifully engraved) gun, the game's signature demon arms take up residence on either side of the screen, and things kick off. While the first game often played out like any other shooter, the sequel places much more of an importance on these powers - something that was brought to the forefront during the demo.
Darklings also play a more instrumental role in Jackie's plight this time around, and you'll be able to take direct control of the squat demon-imps for the first time. Finding himself stuck behind a door drenched in light (which is of course rather harmful to the Darkness) Jackie must enlist the services of his Darkling chum, who scrambles up into a ventilation shaft in search of the controls to shut down the power. After dropping out of an opening in the ceiling, a few enemies need to be dispatched of before progressing. Pressing LB behind an enemy prompts the little fella to clamber up the guy's back and rip out his throat with his clawed hands. This is just as satisfying (and grisly) as it sounds.
Like its predecessor, The Darkness 2 is a grim and violent affair, but the Darkling adds some much-needed comic relief, spewing out obscenities with a thick cockney twang. He sings and hums, mocks and ridicules. Although I didn't hear it with my own ears, apparently the foul-mouthed little urchin isn't adverse to dropping the C-Bomb if he sees fit, but - just like the head-giving hookers that can be seen by peering into rooms about the brothel - it's not a dead cert that this will make it into the finished game.
The Darkling also acts as a cleverly disguised guide, subtly leading you along the correct path through the environment. Following him through the building, the next section of the demo offered an opportunity to acquaint myself with Jackie's powers. With two demon arms, the option to dual wield, numerous executions and plenty of other powers forming your demonic arsenal, combat is a much more multi-layered affair than before.


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Salvatore Salamone, Senior IT EditorAugust 18, 2004 | SurroMed applies a variety of instrument and informatics technologies to biomarker discovery in clinical research studies to better understand drug mechanisms of action, discover root causes of disease, and discern the molecular basis of personalized medicine. The company's core goal is to discover and validate new biomarkers for a broad spectrum of diseases.
To accomplish this, SurroMed collaborates with a variety of drug research and clinical development organizations, such as Biogen Idec, PPD, and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation to share, analyze, and discuss biomarker test results on blood and other biological samples. SurroMed's clients, in turn, use this information in their own drug discovery research and clinical trials.
"Some use it to stratify a patient population, for example segmenting responders versus nonresponders," explains Keith Joho, vice president of informatics and bioanalytical operations at SurroMed. Others use the information to identify a disease's state or to investigate response to doses of a medication.
Historically, SurroMed would send customers a Microsoft Word report with figures from proteomic and metabolic analysis of samples, for instance, along with an Excel spreadsheet of test results. While this method was sufficient for distributing analyses of biomarker data, it tended to bog down collaboration. SurroMed wanted a system that created a tighter research relationship and truly quickened the pace of development.
The company's solution — a Web-based service called SurroStat — won the Best Practices Grand Prize for Knowledge Management and Collaboration because of its innovative integration of interactive data-mining tools from software vendors Insightful and Spotfire.
The core technology of SurroStat is Insightful's S-PLUS Server and Spotfire's DecisionSite software. The S-PLUS Server software is used to perform statistical analysis of the data. Additional tools within the package — S-PLUS Graphlets and S-PLUS XML — capture analyzed data and present them in interactive tabular- and graphic-report formats.
Spotfire's DecisionSite provides interactive visualization and filtering of data. Repeatable operations can be captured and managed through DecisionSite Analysis Builder, a tool that lets researchers build and save routines for analyzing and viewing data.
SurroMed uses another Spotfire application, DecisionSite Posters, to share analysis done on test result data. "We wanted our service to let customers interact with the data and with us," Joho says. "The interactive nature of Spotfire Posters lets a user drill down into their data."
After an initial sample analysis, SurroMed sends e-mail to the researcher with a link to the Posters page for that set of results.
Joho notes that he and his team worked with Spotfire for more than six months to develop the SurroStat system. Likewise, Insightful worked closely with SurroMed, customizing its offering so that particular modules could be pulled out. Insightful had to integrate S-PLUS Server with Spotfire's software. "Before this, we had developed some plug-ins and some interactive applications," says Michael O'Connell, Insightful's director of biopharm solutions. "But now we have a tighter collaboration."
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"What we wanted to do with this architecture was make it very easy for our customers to explore their results," Joho says.
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PORTLAND, Maine - Maine voters are projected to overturn a state law that would have allowed gay couples to marry.
Experts on both sides predicted the vote would be close. But by early Wednesday morning, 53 percent had voted to repeal a law passed by the Legislature in May that legalized same-sex marriage within the state
The law never took effect because of the ballot drive. Campaign organizer, Frank Schubert, declared that Maine voters had helped preserve the institution of marriage.
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Across the country, 30 states have voted so far to ban gay marriage via state constitutional marriage amendments.
If the vote had gone to supporters of gay marriage in Maine, it would have been the first time gay marriage has been approved at the ballot box.
What's interesting about this vote is that it pits two Maine traditions against each other -- the live-and-let-live philosophy versus a deep respect for traditional marriage.
"Marriage, in my understanding, is an institute of God," said traditional marriage supporter Chuck Schott. "Let's keep it that way."
Angela Guillette, opposes same-sex marriage, saying it is not how she defines marriage.
"You can't pick and choose and tear pages out of the Bible," she said. "So, I say if that's what you want to do and you want to say no to your God, do it. But don't call it marriage."
A gay marriage supporter, Roger Hinchliffe, said people should not be denied the right to marry.
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Alan I. Abramowitz (born 1947) is an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science.
Abramowitz graduated with a B.A. with high honors in political science from the University of Rochester in 1969. He attended graduate school at Stanford University, completing an M.A. in 1972 and a PhD in 1976. Abramowitz' dissertation was entitled An Assessment of Party and Incumbent Accountability in Midterm Congressional Elections.
Abramowitz taught at the College of William and Mary from 1976 to 1982, at Stony Brook University from 1982 to 1987, when he joined the faculty at Emory University as a professor of political science. Abramowitz was awarded the Alben W. Barkley Distinguished Chair in Political Science at Emory University in 1993.
Abramowitz has authored or co-authored five books. Probably his best known book, co-authored with Jeff Segal of Stony Brook University, Senate Elections, written in 1992, received two awards from political science associations and remains one of the seminal works in the study of senatorial elections to this day.
Abramowitz has written extensively on many disparate topics in American politics, including presidential, senate and house elections, activism, polarization, ideology, partisanship, ideological realignment, incumbency, and redistricting. Abramowitz often publishes a predictive model of elections based on his "time for change" model, which has been very accurate in predicting election outcomes since the 1980s.[1]
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- Abramowitz, Alan I. 2012. The Polarized Public? Why American Government Is So Dysfunctional.New York: Pearson.
- Abramowitz, Alan I. 2010. The Disappearing Center. Yale University Press.
- Abramowitz, Alan I. 2004. Voice of the People: Elections and Voting in the United States. New York: McGraw Hill.
- Abramowitz, Alan I., and Jeffrey A. Segal. 1992. Senate Elections. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- Rapoport, Ronald B., Alan I. Abramowitz, and John McGlennon., eds. 1986. The Life of the Parties: Activists in Presidential Politics. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
- Abramowitz, Alan I., and Walter J. Stone. 1984. Nomination Politics: Candidate Choice Before the Convention. New York: Praeger.
- Abramowitz, Alan I., John McGlennon and Ronald B. Rapoport. 1981. Party Activists in Virginia. Charlottesville, Virginia: Institute of Government.
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The SpiroFind assay queries the exposure of the immune system to Borrelia organisms. Such exposure is stored in the immune system for an extended time, making the SpiroFind method particularly suited to identify chronic Lyme disease infections, Boulder claims. The firm says SpiroFind test can differentiate between active and past infection, and can detect active Lyme Borreliosis through all stages of disease.
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The firm is exploiting its Customized Therapeutic Proteoglycan Delivery (CTPD) platform to develop proteoglycan-based therapies for tissue regeneration and healing. Agenta claims the technologies allows the precise control and manipulation of proteoglycan DNA sequences for development of products with potential applications in a wide range of regenerative uses including healing bone, cartilage, skin, and spinal discs and as coatings for vascular stents and implants.
The company is currently working in partnership with Boneta to develop therapeutics for enhanced bone healing in the skull and for the growth of new bone in the jaw and around teeth. Previous SBIR grant funding led to completion of certain preclinical studies, which showed postive results. Agenta says the firms aim to meet with FDA to discuss the prospect of starting clinical trials.
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President Obama sought this past week to extend something of an olive branch to Republicans opposed to his enormous plans to reform the nation's health care system.
He needs to go all the way - by inviting Republicans into the White House, and to consult with them personally with their ideas on how to improve the system.
One notion that is getting precious little attention is tort reform, an idea put forward in an op-ed essay, published Sunday, by U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Clarendon.
The skyrocketing cost of adjudicating malpractice complaints against doctors is being passed on to patients. The process needs streamlining. It needs to be made more efficient - and less expensive.
Thornberry noted, "When a doctor does make a mistake, the legal process for the patient takes years, often with much of the recovery going to lawyers on both sides."
One idea for improving the system, said Thornberry, is to set up "health courts" in which doctors and hospitals are "judged by their peers."
This is one avenue toward reform that needs to be explored. The president sounded the right tone this past week in his speech to Congress when he pledged to look at the best ideas from both sides of the aisle. Yet word keeps leaking out of the capital that Democrats are so intent on pushing through their version of health care reform that they will do it over the objections of Republicans, who ought to have a say in how the reform takes shape.
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Most of us like to have a snack at some point in the day and that may not be a bad thing. News 8's Susan Shapiro talked to Dr. Oz about snacking.Video Transcript
3 MOST OF US LIKE TO HAVE A SNACK AT SOME POINT IN THE DAY ... AND THAT MAY NOT BE SUCH A BAD THING. '8 ON YOUR SIDE' MEDICAL REPORTER SUSAN SHAPIRO RECENTLY TALKED TO DR. OZ ABOUT SNACKING. HERE'S THE FIRST OF HER TWO REPORTS. 3 1:33: were here in Dr. Oz's studio in New York and we're talking about snack foods why is snacking important is it important? 1:33:12 It's critically important if you look at folks who want to lose weight in particular it's a fallacy to think you should eat three balanced meals a day and nothing else the way are metabolism works the way hormones function every couple hours you want something in your mouth I never travel anywhere without nuts because if I don't have some food next me I feel like I'm not in control so with the psychological support that it gives you and the hormonal benefits if you mandate every two or three hours something should go in your mouth 01:33:34 In addition the nuts what are you like to snack on 01:33:36 Well actually you got a couple of these I love on this table but I love fruits vegetables I try to pick things that are in season they taste better to me I love radishes I sometimes sneeze with the radishes I don't know why they're easy to travel with four me a big part of the snacks I pick Is there ease of transport because I'm always out of the house so bananas don't work for me apples do I love the small carrots you know I'm not tedious about the snacks I pick I want them to taste good and if I have dark chocolate and that's what I have near to me I'll snack on that 01:34:07 Ideally how much in the way of calories should a snack be 01:34:10 100 maybe a tiny bit more my own thing is that I have to snack in the middle of the day a couple times once before lunch I always snack roughly two or three in the afternoon I have to have a late afternoon snack so I must put in at least 400 Cal across different times the day including late at night but then my meals themselves are not as large because I'm never craving food I'm never so famished that I have a hedonistic drive to eat everything on my plate and I think for a lot of people the big mistake they make is to not snack before meal because when they do sit down there so famished they eat so quickly that they're body does not have time to give them feedback 01:34:43 Or when you get home from work you're so famished you're just stuffing your mouth with everything in sight 01:34:47 In my home we call that the bewitching hour because your hexed you have to eat 01:34:52 And we're going to show you some snacks coming up in our next segment that I brought along that I think are healthy and I hope that you agree with me were going to find out thank you 3 SUSAN'S NEXT SEGMENT WILL AIR TOMORROW NIGHT ON NEWS 8
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Wright, who took additional swings before Tuesday's game against the Washington Nationals, had four hits Wednesday night, including a key, two-run insurance home run in the eighth inning that powered the Mets to another wild Shea Stadium win over the lowly Nats, this one by a score of 13-10.
The win gave the Mets a sweep of the two-game series, and it also extended their lead in the National League East race to 3 1/2 games over the rival Philadelphia Phillies, who lost to Florida, 7-3, earlier in the day.
"We're 3 1/2 games up, I think (the Phillies) feel the pressure, but at the same time, there's a lot of season left," Mets center fielder Carlos Beltran said. "Anything can happen."
For the first time in three games, Carlos Delgado failed to homer. But he still managed to drive in the run that put the Mets ahead for good with a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning. That started a four-run rally that put the Mets ahead 11-7 and in line for a runaway victory.
But new setup man Brian Stokes, who had pitched 12 consecutive scoreless innings, allowed a three-run homer to Cristian Guzman in the eighth to pull Washington to within 11-10.
So when Wright (4-for-4 with a walk and three RBI) belted his 28th homer of the season off Joel Hanrahan in the eighth, that was an important hit to re-establish some breathing room. Luis Ayala nailed down the result in the ninth inning with his seventh save in eight opportunities.
"The way that we continue to fight, continue to add on, I think this is what championship teams are made of," Wright said. "The resiliency when you give up some leads, continue to fight back, and just that never-say-die attitude that we had the last two nights, it shows that we can go out, we can get great starting pitching. Our bullpen's been very good at times, and we can go out there and outslug teams. And we've proven that over these last few weeks we can win in a variety of different ways."
The Mets needed to win a different way than the usual formula again Wednesday night because for the second night in a row, the starting pitcher did not have his best stuff. Mike Pelfrey couldn't hold a 7-1 lead and was gone after five innings, having surrendered five runs on eight hits, including a 400-foot home run by Elijah Dukes.
Pelfrey and Dukes would later have a staredown over an inside pitch Dukes took exception to.
"I obviously didn't pitch very well," said Pelfrey, who got a no-decision. "It makes it a little better that we won, and that's probably the only good thing that came out of tonight. I didn't have command, I didn't have my sinker, I didn't have my four-seamer, (and my) off-speed pitches weren't great. But we won. That's the only positive thing that we can take out of tonight."
Tied at 1, the Mets scored six runs off starter Odalis Perez in the third inning. Wright had a bloop single to drive in one of them in the middle of it all, and Beltran (3-for-5) had an RBI double. Fernando Tatis had the biggest hit in the inning with a bases-loaded, two-run double after Perez, a left-hander, walked the left-handed-hitting Delgado to pitch to the right-handed-hitting Tatis.
But the Nats got a run back in the fourth after Pelfrey and Dukes had a brief run-in at the start of the inning. Pelfrey's first pitch, a fastball, ran inside on Dukes and Dukes challenged Pelfrey to a fight before order was restored and play resumed. Dukes then doubled and would score on a single by Wil Nieves.
The Nationals added three more runs against Pelfrey in the fifth inning on an RBI groundout by Ryan Zimmerman and a two-run single by Kory Casto. Pelfrey actually did hit Dukes with a pitch in the inning, but Dukes trotted to first base without incident.
Aaron Heilman replaced Pelfrey to start the sixth and pitched only two-thirds of an inning. He left to a cascade of boos after surrendering the tying, two-run home run to Guzman (3-for-5, two home runs, five RBI).
But Delgado, who had homered twice in each of the Mets' two previous games, broke a 7-7 tie with a sinking line drive to left field that Roger Bernadina dived to catch. The sac fly easily scored Wright to make it 8-7, and the Mets added three more runs to open up a much-needed cushion.
When Stokes gave up the home run, interim manager Jerry Manuel stayed with him, confident the Mets weren't done scoring. And with the way Wright was swinging the bat, they weren't.
"(Tuesday) was the best I've felt at the plate in a long time," Wright said. "At-bat by at-bat, I felt more comfortable. I felt relaxed, even with two strikes. In the back of my mind I knew that there was nothing else going to fool me. And that's a feeling I haven't had in a while."


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5 Easy Ways to Spot a B.S. News Story on the Internet
#2. It's a Poll Disguised as a News Story
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Any Time You See a Headline Like ...
"Poll: Americans Prefer 'Christmas' Over 'Holiday' Tree"
You Should Read It As ...
"A Special Interest Group Paid a Polling Firm to Get a Result, Now We're Printing This Self-Congratulatory Circle Jerk to Fill Space."
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"Thanks for all your hard work, guys. Here's your pirate money."
Keep in mind, I'm not talking about the polls they do around election season to figure out who's winning -- I'm talking about the paid-for bullshit surveys that make up the other 95 percent of stories that have the word "poll" in the title. Why do I call them bullshit? Three reasons:
A. In any poll, the wording of the question completely changes the result.
Most people have a few subjects they're really smart about and are clueless about everything else. It's nothing to be ashamed of; there are only so many hours in the day, and some subjects are boring as shit. The problem is that when asked by a pollster about one of the issues we're clueless about, most people still give an answer, because we'd rather die than admit we're not all-knowing geniuses. That means that in any given survey, many respondents are simply making up their opinion on the spot, and usually they're doing it based on how the poll question is worded.
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"Yes or no: Do you agree this child deserves food, and also that the government is doing a flawless job?"
For example, recently the liberal website Daily Kos did a poll asking this question about gun control:
"Would you support or oppose banning assault weapons?"
Pretty simple, right? The result:
Ban them: 63 percent; don't ban: 32 percent
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"Sorry, buddy, but I just bought this suit, and it's nothing without the gun."
So about two-thirds of us want assault weapons banned. But at the same time, Gallup did a poll asking it this way:
"Are you for or against a law which would make it illegal to manufacture, sell, or possess semiautomatic guns known as assault rifles?"
The result:
Ban them: 44 percent; don't ban: 51 percent
A freaking 20-point swing, just by adding a bunch of words that really drive home what "ban" means. And you can do that with any issue -- if you poll Americans asking, "Should we cut government spending?" an overwhelming 76 percent say cut, cut, cut, people literally demand cuts "across the board." But if you ask the question another way, by actually listing the programs instead of just calling it "government," then the numbers reverse completely -- support for cutting drops into the teens or 20s.
This brings us to the next problem:
B. Polls are often paid for by special interest groups specifically to get that result.
So knowing how the wording affects the outcome, you can see how the game is played: Republicans who want to make it look like the public is on their side ask the question one way, Democrats ask it another. Now your liberal brother can post a link on Twitter saying, "84 PERCENT WANT GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE SPENDING INCREASED! SO WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT CUTS?!?!?" and at the exact same time your conservative uncle can post the other link on his Wordpress blog with "More than three-quarters of us want government spending cut -- what part of that do you not understand, Obama?"
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"I give exactly this much of a fuck about what you want."
If you're wondering what the pollsters get out of this, usually the answer is money. For instance, you might run across a poll showing overwhelming public support for legalized marijuana, and maybe you even incorporated that information into your brain (you don't want to be out of step with the overwhelming sentiment, do you?) without reading closely enough to see that the poll was paid for by "The Marijuana Policy Project" and used laughably biased wording to get the desired result. Don't interpret my criticism as being anti-marijuana, either -- I don't care either way. The point is that the poll got that result because the polling firm was paid to get it.
But even when the poll is unbiased ...
C. A large percentage of people are just picking answers at random.
Remember that massive BP oil platform disaster a few years ago, the one that dumped a bunch of oil into the Gulf of Mexico? A poll at the time found that 21 percent of people said the disaster made them like offshore drilling more.
Another poll showed that during the last election, 6 percent of respondents thought Mitt Romney killed Osama bin Laden. Another showed 14 percent thought Obama might be the Antichrist.
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Another 12 percent thought this was him in drag.
Don't freak out about those numbers -- pollsters also found that they could make up a completely fictional government program and get 25 percent of people to claim they have heard of it and express an opinion about it. In other words, in any poll there is a solid 5 to 25 percent of people who are just saying random things into the phone so they can get back to masturbating.
#1. It's About a Miracle Cure for Obesity, Cancer, or Clean Energy
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Any Time You See a Headline Like ...
"Research Breakthrough Offers Obesity Cure Hope"
"13-Year-Old Makes a Solar Breakthrough"
"A Lifetime Supply of Energy in the Palm of Your Hand"
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And here's a sciency picture as proof!
You Should Read It As ...
"Scientists Continue to Exist and Study Important Problems, So Let's Use Their Hard Work to Instill False Hope and Get Free Traffic."
I'm not a pessimist, and I think the future will be awesome. But the vast majority of the positive science news that turns up on Reddit or science blogs or tech sites is pure bullshit.
Sometimes the stories are outright false, like the one about that genius 13-year-old who invented a far more efficient way to collect solar energy, or the group of African teenagers who invented a machine to get electricity from urine (in the first case, it turned out the kid did his calculations wrong, and in the second, the reporters misunderstood what the machine did -- the former was retracted a few days later, the latter was debunked by people who have a better idea of what they're talking about).
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"Hi, I'm Johnny Sciencecoat, and I'll be fielding your questions so the reporters don't look any stupider than they already do."
Other times the stories are true, but hugely misleading: They're just taking a very small scale, preliminary result and declaring it a potential savior of mankind -- here's one talking about how a new clean energy technology could "end our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years."
The problem is that the average person mistakenly thinks science works this way. When we were in school, we heard about how polio and yellow fever were suddenly wiped out overnight thanks to one genius who stumbled across the cure, and movies teach us that massive technical advancements are invented by Doc Brown in his garage or Tony Stark in a cave. So headlines play to this misconception by portraying every minor discovery as a potential magic bullet -- and each time further research debunks it and it just quietly goes away ... only to be replaced by the next miracle cure headline.
So if you actually Google the subject of the clean energy link above (in this case, thorium nuclear reactors) instead of, say, instantly forwarding it to all of your friends, you will be immediately kicked in the balls by Wikipedia's giant wall of text describing the many problems with the technology.
"I'm seeing a 14 percent increase in my scrotum being on fire."
It's not that clean energy will never happen -- it totally will. It's just that it won't come from a wild-haired scientist running out of his basement screaming, "Eureka! I've discovered how to get limitless clean energy from common seawater!" Instead, it will come from thousands of scientists publishing unreadable studies with titles like "Assessing Effectiveness and Costs of Asymmetrical Methods of Beryllium Containment in Gen 4 Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors When Factoring for Cromulence Decay." The world will be saved by a series of boring, incremental advances that chip away at those technical challenges one tedious step at a time.
But nobody wants to read about that in their morning Web browsing. We want to read that while we were sleeping, some unlikely hero saved the world. Or at least cured cancer.
Yeah, cancer is another big one. I don't think I've ever been linked to an article as often as this one that came with the provocative title "Scientists Cure Cancer, But No One Takes Notice." It claims that a drug called dichloroacetate (DCA) cures cancer but that Big Pharma has suppressed the results. I think every six months that story explodes across Facebook and Reddit, and that's just one example -- the Internet is awash in astonishing cancer breakthroughs and cures, all of which, the fine print reveals, work great ... as long as we're talking about tiny, short-term studies and/or mice.
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"Just leave him in there. If this cure doesn't work, he'll be liquid in a few minutes anyway."
Hey, you know what else scientists are constantly curing in mice? Obesity. Just over the last few months alone I've seen the headline "Obesity Crisis Over? Scientists Discover Way to Turn 'Bad' Fat into 'Good' Fat" (in mice!), "Possible Answer to Obesity Found at Emory University" (a "magical compound" of proteins, they say -- it works great in mice!), and "Obesity Cure Claim by Irish and U.S. Researchers from Trinity and Harvard" (they've found immune cells that do the trick! In mice!).
And on and on. If you were to go back 20 years, you'd see the same goddamn thing (here's one from 1994 -- they found the obesity gene! In mice!). That's because about every five minutes for the last few decades, someone somewhere has successfully cured obesity in a lab mouse. Now, I don't want to disparage anybody's hard work, but if you can't cure obesity in a mouse at this point, you are a shitty scientist. You have total control over the animal's diet, and it doesn't have the million social, psychological, and physiological factors that make humans overeat -- successful mouse diets are not news.
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"Hey, buddy, how about you go fuck yourself with your stereotypes, huh?"
Yet any time a news outlet needs to fill a spot, all they need to do is go grab from the giant pile of "Hey we also cured fat mice!" press releases and slap a "Potential Obesity Cure Found" headline on it. Free traffic. At this point, the biggest struggle seems to be coming up with original headlines. My favorites so far are "New Flab Jab Could Be Cure for Obesity" and "Could Obesity Be Cured by Injecting Our Guts With Fecal Bacteria from Ancient Mummies?" (you'll note the use of the "We know this is bullshit" question mark at the end). But when it comes to drawing clicks, who is ever going to beat "How Marijuana Could Help Cure Obesity-Related Diseases"? Hey, they're not lying. They've gotten great results! In mice! I'm telling you, if your pet mouse struggles with obesity, help is on the way.
But here's the reality: Nothing cures obesity in humans, other than the surgery that just shuts off your goddamn stomach so you can't fit food in there. Even if they give you weight loss drugs, you'll soon be steamrolled by a junk food and beverage industry that has specifically formulated their products to trigger an addiction response, which will blast you with advertisements every waking moment of your life. So you'll keep eating while reading about how it's OK because soon a pill will magically fix your waistline.
And no, there will never be a cure for cancer, either. That's because cancer isn't a disease, it's a word used to describe more than a hundred different diseases that all sort of look the same but have completely different causes and affect completely different areas of the body in completely different ways. Some are more deadly than others, and we're getting a little better at detecting and treating all of them. But it's boring to write a headline pointing out that, for instance, you could save millions of lives with nothing more than improved training for doctors who do colonoscopies.
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"I think we're just going to skip the butt part today. You're pretty old anyway. You've lived a full life."
No, what we want to see is a picture of a scientist holding a glowing green vial that says "CANCER CURE" on the side. We want solutions to be simple and exciting, and most important of all, we want to be the first to tell our friends about them when they happen. So we blindly forward the news along and the whole cycle of bullshit continues.
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Submitted by Charissa Fleischer on
This month I finally bit the bullet and signed up for a CSA-style organic fruit and veggie delivery. When I shared my excitement on twitter, I received a warning: You will receive leeks. Lots and lots of leeks.
Leeks? Really? I hadn't cooked with leeks a whole lot but thought, hey, they look like over-sized scallions. In fact leeks belong to the same family as onions. But unlike onions which grow in a bulb formation, leeks grow in long bundled tubes. I could handle em. On delivery day, I raced home excited to see my loot. I unloaded my box and discovered a few apples, lettuce, chard, cabbage, a pack of moldy strawberries (ugh), and... as predicted... leeks.
I let them sit on the kitchen table while I considered what to do with them. In the end I decided on the perfect brunch dish: a leek, ham, and cheese souffle. The recipe is simple to make. The most difficult part is recognizing when the egg whites are whipped enough. My rule of thumb is to submerge the whisk in the egg whites and pull it back out again. When you turn the whisk upright, the peek should retain its shape. If it folds, continue whisking.
I also liked the versatility of the ingredients. If you don't have leeks you could easily swap in two cups of any type of onion. Leeks give the souffle a mild, almost sweet onion taste and hold their shape (and texture) more than onions. But I could see red onions or even shallots being killer too. Same with the cheese. Don't have pecorino? Use gruyere, or asiago, etc... whatever your favorite cheese is.
These leek, ham, and pecorino souffles have a wonderful flavor and texture. The fragrance of the thyme, the saltiness of the ham, the lightness of the eggs, and the bright almost neon pops of color from the leeks made this the perfect brunch treat... All it needs is a mimosa on the side. Cheers!
leek, ham, and pecorino souffles, gluten free
Recipe Type: brunch
Adapted from Samantha Seneviratne's leek and bacon souffle recipe in Fine Cooking magazine.
This recipe is part of this month's Let's Lunch theme of egg-inspired dishes. Before you go, check out my fellow lunchers' posts below. And if you'd like to join us, go to Twitter and post a message with the hashtag #Letslunch, or post a comment below.
- Cheryl from A Tiger in the Kitchen made Chai Poh Scramble
- Eleanor from Wok Star made at Medley of Eggs
- Emma from Dreaming of Pot's and Pans made Eggs in a Hole
- Denise from Chez Us made Beet Dye & Pink Deviled Eggs
- Felicia from Burnt-Out-Baker made the Perfect Sandwich
- Grace from HapaMama made Scrambled Eggs & Tomatoes
- Joe from Joe Yonan made Kim-Chi Deviled Eggs
- Karen from GeoFooding made Molecular Gastronomy "Eggs"
- Leigh from Leigh Nannini made Baked Vegetable Egg Rolls
- Linda from Free Range Cookies made Home-made Cadbury Eggs (Maple Chocolate Eggs)
- Linda from Spicebox Travels made Taiwanese Tomato Eggs
- Lisa from Monday Morning Cooking Club made Legendary Egg & Onion
- Lucy from A Cook and Her Books made Old-Fashioned Boiled Dressing (& Chicken Salad)
- Nancie from Nancie McDermott made Son-in-law Eggs
- Rashda from Hot Curries and Cold Beer made Bombay Toasts (Spicy French Toasts)
- Vivian from Vivian Pei made Eggs Chaud Froid
Nancie McDermott replied on Permalink
So enjoy your photographs, especially the one of sliced leeks. And the Souffle looks fantastic. I haven't done a CSA; I like the idea of being inspired by what shows up, even moreso than by what's at the farmer's market. I'm going to check out your post on pandan tapioca with coconut cream.
Charissa Fleischer replied on Permalink
Thank you for the sweet comment Nancy! My next CSA box comes on Wednesday so I'm excited to see what we get. Hopefully no more moldy strawberries! I do like that the CSA forces me out of my comfort zone in trying things I might not normally choose.
Wow! This looks gorgeous!
Eleanor Hoh replied on Permalink
I love anything in the onion family, so this dish together with another fav eggs is a must try. Never made souffle. Yours looks light and fluffy, thanks for inspiration. Happy Easter.
Lovely souffle! I loved the CSA when I subscribed. I never had the leek problem, but the moldy strawberry problem was recurrent.


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- Alita said...
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- March 10, 2011 at 10:58 PM
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I've followed your blog for ages and i think it's super awesome. you're a total inspiration to me and one of the main reasons i wanted to start a blog about crafting. today i blogged about you. i hope you don't mind. http://themaybepileblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/i-love-love-tania-patritti.html
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A number of well known developers from the open source hardware scene have published a draft of a new licence under the name of Open Source Hardware (OSHW) for free hardware projects. The group of signatories include Wired Magazine's Chris Anderson, Phillip Torrone of Make magazine, Adafruit's Limor Fried, Ayah Bdeir from the Eyebeam art and technology center, David A. Melli from the MIT Media Lab and Arduino.
The draft license, currently at version 0.3, is a mixture of the GPL licences, Creative Commons and the TAPR Open Hardware License. The latter licence only addresses the concerns of the hardware itself, such as the disclosure of the necessary documentation, circuit board layouts and other relevant information, but not specifically the release of software firmware files that are required for nearly all microprocessors.
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Syracuse, NY -- After more than 2 1/2 years of waiting, County Court Judge Anthony Aloi wasn't willing to give Pat Bombard another get-out-of-jail pass this morning -- not even for one more day.
The former Skaneateles car dealer owed roughly $48,000 more to Erma Jerva, 93, after admitting he swindled her out of $180,000 as part of a 2008 land deal. He had made several payments under the threat of state prison time, but had to finish repaying the money today.
When his lawyer, Robert Durr, told the judge Bombard only had $20,000, but could give Jerva the remainder at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aloi indicated that wasn't good enough.
He ordered Bombard held in jail without bail until Thursday morning. "Unless that money is paid to the penny, he will be sentenced to state prison Thursday," Aloi said in court.
Bombard gasped as the judge ordered him to jail. It's the second time Aloi has sent Bombard to jail for not paying up. He spent several months behind bars earlier this year until he paid Jerva roughly $45,000.
Jerva thanked Aloi "so much for helping me," saying that she believed Bombard has had the money in the past but paid others before her.
"When my husband was alive, he paid all the bills and never asked anyone else," Jerva said in a prepared statement. Later, she added: "This has been a very trying time for me, but I have been given strength."
Aloi said his entire effort has been to get her repaid, noting he had an elderly mother. He noted he doesn't often serve as a "collection agent," but said forcing Bombard to repay is the primary reason he hasn't gone to state prison yet.
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Bombard, of Heritage Woods Road, Skaneateles, pleaded guilty in April 2011 to grand larceny and filing a false instrument for filing. The second crime was for filing a fake mortgage discharge in the Onondaga County Clerk's Office as part of the scam.
It's been more than 2 1/2 years since Bombard admitted he stole roughly $180,000 from Jerva. That amount has grown with interest. Since then:
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The 3,600-square-foot former Texas Trap biker bar, reimagined by owners Matt Tobin, an Old Lake Highlands resident, and Josh Yingling, former manager of the Grape, boasts glass garage doors, floor-to-ceiling shiplap-lined walls, and outside, a cozy patio with twinkle lights.
Service is surprisingly quick, despite the kicked-back setup. The menu, developed by Good 2 Go Taco owners Jeana Johnson and Colleen O'Hare, is short — burgers, sandwiches, salads, fries and sides — but appealing. It's paired with 16 American craft on-tap brews (no imports here; the owners are "pretty much beer nerds," Tobin says). Our Dippity-Do-Da starter, crispy thin chips and a creamy queso spruced up with feta and cilantro, arrives in less than six minutes, along with our Lagunitas IPA pale ales. They tide us over while we wait just 10 minutes for the Gobbler, my turkey burger topped with tangy Asian slaw, and my husband's order, the Coop, a quarter-pound beef patty topped with an over-easy egg, bacon and brie. The toppings work well together, but half a fully loaded burger is all he can eat.
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MADISON, Wis. � Montee Ball was in charge of the entertainment for Wisconsin�s senior day.
Needing just two touchdowns to become the all-time leader in major college football, the Badgers running back would�ve liked nothing more than to get the record Saturday when Wisconsin (7-4, 4-3 Big Ten) hosted unbeaten Ohio State in Ball�s final game at Camp Randall Stadium.
�It�s going to be extra special to do it at home � if it happens,� he said before the game. �It�d be ideal to break a record like that on home turf, in front of our fans.�
Ball, who had a 7-yard touchdown run in the game, has 78 career touchdowns after running for three scores against Indiana last weekend. That�s three more than 1998 Heisman Trophy winner Ricky Williams, and he tied the FBS record holder Travis Prentice of Miami (Ohio).
Making Ball�s run all the more impressive is that he didn�t even become a starter � heck, a regular contributor � until midway through his sophomore season. Still, the career record seemed like a given after last year, when he scored 39 touchdowns to match Barry Sanders� long-standing single-season mark. The Heisman finalist would need only 18 touchdowns to pass Prentice, and he�d averaged almost three per game in his previous 20 games.
Then Ball was attacked by several men as he walked home Aug. 1 after a night out with friends. He was knocked to the ground and kicked in the head and chest, leaving him unconscious and with a concussion. The injuries sidelined him during training camp, and Ball � and the Badgers � continued to feel the effects as their season got off to a rocky start.
�I stumbled a little bit out of gate, the first couple games of the season,� Ball said. �That goes back to not being able to practice during camp. I knew that was going to be the case, and it was. But it didn�t take long to get back.�
He now has 17 touchdowns this year, as many as Idaho�s entire team.
�He�ll be a fine NFL running back,� Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said. �He�s got great vision; he�s very durable. ... He�s got great acceleration, much faster than I originally thought. He�s a big-time, big-time back.�
With a big-time offensive line in front of him.
The Badgers have a long, proud history of stellar running backs, and the Wisconsin linemen take pride in playing a part in that.
�He does most of the work out there, and we get taken along for the ride sometimes,� offensive tackle Rick Wagner said.
�That�s one of the reasons we all came here and want to be O-linemen. We�re going to get that chance to focus on the run,� Wagner said. �We don�t want to be a big passing school here. We want to use the O-line to its full advantage.�
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Texas A&M quarterback Ryan Tannehill won't be able to showcase his talent for NFL scouts anytime soon. Sporting News draft expert Russ Lande reports Tannehill has a broken foot that will keep him from participating in Senior Bowl week.
The Senior Bowl, the primary college football all-star game and talent showcase, will be played Jan. 28 in Mobile, Ala.
A source also told Lande that Tannehill's recovery time is yet to be determined. Sports Illustrated draft expert Tony Pauline had cited multiple sources in a Tuesday report, saying Tannehill's injury was "significant" and occurred while the former Aggies star was training in Florida.
In many 2012 mock drafts, including Lande's for Sporting News, Tannehill is projected a first-round pick—and potentially the third-best QB prospect after Stanford's Andrew Luck and Baylor's Robert Griffin III.
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Tannehill, listed at 6-4, 222 pounds, has seen his stock rise by showing great mobility to go with his size and strong arm. He isn't nearly the college track star Griffin was, but he had enough athleticism at Texas A&M to play wide receiver for a couple of seasons before moving back to quarterback.
During his senior season, Tannehill helped guide the Aggies to a 7-6 record, culminating with a victory over Northwestern in the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas (in Houston). Over 13 games, he threw for 3,744 yards and 29 touchdowns.
— Lande: Tannehill impresses in senior season
If Tannehill had played for the South team at the Senior Bowl, he would have had the chance to work with a great offensive coach—the Washington Redskins' Mike Shanahan. Instead, the more intriguing, albeit later-round NFL QB prospects are set to play for the North side—Boise State's Kellen Moore and Wisconsin's Russell Wilson. Moore and Wilson will receive their instruction from the Minnesota Vikings' staff.


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