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393 articles from WEDNESDAY 11.1.2012
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WEDNESDAY 11. JANUARY, 2012
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21:51
Cue as to why alcohol is addicting: Drinking releases brain endorphins
Drinking alcohol leads to the release of endorphins in areas of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure and reward, according to a study led by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
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21:47
Child leukaemia doubles near French nuclear plants: study (Reuters)
Reuters - The incidence of leukemia is twice as high in children living close to French nuclear power plants as in those living elsewhere in the country, a study by French health and nuclear safety experts has found. -
21:41New evidence supports a theory developed five years ago to explain the electrical properties of unconventional superconductors and other classes of materials that have long vexed scientists. Physicists say the new findings represent an important step toward the ultimate goal of creating a unified theoretical description of quantum effects in electronic materials at the border of magnetism and superconductivity.
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21:40Among overweight and obese adults, a diet rich in slowly digested carbohydrates, such as whole grains, legumes and other high-fiber foods, significantly reduces markers of inflammation associated with chronic disease, according to a new study. Such a "low-glycemic-load" diet, which does not cause blood-glucose levels to spike, also increases a hormone that helps regulate the metabolism of fat and sugar.
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21:40Astronomers have discovered the three smallest confirmed planets ever detected outside our solar system. The three planets, which all orbit a single star, are smaller than Earth and appear to be rocky. Their existence suggests that the galaxy could be teeming with similarly rocky planets—and that there's a good chance that many are in the so-called habitable zone, where liquid water and possibly life could exist.
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21:40The smallest exoplanets yet discovered orbit a dwarf star almost identical to Barnard's star, one of the sun's nearest neighbors. The similarity helped the astronomers calculate the size of the distant planets.
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21:40Astronomers have discovered two new circumbinary planet systems -- planets that orbit two stars, like Tatooine in the movie Star Wars. Their find, which brings the number of known circumbinary planets to three, shows that planets with two suns must be common, with many millions existing in our galaxy.
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21:35
Space Sabotage
The failure of a Russian space probe leads to charges of sabotage
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21:24
Tons of Tatooines: Planets With Two Suns Common?
The discovery of two new "Tatooines" suggests there are millions of double-sun planets in our galaxy.
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21:24
Review: Google Docs, the perfect bridesmaid
(AP) -- For do-most-of-it-yourself brides, wedding planning means lists, lists and more lists, with some spreadsheets thrown in for good measure. There are also the long, endlessly pored-over documents of vows, readings, even toasts. Did I mention lists? -
21:24A team of astrophysicists from the University of Rochester and Europe has discovered a ring system in the constellation Centaurus that invites comparisons to Saturn.
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21:24St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has launched a freely available website for published research results from the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project (PCGP). The PCGP is the largest effort to date aimed at sequencing the entire genomes of both normal and cancer cells from pediatric cancer patients, comparing differences in the DNA to identify genetic mistakes that lead to childhood cancers.
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21:24Drinking alcohol leads to the release of endorphins in areas of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure and reward, according to a study led by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco.
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21:24The discovery of the three smallest planets yet orbiting a distant star, which was announced today at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, has an unusual connection to Barnard's star, one of the Sun's nearest neighbors.
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21:08
Black Hole Ejects Great Balls of Fire
Astronomers have found a black hole that behaves like one of those batting cages that automatically spits baseballs. -
21:05An advanced app intends to transform smart phones from a distraction into a lifesaving tool.
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21:00
Who are you calling a bitch?
The return of Dynasty stars Joahn Collins and Stephanie Beacham is greeted with the headline 'The Bitches are Back'. Such a term may have been acceptable once, but is it now?
"The Bitches are Back" is how one paper describes the imminent reunion between Dynasty stars Joan Collins and Stephanie Beacham. For the younger reader, the magnitude of this news is as if The Spice Girls all reunited, not for a tour but for a Snickers advert. How would you feel? Nostalgic? Sullied? Perhaps you would fancy a Snickers? Never mind, it's the headline that really drives home the march of time.
Nobody calls women "bitches" any more. Not in headlines.
Instantly, you think this is a good thing, right? It's another step in the inexorable journey towards the light. That whole don't-call-women-hoes conversation, levelled at rappers, had the knock-on effect of making people question a whole raft of synonyms for female – is it reasonable to compare women to dogs? For that matter, is "cow" acceptable? Support for this argument would come from the recent Topman brouhaha, in which the retailer had to pull a T-shirt with the slogan: "Nice new girlfriend, what breed is she?"
I lean towards the opposite view. Bitch has fallen out of fashion because of a purely semantic problem; when "dog" came to mean "ugly woman", the rival meaning of "female dog" for "aggressive" or "mean woman" was too much of a head-scratcher. Simultaneously, those same rappers instituted "bitch" as a gender-neutral term for a slave or servant – of course, it's not gender neutral, any more than using "gay" to mean "stupid" is irrelevant to homosexuality. But it's applied to both genders, and of course means the opposite to the Joan Collins kind of bitch, so the original has been superseded.
Overall, pejorative terms for women have become less general and more anatomical. "Bitch" and "cow" don't really say very much; they merely identify by gender, then liken all women to members of the animal kingdom. More common now is either to use the blunt synecdoche of the c-word; or to conflate all femininity with undesirable sexual behaviour – hoe, skank, slut, slag etc – where that behaviour is only undesirable in the first place because the agent is female. So, where once, in the urban dictionary, only women could be sluts (promiscuity having no taboo for men), now all women are sluts. It's gone from a restrictive to a non-restrictive abuse-handle. I suppose grammatically it's quite interesting, but I still preferred "bitch".
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20:43Traces of a very strong form of tobacco were discovered inside a 1,300-year-old flask.
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20:31
Green Blog: Maybe It Fits Better in a Tweet?
CleanEdge, BrightSource, SolarReserve: do energy companies distrust spaces between words?
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20:30SPACE.com - Alien planets are incredibly common in our Milky Way galaxy, outnumbering stars by a large margin, a new study suggests.
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20:29
Land frog named world's tiniest vertebrate
The world's tiniest known vertebrate, a species of frog that fits in the centre of a dime, has been discovered in New Guinea.
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20:26
Blog - CES 2012: SMS Patent for Sale, $60 million ONO
At CES, a company calls many tech giants infringers, and invites them to bid to buy its patent.
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20:25
Dell Readying To Re-Enter Tablet Market in 2012
Dell hasn't made any formal announcement at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, but the PC maker is leaking information in the background at the Las Vegas show this week. Dell told Reuters it plans to re-enter the tablet market later this year.Dell originally entered with the Dell Streak. Now, the Streak is officially dead. Dell first killed the 5-inch version, and officially put the kibosh on the Streak 7 in December. Dell quietly announced the move on its product page for the Android-based Streak. The Dell Streak joined HP's TouchPad as two of the tablet failures in 2011 while Apple continued to dominate the scene with its category-defining iPad.
Now, Dell's chief commercial officer, Steve Felice, told Reuters in an interview that the company better understands how consumers value the ecosystem as much as the tablet hardware. And Dell will push stronger into the consumer arena with its next effort.
Dell's Learned Lessons "We have been taking our time. The general failure of everyone that's tried to introduce a tablet outside of Apple" suggested Dell made a prudent choice, Felice told Reuters. "You will see us enter this market in a bigger way toward the end of the year. So we are not really de-emphasizing it, we are really being very careful how we enter it.
"When you are talking about PC, people are more focused on the hardware itself. When you are talking about the tablet or the smartphone, people are interested in the overall environment it's operating in," he added. "As we have matured in this, we are spending a lot more time in the overall ecosystem."
Felice did not tell Reuters whether it would base its next tablet on the Android operating system or on Windows. But he did say he likes the Windows 8 touch features. Dell appears to be...
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20:08
Federal institutions have until January 31 to start posting online summaries of their access-to-information releases. But the system could be even better — and almost was, writes David McKie.
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20:06
Study says every star has planets
Every star in the Milky Way is host to at least one planet, say astronomers reporting at the American Astronomical Society meeting.
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