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Epigenetic Transmission of Biomarkers for PTSD? [The Corpus Callosum]
2007-11-30 08:08:00
A great deal of evidence has accumulated that there is a problem with regulation of cortisol levels in persons with posttraumatic stress disorder.  Several years ago, it was demonstrated that adult offspring of persons with PTSD had lower circulating cortisol than others, and it appeared that the lower cortisol was a risk factor for the development of PTSD. Now, it has been shown that, at least in some persons, lower cortisol levels can be seen in infant offspring of patients with PTSD. Tran sgenerational transmission of cortisol and PTSD risk Rachel Yehuda, and Linda M. Bierera Progress in Brain Research Volume 167, 2007, Pages 121-135 doi:10.1016/S0079-6123(07)67009-5  Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Scienceblo gsCombinedFeed/~3/192789788/epigenetic_tr ansmission_of_bio.php
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Trailer: Walk Hard
2007-11-30 04:37:00
Enter the world of musician extraordinaire Dewey Cox. Original post by http://feeds.ign.com/~r/ignfeeds/movies/~ 3/192718575/vids_1.html
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Dutch Lawmaker Plans Anti-Koran Film
2007-11-30 04:17:00
Geert Wilders, the anti-Islamist Dutch politician with hair that puts John Edwards to shame, has announced he’ll be making a short film criticizing the Quran. THE HAGUE, Netherlands: A Dutch conservative lawmaker said Wednesday he is making a film to highlight what he describes as “fascist” passages in the Quran, his latest high profile criticism of Islam. The interior and justice ministers said they were concerned, but believed they had no authority to prevent the lawmaker, Geert Wilders, from screening his film. Wilders plans to depict parts of the Quran he says are used as inspiration “by bad people to do bad things.” Less than 10 minutes long, the film is expected to air in late January. It will show “the intolerant and fascist character of the Quran,” said Wilders, whose anti-Islam campaign helped his Freedom Party win nine seats in parliament in last year’s election. Original post by http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?e ntry...
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YouTube Censors Blogger’s Exposure of Police Abuse [Retrospectacle: A
2007-11-30 03:59:00
Worrisome news: A Cairo human rights activist and blogger, Wael Abbas, posted videos of torture by Egyptian police on YouTube. YouTube received some “complaints” about the material and responded by suspending Abbas’ account there, citing his material was “inappropriate.” One of these videos depicted the sodomy of a restrained political prisoner by police, and resulted in the conviction of the police officers involved. “It’s the first time Egyptian people saw something like that,” Abbas said, referring to beatings and torture. “It was a shock to the Egyptian people.” The blogger, who said he’s in a “state of shock” because he lost videos he’s uploaded for years, said he might resort to campaigning against YouTube. “We thought that YouTube was our ally,” Abbas said. “It helped show the truth in countries like Burma. … With what they did now, it doesn’t seem like that any...
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The Bible as Ethnography ~ 03 ~ Sometimes a Snake is Just a Snake. But no
2007-11-30 03:55:00
Genesis 2 ends with Adam and Eve being naked yet not ashamed. In Genesis 3, the Serpent, who is wiser than average, tricks Eve into partaking of the forbidden fruit of one of god’s two magic trees. This results in Adam and Eve recognizing their own nakedness, and compelling them to produce the first clothing. The word “naked” in the original Hebrew is either eromim or arumim. The former means naked (no clothes) and the latter means exposure as in exposing lies. The original Hebrew for the “clothing” that they put together, “chagowr” probably means “belt.” The parallel (and probably older) Babylonian/Sumerian story explicitly tells of “sexual knowledge.” Remember, the tree providing the forbidden fruit is the tree of knowledge. The only thing that is clear about this story is that it, the story, is heavily clothed in euphemism. Origin stories sometimes refer to origins of sexual relations, sometimes prescribi...
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MarketWatch Revamps Stocks Portfolio Tool, Makes Good Use of Ajax
2007-11-30 03:45:00
Dow Jones’ MarketWatch may not report stock information about particular companies as well as its competitors, such as Google Finance, newly redesigned AOL Money & Finance, or even Yahoo Finance, but it has taken the initiative to develop a new portfolio tool that tops them all. Whereas the others’ portfolio tools are still stuck with clunky interfaces that provide limited information, MarketWatch has developed an Ajax -based tool that enables you to thoroughly compare the performances of selected stocks side-by-side. During market hours, the tool will even update the stocks’ performances - and the investments you have made in them - automatically so you don’t need to refresh the page. I checked out the portfolio tools of MarketWatch’s competitors (consisting primarily of free services such as those mentioned above) and was surprised to see how primitive they are, especially compared to some of their other financial features. Google Finance, for exa...
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Google Gadgets agora no Dashboard do Mac OS X
2007-11-30 03:33:00
E o Google acaba de lançar uma nova versão do seu aplicativo Desktop para Mac com suporte à gadgets, totalmente integrados ao Dashboard do Mac OS X. O legal e um diferencial em relação ao Dashboard é que os gadgets são acessados pelo aplicativo acima, que contém uma lista de todos os mini-aplicativos disponíveis, atualizados dinâmica e periodicamente. Para mandar um novo gadget pro Dashboard, basta clicar em “Add”. (more…) Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogmacmag azine/~3/192682564/
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Mercury/Autism Redux: What is a reasonable standard for ending debate? [Pur
2007-11-30 03:29:00
I wrote earlier today about mercury and autism, and how I thought a criticism of an earlier paper on statistical grounds was fair. Some of the commentors including Orac took me to task saying that the original analysis was indeed better. After thinking about it for most of the day, I changed my mind. The more I think about the original study and the re-analysis, the more I think that the original study got a fair conclusion and performed fair statistical analysis. On a second look, I think the re-analysis may have been nitpicking unfairly. Marginal results or not, it is barely ever OK to say that, “If we did a one-tailed t-test it would be significant, so this is a result worth following up.” I almost feel like that would result in two many false positives, hence the two-tail standard in the first place. This is one of the problem with blogging. Sometimes you change your mind. It is sort of like science that if you are honest you can come clean, but in hindsight...
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Baby Beluga Needs a Name [Zooillogix]
2007-11-30 03:27:00
Whale or little alien? How can we be sure… A couple of months ago we covered the birth of a baby beluga whale to mama Mauyak at the Shedd Aquarium. Well now Shedd is asking for your help in naming the rambunctious little tyke. A variety of names from the Pacific Northwest that are equally meaningless to an English speaker’s ear can be selected: Ipiktok (Ip-eek-tock) Very keen or sharp Opipok (Oh-pee-pock) Admirable, to admire Tuwawi (Too-wah-wee) Quick Nilak (Nee-lock) Fresh water ice Kimalu (Kee-ma-loo) Traditional Inuit name given to special people Mituk (Mee-took) Small snow layer on fishing hole Nunavik (New-na-vik) Friendly, beautiful, and wild Aniuk (Ah-nee-ook) Snow for drinking water Aput (Ah-poot) Snow on ground Akiak (Ah-kee-ock) Brave Ipecac (Ip-ee-kak) Emetic, a substance used to induce vomiting And finally, the write-in option!!! This is where you come in… Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original...
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Winter Movie Preview
2007-11-30 03:21:00
The summer movie season may be long gone, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t flicks worth catching this winter. Whether you’re looking for pulse-pounding, bloody action (Rambo, Aliens Vs. Predator 2), comedy (Semi-Pro, Walk Hard), or more dramatic fare (Juno, There Will Be Blood), Hollywood has got something for you over the next few months… Original post by http://feeds.ign.com/~r/ignfeeds/movies/~ 3/192718576/838668p1.html
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Cut-Grind or Grind-Cut? The Butter Battle Book of Prehistoric Mammals [Zooi
2007-11-30 03:19:00
An artist’s rendering of what Pseudotribos robustus or a weasel-possum-lizard, might have looked like 165 million years ago In the November 1st, issue of Nature, a joint American and Chinese research team announced the discovery of a long dead prehistoric mammal with an interesting set of chompers. Although the teeth were very similar in form to other teeth found at the time, they actually were arranged in a “grind-cut” pattern instead of the more common “cut-grind” pattern! Upon realizing what they were looking at, some of the female researchers fainted from embarrassment. These days, mammals have very different types of teeth: from fruit eaters; to grain munchers; to ant slurpers; and countless others. However, it is believed that all of these teeth descended from a common archetypal tooth design. Paleodentologists (I made that up, but I bet Darren Naish over at Tetrapod Zoology has a certification in that) have long believed that tribosphenic teeth, ...
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Facebook Competitor CollegeTonight “Goes Public”, Raises $1.6M
2007-11-29 22:50:00
CollegeTonight, one of a group of startups that is trying to win over Facebook ’s core college membership, has raised a $1.6 million round of financing. Oh, and they went “public” and have a market capitalization of just over $14 million. This isn’t really going public, though. They’ve merged with a barely alive public entity called Simex Technologies (SMXT), which is trading at $0.49 per share on the Nasdaq pink sheets. Simex, which had been delinquent in its annual and quarterly reports for some time, is now current and has changed its name to College Tonight, Inc. This is a common way for startups to get liquidity fast, and it rarely ends well. When Nasdaq companies get delisted into pink sheet purgatory, they will occasionally get picked up by a fast thinking investment banker and paired with a young but promising startup. And when I say “promising,” I mean that there are investors out there that can be talked into parting with their cash...

Facebook Competitor College Tonight “Goes Public,” Raises $1.6M
2007-11-29 22:50:00
College Tonight , one of a group of startups that is trying to win over Facebook ’s core college membership, has raised a $1.6 million round of financing. Oh, and they went “public.” This isn’t really going public, though. They’ve merged with a barely alive public entity called Simex Technologies (SMXT), which is trading at $0.49 per share on the Nasdaq pink sheets. Simex, which had been delinquent in its annual and quarterly reports for some time, is now current and has changed its name to College Tonight, Inc. This is a common way for startups to get liquidity fast, and it rarely ends well. When Nasdaq companies get delisted into pink sheet purgatory, they will occasionally get picked up. A subsidiary of Simex called Remote Business, Inc. used to be “engaged in the design, installation, servicing and monitoring of digital surveillance security systems for business and industry” — hardly anything related to social networking. College...
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Facebook Competitor College Tonight “Goes Public”, Raises $1.6M
2007-11-29 22:50:00
College Tonight , one of a group of startups that is trying to win over Facebook ’s core college membership, has raised a $1.6 million round of financing. Oh, and they went “public.” This isn’t really going public, though. They’ve merged with a barely alive public entity called Simex Technologies (SMXT), which is trading at $0.49 per share on the Nasdaq pink sheets. Simex, which had been delinquent in its annual and quarterly reports for some time, is now current and has changed its name to College Tonight, Inc. This is a common way for startups to get liquidity fast, and it rarely ends well. When Nasdaq companies get delisted into pink sheet purgatory, they will occasionally get picked up. A subsidiary of Simex called Remote Business, Inc. used to be “engaged in the design, installation, servicing and monitoring of digital surveillance security systems for business and industry” — hardly anything related to social networking. Crunch Net...
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How It All Ends [A Blog Around The Clock]
2007-11-29 22:45:00
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Sarko Meets Parents of Murdered Woman
2007-11-29 22:28:00
Today the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, met the parents of Anne-Lorraine Schmitt. Last Sunday, this 23-year old woman was murdered on a metro train in Paris’s northern suburbs by a serial rapist of Turkish origin who had been released from jail despite his criminal record. He stabbed her to death because she resisted him.Yesterday, Mr. Sarkozy met the parents of two immigrant teenagers who last Sunday drove themselves to death on a stolen motorbike less than 15 kms from the place where Anne-Lorraine Schmitt was murdered that same evening. The death of the two teenagers led to riots in the immigrant neighbourhoods, while the murder of Miss Schmitt went mostly unnoticed in the mainstream media. Only a few French blogs – mainly Catholic and nationalist ones – wrote about the case. Anne-Marie Schmitt was the eldest of five children from a deeply religious and patriot French family. The fact that President Sarkozy decided to meet the young woman’s parents made one of the blo...
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The nefarious email itself [Thoughts from Kansas]
2007-11-29 22:22:00
Chris Comer’s firing has been getting a lot of attention, and one question keeps getting asked: “What kind of soul-torturing electronic missive about an academic talk could be so dastardly as to result in someone getting fired merely for forwarding it?” Read on only if you are prepared to enter a Lovecraftian world filled with squishy tentacles and phrases like “expert testimony”: Subject: Barbara Forrest in Austin 11/2 Dear Austin-area friends of NCSE, I thought that you might like to know that Barbara Forrest will be speaking on “Inside Creationism’s Trojan Horse” in Austin on November 2, 2007. Her talk, sponsored by the Center for Inquiry Austin, begins at 7:00 p.m. in the Monarch Event Center, Suite 3100, 6406 North IH-35 in Austin. The cost is $6; free to friends of the Center. In her talk, Forrest will provide a detailed report on her expert testimony in the Kitzmiller v. Dover School Board trial as well as an overview of the h...
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The dying grandma gambit [Pharyngula]
2007-11-29 22:16:00
The dying grandma gambit is a scenario familiar to most atheists; it’s been played out a few times in this thread. I’m sure you know it. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Scienceblo gsCombinedFeed/~3/192541396/the_dying_gra ndma_gambit.php
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First-Person Shooter Creator Bets on Casual Gamers
2007-11-29 22:15:00
The mobile gaming market was supposed to be huge by now. Clearly that hasn’t happened. And although the jury is still out as to whether this sector will grow or fizzle, as games on cell phones face competition from all kinds of other media, some analysts are resolutely predicting a slowdown. But John Carmack, the creator of such hardcore IPs like Doom and Quake — the man who practically founded the first-person shooter genre in games — has been talking up the new mobile division of his company, id Software. In this way Carmack is following in the footsteps of id co-founder John Romero, who started the mobile games maker Monkeystone Games in 2001. But back then, the mobile games market was in its infancy, and after three-and-a-half years, Romero quietly shut the studio down. Carmack, on the other hand, has been waiting for the market to stabilize, and he’s not only working on games for mobile phones but for other devices as well — among them Nintendo&rsq...
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Ahh, “liberal” Joe Klein’s puppetmaster is Republican Rep
2007-11-29 22:14:00
For those of us wondering who the Republican whispering sweet nothings into Joe Klein ’s ear, it was right-wing Republican and top-tier Bush apologist Rep. Pete Hoekstra. Today, Hoektstra went to National Review to defend his good friend, “liberal pundit” Joe Klein, in what Hoekstra called the “venomous debate [that] has raged between Time columnist Joe Klein and his far-Left critics.” As always on the pro-Bush Right, those who believe in the radical instrument called “search warrants” are deemed to be “far leftists.” Hoekstra pronounces Klein correct in everything he said, and then confesses that he was “one of Klein’s sources for the complex technical and legal points that seem to be in contention.” So, in other words, it was Hoekstra — one of Washington’s most partisan GOP operatives — who lied to Klein by claiming that the House Democrats’ bill requires warrants for every foreign terro...
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Images: Wanted
2007-11-29 22:05:00
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The goat-eating hot water bottle turtles [Tetrapod Zoology]
2007-11-29 16:50:00
That weird little face was, indeed, that of a turtle - but it wasn’t that of a matamata Chelus fimbriatus, it was instead that of a softshell turtle (a trionychid), and specifically that of a narrow-headed softshell Chitra indica (though read on). Well done Lars, Johannes and Emile, and particularly Hai-Ren. Chitra has to be one of the most amazing turtles: a big to enormous, long-skulled rubbery animal that hardly ever leaves the water. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Scienceblo gsCombinedFeed/~3/192409732/hot_water_bot tle_turtles.php
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Bwaah!!! Gimme Back My War
2007-11-29 16:50:00
“Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what’s wrong with what we’ve done in Iraq. We’ve been following time as it goes forward. What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9/11.” — JON STEWART Well, it’s not even Friday yet, but if anything good has come out of this week it’s that I’m now four-fifths of the way through grieving over the end of the Iraq war. I mean come on! A little sympathy is in order here. It’s bad enough that I won’t have the Mess in Mesopotamia to kick around any more, but then George Bush will be back at his ranch clearing scrub brush and looking for his legacy before we know it. Regarding the war, I refer of course to the deal that Dubya and Nouri Al-Maliki have cooked up: The abjectly corrupt prime minister gets long-term coup insurance from the abjectly amoral president in the form of U.S. troops stationed at permanent bases and in return the U.S. gets first dibs at Iraq&rsqu...
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Apple Brasil realiza promoção com MacBooks mais baratos neste Natal [atua
2007-11-29 16:45:00
Os principais varejistas nacionais realizam promoção conjunta com a Apple Brasil para o Natal , oferecendo preços mais em conta para toda a linha de MacBooks — e mantendo o parcelamento de 12 vezes sem juros. O modelo mais básico caiu de R$3.999 para R$3.499, enquanto o intermediário foi de R$5.499 para R$4.699 e o topo-de-linha de R$6.499 para R$5.499. O MacBook branco (MB061) vem com processador Intel Core 2 Duo de 2GHz, 1GB de RAM, 80GB e Combo Drive. O modelo intermediário (MB062) vai para um processador com 2.16GHz, 120GB e SuperDrive. O topo-de-linha é o modelo preto (MB063), com as mesmas características do anterior e HD de 160GB. Atualização (29/11/2007 às 12:35): bem pertinente o comentário do leitor Renato Perez Michelin. Ele pede para alertar a todos que os atuais modelos de MacBooks vendidos no Brasil não fazem parte da última linha de MacBooks vendida hoje nos Estados Unidos. Lá, eles foram atualizados com processadores Core 2 Duo “Santa Rosa&rdquo...
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Apple Brasil realiza promoção com MacBooks mais baratos neste Natal
2007-11-29 16:45:00
Os principais varejistas nacionais realizam promoção conjunta com a Apple Brasil para o Natal , oferecendo preços mais em conta para toda a linha de MacBooks — e mantendo o parcelamento de 12 vezes sem juros. O modelo mais básico caiu de R$3.999 para R$3.499, enquanto o intermediário foi de R$5.499 para R$4.699 e o topo-de-linha de R$6.499 para R$5.499. O MacBook branco (MB061) vem com processador Intel Core 2 Duo de 2GHz, 1GB de RAM, 80GB e Combo Drive. O modelo intermediário (MB062) vai para um processador com 2.16GHz, 120GB e SuperDrive. O topo-de-linha é o modelo preto (MB063), com as mesmas características do anterior e HD de 160GB. Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogmacmag azine/~3/192382273/
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Different ribosomes fulfill different functions [The Daily Transcript]
2007-11-29 16:36:00
This week, I haven’t had too much time to blog, but I would like to point out two posts written about a paper that I briefly mentioned in a post that appeared last week. It’s on that that fabulous result concerning ribosomes from budding yeast. Background: the S. cerevisiae genome underwent a duplication event - as a result many ribosomal proteins are now encoded by two distinct genes. Two groups located here at Harvard Medical School (the Silver and Roth labs), have found that these critters take advantage of the many duplicate genes that encode ribosomal proteins to construct at least two types of ribosomes that have different properties. One of the ribosome varieties has a greater propensity for translating a very special mRNA (encoding ASH1) that is specifically localized to the bud. This idea, that the ribosome can vary and that each variation can fulfill a different function, sets a precident. To read more, see Dan’s post: Ribosomal Paralogs not Redundant ...
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Coming soon to the Creation “Museum” [Pharyngula]
2007-11-29 16:35:00
A new explanation! Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Scienceblo gsCombinedFeed/~3/192381015/coming_soon_t o_the_creation_mu.php
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Early ho, ho, ho…
2007-11-29 16:32:00
If you’re into Holiday music, especially sing by AVA singers, here are two events that you can’t miss! Sunday, December 2 & 9Holiday Gala  at the Tomasello Winery, Hammonton, NJ Othalie Graham & Allison Hymel, sopranosJeff Halili & Bryan Hymel, tenorsMarkus Beam, baritoneMichele Scanlon, music director/pianist Song, food & wine – great combination!They might even let you sing a-long. December 9-23Philly POPS Orchestra presentsHoliday Pops withBryan Hymel, tenorVerizon Hall at the Kimmel Center** A little birdie told me that another AVA tenor alum might be stepping into the spotlight for the last few concerts for Bryan. Can’t tell you more right now, but stayed tuned! Original post by http://avaoperablog.typepad.com/avaoperab log/2007/11/early-ho-ho-ho.html
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Thinking of Creating a Line
2007-11-29 16:31:00
  Original post by http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2712
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Fast and Loose
2007-11-29 16:29:00
Stavros Dimas (no really) is the European Commissioner for Global Warming and it appears he has been a little economical with the actualite. Chris Horner spots the deliberate mistake here,According to EU Observer he claims, “‘Our emissions are currently 2 percent below [1990] levels (…) while our economy has grown by more than 35 percent over the same period.” The point being is that Kyoto was agreed by the then EU 15, the 35% growth rate is essentially just adding the GDP of the accession countries, with no real growth required, and of course the collapse of the Eastern European manufacturing industry immediately after the fall in the Berlin wall has meant that the 27 overall have had a reduction. Not the EU 15 which is way over target. This conflation of "we" (15) and "we" (27) is a pernicious mistruth. Original post by http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2711
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