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Upping your new year's resolution odds
Tips on how to increase your chances of actually keeping that promise to yourself.The new year is just barely getting started, but all across the land folks are busy gobbling...
Make organ donor choice, U.K. drivers told
Drivers applying for new licences in Britain will have to choose whether or not to become organ donors under a program aimed at increasing the number of people registered.
The New Old Age: Wanted: A National Respite System
With federal assistance, two dozen states have taken tentative steps toward building respite programs for caregivers.
The rest is history: 2010 in podcasts
Welcome to our pick of audio highlights from 2010, presented by Pascal Wyse. Hopefully there is something for everyone here: poetry from Simon Armitage, World Cup fury from Football Weekly,...
Ex-CFL star Tony Proudfoot dies
Former CFL player and two-time Grey Cup champion Tony Proudfoot has died in Montreal at age 61, after a three-year battle with Lou Gehrig's disease.
State Secrecy After A Trivial Invasion: A Personal Anecdote
On August 21, 10:25:20 and 10:51:16, a mid-level aid on my opponent's staff signed up on a Political Action Committee's website to "Turn out voters, Make policy, Fundraise, Volunteer in...
ADHD Yoghurt For Winning The Drug War
What is the most popular form of Citizen Science? Some want to make us believe it is SETI@home, 8 year olds being pressured by overenthusiastic teachers, or people in their...
Kidney donation is sister's key out of prison
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has suspended Jamie and Gladys Scott's life sentences for robbery, but the fact that Gladys' release rides on her donating a kidney to her sister is...
VIDEO: Newborn's leukemia diagnosis challenges family
A Victoria couple is struggling to keep their family together while their baby is treated for leukemia in Vancouver, the CBC's Tim Chung reports.
Family of missing mentally ill woman seeks help
The family of a missing mentally ill woman from Cambridge, Ont., is appealing to Torontonians to help find her.
US teen birth rate still far higher than W. Europe
(AP) -- The rate of teen births in the U.S. is at its lowest level in almost 70 years. Yet, the sobering context is that the teen pregnancy rate...
Ohio child cancers confound parents, investigators
CLYDE, Ohio (AP) -- Every time his kids cough, Dave Hisey's mind starts to race. Is it cancer? Is it coming back?...
Students are the perfect medical guinea pigs – I should know | Tim Skellett
Taking part in experiments can be hair-raising and potentially lethal, but it gives you something to talk about at partiesI've done a lot of medical and psychophysiological experiments on both sides – as...
New cognitive robotics lab tests theories of human thought
Researchers are exploring how human thought outwits brute force computing in the real world. Twenty programmable robots allow students to test the real-world performance of computer models that mimic human...
Gadgets Kids Will Love on Road Trips
Expert Showcases Many Likely to Keep Youngsters Busy and Happy, and Parents Sane, during Long Drives
Smart Doesn't Always Equal Happy for Public Employees
Public sector employees were found to be much more astute at managing internal politics
Anorexic French model dies at 28
Isabelle Caro, a French actress and model whose emaciated image appeared in a shock Italian ad campaign and whose anorexia and career were followed by others suffering from eating disorders,...
Prevention of bad lifestyle habits should be tackled even before 13 years, researcher argues
Bad eating habits, ingestion of alcohol, sedentary lifestyles -- all are unhealthy life habits that are already being detected in early adolescence and that are especially predominant amongst women and...
China to crack down on lavish public-funded fetes
(AP) -- China plans to crack down in the coming year on lavish parties and seminars organized by government officials, hoping to placate a public angered by corruption and...
Radio review: Schrödinger's Quantum Kittens
Jolly experts helped untangle the idea that a cat can be dead and alive simultaneouslyRobin Ince, presenting Schrödinger's Quantum Kittens (Radio 4), didn't mince his words. Schrödinger's theory is, he suggested, "one of...
Someone's High On Placebos
Last Wednesday, this paper, published in PLoS ONE, hit the popular news in the medicine/science category, with articles such as this one from MedPage Today and this, from Reuters. read more
Motherhood in Play: Leaving Cockpit for Family
Sarah Fisher, the first and only female team owner in the IndyCar Series, stopped racing at age 30 in hopes of having a family.
Wake up, Mom: Gender differences in accepting sleep interruptions
Working mothers are two-and-a-half times as likely as working fathers to interrupt their sleep to take care of others.
Visual skills required for independence are impaired in children with autism, research finds
The ability to find shoes in the bedroom, apples in a supermarket, or a favorite animal at the zoo is impaired among children with autism, according to new research from...
Study: Anesthesia like coma, not sleep
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A review of general anesthesia, sleep and coma by U.S. researchers says the brain under general anesthesia isn't "asleep" but in a state...
U.S. must change tack on S. America, says Lula
BRASILIA, Brazil, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Outgoing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the United States needs to change its approaches to Latin America because its handling...
Scientific Method In Decline?
Jonah Leher in The New Yorker about the slipperiness of the scientific method: "The Truth Wears Off: Is There Something Wrong With The Scientific Method?" The test of replicability, as it’s known,...
George Clooney and Google launch satellite plan to avert Sudan violence
UN and Harvard University also partners in Satellite Sentinel Project, which aims to 'stop a war before it starts'Google has joined the UN, Harvard University and a pressure group founded by George Clooney...