Month: September 2012

Top 10 Health Benefits of Drinking Tea There are lots of reasons why I enjoy a hot cup of tea: I love the aroma of various flavors of tea; holding onto a hot tea mug warms my hands on a cold winter morning; sipping tea in front of the fireplace is a great way to…
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Brain Parasites, California’s Hidden Health Problem By Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato | September 6, 2012 |  13 Share  Email  Print Sara Alvarez was afraid. The doctors told her she needed surgery — brain surgery. Operations on such a complex organ are never simple, but this procedure was exceptionally difficult. There was a high risk of complications, of debilitation, of post-op problems. Alvarez might wake…
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  Space Elevator Enthusiasts Push On despite Lengthy Time Frames and Long Odds A space-travel technology, simple in concept, has been frustratingly difficult to realize By David Appell     11 in Share    A LONG CLIMB: An artist’s conception shows a climber pod ascending a space elevator’s tether to deploy a satellite.Image: ISEC The Best Science Writing…
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Sharp Criticism for Mamata Banerjee in Muslim Officer’s Book By ANURADHA SHARMA Piyal Adhikary/European Pressphoto AgencyWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addressing a gathering of Muslim community members in Kolkata, West Bengal in this April 3, 2012 file photo. KOLKATA — In just over a week since its launch, Musalamander Koroniyo (What Muslims Should Do), a book in…
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Sharp Criticism for Mamata Banerjee in Muslim Officer’s Book By ANURADHA SHARMA Piyal Adhikary/European Pressphoto AgencyWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addressing a gathering of Muslim community members in Kolkata, West Bengal in this April 3, 2012 file photo. KOLKATA — In just over a week since its launch, Musalamander Koroniyo (What Muslims Should Do), a book in…
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Stanford researchers discover the ‘anternet’ A collaboration between a Stanford ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet. BY BJORN CAREY Katherine Decktar Harvester ant foragers waiting inside the nest. On the surface, ants and the…
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