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Kids And Math: Mental Number Line Impacts Memory For Numbers

Kids And Math: Mental Number Line Impacts Memory For Numbers

Sep 09 2010 | comment(s)

Remembering numbers is one of the most basic things we do from a young age - early on, a combination lock or a phone number and later any number of things such as ATM codes, social security numbers, and more.

In Western cultures, children learn to place numbers on a mental number line - smaller numbers to the left and spaced further apart than the larger numbers on the right. Then the number line changes to become more linear, with small and large numbers the same distance apart. Children whose number line has made this change are better at remembering numbers, according to a new study published in Psychological Science.
Physicists Really Roll The Dice With Quantum Random Number Generator

Physicists Really Roll The Dice With Quantum Random Number Generator

Sep 09 2010 | comment(s)

To physicists, nothing is really a coincidence.   Even cats in quantum boxes can be explained in mathematical terms, not to mention roulette or the success or failure of an attack in Dungeons&Dragons, but researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light in Erlangen say they have constructed a device that is truly random and generates random numbers that cannot be predicted in advance.

The researchers exploit the fact that measurements based on quantum physics can only produce a special result with a certain degree of probability, that is, randomly. True random numbers are needed for the secure encryption of data and to enable the reliable simulation of economic processes and changes in the climate. 
Concavenator Corcovatus - The Hunchback (Dinosaur) Of Cuencia

Concavenator Corcovatus - The Hunchback (Dinosaur) Of Cuencia

Sep 09 2010 | comment(s)

Paleontologists have released details about Concavenator corcovatus, a carnivorous humpbacked dinosaur discovered in Spain - and it oddly had both feathers and scales.

Concavenator corcovatus was a theropod dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period, about 130 million years ago.   Concavenator corcovatus translates to 'hump-backed predator from Cuenca', where it was discovered. 
Health care in East and West. .

Health care in East and West. .

Sep 09 2010 | comment(s)

Human body has 10 raise to the power 13 cells and it has 10 raise to the power 14 microbes in it if I have heard the lecture correctly delivered in a seminar abroad. Microbes have different interpersonal relations when alone . They behave differently if they are in company of human beings or with different microbes. Microbe human interaction in fat people and thin people is different . In fatty healthy people and in sick thin people the microbe human interaction may be different. Natural products have an effect on microbes and vice versa. Natural products might influence si RNA levels. Its the microbes, natural products and human body which act together,( a doctor can tell better,) but in eastern way of treatment emphasis is laid on curing mind , body and soul together.
Collective Immunity: Multi-Attribute Optimization Of Pediatric Vaccine Policies

Collective Immunity: Multi-Attribute Optimization Of Pediatric Vaccine Policies

Sep 09 2010 | comment(s)

"We hear a lot about bioterrorism and pandemics," says Sheldon H. Jacobson, a professor of computer science and pediatrics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,"but the fact of the matter is, the threat to routine immunization is one of the greatest threats we face.   If we had problems with our vaccine supply chain, it would have the potential to cause more deaths than any of those other issues."
To Get Big Attention, Stay Small - Large-scale Tragedies Get Less Notice

To Get Big Attention, Stay Small - Large-scale Tragedies Get Less Notice

Sep 09 2010 | comment(s)

A million dollars is difficult to imagine but if someone is charging $2 instead of one, that gets attention.   Likewise, a quote attributed to communist USSR despot Joesph Stalin is "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."(1)  And he should know, being responsible for 20 million deaths (starting with competitor Leon Trotsky) and so nestled comfortably between Mao and Hitler in world history, but is regarded favorably by some on left whereas a serial killer of a few is reviled by everyone.

A group says they have validated that large-scale tragedies don't connect people emotionally the same way smaller tragedies do, called a "scope-severity paradox".
Glycolipids Clue In How Tuberculosis Avoids Destruction Inside Cells

Glycolipids Clue In How Tuberculosis Avoids Destruction Inside Cells

Sep 09 2010 | comment(s)

Tuberculosis (TB)  is a contagious disease of the lungs and other organs caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (or M. tuberculosis) and which infects roughly a third of the world's population.  5-10% of those in the infected population become sick or infectious at some point during their lifetime. 
The Space-Plunger

The Space-Plunger

Sep 09 2010 | comment(s)

Sean Carroll writes that in GR “spacetime can give energy to matter, or absorb it from matter, so that the total energy simply isn’t conserved”.

He hopefully means “space” not “space-time”, because space-time includes time and has no further time to do anything, let alone absorb stuff. Let us nevertheless do a sympathetic reading and firstly show what he may mean with a simple example:

Health care systems and society East vs West.

Health care systems and society East vs West.

Sep 09 2010 | comment(s)

I had a chance to pass on the road in front of hospital in West recently. I never had a chance to enter hospital from inside there. I remembered the poem of Ernest Hemmingway “East is East and West is West and twin shall never meet”. Its not to hurt anybodies true feelings its about way of life in east and west and the traditions will always be different because of way of life is different.
Google Instant - for those of you too impatient to finish typing

Google Instant - for those of you too impatient to finish typing

Sep 08 2010 | comment(s)

Google Instant is basically a way to show you results as you type, sort of like your browser's ability to complete a URL as you type it in.  Estimate: 2-5 seconds saved per Google Instant search and maybe even optimizing your search when you are not sure exactly what you want or how to spell it.

To allay concerns that results for improper words don't show up, like the first three letters of the word 'assign' showing you things you don't want your kids to see, filters are still in place and they say Google Instant is deactivated for slow connections.
Men, these are the dance moves that attract women! - LA Times

Men, these are the dance moves that attract women! - LA Times

Sep 08 2010 | comment(s)

The LA Times shows our Science 2.0 There's Science To Dancing Also article some love.
A study was done at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom identifying the dance moves that attract women to men. Here is what the research found...
Christopher M. Crane Elected A Director Of Aleris International, Inc. And Aleris Holding Company

Christopher M. Crane Elected A Director Of Aleris International, Inc. And Aleris Holding Company

Sep 08 2010 | comment(s)

Stop those boneheaded Facebook comments - CNN

Stop those boneheaded Facebook comments - CNN

Sep 08 2010 | comment(s)

Some Facebook tips from CNN guest columnists Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich, Ehrlich being editor at Mashable.com and Bartz editor at PsychologyToday.com:

Facebook gets a lot of attention for being, uh, your space -- a handful of entry fields in which to sum up your awesomeness, right down to the bewildering "Write something about yourself" box.

Researchers fixate on what your profile says about you, while increasingly complex pages, plug-ins and boxes (what are those all about, anyway?) make it clear that Facebook is all about you.

Still, at least one tab of your Facebook profile is largely left to others' devices: the wall.
The Harley Medical Group Report Surge In Liposuction Procedures

The Harley Medical Group Report Surge In Liposuction Procedures

Sep 08 2010 | comment(s)

Blogs and Traditional Press - 10% science content versus 1%

Blogs and Traditional Press - 10% science content versus 1%

Sep 08 2010 | comment(s)

Are blogs valuable?   They must be to science readers.  A Pew Research Center study shows that Old Media doesn't cover science very well, leaving a gap to be filled by bloggers, with 10X the science content.  And leadership.

They cite the "ClimateGate" East Anglia coverage, which was basically ignored by cheerleaders in science journalism until it took off in the blogosphere.   A week later, it gained traction in traditional media.

Blogs and Traditional Press science coverage
Benchmark And Accel Partners Fund ResearchGATE - $5 Million?

Benchmark And Accel Partners Fund ResearchGATE - $5 Million?

Sep 08 2010 | comment(s)

Oddly, the company won’t disclose the size of the round, other than to say it’s a typical series A round, which implies $5 million or so.
Bigmouthmedia Hires Fiona Robertson As Head Of Affiliates And Performance

Bigmouthmedia Hires Fiona Robertson As Head Of Affiliates And Performance

Sep 08 2010 | comment(s)

OverBlog And Wikio Merge To Create The Leading Social Media Group In Europe

OverBlog And Wikio Merge To Create The Leading Social Media Group In Europe

Sep 08 2010 | comment(s)

Judicial Activism Is The Problem In The Embryonic Stem Cell Injunction

Judicial Activism Is The Problem In The Embryonic Stem Cell Injunction

Sep 08 2010 | comment(s)

I have long told my more progressive brethren who have been happy about overarching judicial decisions they happened to like that activism is a double-edged sword.   Certainly it's reasonable to 'cross that bridge' when society gets to it, but until then the repercussions are substantial.

In the instance of an injunction on embryonic stem cell research being upheld, it's not evil Republicans sticking it to stem cell research, though I have long contended they never did by simply restricting the human embryonic stem cell kind anyway - that law was signed by Clinton.  Instead, it is a court and we have 50 solid years of aggressive judicial good works that has gone well beyond interpreting the Constitution, making it the most powerful branch of government.

Sep 08 2010 | comment(s)

Last autumn’s holiday in Tirol.