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- Superdog For Superbugs: Dogs Sniff Out Clostridium Difficile Infections In Poop This Christmas In BMJ
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Dogs can sniff out Clostridium difficile, the infective agent that is responsible for many of the dreaded "hospital acquired infections", in stool samples and even in the air surrounding patients in hospital with a very high degree of accuracy, ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2012 - 4:30am
- Experts Warn Of Misbehaving Tooth Fairy- And Misbehaving BMJ Writers
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Opinions of the tooth fairy as kind and giving may need to be revised following "mounting reports of less child-friendly activity", according to a paper published in the BMJ 's Christmas edition which is sure to fool mainstream media editor ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2012 - 12:29pm
- Why Rudolph's Nose Is Red- The Definitive BMJ Study
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A study in BMJ's Christmas issue, which spares no effort in its annual attempt to see who in science media rewrites press releases without even reading them, has determined why Rudolph, the famous extra reindeer of Santa we will not show here due to l ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2012 - 8:59pm
- Sopranos- Under MRI
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The first scientific study to employ real-time magnetic resonance imaging (RT) MRI to obtain midsagittal vocal tract sequential image data from a total of 5 soprano singers was published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2010 ( ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Dec 18 2012 - 11:18am
- Scholarly Explanations Of "YES!"
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The scholarly journal Parallax (vol. 16, no.3, 2010) is a special edition on the subject of ‘YES!’. Gary Peters, who is Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory at York St. John University, UK, is guest-editor for the issue, and is also author of one of t ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Dec 22 2012 - 10:38am
- Toe Lengths- The Implications
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A growing body of scientific studies have examined the implications of finger length ratios. But until recently up to 50% of humanoid distal appendages may have been largely overlooked – for what of toe-length ratios? Progress towards rectifying this digit ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Jan 2 2013 - 2:53pm
- What Do Protons Taste Like?
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Q.1 Is it possible to use one’s tongue as a subatomic particle detector? Q.2 If so, would that be a good idea? ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Jan 4 2013 - 8:19pm
- Is The NIH A Cult?
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As many of you know, I spent a fair amount of time last month engaged in debates about the wisdom of California’s Proposition 37, which would have mandated the labeling of genetically modified foods. While many of these discussions were civil, one particu ...
Article - Michael Eisen - Jan 8 2013 - 12:28pm
- Woodpeckers: Research Roundup
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“A woodpecker is known to drum the hard woody surface of a tree at a rate of 18 to 22 times per second with a deceleration of 1200 g, yet with no sign of blackout or brain damage.” ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Jan 8 2013 - 12:24pm
- Cats And Dogs- The Hidden Dangers
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Can owning a dog or cat be classed as a dangerous activity? Judy A. Stevens PhD. and colleagues at The Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, of the US National Center for Injury Prevention and Control have completed their report – Dogs and cats as e ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Jan 18 2013 - 12:24pm
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