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Aided by Army of ‘Vapers,’ E-Cigarette Industry Woos and Wins Europe Toby Melville/Reuters An electronic cigarette seller in London smoked one of his products. The European Parliament decided last month not to restrict e-cigarettes. By ANDREW HIGGINSPublished: November 9, 2013 19 Comments The signatures had been collected via a website, saveecigs.com, which proclaimed itself the voice of the “forgotten millions in this debate” — people who had taken up e-cigarettes to stop smoking, and their grateful families.BRUSSELS — Facing a decision on whether to impose tight restrictions on a bo...mais »
Mapping the body
The Art of Medicine: Mapping the Body in 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination*by Maria Popova* *From ancient etchings to electron microscopes, or what aspirin has to do with visualizing consciousness.* Since time immemorial, humanity has been turning its gaze outward, ordering the heavens, and inward, mapping the mind, in an effort to better understand who we are and where we belong. The human body itself has always been a fascinating frontier of inquiry as we’ve bridged art and science to visualize the living fabric of our shared existence.*The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of ... mais »
growth x sustainability, justice and human dignity
How economic growth has become anti-life An obsession with growth has eclipsed our concern for sustainability, justice and human dignity. But people are not disposable – the value of life lies outside economic development - [image: Vandana Shiva] - - Vandana Shiva - theguardian.com, Friday 1 November 2013 04.22 GMT - Jump to comments (391) [image: An Indian trader inspects sunflower seeds as he participates in a seed auction sale at the grain market in the village of Jandiala, near Amritsar, India, 29 May 2013.]'Economic growth begins when seeds are geneti... mais »
Gabapentin and Alcohol
*JAMA Internal Medicine* Original Investigation [image: Gabapentin image] *Gabapentin Treatment for Alcohol Dependence* This randomized trial reports that gabapentin is an effective and safe treatment for alcohol dependence and for relapse-related symptoms of insomnia, dysphoria, and craving.
Huh?
Is ‘Huh?’ a universal word? *A word like ‘Huh?’ —used when one has not caught what someone just said—appears to be universal: it is found to have very similar form and function in languages across the globe. This is one of the findings of a major cross-linguistic study by researchers Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira and Nick Enfield, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE.* Dingemanse, Mark, Francisco Torreira, and N.J. Enfield. 2013. “Is ‘Huh?’ a universal word? Conversational infrastructure...mais »
Music and brain
Just a few years of early musical training benefits the brain later in lifeNovember 7, 2013 *[+]* (Credit: Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory) Older adults who took music lessons as children but haven’t actively played an instrument in decades have a faster brain response to a speech sound than individuals who never played an instrument, according to a new study by Northwestern University researchers. They found that the more years study participants spent playing instruments as youth, the faster their brains responded to a speech sound. As people grow older, they often experience chang... mais »
NNT
Heart Diets, Heart Numbers, and Truth That LastsThe NNT: Heart Diets, Heart Numbers, and Truth That Lasts *Selected by the AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* It’s not every day that a heart diet controversy is truly settled. But earlier this month a report in the *British Medical Journal* solved the cold case of a nearly 50-year old heart study with a hidden, and crucial, finding. Better still, a landmark study published this week sharpens the point. In 1966 the Sidney Diet Heart Study, named after the city in which it originated, randomly assigned 448 middle-aged men with a prior he... mais »
Hominid 1.8 million-year-oldfossil
Lumping or splitting in the fossil record *November 2013* [image: hominid skull photo] *The 1.8-million-year-old skull was found in 2005 in the Republic of Georgia * Rarely does pure science take top billing in the news, but this past month saw a notable exception. The front page of the New York Times was occupied by the image of an ancient hominid skull caked in dirt. This 1.8 million-year-oldfossil, excavated in the Republic of Georgia, represents the oldest complete adult cranium of a hominid yet discovered. That alone would be significant news, but the context in which the fossil w... mais »
Communication between kingdoms
[image: Lab Rat] Communication between kingdoms: the micro-organisms that live on the human body By S.E. Gould | November 3, 2013 | From the point of view of a micro-organism, the human body is a prime piece of real estate. For those bacteria and fungi that can avoid or fight off the immune systems, a human provides a whole range of moist, nutrient-filled little spaces in which to live. Some of these micro-organisms are harmless, growing and thriving within their niche without harming or disrupting the body they live within. Others are harmful, actively attacking the surrounding hu... mais »
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