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    <title>A virus that kills cancer: the cure that's waiting in the coldc - Telegraph</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-04T08:54:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mshum</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[More people have full-blown neuroendocrine tumours (known as NETs or carcinoids) than stomach, pancreas, oesophagus or liver cancer. And the incidence is growing: there has been a five-fold increase in the number of people diagnosed in the last 30 years. 

In medical school, students are taught 'when you hear hoof beats, think horses not zebras' – don't diagnose a rare disease when there's a more prob-able explanation. It leads to frequent misdiagnoses: until the death of Steve Jobs, NETs were considered the zebras of cancer, and dismissed as irritable bowel syndrome, flu or the patient getting in a tizz. But doctors are now realising that NETs are much more prevalent than previously thought. In a recent set of post-mortem investigations, scientists cut open more than 30,000 bodies, and ran their hands down the intestines of the dead as if they were squeezing out sausage skins. One in every 100 of them had the distinctive gritty bumps of NETs. That's two people in every rush-hour tube carriage on your way home from work, or scaled up, 700,000 people in Britain, or roughly twice the population of the city of Manchester. The majority of these tumours are benign; but a small percentage of them, for reasons that no one understands, burst into malignancy. 

Many other cancers, if they spread, acquire certain features of neuroendocrine tumours. The first person to own a successful anti-neuroendocrine cancer drug – it doesn't even have to cure the disease, just slow its progress as anti-retrovirals have done with Aids – will be not only healthy but also Steve Jobs-rich. Last year the pharmaceuticals giant Amgen bought a cancer-assassinating version of the herpes virus for $1 billion. That Magnus's virus could be held up by a minuscule £1 million dumbfounded me. 

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<dc:subject>Cancer study Medicine experiment</dc:subject>
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    <title>Are Warnings About the Side Effects of Drugs Making Us Sick? | NeuroTribes</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-18T08:26:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mshum</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting findings in the new report from Germany is about the underappreciated — and under-studied — role of nocebo effects in clinical trials.

If you tell a group of trial volunteers that they’re testing a new drug that may relieve the pain of migraines, a significant number of volunteers will experience pain relief after taking the drug — even if they’ve been randomly assigned to the placebo group and are receiving nothing but sugar pills. The placebo effect in action.

But here’s where it gets interesting.  If you tell the volunteers that the side effects of this new medicine may include dry mouth, tingling in the hands and feet, and slight dizziness, some volunteers will experience precisely these side effects — in both groups. In fact, some volunteers who are taking nothing but sugar pills will be made so uncomfortable by these symptoms that they will choose to drop out of the trial early.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Medicine health experiment</dc:subject>
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    <title>Does Wine from New Jersey Taste the Same as Wine from France? : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-18T01:30:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mshum</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many blind tastings have revealed that people are unable to tell the difference between the best (and most expensive) wines and their cheaper counterparts. It is the price and bottle that makes us feel that it tastes better, not the actual wine itself.]]></description>
<dc:subject>wine Food experiment</dc:subject>
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    <title>Mice That Eat Yogurt Have Larger Testicles: Scientific American</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-09T01:45:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mshum</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[First, the scientists noticed that the yogurt-eating mice were incredibly shiny. Using both traditional histology techniques and cosmetic rating scales, the researchers showed that these animals had 10 times the active follicle density of other mice, resulting in luxuriantly silky fur.

 On measuring the males, they found that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier than those of mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier than those of junk-eating males.

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    <title>Juicers, Trippers, and Crocodiles: The Dangerous World of Underground Chemistry | Drugs &amp; Addiction | DISCOVER Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-20T05:50:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mshum</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[About the growing trend of amateur chemists perfecting their own drugs (both recreation and fitness) thanks to the proliferation of information on the internet.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Science experiment drugs</dc:subject>
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    <title>Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-21T05:59:20+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mshum</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Great article on brainstorming and a substory about Building 20 at MIT. Brainstorming is most effective when done alone and then later on with debate. Collaboration is essential, but brainstorming itself is actually detrimental.

Building 20 was a haphazard structure built temporarily for lab experiments during WWII and gave birth to radar. The lack of finish actually lent itself to being the "magic incubator" of ideas as people were forced to collaborate and felt inhibited, often modifying their surroundings to their own specifications.]]></description>
<dc:subject>innovation ideas experiment</dc:subject>
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    <title>The split brain: A tale of two halves : Nature News &amp; Comment</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-16T04:40:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/news/the-split-brain-a-tale-of-two-halves-1.10213</link>
    <dc:creator>mshum</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Details the experiments and findings of split-brain patients, people who had surgery to fix seizures by slicing through her corpus callosum, the bundle of neuronal fibres connecting the two sides of her brain. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain experiment Science Medicine</dc:subject>
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    <title>Inside The Solazyme Kitchen, Where Algae Ice Cream Tastes Good | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-09T02:22:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679438/inside-the-solazyme-kitchen-where-algae-ice-cream-tastes-good</link>
    <dc:creator>mshum</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Solazyme was a company focused on finding renewable applications for algae, mostly to make oil. By feeding sugars to algae, oil is created and has been utilized in multiple applications including cosmetics. Food made with the algae flour is also much healthier and apparently tastes the same.]]></description>
<dc:subject>business energy renewable experiment</dc:subject>
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    <title>24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-06T04:57:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mshum</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[192kHz audio extends to 400% of the audible limit.192kHz digital music files offer no benefits. They're not quite neutral either; practical fidelity is slightly worse. The ultrasonics are a liability during playback. 

All signal content under the Nyquist frequency (half the sampling rate) is captured perfectly and completely by sampling; infinity is not required. The sampled signal contains all of the information in the original analog signal, and the analog signal can be reconstructed losslessly. Sampling does not affect frequency response. Sampling is also completely phase neutral.

None of that is relevant to playback; here 24 bit audio is as useless as 192kHz sampling. The good news is that at least 24 bit depth doesn't harm fidelity. It just doesn't help, and also wastes space.

Empirical evidence from listening tests backs up the assertion that 44.1kHz/16 bit provides highest-possible fidelity playback

The easiest fix isn't digital. The most dramatic possible fidelty improvement comes from a good pair of headphones

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<dc:subject>Science Music experiment</dc:subject>
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    <title>Personal Tutors And Paying For Good Grades: Roland Fryer’s Experiments On Children | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-08T15:13:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fastcoexist.com/1679290/roland-fryer-education-innovation-laboratory</link>
    <dc:creator>mshum</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Harvard economist empirically studying children and education.
- paying kids to get good grades has no effect on grades
- Five common elements to higher test scores: increased instructional time, data-driven instruction, feedback for teachers, tutoring (especially so), culture of high expectations
- emphasizes quick testing to keep results relevant]]></description>
<dc:subject>education experiment study Children_and_Youth</dc:subject>
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    <title>At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-14T16:33:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>mshum</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At Google X, a clandestine lab that many employees do not know exists, engineers and robotics experts are tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas that eventually might not seem so far-fetched.

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