By Dana Blankenhorn-
Statins like Zocor, Lipitor and Crestor have been around for decades. They lower your cholesterol level.
They have been around long enough that they are in the process of going generic. Zocor is simvastatin. I use it. Lipitor is atorvastatin. It will be a generic next year.
The generic name for Crestor is rosuvastatin. It is [...]
The BBC reports -
The controlled fusion of atoms – creating conditions like those in our Sun – has long been touted as a possible revolutionary energy source.
However, there have been doubts about the use of powerful lasers for fusion energy because the “plasma” they create could interrupt the fusion.
An article in Science showed the plasma [...]
Training Whales – I found information on training a killer whales some time ago. It’s a popular topic for parenting sites–and with good reason. Some of the ‘lessons’ we learn from training killer whales are very helpful to consider when teaching our kids.
Eight Steps for Training a Killer Whale
Establish clear cut goal which can be [...]
Robert Sapolsky studies the universal human ailment of stress, but his main research subjects are the wild baboons of Kenya.
We all have some measure of stress, and Robert Sapolsky explores its causes as well as its effects on our bodies (his lab was among the first to document the damage that stress can do to [...]
By Isaac Asimov -
What is intelligence, anyway?
When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me.
(It [...]
Once again, The Times Magazine looks back on the past year from our favored perch: ideas. Like a magpie building its nest, we have hunted eclectically, though not without discrimination, for noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity, which, when collected and woven together, form a [...]
In late October 2007, as the financial markets were starting to come unglued, a Goldman Sachs trader, Jonathan M. Egol, received very good news. At 37, he was named a managing director at the firm.
Mr. Egol, a Princeton graduate, had risen to prominence inside the bank by creating mortgage-related securities, named Abacus, that were at [...]
Scientists may be a step closer to understanding the origins of human language.
Two studies suggest that the ability to combine sounds and words to alter meaning may be rooted in a species of monkey.
A team found the Campbell’s monkey can add a simple sound to its alarm calls to create new ones and then combine [...]
By JOHN MARKOFF-
Despite a six-year effort to build trusted computer chips for military systems, the Pentagon now manufactures in secure facilities run by American companies only about 2 percent of the more than $3.5 billion of integrated circuits bought annually for use in military gear.
That shortfall is viewed with concern by current and former United States [...]
Why Some of the Smartest People Can’t Read and How They Can Learn!
This is an 8 hour video course (on 4 two hour tapes) to assist parents, teachers and volunteers in helping their children or adult loved ones correct dyslexia through symbol mastery. By following the easy, step by step directions on these tapes, [...]
By Carly Weeks -
Globe and Mail Update
The possibility of using a patient’s genetic information to create personalized therapies to battle cancer is one step closer to reality after Canadian scientists decoded, for the first time, the entire genome of a patient’s metastatic breast cancer.
It’s a landmark achievement that is helping to rewrite old notions about [...]
WASHINGTON — Dire warnings about the need for Americans to save more and spend less didn’t work. Nagging China, Japan and Germany to buy more American products didn’t work.
No matter how much economists and political leaders warned about huge global trade imbalances and the astronomical foreign debt of the United States, American consumers kept buying [...]
Howard Gardner’s work around multiple intelligences has had a profound impact on thinking and practice in education – especially in the United States. Here we explore the theory of multiple intelligences; why it has found a ready audience amongst educationalists; and some of the issues around its conceptualization and realization.
I want my children to understand [...]
Empathy…can’t get it but know you need it to move forward?
Mark Goulston is is a psychiatrist, business consultant, executive coach, and a hostage-negotiation trainer for the FBI. He’s also the bestselling author of the books “Get Out of Your Own Way” , “Get Out of Your Own Way at Work” and his new book, “Just Listen“. [...]
René Girard was born in the southern French city of Avignon on Christmas day in 1923. Between 1943 and 1947, he studied in Paris at the École des Chartres, an institution for the training of archivists and historians, where he specialized in medieval history. In 1947 he went to Indiana University on a year’s fellowship [...]
