#U s. Pushes Cheese Sales Despite Warning About Fat Dairy management, which has made cheese its cause is a marketing creation of the United states Department of agriculture the same agency at the center of a federal anti-obesity drive.
Dr. Zemel said in interviews and e-mails, but in part it involves counteracting a hormone that fosters fat deposits
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#Volcanoes Have shifted Asian Rainfall Powerful volcanoes potential to shift rain patterns Scientists have known long that large volcanic explosions can affect the weather by spewing particles that block solar energy and cool the air.
and the observatorys Tree Ring Lab used rings from some 300 sites across Asia to measure the effects of 54 eruptions going back about 800 years.
The researchers studied eruptions including one in 1258 from an unknown tropical site, thought to be the largest of the last millennium;
and manmade forces might act together to in the future to shift weather patterns a vital question for all areas of the world. more via sciencedaily. com Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati R
The nature-nurture debate is a oegiant step closer to being resolved after scientists studying bees documented how environmental inputs can modify our genetic hardware.
and how environmental inputs can transiently modify our genetic hardware, he said. oesimilar studies are impossible to do on human brains,
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#Verizon iphone: Eat this AT&T! Projected Release Date: Summer of 2011 Why not throw another Verizon iphone rumor into the quickly-growing pile?
The latest scuttlebutt comes from Fortune magazine, citing multiple sources that say the Verizon iphone will launch in early 2011.
It will reportedly be an iphone 4, running on Verizons CDMA network, and for U s. users there wont be any special chip for operating the phone outside the country.
If youve been following these rumors, chances are heard youve some of this stuff before. A few weeks ago, the Wall street journal reported that Apple will start mass-producing a Verizon iphone at the end of this year for an early 2011 launch.
The Journal tipped Taiwan-based Pegatron Technology Corp. as the manufacturer same as an earlier report from Digitimes.
That the Verizon phone will supposedly be an iphone 4nd not some newer modelas also a rumor in August by John Gruber,
who writes the Daring Fireball blog. Whats new this time? Not much in terms of details on the phone itself,
but the rumor comes wrapped in a lengthy profile of Verizon Chief executive Ivan Seidenberg. Both he and wireless chief Lowell Mcadam are quoted,
and theyre candid about the companys relations with Apple over the last few years. After Verizon turned down the original iphone,
Mcadam said he set out to mend relations with Apple in late 2007, once complaints about AT&TS network began to mount.
In a December 2009 meeting, Apple Chief executive Steve jobs praised Seidenberg for making good decisions. oei think he began to look at us as having a slightly bigger IQ
Seidenberg said. Fortune reports that the ipad, which Verizon Wireless began selling in its stores this week,
was the oefirst fruits of ongoing discussions between Verizon and Apple. A Verizon iphone would appear to be the next step.
The story describes the device as a oefait accompli. Apple has a reputation for secrecy and controlling leaks,
but the sheer volume of Verizon iphone reports, all telling the same story, suggest that its just a matter of time before Jobs announces the darned thing.
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#Strong Immunity at Cost of Fertility? oeits A Bhaaaaaad Trade off Strong immunity may play a key role in determining long life,
but may do so at the expense of reduced fertility, a Princeton university study has concluded. An 11-year study of a population of wild sheep located on a remote island off the coast of Scotland that gauged the animals susceptibility to infection may give new insight into why some people get sicker than others when exposed to the same illness.
The answer to this medical puzzle may lie in deep-rooted differences in how animals survive and reproduce in the wild,
according to the study, which was led by Princeton ecologist Andrea Graham and published in the Oct 29 issue of Science.
The research revealed that the sheep population over time has maintained a balance of those with weaker and stronger levels of immunity
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#Being a Diet Soda Junkie Puts You at Greater Risk of Weight Gain: Study Does ordering a diet soda with this meal compensate for the calorie overload?
and gobble up more artificial sweeteners in cookies, yogurt and other products, obesity rates have soared. Substituting a soda with artificial sweeteners for a sugary beverage can help lower calorie intake,
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#15 Crazy Futuristic Apple Innovations in the Works Steve jobs It seems like Steve jobs is announcing something new and oemagic every other week.
Sometimes its engineers invent the iphone. Other times, they invent things that are just plain crazy.
Fortunately, theres Patently Apple, a blog dedicated exclusively to monitoring Apple innovation. We pulled 15 of the coolest,
Its not a laptop or a desktop; this projector-based oedesk-free computer would be a category unto itself oeibike:
Everyone runs around with GPS chips in their sneakers nowadays to track their runs and share them online this is like that for cyclists oeicase:
A laptop with built-in solar panels! oeicomix: Records your progress playing a video game, then creates a custom comic book of your experience oeidim:
An ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness of your screen to fit your surroundings oeifluxcapacitor:
Displaying itunes content as a scrollable spiral. Trippy oeimac Touch: A home computer that could switch back and forth between touch mode and keyboard-and-mouse mode oeimagnet:
This idea would bring the Magsafe plugs Apple uses on Macs to portable devices oeimassivemysterydock:
A fingerprint scanner for mobile devices. oeishow: Projectors built in to laptops! oeispecs: Display goggles for video content from a mini iphone or ipod oeitrainer:
This system for the ipod would sense what stage of your workout you were in,
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#Mystery of the Honeybees Solved Members of a joint United states army-University of Montana research team that located a virus that is possibly collapsing honeybee colonies.
using a new software system developed by the military for analyzing proteins, uncovered a new DNA-based virus,
proved to be a perfect opportunity to see what the Armys analytic software tool could do brought. oewe it to bear on this bee question,
The Army software system an advance itself in the growing field of protein research or proteomics is designed to test
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#What Whole Wheat Really Means Is your bread actually made with whole grains? Whole wheat, multigrain, 12-grain, oemade with whole grains here are many labels you can put on bread to make it sound healthy.
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#imove Apples Newest Venture, a Hybrid Car Apples imove concept car Apple is preparing to add yet another product
Not forgetting the companys computer roots, the entire dashboard features a touchscreen interface and an exterior clearly reminiscent of Apples signature computer mouse.
video) 20 year-old student, Tudoran, studies at the internationally acclaimed European Institute of Design in Torino, Italy.
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is limited to password-protected websites, in store ads, adult smokers who have requested to be on a mailing list and magazines with a readership of at least 85 percent adults.
which many networks dont want to air. oechildren and teenagers get the message that there is a pill to cure all ills
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#High Fructose Corn syrup to be Rebranded as oecorn Sugar Would a Heavily Subsidized, Unhealthy Substance by Any Other Name..?
But such a monitoring program needs accurate, high-resolution methods to keep track of the carbon. Scientists say the map,
Although critics say the program has more problems than an accurate monitoring system. The map is from a project by the Carnegie Institutions Department of Global Ecology,
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#Tips on How to Germ-Proof Your Kitchen From Scary Foodborne Illnesses Most people cant help
or unbaked cookie dough, or you are using a recipe that calls for raw or partly cooked eggs,
because we all love to nibble the cookie dough, Ms. Mccleary said. WASH ALL PRODUCE
check the Web site Foodsafety. gov, and dont rely on your eye alone. Pick up an inexpensive meat thermometer (no need for the expensive digital models) next time you are in the grocery store.
More tips are available at the Department of agricultures Web site. There is conflicting scientific evidence whether wood or plastic cutting boards are safer,
For more safe handling and cooking tips, go to the partnerships Web site at www. fightbac. org.
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#Organic Strawberries Have Better Taste and Nutrition Than Conventional According to a New Study Organic strawberries In the tug of war over whether organic farming is really better than conventional chemical-laden farming,
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#New Bee Species Discovered in Canada Sweat bee Researchers Jason Gibbs who was working on a study of sweat bees discovered a new species while commuting from downtown Toronto to York University.
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#Your Cremated Ashes Made Into Vinyl Records Music lovers can now be immortalised when they die by having their ashes baked into vinyl records to leave behind for loved ones.
The site has a very irreverent style and operates under the strapline oelive on from beyond the groove.
#Finance Site Lists Most Expensive Invasive Species A Canadian goose Asian carp arent the only invasive species causing trouble in the United states
A finance website has totaled up the toll, listing oe10 Invasive Species That Cost the U s a Bundle.
The cormorant didnt make this Top Ten list, from Daily Finance, an AOL site. The site based its list on animals
and insects that were introduced by humans to correct an imbalance, and species that were endangered once
and researchers said Friday theyre posting its genetic code on the Internet in the hope that farmers can use it as a tool to improve their harvests.
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#Black Rice is the New Cancer-Fighting Superfood Black rice is low in sugar but packed with healthy fiber
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#Study: Southern California Long Overdue for A major Earthquake A trench at the Bidart Fan sector of the San andreas fault. Researchers find major quakes on the southern section, on average,
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#Top 10 Health Threats To Children#1 health concern is childhood obesity. Adults see obesity as the top health threat to children in their communitiesut not necessarily their own kidsnd many believe the problem is getting worse,
1. Childhood obesity 2. Drug abuse 3. Smoking and tobacco use 4. Internet safety, 25 percent 5. Stress, 24 percent 6. Bullying, 23
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and 5 years for attention disorders and ADHD, using the mothers reports, performance on standardized computer tests and behavior ratings from examiners.
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#Mysterious Bearded Antelope Discovered in Kenya oebearded Antelope Photo by Paola Torchio Veteran wildlife photographer Paolo Torchio made a bizarre discovery while visiting Kenyas Masai Mara
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#Banana split On A Stick Split on the stick! We love all of the amazing and creative things that can be found on the Instructables site.
Point of focus today is the very timely, tastey and terrific Banana split On A Stick posted by supersoftdrink.
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#Facebook Trying to Gain a Foothold in the Location-based Social networking Space with Hot Potato Hot Potato focuses on events
the acquisition only cost Facebook $10 million where Foursquare could have easily set the network back in excess of a hundred million.
By Facebook layering location-based services on top of its platform for mobile phones, the resulting social intelligence and data-mining could exceed anything that Foursquare could design at this point in time.
while it was noted that Facebook was not directly charging Mcdonalds to build the app (since Facebook doesnt normally charge developers to build on its platform),
there could be a oecost per check in transactional fee built into the media buy. CNET also reported that Facebook has partnered with Localeze,
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#Farmer Creates First Ever Banana-Shaped Shallots Hey look! Nanner shaped shallots. A farmer has created the first-ever shallot to be on British soil shaped like a banana.
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#Massive Escape of Genetically Modified Crop Into the American Wild Canola A genetically modified (GM) crop has been found thriving in the wild for the first time in the United states. Transgenic canola is growing freely in parts of North dakota,
The team found B. napus at nearly half of the 288 sites tested. Of these, 80%had at least one herbicide-resistant transgene (41%were resistant to Roundup and 40%resistant to Liberty.
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#The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation was created in 1982 by a small group that originally came together as a an informal support group for problems that were the result of traumatic experiences at petting zoos
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#China to Shut down 2, 000 Factories to Meet Their Energy-efficiency Goals Coal has made China the worlds largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
The Ministry of Industry and Information technology quietly published a list late Sunday of 2, 087 steel mills,
the ministry said in a statement on its Web site that the factories on its list would be barred from obtaining bank loans,
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#Insects Sense Danger on Mammals Breath When plant-eating mammals such as goats chomp on a sprig of alfalfa,
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#Make Microwave Popcorn Using a Simple Brown Paper bag Corn is popped good food. If youve been buying microwave popcorn because of the conveniencer a belief that the bag has special popcorn enhancing powersoull want to check out this incredibly inexpensive way to make microwave popcorn at a sixth the cost of commercial bags.
The writers at Squawkfox, a frugality-centered blog, were shocked when they did the math on how much they were paying for the convenience of pre-bagged popcorn.
#Gray Market for Electronic Counterfeit Gadgets is Very Lucrative in China Fake iphones Apples iphone 4 is not officially for sale yet in China
Neither is the popular ipad touch-screen tablet. But never mind. Both devices are readily available at a plethora of Chinese electronics malls in Beijing, Shanghai and all the major cities, in
what constitutes Chinas lucrative telecommunications oegray market that rivals and in some cases, surpasses the real thing.
The phones are smuggled from the United states and also from Hong kong, where both devices are officially on sale.
The smuggled iphone 4 sells in China for $800 to $1 700, depending on the storage size.
An ipad with 64 gigabytes goes for about $1, 000. If those prices are too high,
Chinese consumers need not fret there are plenty of fakes on the market, almost indistinguishable from the real thing, from the touch screen to the apps to the iconic silver logo on the back.
which loosely translates as oemountain Bandit Phones. China has raised long the ire of U s. trade officials for the countrys copycat culture and often cavalier attitude toward intellectual property rights.
But the global explosion of smartphones and personal devices has taken the fakery to a more sophisticated level,
and claiming an increasing share of the telecommunications market. BDA China, a Beijing-based business advisory firm, said illicit phones made up 38 percent of the handset sales in China in 2009.
Care to buy an iphooe? Some illicit cellphones offer ever more advanced features that can outpace even the originals. oeit even has some functions the real one doesnt,
boasted one phone vendor showing off a Taiwanese-made fake iphone 4 at Beijings Fang Shi Communications and Technology Plaza,
The fake iphones special features include a removable battery and a place for two SIM cards, meaning the user can have two phone numbers ring for the same phone. oeyou almost cant tell the difference between this and the real thing,
said a vendor, nicknamed oehuzi, explaining that he has sold more than 4, 000 since the fakes came on the market a few months ago.
It even uses real iphone accessories, like the charger and the earphones. The only difference is the price about $100, with a little bargaining.
That may look like a Nokia, but its a oenckia. And if you think thats a real Sony Ericsson,
Some of the lower-end iphone fakes give themselves away by the name on the back.
No fake ipads were available in Beijing during a recent trip to the markets. But they were readily available in Shanghai, at the Everbright Telecom Trading Center, a multistory electronics mall.
The fake ipad costs about $150 in Shanghai but vendors warn the download speed is slower than the real thing,
and the colors are not as bright. Emerging markets Many of the counterfeit cellphones are exported to the Middle east and Africa, a lucrative market for cheap fakes.
Some vendors at two Beijing electronics malls said African customers often buy phones in bulk,
BDA, the advisory group, said in an analysts report last year that the illicit phone-makers as a group were Chinas biggest handset exporter
and were poised to become even larger overseas, thanks to their cheap prices, well-established distribution networks,
and their ability to customize the clone phones for local users like a phone marketed in Kenya with President Obamas likeness
The report said foreign countries would soon replace China as the main market for the Chinese-made fake phones.
or flown in the from the United states. The buyer of a smuggled phone can avoid paying Chinas high import duty
or value-added tax. oethe smuggled iphone will be a real threat to the real iphone sold in China,
principal analyst with BDA in Beijing, said in an e-mail that legitimate iphone handset sales in China in the first half of this year were 800,
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#Ban on Russian Grain Exports Causes Surge in U s. Wheat and Corn Prices A severe drought destroyed one-fifth of the wheat crop in Russia
In the U s.,wheat for September delivery rose by 60 cents per bushel Thursday on the Chicago Board of Exchange to close at $7. 86, a jump from $4. 50 a month ago when reports
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#Fewer Americans Moving for New Jobs Could Harm an Already Struggling Recovery Unemployed, James Tiffany, would take a financial hit
Tiffany said with an amused smile before resuming his job search at a computer terminal in the citys One-Stop Employment Center. oeim stuck in a home that
The city is expanding its open-access fiber-optic network to help lure business. Palm Coast also recently landed Galtronics Telemetry
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#Richest Americans Youve Never Heard Of These folks are in the money! Microsofts (MSFT) Bill gates, Berkshire hathaways (BRK.
A) Warren Buffett and Apples (AAPL) Steve jobs are all household names in addition to being among the wealthiest people in the country.
a Web-based company that allows up to six users to video chat in real time via smartphones,
TVS, netbooks, PCS and MACS. Mathile uses his wealth to help change the world. He founded The Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition,
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#Digital Reading Devices Transforming the Way We Read Books oethe Elements: A Visual Exploration on an ipad.
Twelve year old Emma Teitgen thought the chemistry book her teacher recommended would make perfect bedside reading.
A Visual Exploration to her ipad. Instead of making her drowsy, it blossomed in her hands.
Sound, animation and the ability to connect to the Internet have created the notion of a living book that can establish an entirely new kind of relationship with readers.
start-up that sells titles for the ipad and iphone. As a $4. 99 application sold through Apples itunes store
oethe Master of Rampling Gate comes with video interviews with Rice and others. Rice speaks about her inspiration for her works
Within the text are links to Web pages that elaborate on events and places in the story a description of the Mayfair neighborhood in London where the protagonists live or a history of the Black death plague,
and distributing digital books over the Internet and on mobile devices, said technology has the power to oebroaden our thinking about
what a book does. Owners of oeibird Explorer, a digital book produced for the iphone by field guide publisher Mitch Waite Group,
can play the songs of more than 900 bird species. Using microphones, it can also capture the chirps
and warbles of wild birds and match them against a database of bird sounds to help the oereader identify the species
Devices made by Amazon com Inc . and Intel Corp. are able to convert text into speech. oeyou now have the ability to make a book talk,
said George Kerscher, head of the Digital Accessible Information system Consortium in Zurich, Switzerland. Kerscher, who studied computer science at the University of Montana and is blind,
has spent two decades lobbying publishers to make books more accessible to visually impaired readers. Digital technology is also transforming reading from a famously solitary experience into a social one.
The newest generation of readers the texting chatting, Youtubing kids for whom the term oeoffline sounds quaint has run circles around the fusty publishing process,
Fans in other forums, blogs and chat rooms weave alternative endings or side plots for their favorite works.
One site, Fanfiction. net, features hundreds of short stories based on a series of young adult novels by Scott Westerfeld called oeuglies. oetheyre extending the world by creating new characters
Authors are pulled into the scene by fans who barrage them with e-mail to share their reactions,
He figures hes logged more than 30,000 e-mails from readers over the years. oethey educate me a lot about the way they are reading.
I get a lot of e-mail, Westerfeld said. oeadults see it as churn. But kids are affected far more by it,
Now that anyone with an Internet connection or even a cellphone effectively owns a digital printing press,
thousands of cellphone-toting authors write novels via text message, one or two sentences at a time. Aspiring writers can sign up on the free site
and begin writing, either from phones or computers. Readers can follow the stories online or receive a text every time their favorite author adds a plot twist.
Shannon Rheinbold-Gee tapped out her 85,000-word thriller about teenage werewolves in just under five weeks using the Textnovel site.
The former middle-school teacher figured she had no chance of getting a traditional publishing deal. oei had absolutely no concept of where it was going to go
is just one example of how the Internet has become fertile ground for creative amateurs.
and nonfiction books some by established authors, others by complete unknowns along with recipes for spinach calzones and 1950s-era manuals for building transistor radios,
The company gets most of its revenue by selling advertising on the site. A small portion of the titles on Scribd, roughly 15%of more than 20 million documents, is for sale.
to a $27. 99 book published by OREILLY Media for designing Web pages. Scribd takes a 20%cut of those sales.
Trip Adler, a 26-year-old entrepreneur who started developing the site as a Harvard undergraduate,
and author of oeibrain, said Internet use activated more parts of the brain than reading a book did.
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#Scientists Prove Which Came First The Chicken or the Egg Which came first the chicken or the egg?
when Freeman and his colleagues used the UK Science Research Councils supercomputer called HECTOR (High End Computing Terascale Resource),
The computer was left to produce results on its own, and it took weeks for HECTOR to figure out how chickens make eggshells.
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