Archive for December, 2009

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Laser Deemed Best Treatment for Diabetic Retinopathy (HealthDay) HealthDay – THURSDAY, Dec. 31 (HealthDay News) — Steroid injections into the eye slowed diabetes-related eye disease, though lasers remain the treatment of choice because of side effects related to the steroids, new research shows.
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Now hear this: Swim-proof hearing aids to get test (AP) AP – They’re not your grandpa’s hearing aids.
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Extended, Extra-Creepy Na’vi Sex Scene Might Land on Avatar DVD As if that mercifully brief giant blue lizard-cat sex scene that actually made it to Avatar wasn’t disturbing enough, it turns out there’s much more—and you weirdos may get to see it in the DVD release. Like you’d expect, the Na’vi mate by...
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Invetech Delivers World’s First Production Human Tissue Printer Or, as they call it, a ’3D bio-printer.’ Essentially, it allows scientists to build tissue cell by cell. It’s that cool sci-fi medical stuff we all dream about. ‘Scientists and engineers can use the 3D bio printers to enable placing cells of almost any type...
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Thorium, the Next Uranium Wired has a fairly epic look into a material that could make nuclear power both clean and safe called thorium—named after the Norse god of thunder. Of course, scientists recognized its promise back in the 1950s. Whereas uranium is extremely rare, requires purification and creates waste that will be...
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VIDEO: Travis Pastrana’s New Year’s Jump. Take two Filed under: Motorsports, Videos Travis Pastrana’s New Year’s Jump Practice – Click above to watch the video after the break Has your inner stunt driver ever wondered what it would be like to fling a ridiculously overpowered rally car off a ramp and onto a waiting...
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Michael Jackson’s FBI Files Reveal Death Threats FBI also helped run interviews in singer’s child-molestation investigation. By Gil Kaufman Michael Jackson Photo: Carlo Allegri/ Getty Images During more than a decade of monitoring, the Federal Bureau of Investigation helped set up interviews over child-molestation allegations and investigated a possible terror attack and an alleged...
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Texas Leads U.S. in Population Growth Since Recession Began Filed under: Economy, Jobs More Americans have moved to Texas since the recession began in 2008 than any other state, according to a new estimate released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Lone Star State’s population grew by 478,000 in the 12-month period from...
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‘Avatar’: New Roles for Women in Sci-Fi? Filed under: Woman Up, Culture James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ has been receiving a lot of attention for its (admittedly cool) special effects. And, yes, it is an appealing, occasionally quite stunning, film. But some critics have suggested that there may be one other thing that distinguishes it from...
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