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Doctors Are Baffled by Unaging Girl

Posted in In the News, Science & Medicine, tagged , on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Emotionally this story is a bit heavy. Scientifically it is fascinating. If the doctors are baffled and there seems to be no natural explanation, does that make this girl’s case supernatural? Regardless,

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Are Cell Phones Worse Than Cigarettes?

Posted in In the News, Science & Medicine, tagged , , , on May 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

According to a fairly recent article in the Independent (UK), cell phones may be just as deadly as cigarettes–or more. One of the world’s top neurosurgeons has published a study in which he predicts that in the next few years we will probably begin to see a drastic increase in the number of cases of [...]

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Dr. Watson’s Woes

Posted in In the News, Philosophy & Politics, Science & Medicine, tagged , , on February 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Here’s some food for dinner table discussion: Recently, Dr. James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for his discoveries in the field of DNA research, was caught making a “scandalous” assertion. “There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically,” [...]

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