Scientists found a host of chemicals used to treat illnesses in animals and people in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk.
A cocktail of up to 20 painkillers, antibiotics and growth hormones, can be found in a glass of milk, scientists have shown.
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Misissippi has an adult obesity rate of 34.4 percent.
Sixteen states in the past year have seen obesity rates rise. According to a new report released Thursday, the obesity rate in a dozen states has risen above 30 percent.
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Pocket Penguins app will keep you up to date on penguins any time.
If you love penguins, this app is perfect for you. California Academy of Sciences has a highly popular African penguin exhibit, and now they’ve added cameras to it so that even if you can’t visit CAS, you can watch the penguins all day, any day, even from an underwater vantage point which I’m sure is amazing during feeding time.
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Catra can diagnose cataracts on your smartphone.
Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab have created a smartphone attachment called Catra that can diagnose cataracts in a matter of minutes. The screening tool is currently being tested on subjects.
Catra clips on to devices such as phones and iPods, and scans the lens of the eye to create a map of the position, size, shape and density of cataracts. “I like to think of this as a radar for the human eye,” says Ramesh Raskar, director of the MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture group…
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REALLY close up of a vinyl groove.
I’ve recently picked up several old vinyl LPs at thrift stores and garage sales. My musical taste is very eclectic, but these discs have one big thing in common: they’re all filthy. Similarly, we have dozens of kids DVDs and CDs in our house coated in toddler goo that would almost certainly beat the adhesive that holds the tiles on the space shuttle. This weekend, I plan to brew up a cauldron of the cleaning solution used by the master preservationists at the Library of Congress. Or maybe I’ll just go with Ivory dish soap, warm water, and an old t-shirt. Anyway, here’s the LoC’s recipe..
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Miami appears on the list of many foreign real estate buyers.
Home sales in U.S. vacation hot spots decimated by the real estate crash, especially in southern Florida, are being lifted by foreign buyers.
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Wal-Mart is trying to sock Amazon with a tax increase instead of competing with them fairly.
Wal-Mart is secretly backing a group that is lobbying to try to get states from California to Illinois to collect sales tax from Amazon on its affiliate sales.
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This was a classic comic book ad for many many years.
Did you ever order Sea Monkeys from an ad in the back of a comic book? The man behind the “Bowlfull of Happiness” was Harold von Braunhut, who’s life was so much more than sea monkeys…
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225 billion emails were sent per day in July 2010.
There was a whole lot less spam sent today than there was a year ago. The graphic above illustrates how there were more than 225 billion spam emails sent per day in July, 2010. It also shows in June, 2011, that number has dropped to approximately 40 billion. That’s an 82.22% decrease in spam over a year.
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The iPad also comprises 2.1 percent of browsing in the U.S.
Apple first launched its popular iPad a little over a year ago, and the tablet now accounts for 1 percent of global Web browsing, according to data from NetMarketShare.
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Reno’s economy relies on gaming and tourism, two industries which have been hit extremely hard by the recession.
December 2007 is when the Great Recession officially began and it officially ended in July 2009. But that doesn’t mean the economy has returned to where it was before the steepest downturn since the Great Depression and may not for years. Employment is not expected to return to its pre-recession peak until 2014, according to a recent report by IHS Global Insight.
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