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And that crap is so nasty! It will strip paint off of your car or anything else it touches and the skin off your body! When I worked in a shop, my job was dealing with all the hazmat crap... I hated trying to handle that stuff... breathing it could kill!
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Antibiotic Resistance Is Now Rife across the Entire Globe
A first-ever World Health Organization assessment of the growing problem calls for rapid changes to avoid the misery and deaths of a potential "post-antibiotic era"
Apr 30, 2014 |By Dina Fine Maron
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Dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria and other pathogens have now emerged in every part of the world and threaten to roll back a century of medical advances. That’s the message from the World Health Organization in its first global report on this growing problem, which draws on drug-resistance data in 114 countries.
“A post antibiotic-era—in which common infections and minor injuries can kill—far from being an apocalyptic fantasy, is instead a very real possibility for the 21st century,” wrote Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s ...
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Which is why hand sanitizers should not exist. Corporations push that crap on people to profit on the demise of humanity. Not only does it's use create more resistant bacteria, but it also weakens your immune system since you're having to fight bacteria less often causing you to be sick longer, and die more easily from the more serious infections. Cuts and scrapes will also heal more slowly. Save your life by throwing that shit in the trash.
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Good Lord. that is awful. I used to use it back in the late 90s as a film cleaning substance--until it got banned in CA. Replaced with Perchloroethylene.Quote:
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Is Meditation Overrated?
The scientific evidence is scant for many of the practice's widely touted benefits
May 1, 2014 |By Melinda Wenner Moyer
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Many people who meditate believe that the practice makes them healthier and happier, and a growing number of studies suggest the same. Yet some scientists have argued that much of this research has been poorly designed. To address this issue, Johns Hopkins University researchers carefully reviewed published clinical trials and found that although meditation seems to provide modest relief for anxiety, depression and pain, more high-quality work is needed before the effect of meditation on other ailments can be judged.
Madhav Goyal, an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, and his colleagues identified ...
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Bitcoin Vies with New Cryptocurrencies as Coin of the Cyber Realm
As hundreds of “altcoin” knockoffs are minted online, bitcoins no longer dominate as the principal form of digital currency
Apr 29, 2014 |By Morgen E. Peck
At a bitcoin conference in Miami this January, Jeffrey Tucker, a laissez-faire economist and libertarian icon, made an unexpected observation. “There are people in this room who would think bitcoin is a little old-fashioned,” he quipped. Well, that was fast. After all, it was only five years ago that bitcoin appeared on the scene and provided the world with the first open-source, decentralized alternative to government controlled currencies. And it’s really only in the last year that bitcoin has begun to gain traction as a payment option.
Now bitcoin faces competition. Hundreds of bitcoin knockoffs—“altcoins,” as they are commonly called—have been built.
The software that underpins bitcoin is ...
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Hundreds of bitcoin knockoffs—“altcoins,” as they are commonly called—have been built.
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Sonar Spots Invisible Arctic Oil Spills
Boom in Arctic Ocean drilling means hazardous leaks under ice, hidden from sight—but not from sound
May 7, 2014 |By Josh Fischman
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The next big oil spill could be out of sight. Climate warming has packs of Arctic sea ice in retreat, opening up vast areas for oil and gas drilling. That is posing a new problem for spill detectors: There is still a lot of ice in the region, and people cannot see through it. Remember that giant oil slick on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout? Off the north coast of Alaska that kind of slick would likely be shielded by miles of drifting ice. “The risk of a serious oil spill in the Arctic is escalating,” the National Research Council warned in a report just last month. And, the council added, the U.S. is not ready to respond.
One answer could be ...
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When Will We Find Dark Matter?
One of the most fundamental but elusive constituents of the cosmos could soon be cornered
May 16, 2014 |By Clara Moskowitz
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This Fermi map of the Milky Way center shows an overabundance of gamma-rays (red indicates the greatest number) that cannot be explained by conventional sources.
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Scientists are playing a dogged game of hide-and-seek with one of the universe’s most plentiful components: dark matter. So far, dark matter continues to hide as scientists still seek. No one knows what comprises this invisible form of matter, but a leading candidate is a type of particle called a WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle). WIMPs are appealing because although they themselves neither radiate nor reflect light, they might produce other particles that do.
WIMPs might be the same as anti-WIMPs, meaning that they are their own antimatter counterparts. If this is the case, when two WIMPs collide they would destroy each other ...
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The Brazilian Banes: A World Cup Disease Guide
A global network of clinicians assess the most common diseases among travelers to Brazil, and the winner is surprising
May 20, 2014 |By Nsikan Akpan
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World Cup fans should pack bug spray when visiting the Arena Amazônia in Manaus, Brasil, which sits squarely in a hotbed for yellow fever and malaria. Source: Portal Da Copa/Creative Commons
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Stadiums quaked as U.S. soccer fans urged their men’s national team toward their successful qualification for the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Many of these supporters will soon descend on Brazil. There they will be joined by an estimated 600,000 revelers from around the globe. Unfortunately, these travelers may catch far more than the beautiful game.
To forewarn tourists of disease threats in Brazil, a new study led by Harvard University scientists has assessed the illnesses most often contracted during journeys to the South American nation. Researchers studied ...
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A Meta-Law to Rule Them All: Physicists Devise a “Theory of Everything”
“Constructor theory” unites in one framework how information is processed in the classical and quantum realms
May 26, 2014 |By Zeeya Merali
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“Once you have eliminated the impossible,” the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes famously opined, “whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” That adage forms the foundational principle of “constructor theory”—a candidate “theory of everything” first sketched out by David Deutsch, a quantum physicist at the University of Oxford, in 2012. His aim was to find a framework that could encompass all physical theories by ...
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Secret Clinical Trial Data to Go Public
Drug companies have begun to share their clinical trial data. The long-overdue shift heralds a new era in medicine
Jun 1, 2014 |By The Editors
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How well does a prescription drug work? It can be hard for even doctors to know. Pharmaceutical companies frequently withhold the results of negative or inconclusive trials. Without a full accounting, a physician who wants to counsel a patient about whether a drug works better than a sugar pill is frequently at a loss. Drug companies share only airbrushed versions of data on safety and usefulness.
As a consequence, regulators can approve drugs that have hidden health hazards. Clinical trials of GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) and Merck's anti-inflammatory Vioxx (celecoxib) revealed an elevated cardiac risk from the drugs, but relevant findings were held back from regulators or never published. Far more drugs have gone to market with critical safety data kept secret. These scandals have tarnished the reputation of the pharmaceutical industry.
Such revelations have made the industry ...
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