Binh An Diep, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, has been chosen by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) to receive a 2010 ICAAC Young Investigator Award. Sponsored by Merck, U.S. Human Health Division, this award...
Just got to thinking and thought this was a little funny.
We have little qualms about citizens killing others for no reason other than their government ordering them to, but God forbid someone a year or two younger following the example and smoking the people who have been harassing them for...
Typically when meeting a male stranger you would shake his hand. What do you do when meeting a female stranger? Shaking of the hand seems like a particularly masculine thing to do, isn't it?
The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), the leading international professional society dedicated to research, education and clinical excellence in cardiovascular computed tomography (CT), has named Dr. Raman Dusaj and Dr. Thomas Smith the recipients of the fourth annual Young...
Ahmed H. Zewail, Ph.D., 1999 Chemistry Nobel Laureate and Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, has been named winner of the 2011 Priestley Medal by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The award recognizes Zewail's revolutionary...
The Endocrine Society has named Patricia S. Green the director of its public education affiliate, The Hormone Foundation. Green leads the Foundation in its mission to serve as a key informational resource for the public in the prevention, treatment and cure of hormone-related conditions. Green...
It seems like many cell phone users have almost come to the point where they are codependent on their cell phones today. Go into any business, drive down the street or look around and you'll see many people using cell phones or a blue tooth to talk to people at almost any time of the day or...
Do you think this is the age of e-greetings and sms and now no one bothers to buy or send a greeting card??or still some innovation in greeting cards like personalised photo greeting cards could again bring back the old importance that cards held and emotional value it had.?
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) - the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging - has chosen Karl Pillemer, PhD, of Cornell University as the 2010 recipient of the M. Powell Lawton Award. This distinguished honor recognizes a significant...
Sir Peter Knight FRS has been appointed as the first Principal of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre. Sir Peter is currently Deputy Rector (Research) at Imperial College London and is a former member of the Royal Society's Council, Chair of the Society's Hooke Committee and member of...
I need some advice on which class would be better for me. Either way, I have never been good at math. I completed math up until Pre-Calc but it was hard. Here are the course descriptions.
PHIL& 106 Introduction to Logic (5)
Introduces students to the quantitative
techniques used in symbolic...
Moses Chao, PhD, professor of cell biology, physiology and neuroscience, and psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, and a member of the Molecular Neurobiology Program at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, was named president-elect of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), one of the...
A highlight of the annual Pharmacy Australia Congress every year is the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy Accredited Pharmacists' (AACP) Forum which attracts accredited and other interested pharmacists from across Australia for a day of educational and informative sessions. At...
Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) have announced the launch of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology. The journal is focused on advancing research in the...
High levels of vitamin E in the blood could be linked with a decreased risk for Alzheimer's disease in older age a new study has suggested. The research published in the Journal of Alzheimer's disease claims people with high levels of several Vitamin E compounds have a 45-54 per cent lower risk...
With a new study showing the PSA test reduces the prostate cancer death rate by 44 percent, ZERO The Project to End Prostate Cancer demands an apology for all at risk of the disease from the American Cancer Society, which has long discounted the importance of prostate cancer testing. "It's time...
I really can't think of any.
religion didn't create charities and hospitals, people did, they would still exist if religion never existed, in fact the hospitals would be better because faith slows knowledge.
These things would have existed without religion because morality predates religion...
prediction? "I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good...