Posts Tagged ‘university of california berkeley’

HOW SIESTAS HELP MEMORY: SLEEPY HEADS

Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:16

Researchers say an afternoon nap prepares the brain to learnMAD dogs and Englishmen, so the song has it, go out in the midday sun. And the business practices of England’s lineal descendant, America, will have you in the office from nine in the morning to five in the evening, if ...

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JOHN GEYMAN: THE PUBLIC OPTION: DEAD BY PEN STROKES IN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 16:58

The initial idea of a public option was premised on the thought that a public plan could bring needed competition into the financing of health care. Forget that dream.

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NOVEL IDEAS TO BEAT TRAFFIC WOES

Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:18

Worsening traffic is making travelling by car an increasingly frustrating and unpleasant experience. Therefore, companies around the world are working towards a new generation of monitoring and data-gathering technologies that could radically change the way we plan and drive our journeys. The technologies, according to researchers, should deliver more accurate ...

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LINDA BERGTHOLD: TOO FAT TO BE A SURGEON GENERAL?

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:55

The latest idiocy to come out of the media is the accusation that President Obama's nominee for Surgeon General is "too fat". She may be...

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PHONE GADGET TO SPOT DISEASE

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:16

Researchers have developed an add-on to a mobile phone that can take detailed images and analyse them to diagnose diseases such as tuberculosis.The CellScope works as a so-called fluorescence microscope that can identify the markers of disease. It is hoped ...

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GENE VARIANT LINKED TO HIGHER RISK OF COMMON TYPE OF BLOOD CANCER

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:27

Scientists in California and Arizona have identified a gene variant that that they say nearly doubles the risk of a common type of blood cancer. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) found that mutations in a gene called C6orf15, or ...

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ARLENE M. ROBERTS: JUDGING SONIA: IN DEFENSE OF JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND A WISE LATINA

Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:03

Today concludes week one of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. One salient issue that dominated the hearings was judicial activism....

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YOUTH RADIO — YOUTH MEDIA INTERNATIONAL: SUPER INTENTIONS AT OAKLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Saturday, July 11, 2009 3:31

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Pendarvis Harshaw With unprecedented budget woes, the state of California...

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