Category: Medicine
A University of Washington study has added more validity to what increasingly appears to be a politically inconvenient truth: Marijuana can help multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Posted by Lee Billings at 4:07 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Astronomy/Space
The Detroit Free Press has an article today detailing the claim by members of Congress that the US is entering a new space race--with China. When the plans for the new moon missions were unveiled, many journalists and space enthusiasts...
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Posted by Joshua Braun at 1:47 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science & Religion
One of my favorite papers from grad school was a paper by John T. Chibnall, Joseph M. Jeral and Michael A. Cerullo in the Archives of Internal Medicine, called "Experiments on Intercessory Prayer," which details the litany of difficulties - no, impossibilities - involved in designing a clinical trial for intercessory prayer.
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Posted by Joshua Braun at 1:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environment
Here's some jollity, just in time for Friday. Chevrolet has launched a promotion in which people visit a website and use online modules to create a 30-second advertising spot for the Chevy Tahoe SUV. The early entries might not have...
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Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:37 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: General
...long live Stochastic. Hello, and welcome to Stochastic, the new in-house blog from Seed Media Group, the makers of Seed Magazine and Scienceblogs.com. Come on in and make yourself at home. Stochastic is our contribution to Scienceblogs--because we couldn't let...
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