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June 11, 2006
A 28-year-old woman has been cited for lewdness for exposing herself inside a store. The woman was riding a motorized cart inside Lin's Market Place on Thursday with her pants around her ankles and not wearing underwear.
Customers didn't notice the woman until she would stand up from the cart and…
June 11, 2006
Why do people run for office? Is it because -- as I would guess -- of some psychological trauma they endured as children? Or do they possess a gene variant common in the Kennedy's?
A study in the American Political Science Review delves deeply into the subject concluding (shockingly) that people…
June 11, 2006
Dr. Robert Singer and colleagues at Albert Einstein have observed transcription in single eukaryotic cells -- that's right single cells.
I will divide how into two groups for the initiated and the uninitiated so you can both see how cool this is.
For the uninitiated: In order for a cell to make…
June 10, 2006
CNN reports on a survey of the increasing number of people getting tats:
The American University employee is among about 36 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 with at least one tattoo, according to a survey.
The study, scheduled to appear Monday on the Web site of the Journal of the American Academy…
June 10, 2006
A sheriff's deputy who is accused of going topless at a campground has been fired and charged with indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.
Dawn Rene Roberson, 38, of Royal, was fired Wednesday after she turned herself in on the misdemeanor charges.
According to incident reports, a marine patrol…
June 10, 2006
Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you most like to explore? Why?
I guess if I had to go back and do it all again, I would have gone through with being a physicist. When I got to college I knew that I was just…
June 9, 2006
Here is a interesting idea about how to treat pain without addicting people to pain killers.
There is some back story to this business that you should know before we discuss why this is a cool idea, though.
Opioid drugs -- like codeine, morphine, and heroine -- act in the nervous system by…
June 9, 2006
This article in Science News is really interesting as it goes into the causes of disruptive behavior in children. I don't have much time to review it now as I have the last test of my graduate school life in about an hour and a half, but I think it cuts a good balance between saying that genes…
June 9, 2006
Hi,
Most of this stuff appears in the About or Contact section but I thought I would put it out front on the first day.
My name is Jake Young, and I am an MD-PhD student focusing on Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Yes, my parents are quite proud, but I assure you that at present it…