why our healthcare is perpetually broken

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It doesn’t matter how fit or young or healthy you are, when you get a bad case of food poisoning, you will quite clearly be reminded of the fact that you’re a mere mortal. And then the hospital bill will remind you that getting sick in the[...]

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Avatars may help children with social anxiety
overcome fears

post from Top stories on 18 June 2012 09:07:05 AM. © Top stories

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A principal standing in the hallway says, "You are one of my favorite students!" In class, a smart girl says, "You are the nicest person in our class!"

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Voyager 1 Nearing Interstellar Space

post from Centauri Dreams on 18 June 2012 09:05:12 AM. © Centauri Dreams

It should come as no surprise to anyone who follows Centauri Dreams that I am a great admirer of Ed Stone, the former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (from 1991 to 2001) and more than any single scientist, the public face of many of our[...]

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Making music with real stars

post from Top stories on 18 June 2012 09:03:51 AM. © Top stories

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Why stop at the dark side of the moon to make music when you can look thousands of light years into space? That's what a team of Georgia Tech researchers have done, using data from two stars in our galaxy to create sounds for a national recording artist.

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The most contaminated surfaces in hotel rooms

post from Top stories on 18 June 2012 09:02:26 AM. © Top stories

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An experiment of surfaces in hotel rooms finds television remotes to be among the most heavily contaminated with bacteria and items on housekeeping carts carry the potential to cross-contaminate rooms.

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Black hole growth found to be out of sync

post from Top stories on 18 June 2012 08:58:25 AM. © Top stories

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New evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow in the centers of galaxies.

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Alan Turing: why the tech world's hero should be
a household name

post from Top stories on 18 June 2012 08:48:42 AM. © Top stories

The life and achievements of Alan Turing - the mathematician, codebreaker, computer pioneer, artificial intelligence theoretician, and gay/cultural icon - are being celebrated to mark what would have been his 100th birthday on 23 June.

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Aurora, in the pink

’tis the season for solar storms, and I’m hearing reports that Active Region 1504 (the same sunspot featured in a dramatic video I posted recently) has been getting feisty, blowing out some flares and causing auroral activity here on[...]

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Space mirrors will dry out US and Eurasia

Installing huge mirrors in space could reverse global warming, but at a price: the Americas and northern Eurasia will receive less rain

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West must cut appetite for cars and TVs, says UN
official

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 18 June 2012 07:15:53 AM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

United Nations (AFP) June 18, 2012
Rich countries will have to stop the consumer high life as part of any deal to heal the world's social and environmental stresses, a top UN official said ahead of a key development summit this week. "We don't need more cars, more TVs, more whatever" UN Development Program chief Helen Clark told AFP in an interview ahead of the Rio+20 summit starting Wednesday. The 116 heads of state and

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