Thinking in a foreign language helps economic
decision-making

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In a study with implications for businesspeople in a global economy, researchers at the University of Chicago have found that people make more rational decisions when they think through a problem in a non-native tongue.

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New diagnostic tool determines aggressiveness of
prostate cancer

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One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, the second leading cause of death among men in the United States.

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NCBI ROFL: Wish you could get drunk without
blacking out Next time, have a coffee.

post from Discoblog » NCBI ROFL on 25 April 2012 07:00:57 PM. © Discoblog » NCBI ROFL

Alcohol-induced retrograde memory impairment in rats: prevention by caffeine.

“RATIONALE:
Ethanol and caffeine are two of the most widely consumed drugs in the world, often used in the same setting. Animal models may help to understand the conditions under which incidental memories formed just before ethanol intoxication might be lost or become difficult to retrieve.
OBJECTIVES:
Ethanol-induced retrograde amnesia was investigated using a new odor-recognition test.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
Rats thoroughly explored a wood bead taken from the cage of another rat, and habituated to this novel odor (N1) over three trials. Immediately following habituation, rats received saline, 25 mg/kg pentylenetetrazol (a seizure-producing agent known to cause retrograde amnesia) to validate the test, 1.0 g/kg ethanol, or 3.0 g/kg ethanol. The next day, they were presented again with N1 and also a bead from a new rat’s cage (N2).
RESULTS:
Rats receiving saline or the lower dose of ethanol showed overnight memory for N1, indicated by preferential exploration of N2 over N1. Rats receiving pentylenetetrazol or the higher dose of ethanol appeared not to remember N1, in that they showed equal exploration of N1 and N2. Caffeine (5 mg/kg), delivered either ...

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Dawn Journal: Saluting the Sun

post from Planetary Society Blog on 25 April 2012 05:58:29 PM. © Planetary Society Blog

On April 18, Dawn will attain its greatest separation yet from Earth, nearly 520 million kilometers (323 million miles) or more than 3.47 astronomical units (AU). Well beyond Mars, fewer than a dozen spacecraft have ever operated so far from Earth. At this extraordinary range, Dawn will be nearly 1,400 times farther than the average distance to the Moon (and 1,300 times farther than the greatest distance attained by Apollo astronauts 42 years ago). The deep-space ship will be well over one million times farther from Earth than the International Space Station and Tiangong-1.

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Cheat sheets for Vesta's craters and Dawn's Vesta
timeline

post from Planetary Society Blog on 25 April 2012 05:40:03 PM. © Planetary Society Blog

I made myself a cheat sheet to many of Vesta's distinctive-looking craters, and also wrote down a list of the major dates in the timeline of Dawn's exploration of Vesta.

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Of inclinations and azimuths

post from Planetary Society Blog on 25 April 2012 05:19:08 PM. © Planetary Society Blog

A classified U.S. military satellite recently launched into an orbital inclination of 123 degrees. What makes this trajectory so unique? Pondering the answer affords the opportunity to learn some deceptively tricky concepts about the nature of all spacecraft orbits.

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Asteroid Mining: Not as Crazy as it Sounds

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 25 April 2012 05:09:13 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From ExtremeTech: What once was solely the realm of science fiction is increasingly becoming part of the world we live in. A cadre of somewhat eccentric billionaires has backed a startup that aims to mine near-Earth asteroids, and now we have all the details. Read the whole article

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Welcome to the new planetary.org!

Welcome to the Planetary Society's new website! What you're looking at right now is the result of months of continuous effort by the very small Web team here at the Society. Our goal was to create a new home for the Planetary Society on the Internet that reflects the way things have changed since our last redesign: changes in the Planetary Society, changes in space exploration, and changes in the way the Internet functions.

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Cargo Ship With Metal Sails Would Save 30 Percent
Fuel

From Crave: gorgeous gadgets and other crushworthy stuff. - CNET: Can wind energy really power modern cargo ships? We've seen the idea of hybrid freighters before, but this concept from the University of Tokyo has a remarkable sail system. A model of the UT Wind Challenger was recentl

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This is what my sanity looks like

My pre-thesis desk a few months ago was nice and tidy. Right now, it's fairly shambolic...
If you like, you can play spot-the-stuff-on-Xan's-desk. It's a bit like archaeology, only with less dust and more eyedrops.

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