'... But names could really hurt me'

post from Top stories on 30 July 2012 09:43:46 AM. © Top stories

Child abuse experts say psychological abuse can be as damaging to a young child's physical, mental and emotional health as a slap, punch or kick.

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What would happen without PSA testing

post from Top stories on 30 July 2012 09:38:38 AM. © Top stories

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A new analysis has found that doing away with PSA (prostate specific antigen) testing for prostate cancer would likely cause three times as many men to develop advanced disease that has spread to other parts of the body before being diagnosed.

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On Cosmic Isolation

post from Centauri Dreams on 30 July 2012 09:33:49 AM. © Centauri Dreams

Michael Chorost is a science writer whose research interests grow directly out of his personal experience. You may have already read about his struggle with hearing loss — a problem he has dealt with since childhood — in his book Rebuilt: How[...]

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Mind, Brain and Education: Spaced Repetition

post from Nerdy Science Blog on 30 July 2012 09:16:54 AM. © Nerdy Science Blog

As introduced in the first article of this series, “Mind, Brain and Education,” a new educational theory has been tested and confirmed and is now considered an entirely new discipline used to describe how the brain processes information for later recall: what we refer to as “learning.” Principles of this theory can essentially be distilled [...]

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Celebrate Curiosity with a Party on Mars!
Saturday night!

post from Planetary Society Blog on 30 July 2012 09:16:01 AM. © Planetary Society Blog

Join me and Bill Nye to blow off some steam on Saturday night as we anticipate Curiosity?s landing! In the spirit of such nerdtacular gatherings as W00tstock and LeetUp, we?re having a big party at the Paseo Colorado here in Pasadena to celebrate Curiosity!

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Icebergs off Greenland

post from Bad Astronomy on 30 July 2012 09:00:09 AM. © Bad Astronomy

Greenland’s been in the news lately, what with cracking off an iceberg as big as Manhattan, and having a huge burst of melting due to unusual warm air ridges squatting over it. The Greenland ice sheet is huge: 1.7 million square kilometers (650,000[...]

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4-Year-Olds Missing Gene Discovered Through
Crowdfunded Sequencing

post from Singularity Hub on 30 July 2012 07:03:54 AM. © Singularity Hub

Crowdfunding is starting to accomplish some pretty impressive feats beyond video game reboots and smartphone-linked watches on Kickstarter. In mid-July, [...]

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Space Systems Loral to Support DARPA on
Revolutionary Hosted Payload Concept

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 July 2012 05:17:04 AM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2012
Space Systems/Loral has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to determine how small satellites can be carried to geostationary orbit (GEO) as hosted payloads on commercial satellites. SS/L was awarded a contract to analyze and define key aspects of DARPA's Phoenix program, which is focused on developing and demonstrating technologies to cooperatively harvest and

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Sending Our Curiosity to Mars

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 July 2012 05:17:04 AM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2012
After more than eight months en route to the red planet, NASA's nuclear-powered Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL, is nearing final approach for a touchdown on the evening of August 5. As has become tradition with the space agency, they put out a call for students to name the newest rover, with the winner this time around being Clara Ma, a twelve-year-old student from Lenexa, Kansas. She wro

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Science fiction comes to life in Italian lab

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 30 July 2012 05:17:04 AM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Pisa, Italy (AFP) July 29, 2012
Once the preserve of science fiction, increasingly sophisticated robotic devices are vying for a place side by side with humans in the real world. At Italy's Sant'Anna university, a bionic arm commanded by the human brain or a limb extension that allows rescuers to lift rubble after earthquakes are just some of the futuristic innovations in the pipeline. "The idea is to get robots out of

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