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Diabetics on High-fiber Diets Might Need Extra Calcium |
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Written by UT Southwestern
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 |
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Dallas, Texas - The amount of calcium your body absorbs might depend, in part, on the amount of dietary fiber you consume. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report that patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes (type 2) excreted less calcium through their urine when they consumed 50 grams of fiber a day than when they ate 24 grams a day. |
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Research Links Evolution of Fins and Limbs with Gills |
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Written by University of Chicago
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 |
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Chicago, Illinois - The genetic toolkit that animals use to build fins and limbs is the same genetic toolkit that controls the development of part of the gill skeleton in sharks, according to research to be published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on March 23, 2009, by Andrew Gillis and Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago, and Randall Dahn of Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. |
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Sea-serpents Waiting to be Discovered |
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Written by University of Portsmouth
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 |
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Portsmouth, England - Three new large marine mammals, so-called sea-serpents, are extremely likely to be discovered according to researchers. |
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In Disaster-Prone Areas, Construction Needs a Fresh Approach |
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Written by Johns Hopkins University
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 |
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Baltimore, Maryland - In regions that have been devastated by hurricanes and other natural disasters, public officials should pursue a new direction in infrastructure projects, one that focuses on more durable designs and a greater sensitivity to the surrounding environment, a Johns Hopkins researcher says.
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Flatland Physics Probes Mysteries of Superfluidity |
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Written by Ben Stein - NIST
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Sunday, 29 March 2009 |
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Baltimore, Maryland - If physicists lived in Flatland - the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel - some of their quantum physics experiments would turn out differently (not just thinner) than those in our world. The distinction has taken another step from speculative fiction to real-world puzzle with a paper* from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) reporting on a Flatland arrangement of ultracold gas atoms. |
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Addicted to the Struggle by Karen Wright |
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Written by Karen Wright
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 |
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 “It’s how I was raised.” Yes, I’ll fall victim to the excuse we all use at one time or another. Each time we find ourselves acting in ways that baffle us, but ways that nevertheless still feel very comfortable. I was raised to value hard work. More specifically, MY hard work. It was how I got good grades in school, how I beat the competition for a coveted cheerleading position, and how I saved up enough money to buy my first car. Hard work.
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Don’t Spend Too Much Time Celebrating Small Successes - Life in the Fast Lane |
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Written by Wild-Man Bill
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 |
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 If you are self-employed or you work in a highly competitive industry, the hard times, when you’re working hard but nothing good seems to happen, can seem as if they’re lasting for an eternity.
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Year of the Gangster, John Dillinger Part 1 |
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Written by FBI Archives
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 |
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 Washington, DC - An elderly janitor walked into the cell block of the Lake County Jail at Crown Point, Indiana. The date: March 3, 1934. It was a relatively new facility, built onto the back of the sheriff’s house in 1926, easy to clean, impossible to escape from. The addition of a notorious prisoner - John Dillinger - would prove that. Or so the sheriff thought.
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Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped by Hubble Telescope |
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Written by NASA
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 |
 Deep Space - Saturn's comparatively paper-thin rings are tilted edge on to Earth every 15 years. Because the orbits of Saturn's major satellites are in the ring plane, too, this alignment gives astronomers a rare opportunity to capture a truly spectacular parade of celestial bodies crossing the face of Saturn. Leading the parade is Saturn's giant moon Titan - larger than the planet Mercury. |
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Sick Economy Could Lead to Cybercrime Increase |
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Written by Jim Bush
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Sunday, 22 March 2009 |
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West Lafayette, Indiana - Results of a study showing that companies around the world are facing increased risks of cybertheft points to a need for businesses to take extra steps in protecting intellectual property, according to Purdue University experts. |
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