First Day of Winter with hyperlinks!

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/12-minutes-of-yoga-for-stronger-bones/?_r=0
Loren Fishman, physiatrist at Columbia U says yoga stimulates osteocytes to produce new bone.

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/21/headlines/fbi_releases_pete_seegers_1_800_page_fbi_file
Democracy Now reports that the FBI released Pete Seeger's 1,800 page file starting from when he was an army private in 1943. I guess we are well rid of that strumming, humming pinko.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-12-scientists-genes-motion-age-related-macular.html
Study in Nature Genetics revealed 52 genetic variations that may predispose an individual to AMD.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22830522-200-crispr-will-make-2016-the-year-of-gene-edited-organisms/
From New Scientist: Get a gene-edited pet courtesy of CRISPR gene-editing technology.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-auerbach/how-science-education-can_b_8854716.html
How Science Education Can Save the World, from Scott Auerbach at UMASS Amherst about the way we teach high school science and math (AKA STEM fields).

From the Smithsonian: Smart Bandages Monitor Wounds:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/introducing-band-aids-future-180957569/?no-ist


http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/22/seymour_hershs_latest_bombshell_us_military
My hero Sy Hersh is at it again, reporting that US Govt supported Assad against jihadists. Oh, you rascal Obama! How can we condemn Putin for doing the same thing! Onward to the complete destruction of the beginnings of civilization. (From Democracy Now).

https://student.societyforscience.org/blog/doing-science/society-received-over-1700-applicants-sts-2016
Intel Science Talent Search's applicants were 54% female this year. The winners will be announced in January. NJ was one of the top five states!

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/dec/21/cosmonauts-soviet-union-space-relics-science-museum
This is a show at the Science Museum of London about the Soviet space program. We live in a super-science era but let's remember how the Soviet space program sparked the US effort to be more competitive in space as well as in "land-based" sciences. From the Guardian (UK)

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/12/virus-particles-engineered-hold-enzymes-generate-carbon-free-hydrogen-fuel
From Science magazine- engineering viruses to generate carbon-free sources of energy.  (Do not try this at home.)

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/12/hate-gmos-then-prepare-kiss-bananas-goodbye
Bananas are in trouble! The Cavendish banana is being devoured by a fungus!

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2015/12/in_wake_of_essa_senate_passes_.html?_ga=1.154838654.730198068.1450815583 
the Strengthening Education Through Research Act passed the Senate.
This is part of the ESSA or Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced NCLB and places more authority in the hands of the states. This is from a blog called Education Week.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151218084326.htm
Explosion of life on earth after slow rise of oxygen about 600 million years ago,earlier than thought from Science News from Nature Communications.