Friday, March 4, 2016

trompe l'oeil

http://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/benefits-peanut-allergy-prevention-strategy-persist-after-one-year-peanut-avoidance
This is an NIH-funded study showing that early exposure to peanuts from infancy until five years of age reduced peanut allergy 81% in children at high risk for peanut allergies.

http://theineptowl.com/2016/03/04/fox-news-airs-presidential-dickmeasuring-competition/
A satyric article from the Inept Owl about the Republican party debates, itself a satire. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/nyregion/college-lecturer-accuses-police-of-racial-bias-after-encounter-on-his-roof.html This is an article about an adjunct lecturer who got locked out of his apartment and was searched by police NYT

https://student.societyforscience.org/article/when-smartphones-go-school  Article in Science News about how Smartphones distract students in their classrooms. A study done at the Miami University of Ohio shows that students using cf in class even on class-related projects were distracted. 

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/45506/title/Zika-Infects-Neural-Progenitors/
New work published in Cell Stem Cell on the mechanism of action of Zika shows the virus affects neural progenitor cells.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/opinion/sunday/she-wanted-to-do-her-research-he-wanted-to-talk-feelings.html  Another article (Opinion in NYT) about why girls leave science. 

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/45431/title/Under-the-Cover-of-Darkness/
A series of studies on sleep loss. One is published in PLOS and was done at the Medical College of Wisconsin on rats. 

http://www.sciencealert.com/9-science-words-that-even-smart-people-get-wrong From science alert, theory vs. hypothesis and other confused words. 

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0316/010316-first-grey-hair-gene-discovered
The first gene for grey hair found in a University College London report of a Nature Communications publication.

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