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The doctor is in...your pocket: Is smartphone device that diagnoses disease a pipe dream?
Premium Health News ServiceHazel -- as we'll call her -- knew something was wrong when, in her mid-50s, she started to feel short of breath at the slightest exertion. Over the next few months, she felt increasingly achy, but several medical visits and an X-ray suggested only...Tags: Physical Conditions, General Practitioners, Science, Health Treatments, Skin Cancer
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READER SUBMITTED: Julia Hamilton Of South Windsor Awarded Fulbright Grant
South WindsorJulia Hamilton '12, of South Windsor, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to pursue a Master of Arts degree in 18th century studies at the University of Southampton in Britain during the 2013-14 academic year. The interdisciplinary program, which draws...Tags: Spring Break, Arts and Culture, South Windsor, Teachers, Colleges and Universities
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Liar liar, officepants on fire
That's a good point! (No it isn't.) I'd be happy to join the team! (I'd rather be eaten by wart hogs.) Your cake is delicious! (Thanks for the food poisoning, Julia Child.) These are but a few examples of the lies we tell at work. Most aren't...
Tags: Julia Child, Rex Huppke, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Health and Safety at Work, Mental Health
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University presses: a view from the academy
The front table in Hyde Park's Seminary Co-op Bookstore has been a must stop for book browsers for book lovers since the early 1970s. It is always brimming with more than 100 newly published scholarly works vying for readers' attention. Most of the titles...
Tags: Yale University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Reed Elsevier, Conservation
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W&M libraries net access to three new e-book collections
WILLIAMSBURG - The College of William and Mary’s libraries now offer access to more than 4,500 new e-books from three premier collections available through the Virtual Library of Virginia, or VIVA, according to a release. VIVA, a consortium of...
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Briefs: New Scientist
Premium Health News ServiceIS MERS ON THE LOOSE? There are signs that the new coronavirus that emerged in the Arabian peninsula last year is spreading among people who have had no known contact with an infected source. Ron Fouchier, of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the...Tags: Tunisia, Yale University, Arts and Culture, Mental Health, Columbia University
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The God Squad: Can we find God through Einstein?
Q: Among all the questions you receive about the conflict between science and religion, you seem to take the accommodationist route, insisting there is no conflict and misquoting Albert Einstein in a way that makes him seem religious. How can you a)...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Science and Technology, Religion and Belief, Science, Philosophy
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Welcome to the book blog jungle, Bookmarks!
The San Francisco Chronicle launched a book blog this week, Bookmarks. To welcome Bookmarks to the literary blogosphere, we emailed books editor John McMurtrie, who told us all about the blog -- or blogue, or blague, depending. JC: Did the Chronicle...
Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Arts and Culture, Book, Social Media, London Theatre
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Vegans and vegetarians live longer
Time magazine reports that vegetarians live longer than their meat-chomping friends. Meanwhile, a six-year study of 70,000 Seventh-Day Adventists, published in the current issue of the American Medical Association's Journal of Internal Medicine, found...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Heart Disease, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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Did Einstein believe in God?
God SquadQ: Among all the questions you receive about the conflict between science and religion, you seem to take the accomodationist route, insisting there is no conflict, and misquoting Albert Einstein in a way that makes him seem religious. How can you a)...Tags: Science and Technology, Religious Conflicts, Religion and Belief, Science, Philosophy
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Book explores parishes, families
A new book by Mary Ellen Konieczny, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, examines how religion and family life are intertwined and how local parishes shape that intersection. The book "The Spirit's Tether: Family, Work, and...Tags: Science and Technology, Culture, Sociology, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture
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Current, former University of Virginia astronomers honored
A University of Virginia astronomer and his former U.Va. colleague have been awarded $1 million from the Shaw Prize Foundation. The Shaw Prize is considered Asia's equivalent to the Nobel Prize, which does not specifically provide an award for...
Tags: Science and Technology, Awards and Prizes, Science, Astronomy, Nobel Prize Awards
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