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Friday, September 26, 2008, 07:00 PM: Truthiness and Agnotology
Does the massive increase in communications, brought about by cable and satellite television, and, especially, the internet, help us find truth?
Or does it help spread doubt, confusion, lies, mythology, crackpot conspiracy theories, and the like? As internet bandwidth continues its upward spiral into the future, what should we expect in the future?
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A special technique that uses laser light to sample a person's breath can detect molecules that may be markers for a number of diseases.
This approach, called cavity-enhanced direct optical frequency comb spectroscopy, may one day help doctors screen patients for diseases such as asthma, cancer, kidney failure and diabetes, according to the team of scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
"This technique can give a broad picture of many different molecules in the breath all at once," lead researcher Jun Ye said in a prepared statement.
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Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) will debut the pharmaceutical industry’s first portable drug anti-counterfeiting device. The number of injuries and deaths world-wide related to counterfeit drugs is growing. There is consensus among regulatory bodies that the problem is a dangerous threat to the safety of consumers.
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Homeless women have become more prevalent in Boulder's shelter this winter — making up about 25 percent of the population served there. Traditionally, about 85 percent of those lined up outside the 4869 N. Broadway shelter are men. "We are serving more women than ever before," Harms said. "And I am not sure why."
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Last summer, a few months before my 40th birthday, I did what many men do, and many more consider doing. Chest wax? Nyet! I went on a pilgrimage. My journey didn't take me up some dangerous mountain or to an even riskier beach bar filled with coeds. Instead, I drove from my New Mexico home to the world's biggest health club: Boulder, Colorado. I had an appointment with Neal Henderson, sports-science manager at the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine.
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Quantum dots can be made to emit single photons more efficiently and reliably by using a new method to suppress quantum dot "blinking".
A US research team has found a way to reduce quantum dot (QD) "blinking" by a factor of 100, and in doing so has also increased the photon emission rate by four to five times. This could make QDs more sensitive as fluorescent tags in biomedical tests and single-molecule studies.
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Training Peaks, LLC, provider of online training and analysis software for endurance athletes and coaches, has been selected as the exclusive software provider for Cycling Center. Training Peaks will be providing the Cycling Center coaching and medical staff the ability to monitor and plan workouts through a web-based platform called Training Peaks Coach Edition.
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From Mother Jones, a left-wing biased website.
How did the Fox host end up with a high-school student on his show quoting his own advice on "healthy sex?" The strange and convoluted tale of the Boulder High teen panel.
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The 29th Bolder Boulder will employ electronic "smart" timing for the first time, utilizing a new product which race officials believe is superior to the chip technology adopted by major marathons and other races in recent years. Runners will wear a "Smart Tag" that contains a pair of antennae and utilizes radio frequency identification. Electronic readers at mile markers and the finish line will detect the tags as they pass, recording each runner's progress. The tag, which works similarly to electronic employee ID badges, is about half the size of a credit card. Bolder Boulder officials didn't jump on chip technology when it came along a decade ago because surveys told them the race's existing timing method was sufficiently accurate and because of the cost of the chip systems.
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David Cohen is creator of earFeeder (www.earfeeder.com), the Boulder, Colorado-based web service that was sold last week to SonicSwap. We caught up with David to talk about earFeeder, its rapid sale, and how it relates to the whole Web 2.0 world. We also talked to David about the "TechCrunch" effect, and also about his widely read blog, ColoradoStartups.com (www.coloradostartups.com) focused on high tech startups.
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The University of Colorado announced it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Quidel Corp. to market Flu Chip and MChip diagnostic technologies developed by CU-Boulder researchers in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The Flu Chip and MChip can be used to determine the genetic makeup of specific influenza strains from patient samples within hours. Current methods take about four days.
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It's long been known that experiencing control over a stressor immunizes a rat from developing a depression-like syndrome when it later encounters stressors that it can't control. Now, scientists have unraveled the workings of the brain circuitry that inoculates against such hard knocks -- the circuitry of resilience. Control not only activated the brain's executive hub, the prefrontal cortex, but also altered it so that it later activated even when the stressor was not controllable.
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Array BioPharma Inc. filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for ARRY-520 with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration and is now able to proceed with human clinical studies. ARRY-520 is a potent Kinesin Spindle Protein (KSP) inhibitor that caused marked tumor regression in preclinical models of human solid tumors and human leukemias, often leading to durable responses.
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It's a Tuesday morning at the hectic Coulson house and "unschool" is in session.
Upstairs, 11-year-old Julia writes in her journal as 14-year-old Gavin checks on the family stocks. Downstairs in their cramped apartment living room, Hayden, 3, cries out in frustration: He can't make out a letter on a television learn-to-read program. Meanwhile, Corban, 5, ping-pongs among the floor-to-ceiling bins of school supplies deciding what to do next.
"Mommy, Mommy, can I do the space puzzle now?"
To an outsider, the scene looks more like summer vacation than a day of learning.
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