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| Paralyzed, Moving a Robot With Their Minds Thu, 17 May 2012 05:47:19 GMT Scientists said a tiny brain implant allowed two people who are virtually paralyzed below the neck to manipulate a robotic arm. |
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| Brain Disease Is Found in Veterans Exposed to Bombs Thu, 17 May 2012 05:46:01 GMT The same degenerative brain disease found in football players and boxers has been found in veterans exposed to roadside bombs, a finding with potentially profound implications. |
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| HDL ‘Good Cholesterol’ Found Not to Cut Heart Risk Thu, 17 May 2012 05:45:21 GMT People genetically prone to higher levels of HDL, often called “good cholesterol,” showed that they did not have any significant decrease in risk of cardiovascular disease. |
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| Side Effects: The Tricky Business of Taming the Beasts Wed, 16 May 2012 20:27:06 GMT When it comes to the natural world, what is domestication, really? |
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| Side Effects: Microscopic Neighbors, Evolving Together Wed, 16 May 2012 18:49:35 GMT A novel experiment sought to demonstrate that how different living things in a community bump up against one another affects how they evolve. |
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| Boca Sanibeni Journal: Dam Project Would Displace Villages in Jungle Valley of Peru Wed, 16 May 2012 18:08:41 GMT A hydroelectric dam supported by the country’s president would send thousands of people to live elsewhere. |
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| A Conversation With Carson Chow: A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity Wed, 16 May 2012 17:40:04 GMT Carson Chow has used mathematical models to determine the causes of obesity, and ways to stem the epidemic. |
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| Contracts Help Private Sector Edge Deeper Into Space Tue, 15 May 2012 20:07:18 GMT A planned launching this weekend, if successful, would be a victory for private companies trying to make their mark in space. |
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| Hawaii’s Beaches Are in Retreat, and Way of Life May Follow Wed, 16 May 2012 17:40:03 GMT Most beaches on the state’s three largest islands are eroding, and the erosion is likely to accelerate as sea levels rise, according to a new report. |
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| Side Effects: The ‘Hunger Games’ Mockingjay: Fiction, for Now Wed, 16 May 2012 17:50:02 GMT With the growing availability of tools to modify organisms, a creature like the bird imagined in the “Hunger Games” series is not an impossible fantasy. |
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| Maternal Deaths Plunged Over 2 Decades, U.N. Reports Wed, 16 May 2012 18:00:04 GMT The decline is attributable to increases in contraception and in AIDS drugs, and to greater numbers of births attended by those with medical training. |
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| Losing More to Gain More: Amputees’ Once-Unthinkable Choice Tue, 15 May 2012 20:10:03 GMT As artificial limbs are infused with better technology, some people are opting to amputate more extensively to regain something more akin to normal function. |
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| In Sperm Banks, a Roll of the Genetic Dice Thu, 17 May 2012 06:10:03 GMT In households across the country, children conceived with donated sperm are struggling with serious genetic conditions inherited from men they have never met. |
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| News Analysis: Taking Truvada to Prevent H.I.V. Also Comes With Risks Wed, 16 May 2012 17:57:58 GMT Taking Truvada daily can help people in at-risk groups prevent H.I.V. infection, but the consequences of loose adherence go beyond contracting the virus. |
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| Would-Be Grandparents Nudge Daughters to Egg-Freezing Clinic Mon, 14 May 2012 20:52:38 GMT The practice of freezing eggs to enable a pregnancy later on is growing, doctors say, with parents lending emotional and financial support to adult daughters. |
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| Personal Best: Personal Best: Can Runners Have 'Too Many Miles on the Tires'? Thu, 17 May 2012 05:35:05 GMT If you start racing when you are young, will you be slower in middle age than if you started when you were older? |
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| The Consumer: The Consumer: A TV Show Adds to the Muddle on HPV Testing Tue, 15 May 2012 17:24:43 GMT The girls of "Girls" are asking, and so is everyone else: What does it mean to be infected with HPV? |
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| Understanding the Atmosphere Tue, 01 May 2012 08:40:06 GMT Scientists want to know how the balance between warming and cooling clouds will change as climate change proceeds. |
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| Alzheimer’s Prevention Is Aim of Drug Trial Wed, 16 May 2012 20:20:47 GMT A clinical trial of Crenezumab will focus largely on members of a Colombian family who are genetically destined to develop the disease but who do not yet have any symptoms. |
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| Scientist at Work Blog: Artifacts From a Time of Many Droughts Wed, 16 May 2012 19:55:28 GMT After finding more water jar pieces, researchers plan their return to Cara Blanca, Belize, to further study the Maya world and how its inhabitants survived multi-year droughts. |
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| Scientist at Work Blog: How to Uncover Underwater Artifacts Tue, 15 May 2012 18:47:27 GMT Diving for Maya artifacts involves high-tech diving equipment and low-tech archaeology tools like pulleys and buckets. |
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| Scientist at Work Blog: Searching for a Pair of Dolphins in the Gulf Mon, 14 May 2012 18:43:00 GMT Following two dolphins out of Sarasota Bay, Fla., researchers lose track of them in the Gulf of Mexico, where the waters are too rough for their boat to navigate. |
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| Scientist at Work Blog: Diving for Underwater Offerings Fri, 11 May 2012 19:05:09 GMT A team of archaeologists makes its first dive of the field season in search of ancient Maya underwater offerings. |
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| Green Blog: Paul Weston, Founder of Sea Shepherd, Is Arrested in Germany Wed, 16 May 2012 20:39:49 GMT Paul Watson is being held in a German jail as Costa Rica seeks his extradition on a navigational violation. |
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| Green Blog: Hatched and Wild Salmon: A Bad Mix? Wed, 16 May 2012 18:08:14 GMT A compilation of research suggests that hatched salmon could threaten the long-term survival of wild salmon unless precautions are taken. |
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| Q & A: Can Animals Get Sunburn, Too? Tue, 15 May 2012 20:14:32 GMT Just like humans, animals can suffer from too much sun exposure; domestic animals that have short or thin coats of hair or pale skin are at greater risk. |
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| Observatory: Chimpanzees’ Table Manners Vary by Group Wed, 16 May 2012 17:43:01 GMT A study of chimpanzees in Ivory Coast found that different groups have different preferences for cracking open nuts. |
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| Observatory: Oldest Cave Art Includes Drawings of Female Anatomy Wed, 16 May 2012 17:40:03 GMT Researchers have discovered illustrations of female anatomy in a rock shelter in France that date back 37,000 years. |
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| Observatory: Brittle Stars Put Their Best Foot Forward Wed, 16 May 2012 17:43:03 GMT Despite lacking bilateral symmetry, brittle stars, related to starfish, can choose one of their five limbs to be front-facing and use two others to move. |
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| Personal Health: Personal Health: The Zen of Swimming Wed, 16 May 2012 18:07:15 GMT Swimming is second only to walking as the nation's most popular recreational activity, and its benefits can be enjoyed regardless of age or infirmity. |
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| Really?: Really? Red Wine as a Probiotic Delivery System Tue, 15 May 2012 17:17:13 GMT Known for its potential to protect against heart disease, red wine also aids digestive health, through probiotics, studies show. |
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| Dot Earth Blog: The Gas Age, Circa 1986 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:08:03 GMT A look at the decades-old natural gas predictions of an energy analyst with extraordinary foresight. |
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| Wordplay Blog: Numberplay: Heights of a Triangle Mon, 14 May 2012 16:00:08 GMT Can a triangle have heights of 1, 2 and 3? |
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| Letters: Learning From Cuba (1 Letter) Tue, 15 May 2012 04:10:04 GMT Letter to the editor. |
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| Letters: That Unbearable Itch (1 Letter) Tue, 15 May 2012 04:10:04 GMT Letter to the editor. |
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| Letters: Consider the Parent, Too (2 Letters) Tue, 15 May 2012 04:10:04 GMT Letters to the editor. |
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| Letters: HPV and Oral Cancer (1 Letter) Tue, 15 May 2012 01:50:05 GMT Letter to the editor. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.