A new understanding of why seizures occur with alcohol withdrawal

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Epileptic seizures are the most dramatic and prominent aspect of the "alcohol withdrawal syndrome" that occurs when a person abruptly stops a long-term or chronic drinking habit. Researchers have shown that the flow of calcium ...


A man displays an iPhone along a street in Beijing in July 2009

Apple lets iPhone apps get down to business

Technology / Software

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Apple said Friday that it is allowing businesses to sell content or services through applications given away for free at the iPhone maker's online App Store.


Climate concerns turn city's smell into cash cow (AP)

Climate concerns turn city's smell into cash cow

Technology / Energy

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the region's agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised ...


Hitting early, swine flu claims 11 more kids in US (AP)

Hitting early, swine flu claims 11 more kids in US

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- As the swine flu outbreak strikes the U.S. early and hard, health officials note a worrisome number of child deaths and warn that supplies of vaccine will remain scarce for at least the next couple ...


Biggest economies try again to strike climate deal

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- The world's 17 biggest and most polluting nations meet in London on Sunday in an attempt to break a deadlock on financing efforts to contain climate change and reducing harmful gases causing global warming.


Lupus patients perceive benefit from cardiovascular disease prevention counseling program

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to a new study by Hospital for Special Surgery investigators presented at the American College of Rheumatology meeting on October 21 in Philadelphia, most lupus patients are not aware that their condition puts them ...


Minn. pigs may have tested positive for swine flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Preliminary tests show three pigs in Minnesota may have contracted the swine flu virus making them the first potential U.S. cases in swine, agricultural officials said Friday. They stressed the finding does not threaten ...


Brazilian Alini dos Santos Silva, 28, points at the map of the three "favelas" she and a team of neighbours designed

Rio youth use GPS phones to put favelas on map

Technology / Internet

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rio's favelas are home to a third of the city's population, but are almost invisible on maps -- a situation five young women are trying to change with the help of GPS and the Internet.


Five-year-old Victor Chupina holds the first ticket sold for a special screening of Michael Jackson's "This Is It"

Jackson "This Is It" album to sell at iTunes

Technology / Internet

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple on Friday confirmed that Michael Jackson's "This Is It" music compilation will be available at online shop iTunes a day before the release of the compact disc version.


The BlogWorld Expo is billed as the world's largest blogging convention

Mum's the word at Vegas blogging convention

Technology / Internet

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For years, the stereotypical blogger was a geek yammering on about the latest technoglogy or a celebrity-obsessed scribe dishing about Paris, Lindsay and Madonna.


Briton Gary McKinnon

British hacker gets more time to fight US extradition

Technology / Other

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A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA space agency computers was on Saturday given more time to fight his extradition to the United States, officials and lawyers said.



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