News tagged with multiracial people


Does it matter if black plus white equals black or multiracial?

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 4

"Is Barack Obama Black or Biracial?" a recent CNN.com headline asks. The question of whether Obama should be considered black or multiracial has been a concern of the media throughout the campaign.





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Faulty body clock may make kids bipolar

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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Malfunctioning circadian clock genes may be responsible for bipolar disorder in children. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry found four versions of the regulatory gene RORB that were associated with p ...


Few Americans make end-of-life wishes known (AP)

Few Americans make end-of-life wishes known

Medicine & Health / Health

created 5 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Lillian Landry always said she wasn't afraid to die. So when death came last week, the 99-year-old was lying peacefully in a hospice with no needles or tubes. Her final days saw her closest friend ...


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Poked: The difference between Facebook's News Feed and Live Feed

Technology / Internet

created 9 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First off, I'd like to thank Facebook for confusing its users yet again with a new feature that is hard to decipher and makes users grumpy. It really makes my job of picking a column topic so easy when they ...


Google is routing World Bank data to fact seekers

Google routes World Bank data to fact seekers

Technology / Internet

created 12 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google is adding World Bank figures to Internet results in a bid to make hard facts about countries worldwide easier to find.


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Microsoft brings more Web data to Bing results; teams up with WolframAlpha

Technology / Internet

created 13 hours ago | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google.


Longevity tied to genes that preserve tips of chromosomes

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created 13 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres - the tip ends ...


Review: Reports on Pfizer drug studies misleading

Medicine & Health / Medications

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(AP) -- Analysis of a dozen published studies testing possible new uses for a Pfizer Inc. epilepsy drug found that reporting of the results was often fudged, indicating the medicine worked better than internal company documents ...


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Many computer users hesitate to ride the Wave

Technology / Internet

created 13 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Google's latest brainchild, Google Wave, is all the rage among bleeding-edge technology enthusiasts. But corporate information technology executives say that while they're intrigued by Wave -- a replacement ...


Microbial menagerie: Junk food binge alters community of microbes in the gut in less than a day

Medicine & Health / Research

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar alters the collection of microbes living in the gut in less than a day, with obesity-linked microbes suddenly thriving, according to ...


Breast Cancer Physicians Have Limited Access to Trained Interpreters

Medicine & Health / Other

created 14 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In a new survey of physicians who treat breast cancer patients, only one-third said they had good access to trained medical interpreters or telephone language-interpretation systems when they needed it. Poor access to interpreters ...



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