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Devastating effects of over prescription of painkillers can be measured in sad statistics like for the town Portsmouth, Ohio. In this town nearly 10 percent of babies are born addicted to Oxycontin according to an article in the +Washington Post.

Devastating effects of over prescription of painkillers can be measured in sad statistics like for the town Portsmouth, Ohio. In this town nearly 10 percent of babies are born addicted to Oxycontin according to an article in the +Washington Post.

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Rising painkiller addiction shows damage from drugmakers’ role in shaping medical opinion
Rising addiction to opiates is tied to pharmaceutical companies’ effort to shape medical opinion and practice.

Interesting read by the Genomes Unzipped people about the different genetic ancestry testing companies available today and how the BBC, again, manage to not keep up with the standards they claim to behold. Read also the very interesting comments on the article as they shed more light onto the somewhat dodgy connection between the interviewer from the BBC and the owner of the company.

Interesting read by the Genomes Unzipped people about the different genetic ancestry testing companies available today and how the BBC, again, manage to not keep up with the standards they claim to behold. Read also the very interesting comments on the article as they shed more light onto the somewhat dodgy connection between the interviewer from the BBC and the owner of the company.

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Exaggerations and errors in the promotion of genetic ancestry testing « Genomes Unzipped
Early_diversification. One thing we have done in Genomes Unzipped is to report on what is on the market for consumers interested in getting information about their genetic data. While we have found ge…

Youngest PhD in the Netherlands ever! Just 20 years old and it took her just 2 1/2 years before having enough stuff to defend her thesis

Youngest PhD in the Netherlands ever! Just 20 years old and it took her just 2 1/2 years before having enough stuff to defend her thesis

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Youngest PhD in the Netherlands ever! Just 20 years old and it took her just 2 1/2 years before having enough stuff to defend her thesis. Hat tip to her!

CWI researcher Floor Sietsma (20) youngest PhD in the Netherlands | CWI Amsterdam | Research in mathematics and computer science
Floor Sietsma. Researcher Floor Sietsma of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam is the youngest PhD in the Netherlands. The recently elected ‘Nerd of the Year’ by readers of t…

Boom, finally some sense about GM food that counteracts all the nonsense untruthful nonsense the anti-GM lobby is pushing into the debate.

Boom, finally some sense about GM food that counteracts all the nonsense untruthful nonsense the anti-GM lobby is pushing into the debate.

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"Genetically modified food should be grown and sold widely in Britain and consumer opposition to the technology is a “complete nonsense”, the Cabinet minister in charge of food and farming has said."

#GM #geneticengineering #geneticallymodified

Food minister Owen Paterson backs GM crops – Telegraph
Genetically modified food should be grown and sold widely in Britain and consumer opposition to the technology is a “complete nonsense”, the Cabinet minister in charge of food and farming has said…

For all the people using +Google Drive to sync their scripts into the cloud the +Neutron Drive application is awesome!! It will give you full syntax highlighting and editing of your scripts in the cloud. Much better than the default viewer from Google Drive for scripts/LaTeX/plain text.

For all the people using +Google Drive to sync their scripts into the cloud the +Neutron Drive application is awesome!! It will give you full syntax highlighting and editing of your scripts in the cloud. Much better than the default viewer from Google Drive for scripts/LaTeX/plain text.

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#gdrive #googledrive

Neutron Drive
A web based code editor for Google Drive

In between all this Israel/Gaza news you would almost forget that the dark heart of africa is still burning and where an utterly useless and helpless UN mission (like usual) is failing to protect the local population.

In between all this Israel/Gaza news you would almost forget that the dark heart of africa is still burning and where an utterly useless and helpless UN mission (like usual) is failing to protect the local population.

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Great introductionary blog post by +Washington Post

http://goo.gl/eNWsV

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