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Article the BBC had about plastic bags.  Reusing the type of plastic bags which are now banned in many places in fact is far less resource consumptive than alternative types of bags like paper or cotton. But the bags are getting banned because apparently most people don’t reuse them and also apparently large amounts of…

This is one of those articles about a research breakthrough which kind of just goes by unnoticed for the most part, yet its implications are profound: Scientists Claim Brain Memory Code Cracked In an article in the March 8 issue of the journal PLoS Computational Biology, physicists Travis Craddock and Jack Tuszynski of the University…

Recently I had an amalgam filling done for one of my molars.  This particular tooth has had many issues in the past with composite fillings.  Because of the location and nature of the filling, the composite fillings basically never really held up very well.  It seemed like I was getting the filling done almost every…

Geochemistry is I believe one of the most vastly under-appreciated areas of scientific research. With modern techniques available for measuring extremely tiny quantities of rock and mineral material to extremely high precision, details are emerging about how Planet Earth formed which were never known before. I am just reading about a new study which examined…

Today, the 11-month anniversary of the Japan 3/11 tsunami, I was reading about historical tsunami which is a fascinating subject area.  This led me to learn about these mega-enormous landslides called the Storegga Slides which occurred around 8,000 years ago in the area of the North Sea and resulted in the submerging of a huge…

All the time I read articles about how being healthy is healthy.  As if a person doesn’t know what is healthy.  Not being healthy is something to do.  Instead of just being healthy one has to educate oneself, to learn what is healthy, and put it into practice.  There’s so much more to do it…

I wanted to revisit what I discussed in a recent post “I highly recommend getting away from all these “services” like Google and Yahoo“. I still recommend that it is best to try to get several things on your own: 1.  Domain name 2.  E-mail account 3.  Web server Getting a domain name costs about…

Intro: You want to connect your Linux box running Debian to a Juniper VPN using the command-line only. (You don’t want to run X on your machine nor necessarily install Java to run the graphical client). Its possible to do with the ncsvc command-line app provided by Juniper. Strangely, the command-line app is contained in…

There was an article written a few years ago about a study which found that noise pollution is a significant problem in San Francisco.  I feel totally pissed off reading this article, and other info on noise pollution in the city.  Here is another article, which says “Noise from traffic is putting nearly 1 in…

An article today discusses a paper that reports that manganese significantly neutralizes the toxicity of Shiga toxin in cells.  This occurs because a certain protein which is responsible for the Shiga toxin’s avoiding normal breakdown within cells is highly sensitive to manganese. This is a significant discovery as hundreds of millions of people are affected…