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...With researchers from seven countries, Chapman and an Australian team are devising a new set of monitoring tools to better detect the presence of specific hormones in water. One of the criticisms of using recycled water for drinking is that it can't be tested for every possible contaminant. But Chapman says the Global Water Research Coalition project, due to be completed mid-next year, will make testing unnecessary. Rather than having to carry out hundreds of costly and time-consuming tests for contaminants and speculating on their possible effects, scientists using the "toolbox" will be able to take...
...scanner is an amazing thing; it can detect some tumors that are only the size of a grain of rice. Here's roughly how it works: You hold really still for half an hour or so in a big machine made of a magnet and some computers. The magnet itself is big, heavy and expensive - not to mention so strong that it could pull on a paper clip with nearly 100 pounds of force. You're blasted with strong radio waves. The protons in your body absorb some radio waves, then they let some back out - like a crystal wine...
...Hair of the Dog Alcohol-related illnesses can be difficult to treat and even harder to detect...
...have so many tests I can't write them all down. They are all expensive. They are all designed to detect pathology - in other words, something wrong. And unfortunately, at one point or another in every person's life, none of them can really help cure us. All they can do then is give what ails us a name, tell us that someone has seen this before, and remind us not to expect too much...
...Will the new revelations about the NSA tip the balance? Perhaps. According to the story, the NSA is not actually listening in on the phone calls but monitoring the patterns of calls in a kind of giant Google search, with the hope that their algorithm will detect something untoward and worth investigating. But even if your call to Aunt Sally isn't being listened to by some NSA officer, the program sounds creepy enough that no shortage of senators jumped all over it. The Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, said he'd subpoena...