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...wondering whether the H1N1 flu epidemic has infiltrated your town yet, there's an iPhone app for that. Created by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, the new app, called Outbreaks Near Me, gives users real-time information about the type and scope of any new disease outbreaks in their area...
...epidemiologists had been able to pick up those early media reports about SARS, the disease might not have gone on to kill nearly 800 people. That's one of the reasons researchers at Children's Hospital Boston, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, developed HealthMap, a website that mines more than 30,000 data sources - including news media and government alerts - and puts them on a Google Map to show where outbreaks are occurring, in real time. Whether it's measles in Sussex, foot-and-mouth disease in Taiwan or avian flu in Indonesia, as reports...
...subject to biological aging. Such a mind could also be sped up by moving it to a faster computer. Backup copies could be made for safety. And so forth. But it is important not to conflate these more remote possibilities with what is possible today or in the near future...
...your blood vessels that last for hours and perhaps even days. The study measured the effect of air pollution in healthy people in two cities - Ann Arbor, Mich., and Toronto - where participants were exposed in the lab to the same amount of particulates and ozone that would be found near a local highway. People who breathed in polluted air registered higher blood-pressure readings a short time after exposure, compared with those who breathed filtered air, and their blood vessels showed impairment as long as 24 hours later. Such prolonged hypertension is a known risk factor for both heart disease...
...pretty dumb idea. It's even more stupid when your terrorist manifesto warning of retribution for "perpetuating the ignorant use of fossil fuels" is written on the back of the grocery receipt for said eggs. Such was the mistake of the four adults who egged a Toyota dealership near Moscow, Idaho, in May 2009. Police used the receipt to obtain store surveillance footage, which led to the four wannabes' arrest on vandalism charges...