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...talk about your online popularity. You have, like, 850,000 followers on Twitter. This always makes me laugh. When I meet real celebrities who kind of know me, they can't wrap their heads around that...
...Pentagon who are trying to put green innovation at the top of the priority list. It's a very tricky transition. They made it very clear: our priorities are safety and victory. So anything that could compromise that isn't going to happen. But they are doing some real interesting innovation. For instance, something like half of the barracks in Iraq are now using this superinsulated kind of tent that's using a fraction of the energy that the uninsulated tents were using. That cuts down on the amount of fuel that they need to deliver to power the diesel...
That the effect of bogus treatments is real has long been known, but the mechanism behind them is still largely a scientific mystery. The standard explanation is that we are just fooling ourselves. In Latin, placebo means "I shall please," which suggests that the placebo effect is just a fleeting mind trick - that the mere suggestion of pharmacologically induced pain relief humors the body into temporary recovery. In trials, every drug response is in fact assumed to be at least partially due to the placebo effect. But the confounding thing about the benefits of the placebo is that the effect...
...designed to license the vaccine but to test whether the concept of using the two vaccines in sequence would work. In the latter condition, statisticians say scientists generally consider all data from the complete, original population, since these numbers more accurately reflect what might happen in the real world. In other words, it's a more rigorous analysis of how effective a vaccine might be in a population of people who, realistically, could be exposed to HIV before they finish the full six doses of the vaccine...
...fictional town of Switchblade, Oregon (Meyer’s book occurs in the real town of Forks, Washington), “Nightlight” consists of 160 pages of thwarted romance and vampire-related angst...