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From @grane66, Do you ever have a rep tweet for you or take photos? NEVER...
With more than three million followers, Ashton Kutcher is the undisputed king of Twitter. So when Kutcher agreed to take questions from TIME's readers for a 10 Questions interview, he also agreed to take ten more from TIME's followers on Twitter. What resulted is something we're calling a Twitterview, and here's what went down - in 140 characters or less. (Follow TIME on Twitter...
...such a good idea, say researchers in a commentary appearing in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a publication of the American Cancer Society. The authors looked at studies pitting preoperative use of MRI, which relies on magnetic waves, against mammograms and similar tests that use radiation to take pictures of breast tissue. Researchers found that women choosing MRIs often ended up with more aggressive surgery - much of which wasn't necessary - than women who did not use the scans. What's more, employing the newer and more sensitive MRI technology did not improve a woman's chance of surviving...
Aside from increasing the rate of radical surgery, the use of MRIs may also harm patients who already have a diagnosis. Patients may take several weeks to investigate the lesions, get biopsies and wait for pathology results, delaying the actual treatment of cancer...
...named Fred Hoyle came up with it during a popular science radio broadcast and he was essentially putting the theory down. He was really almost laughing at the idea. Take the concept of a black hole - this thing that nothing can get out of. Even if that idea doesn't quite fit with reality, the concept itself takes on a life...