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...Apps As more consumers use their phones for snapping and sharing photos, Google's new, no-stress editing tool could soon give it a key competitive advantage in phone photography. In an interview with TIME a month before the acquisition, Picnik CEO Jonathan Sposato said developing a great, easy-to-use phone app was an important project for Picnik. By launching a feature-rich, easy-to-use app version of Picnik, Google can speed ahead in the race for phone-software supremacy...
...fatter mice in Gewirtz's study had been bred to lack a protein known as toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5), which most intestinal cells sprout on their surface. Its job is to recognize and bind to the whiplike flagella that bacteria use to move around. TLR5 acts as a traffic cop for controlling the mass of pathogens living in the intestine; without it, the normally harmless gut bacteria tend to overflourish and expand in number. (See and listen to an audio slideshow about obesity rehab...
...more fundamental question, then, is, What causes changes in gut microbiota? Many things, says Gewirtz, including the use of antibiotics, cleaner water and improved sanitation and hygiene in general, which influences the type and amount of microbes that reside in the intestines. In the current study, scientists found that in TLR5-deficient animals, the total percentage of 150 species of bacteria in the gut was three to four times higher than in normal mice, while 125 other types of bacteria were less common. "We don't have a sense of which is more important yet - that some of those species...
...list of places where you can use Crimson Cash has expanded once again, and now, the roster of locations in the Square where you can use up your printing and laundry budget includes a few more retail stores in addition to eating establishments—Crimson Cash is now an acceptable form of currency at Berks Shoes and Gnomon Copy. Several other culinary businesses have joined the ranks as well: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Harvest Co-op Market, Om Restaurant, and Shabu Ya Restaurant. Our map of Crimson Cash locations has been updated accordingly...
...installed a series of sluice gates to hold back high tides as well as control annual monsoon flooding. This has allowed farmers to switch between growing rice in the wet season and raising shrimp in the brackish waters in the dry. The result has been more-effective land use and higher crop yields, and a doubling of farmers' incomes in the Delta since...