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"Devices help make it easier to stay healthy"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 22 September 2011 06:48

"These days, gadgets that promote health and wellness are everywhere. Here are some that use technology to keep you feeling good in clever new ways. Some are designed to make everyday activities easier and more comfortable, others help you keep track of things like blood pressure and medication.

Med-E-Lert Automatic Pill Dispenser

Organizing pills can be difficult, let alone remembering when to take them. This circular pill dispenser has 28 compartments, allowing you to load a week's worth of pills (if taken four times a day) or in other combinations."

"The sexual revolutions before the sexual revolution"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 22 September 2011 06:44

"Wilhelm Reich, the father of the sexual revolution, started out as a star pupil of Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology. Reich was admitted to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association in 1920, while he was still a graduate student, and already a radical idea was percolating in his head: that sexuality, fundamental to our being, and yet a source of shame for centuries, had the power to heal much of what ailed us, if only we would let it."

"Computer ‘reads’ news to predict conflicts"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 22 September 2011 06:36

"U. ILLINOIS (US) — By analyzing the overall tone and geographic references of large amounts of global news media, supercomputers could help forecast human behavior.

“There’s been a huge amount of research coming out of the business literature on the power of news tone to predict economic behavior, yet there hasn’t been as much work in using it to predict social behavior,” says University of Illinois researcher Kalev Leetaru, whose finding are reported in the journal First Monday."

"Longevity gene is nothing of the sort"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 22 September 2011 06:28

"British scientists have poured cold water on US research that claimed to have identified a gene responsible for ageing.

The gene controls the production of a substance, sirtuin, which has been widely exploited by cosmetics firms to sell anti-wrinkle creams.

Studies of yeast, the nematode worm and the fruit fly had shown that when an organism's genes overproduced sirtuin, its lifespan was significantly extended, in nematodes by as much as 50 percent."

"Debunking the 3 Biggest Exercise Myths"

By Rob Winters - Published on Tuesday, 20 September 2011 07:39

"Stretching before exercise is a sacred ritual, but researchers have been finding that it actually slows you down. Florida State researchers recently showed that stretching before a run makes you about 5 percent less efficient, meaning you have to burn more energy to run at the same pace. This year, Italian researchers studying cyclists discovered why stretching is counterproductive. They found evidence that toe-touching stretches change the force-transmission properties of muscle fibers and alter the brain signals to muscle, reducing exercise efficiency by about 4 percent. Furthermore, there's insufficient scientific evidence that pre-exercise stretching reduces injury risk."

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