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# Scientists 'create' a neutron star. (BBC) Physicists have simulated some
effects found around one of the strangest & most dangerous objects in the
known universe. In New Mexico lab, a machine is creating temperatures
rivaling that found at the centre of the Sun. It is helping physicists
learn what happens to matter that falls into black holes and neutron
stars. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_515000/515765.stm
@ Links: Sandia National Laboratories: http://www.sandia.gov/
@ Life cycle of stars: http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/starsbackground.htm
: Have you created any neutron stars or black holes lately? Are you a black
hole? What quasi-stellar objects would you like to create/visit/pollute??
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# Robot trainers aid stroke recovery. NEW YORK (Reuters) -- An interactive
robot that can coax stroke patients through rehabilitation exercises may
help them regain more muscle control and strength than standard therapy
alone: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/18/health-rob1
# Implants could help paralysed patients. (BBC) Implants could be used in
the future to help patients with spinal injuries regain their movement.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514478.stm
: Would you rather be implanted, roboticized, borgified? How many implants
and robotic assemblies need be installed before you're completely a Borg?
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# Medics peer into the future. (BBC) Patients will be implanted with sensors
to detect disease, toilets will analyse urine samples and diabetics will
never have to worry about their condition again - in the next century.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514592.stm
# ALSO - Taking the needle out of diabetes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514890.stm
# Biosensors 'will transform healthcare':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_514000/514801.stm
: Who will control the machines that monitor/sustain you? Who'll have access
to the data they gather? Can you wait for the next century? Must you anyway?
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# Giving birth may boost memory. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sure it may ruin your
figure and take up all your free time, but having children may also boost
memory power, a new study in rodents shows. US researchers report that
female rats who had given birth performed better on two standard mazes
that test learning and memory than female rats who had not given birth.
Huh? http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/20/health-mem8 And see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_514000/514607.stm
and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562015450-e08
# ALSO - Hormones: the elixir of youth:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_395000/395538.stm
# Mother's hormone levels 'can affect baby's IQ':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_424000/424661.stm
# Soya beans linked to developmental damage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_503000/503781.stm
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# 100-eyed bug surprises scientists. The extraordinary raspberry-like eyes
of a tiny parasitic insect have been described for the 1st time. Strep-
sipteran insects, which live in the bodies of paper wasps, have a visual
system not found in any other living creature. The bugs see out of struc-
tures that are made up of 50 self-contained eyes with retinas behind them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_505000/505129.stm
# Also - Insects use lesbian ruse:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_481000/481394.stm
# And - Bull's-eye beetle:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_422000/422599.stm
: Would you like to have your eyes re-engineered? How many eyes d'ya need?
Would you like to see into the IR and UV spectra? Want wideband receivers?
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Heart-O-Rama:
# Robotic-Assisted Heart Bypass Shown Safe. ATLANTA (Reuters) - Someday
surgeons may be able to perform non-invasive heart surgery on a patient
without being in the same room or even the same state. Phone-in the per-
formance: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/02/science-heart-robotics
: D'ya want robots crawling around in you, cutting & stitching & mucking-up?
# Chinese Diet Protects Heart. ATLANTA (Reuters) Chinese researchers
presented more evidence that the standard Western diet can cause heart
disease. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/02/science-heart-chinese
: Are McFood vendors guilty of mass murder? Is sweet-sour pork healthy? Eh?
@ Why do some fall to heart disease and others remain healthy? Fat, smoking,
high blood pressure? Matt Ridley says look at the pecking order at work.
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/missionary.html
: Are you paradoxically un/healthy, despite your lifestyle? Does work kill?
# Erectile dysfunction may signal heart disease:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/20/health-ere9
# Wives Don't Learn After Husband's Heart Attack:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/11/science-heart-spouses
# Impotence May Warn of Coming Heart Attack or Stroke:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/09/science-heart-impotence
# Acetaminophen Might Help Heart Disease, Study Shows:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/11/science-heart-acetaminophen
# Even Teens Show Signs of Incipient Heart Disease:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/02/science-heart-youths
# New Imaging Method May Warn of Heart Disease Early:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/02/science-heart-imaging
# HIV Drugs May Cause Heart Disease, Study Suggests:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991110/02/science-aids-heart
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"You really have to hand it to the praying mantis for sheer bizarre sado-
necrophilia. The brutal fact is that the female slowly nibbles the head of
the male while they hump away in graceful, triple-jointed articulations.
With his entire brain eaten away, the male's body continues to pump meth-
odically for hours afterward. The male is physiologically incapable of
ejaculation until a certain bothersome lobe of his miniscule brain is
removed. Indeed, the presence of a brain seems to inhibit male praying
mantis sexuality. In instances like this, it isn't easy to avoid anthro-
pomorphizing the focus of evolution: What could Nature possibly have in-
tended when it cooked up the sexual behavior of the praying mantis?"
--Howard Rheingold, INSECT EROTICA: Why Have Sex At All? in
EXCURSIONS TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE MIND [Wm.Morrow, 1988]
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