These top 5 tips from sleep experts can help you adjust to a CPAP machine – to sleep and live better with sleep apnea.
Continue reading …When Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes for the first time yesterday, it was no fluke. Doctors today gave their most upbeat update yet: She’s moving her arms and legs on command—a sign that both sides of her brain are responding—and keeping her eyes open for 15 minutes at…
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Image credit: Action for our planet It is de rigueur for Canadian politicians to eat seal meat, in solidarity with the Inuit hunters who have been doing it for centuries. Here’s Prime Minister Harper and much of his cabinet partaking. But centuries ago, the Inuit used to use the seal themselves; then they started exporting it, until the European Union banned the import of seal products and the market disappeared. So Canada just signed a trade deal with China, to export seal me… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Earthslides and flooding have devastated towns in mountains north of Rio de Janeiro. Buildings were destroyed, hundreds of people killed and dozens were still missing Thursday. (Jan. 13)
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Doctors treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Thursday she is showing more positive signs as she recovers from being shot. They say her breathing tube may be removed in the coming days. (Jan. 13)
Continue reading …Yet another poll released Thursday by USA Today suggests that the American public has not bought into the media's ridiculous spin on Saturday's Tucson massacre. According to the poll, conducted by Gallup , a majority of Americans think that attempts to link Saturday's shooting to conservative political rhetoric amount to “An attempt to make conservatives look bad.” Only about a third of respondents said it was a “legitimate point.” While self-identified Democrats were predictably more likely to say blaming rhetoric from the right is a legitimate argument, a full third of Democrats agreed that it was just a partisan stunt. read more
Continue reading …Wikipedia celebrates 10th anniversary, co-founder Jimmy Wales opines on app stores
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Did you know that Wikipedia is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week? It is, on January 15th! It’s hard to believe that the ‘edited by the everyman’ encyclopedia has been around that long… or maybe we’re just getting old. Either way, co-founder of the site (and man of many personal appeals) Jimmy Wales took the opportunity to answer some questions about the past, present and future of Wikipedia, and, when asked about the growing prevalence of mobile apps and app stores, well, Wales had plenty to say, including that models such as the iTunes app store can represent a dangerous “chokepoint” and that they could be “a threat to a diverse and open ecosystem.” He also added that mobile devices are owned by people, and those people should control their own devices. We can see where Jimmy’s coming from in some ways — apps are a wholly new, untested way of ingesting content, but we have a hard time swallowing wholesale that the app store model could threaten internet freedom more than an issue such as net neutrality. But you know, if you ask us nicely, Jimmy, we might just take your word for it. Hit up the ‘more coverage’ link to check out a video of Jimmy Wales waxing philosophical about the birthday celebration. Wikipedia celebrates 10th anniversary, co-founder Jimmy Wales opines on app stores originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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WebMD gives tips for helping a child who is afraid of getting a shot. Learn how parents can make the vaccine process go smoothly.
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Hollywood actress Rachel McAdams admits she was a fan of Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones before they met on the set of their new movie, ‘Morning Glory.’ (Jan. 13)
Continue reading …Bill Press Compares Palin in Tucson Remarks to Hostage With Guns to Her Head
January 13, 2011 No CommentYet another example of the pathological left-wing meme in response to the Tucson bloodbath — do as we say, not as we spew. Here's Bill Press on his radio show this morning, telling all dozen of his listeners what he thought of Sarah Palin's remarks yesterday on the “blood libel” of liberals blaming conservative rhetoric as root cause of the gunman's rampage ( audio ) — To me, it reminded me of those hostage videos we've seen where there's a terrorist on each side holding a gun to a person's head and they're forced to read a script, while she read the script, first of all, yesterday saying don't! don't! let's not criticize each other now.
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