Prescription pain drugs that contain acetaminophen — among the most-prescribed drugs in the U.S. — will get a black-box label warning of liver-injury risk and a 325 mg limit on acetaminophen dose.
Continue reading …Just What We Needed Dept. – Genetically Modified Crops That Glow Green When Stressed
January 13, 2011 No Comment
Genetically altered Arabdopsis Thaliana plant, with green fluorescent protein (GFP) inserted near the on/off switches for anoxia and drought genes. Cells expressing those genes glow green under a blue light (as shown). Image and caption credit: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Collection A group of University of Tennessee plant scientists has genetically modified tobacco plants so that the plants will give off a phosphorescent green “glow” when plant immune systems are under stress – as might be caused by plan… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Daily Kos blogger Jed Lewison plugged the president and Sarah Palin’s respective speeches about the tragedy in Tucson into a word cloud generator to create a visual representation of the rhetoric. Lewison says “the clear emphasis of President Obama’s word choice was on focusing on the victims and that which unites us as a nation, whereas Palin focused on her grievances and what drives our country apart.” Daily Kos: The word clouds show the contrast between their two approaches. They both recognized Saturday’s shooting for the tragedy that it was, but the clear emphasis of President Obama’s word choice was on focusing on the victims and that which unites us as a nation, whereas Palin focused on her grievances and what drives our country apart. Read more Related Entries January 13, 2011 White House Mum on Palin’s Latest Words January 13, 2011 WikiLeaks Exposes the Danger of Pakistan’s Nukes
Continue reading …When Hamid Karzai named a council to negotiate with the Taliban, it had 60 members, and not one of them was female. No big surprise given Karzai’s “ultraconservative, misogynist” ways, writes aid worker Ann Jones in the Los Angeles Times . He’s been a disaster for women’s rights in general, and…
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President Barack Obama’s speech in the wake of the shooting that killed six people and wounded 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, follows a modern trend of chief executives consoling the nation following tragedies. AP’s Mark Smith reports. (Jan. 13)
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There’s just so much to love about this video, described by co-creator Florian Smolka as a university video-project from Munich. In a little over four minutes, we’re given a first-person tour of console gaming from 1958′s Tennis for Two (played on an oscilloscope) through late 2008′s Rock Band for Xbox 360 (using a Guitar Hero drum set, but hey, nobody’s perfect). Not every console gets a mention — apologies to Atari Jaguar and 3DO apologists — and it unfortunately stops before new hotness Move and Kinect get a nod, but that should in no way deter you from setting aside a handful of minutes to watch. Be sure to note the passage of TVs, too, and remember fondly the CRTs of your youth. Unless you grew up with LCD flatscreens, you lawn-lounging whippersnapper, you. Video after the break. Continue reading Gaming’s first-person history lesson: 1958 to 2008 edition (video) Gaming’s first-person history lesson: 1958 to 2008 edition (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …MRC-TV: Bozell to Appear on ‘Hannity’, ‘Fox & Friends,’ C-SPAN to Discuss Media Bias Following Rep. Giffords’ Shooting
January 13, 2011 No CommentNewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell will appear on tonight's “Hannity” as well as tomorrow morning's “Fox & Friends” and C-SPAN's Washington Journal. All three appearances will focus on the media's biased coverage in the wake of Saturday's assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona). Tonight's “Media Mash” segment on “Hannity” should air around 9:30 p.m. EST. Bozell's live interview on “Fox & Friends” should commence live around 8:15 a.m. EST tomorrow morning. Just after the “Fox & Friends” appearance, Bozell will sit down at C-SPAN's Washington Studio for the January 14 edition of “Washington Journal,” a call-in interview program. That appearance is scheduled at 8:30 a.m. EST. For an archive of NewsBusters coverage of bias following the Giffords shooting, click here.
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A spokesman for the shock jock’s syndicate says a Tucson, Ariz., billboard featuring Limbaugh’s name, the phrase “straight shooter” and bullet hole imagery was designed by a local station and removed after the shooting massacre that took place in that city. Politico via the Huffington Post : UPDATE: The billboard was removed on Monday, a spokeswoman for Limbaugh’s syndicator told POLITICO. “The ad campaign was created by a local Tucson talk radio station to promote its broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh’s nationally syndicated radio program,’ said Rachel Nelson, PR manager for Premier Radio Networks. “This particular ad—which uses the common expression “straight shooter” to describe Mr. Limbaugh’s candid and direct style—was designed and contracted by the local station’s promotion department. In the wake of the tragic events that have unfolded in Tucson, the station elected to take down this ad on Monday, January 10 – believing that discussion of its interpretation would not contribute to the desire for healing in the Tucson community.” Read more Related Entries January 13, 2011 White House Mum on Palin’s Latest Words January 13, 2011 WikiLeaks Exposes the Danger of Pakistan’s Nukes
Continue reading …On Monday, ADM Mike Mullen told a crowd at the National Defense University that he was concerned about the civil-military “disconnect” – that the military was in danger of being out of touch with the American public, who appears disinterested in defense affairs. This recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal made me wonder if Mullen (and other military leaders) are aware of just how much that “disconnect” is self-induced. In this op-ed,
Continue reading …A woman who caused another car to crash in a high-speed chase was sentenced to 18 to 60 years in prison after pleading no contest to second-degree murder, the AP reports. Torrie Emery, 23, had been trading hostile Facebook posts with 21-year-old Danielle Booth over the affections of man in…
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