After five months at sea, the Nisshin Maru arrives back in Japan having taken 551 whales from the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, around half the original target but still 551 whales too many.     Full Story…

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After my last post about taking it easy, I got a great comment from a reader that reminded me about my owner personal experience with fitness and weight loss goals and how those things fit in with a yoga practice. We live in a goal-oriented society, don’t we? Many of us want to lose weight, […]

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After my last post about taking it easy, I got a great comment from a reader that reminded me about my owner personal experience with fitness and weight loss goals and how those things fit in with a yoga practice. We live in a goal-oriented society, don’t we? Many of us want to lose weight, […]

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Effect of Variation in CHI3L1 on Serum YKL-40 Level, Risk of Asthma, and Lung Function:
Background The chitinase-like protein YKL-40 is involved in inflammation and tissue remodeling. We recently showed that serum YKL-40 levels were elevated in patients with asthma and were correlated with severity, thickening of the subepithelial basement membrane, and pulmonary function. We […]

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Boingboing had a short notice about the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (”FARS”), plugging it as an all purpose dicing and slicing source for information on motor vehicle related deaths in the US. You can make your own custom queries to find out about auto fatalities in your own county. […]

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In Haiti the food riots were severe enough that a UN “Peacekeeper” was killed, and the Prime Minister was forced to resign.

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This is the second of 6 guest posts on infection and chronic disease.
By Rachel Kirby
In light of April being Autism Awareness Month it is only natural that certain topics be brought about in the media. Until now I was not aware of the controversy behind the “risk factors” of autism. Let’s begin with the […]

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Over the weekend the more I thought about the food riots the more wrong this seemed. Here are some stories of potential food riots in the Phillipines.

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I’m a supporter of mathematical modeling as another way to get a handle on what might happen in an influenza pandemic. But a recent paper by the group at London’s Imperial College, published in Nature, shows what can happen when modelers allow their work to bear more weight than it can sustain. When a prestigious […]

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How often do you take time to reflect on the things you’re grateful for? Once a month? Once a week, at church, perhaps? Maybe you say “grace” at mealtime every day. But even prayers that do express gratefulness, such as a traditional mealtime prayer, are often expressed by rote. Growing up, my family wasn’t very […]

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