When I was new to yoga I did all of the things that typical newbies do — I read books, I listened to CDs, I watched DVDs. Once I felt somewhat familiar with the practice of yoga, I attended my first class. Back then, my first choice for home practice was DVDs because I could […]

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Duck-billed Dinosaurs Outgrew Predators To Survive:
With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at least one advantage: It grew to adulthood much faster than its predators, giving it superiority in size.
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Orac had a nice takedown of an idiotic piece on Medscape about the Gardasil vaccine. As he reported, the link to the bad article is now dead, perhaps as a result of blograge. Now, on the front page of Medscape is a poll—a poll regarding physician prescribing habits given the “news” about Gardasil:
Serious neurologic, thromboembolic, […]

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