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Super Immunity – How to Program Your Immune System [30Aug10]

Well, if Crohn’s disease is caused by a bad bacteria (Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis ((MAP)), e. coli, salmonella, and rotaviruse), then this Nobel Prize winner’s research should be applied....

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How Racist Are We? Ask Google

Research that compares the use of racially charged search terms with voting patterns suggests that Barack Obama’s race lowers his chance of re-election.   The United States is not a ‘post-racial’...

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Immigrants will save us

As for whether low-skilled immigrants are “takin’ urr jobs,” research shows that in the long term, they’re not. While “there are winners and losers in the short run,” ultimately, “immigration increases...

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Jane McGonigal Thinks Reality is Broken and She Wants to Fix It

Book Review, by Michael Andersen Amplify’d from www.wired.com  [20Jan11] In 2008, Jane McGonigal delivered a rant at the Game Developer’s Conference entitled “Reality is Broken” that galvanized...

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How will we live with drones? – Virgin.com

Given that civilian drones will soon occupy our skies, I believe there is an urgency for people to investigate the complexities of their potential impact on our lives. As a research, design and...

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Social Media’s Presence in The Enterprise (P1)

If your employees are already using social media, then consider Enterprise 2.0 and put their activity to good use. Clipped from www.computerworld.com social media’s presence in the enterprise many...

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Trust Deficit – `Capitalism’ Not So Sacred to Americans as Mood Sours

Amplify’d from www.bloomberg.com The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a poll today showing that 57 percent of Americans say they support capitalism, compared with more than 70 percent who back free...

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Meditation helps increase attention span | e! Science News

URL:  http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/07/14/meditation…. It’s nearly impossible to pay attention to one thing for a long time. A new study looks at whether Buddhist meditation can improve a...

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Enterprise Lifts Off – Analysts tout social software as the next big thing

The demand and growth of these collaboration tools are notable. Amplify’d from www.computing.co.uk A report issued in April 2010 entitled Enterprise Social Networking 2010 Market Overview contains...

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Science of Prayer – Proximity Could be Key to Success of Healing Prayer

When the faithful gather and lend their healing hands to one another then science gets a little less “scientific”. What do you think of using prayer? Are you a believer? Amplify’d from www.newswise.com...

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Journey of the Scanner – Ideas on effective environmental scanning in the...

Become a better scanner and read the entire piece. Amplify’d from foresightculture.com With Web 2.0, we can have Environmental Scanning 2.0. Environmental scanning is a process for monitoring an...

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Logging Off – The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World

Evidence of the real-world making a comeback. Amplify’d from www.spiegel.de They may have been dubbed the “Internet generation,” but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than...

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Hurricane Sandy: the new normal?

30 October 2012 http://theconversation.edu.au/hurricane-sandy-the-new-normal-10408 Annotations: The National Research Council (NRC) reports two important and informative findings...

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A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory

Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to...

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