Sunday, February 22, 2015

What are the risk factors for breast cancer?

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/detailedguide/breast-cancer-risk-factors


---Steve

Favorites

http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2015/pdfs/pr231_E.pdf

Sedona Red Rock News, Sedona, AZ Classifieds, Jobs, News, Sports, Weather - Hiker rescued, despite the ‘help’

http://www.redrocknews.com/news/20-news-stories/11355-hiker-rescued-despite-the-help.html

According to the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office, the man had hiked to the top of Capital Butte and upon descent he took the wrong trail which led him to an area where he could no longer descend, in part, because of a prior shoulder injury. The man was calm during his contact with deputies and remained stationary as requested.

---Steve

Monday, February 16, 2015

Bob Dylan Blew My Mind At MusiCares - ForbesLife

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2015/02/12/bob-dylan-blew-my-mind-at-musicares/


---Steve

By Dr. Glen Barry: Scott Walker, Authoritarian Anti-Science Dropout

http://drglenbarry.blogspot.com/2015/02/scott-walker-anti-science-dropout-draft.html

Walker's "big and bold" agenda ends up to be little more than an anti-science dropout seeking to dismantle any institution or other source of power – be it women, schools, workers or the environment – that stands in the way of theocratic corporate oligarchy. I intend to examine his christian extremist war upon nature, workers, and women at another time. For now let's see how this college dropout seeks to uneducate a state and a nation, to radically diminish us in his image.
---Steve

Neuroscience & Freud

http://www.skeptically.org/minther/id5.html


---Steve

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Back to basics: securing a backcountry permit to hike the Grand Canyon - Grand Canyon News - Grand Canyon, Arizona

http://grandcanyonnews.com/main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=11139


---Steve

A darwinian perspective: right premises, questionable conclusion. A commentary on Niall Shanks and Rebecca Pyles' "Evolution and medicine: the long reach of "Dr. Darwin""

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265736/


---Steve

Evolution and medicine: the long reach of "Dr. Darwin"


all humans were the same. For many reasons, this is an error from an evolutionary perspective. In our current example, human CYP polymorphisms can manifest themselves in the form of intraspecific (i.e., individual) differences in drug metabolism. Two genes, CYP 2D6 and CYP 2C19 are particularly important since they affect how people metabolize approximately 25% of the drugs on the market [19].

Sipes and Gandolfi [20] observed that with respect to the antihypertensive agent debrisoquine, some 3 to 10 percent of Caucasians are poor metabolizers because they are homozygous for 2 nonfunctional alleles for CYP 2D6, the gene source of debrisoquine 4-hydroxylase enzyme. There appear to be more than 75 allelic variants of CYP 2D6 circulating in human populations [21].


---Steve

Global Travel Program FAQs | Verizon Wireless

http://www.verizonwireless.com/support/global-travel-program-faqs/


---Steve

Claiming Darwin for the Left.pdf - Google Drive

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1vchq1dNmMCdWpER2FWSmdRZ2M/edit?pli=1


---Steve

Boost your immunity: Cold and flu treatments suppress innate immune system.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/12/boost_your_immunity_cold_and_flu_treatments_suppress_innate_immune_system.html

Boosting your immunity is actually a pretty bad idea. Even if these remedy and prevention products did what they purport to, you wouldn't want them to.

---Steve