- Jan 20, 2013
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The Look-A-Likes
May I have your attention please!
'Cause I'm the Shady one, yes I'm the real Shady
All you other Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Shady please stand up,
Please stand up, please stand up?’
Guess there’s a real shady one in both of us,
Ha ha…F***it, let’s both stand up!
May I have your attention please!
'Cause I'm the Shady one, yes I'm the real Shady
All you other Shadys are just imitating
So won't the real Shady please stand up,
Please stand up, please stand up?’
Guess there’s a real shady one in both of us,
Ha ha…F***it, let’s both stand up!
- Mar 16, 2009
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Hormone levels linked to survival of deer calves, study suggests
Levels of a key hormone in the blood may be important for the survival prospects of newborn animals, a study of wild deer suggests.
First-born male deer that have relatively high levels of the male hormone testosterone are less likely to survive their first year compared with their peers, the research shows.
Scientists say their findings suggest that high testosterone levels represent a risk to newborns which, when coupled with a new mother's inexperience, lowers their chances of survival.
High levels of testosterone in adult male animals, including deer, are known to be linked to dominance and aggression. However, high testosterone is also associated with lowered immunity to infection and shortened lifespan.
Scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge measured testosterone in blood samples taken from 850 newborn wild red deer on the Isle of Rum between 1996 and 2012.
Their study could shed light on how testosterone levels affect the health and survival of young animals, an area of research which has not yet been widely studied.
The new findings also suggest testosterone levels in offspring are linked to their mother's condition. Male deer born in the years after an older brother had lower testosterone levels than other calves. Scientists are uncertain why this might be, but suggest it is because mothers are weakened by having male calves, which are heavier and suckle for longer than females.
Alyson Pavitt, from the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: "For adult animals such as red deer, high testosterone can increase strength and dominance but reduces immunity and longevity.
"This latest finding suggests that individuals born with high testosterone may be subject to similar costs."
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The study, supported by the Natural Environment Research Council, was published in Functional Ecology.
Levels of a key hormone in the blood may be important for the survival prospects of newborn animals, a study of wild deer suggests.
First-born male deer that have relatively high levels of the male hormone testosterone are less likely to survive their first year compared with their peers, the research shows.
Scientists say their findings suggest that high testosterone levels represent a risk to newborns which, when coupled with a new mother's inexperience, lowers their chances of survival.
High levels of testosterone in adult male animals, including deer, are known to be linked to dominance and aggression. However, high testosterone is also associated with lowered immunity to infection and shortened lifespan.
Scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge measured testosterone in blood samples taken from 850 newborn wild red deer on the Isle of Rum between 1996 and 2012.
Their study could shed light on how testosterone levels affect the health and survival of young animals, an area of research which has not yet been widely studied.
The new findings also suggest testosterone levels in offspring are linked to their mother's condition. Male deer born in the years after an older brother had lower testosterone levels than other calves. Scientists are uncertain why this might be, but suggest it is because mothers are weakened by having male calves, which are heavier and suckle for longer than females.
Alyson Pavitt, from the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: "For adult animals such as red deer, high testosterone can increase strength and dominance but reduces immunity and longevity.
"This latest finding suggests that individuals born with high testosterone may be subject to similar costs."
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The study, supported by the Natural Environment Research Council, was published in Functional Ecology.
- Jan 20, 2013
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- Mar 16, 2009
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Advances in science, medicine, and technology have affected our athletes more than most people might realize. Not just in the actual advancement of sports equipment, though that certainly makes a difference. Since the first Olympic Games back in Greece, even simple tech inventions like running shoes would make modern sports significantly different from their origins.
One place that tech drastically affects sports is in the Paralympic Games. In 2012, there was controversy surrounding sprinter Oscar Pistorius’ carbon-fiber prosthetic legs. Many questioned if they gave him an advantage over the other sprinters and their human legs. It’s an unsurprising controversy: as equipment continues advancing, there will be more concerns over the advantages it offers.It should come as no surprise that there’s going to be an Olympic Games of sorts for robot-assisted paratheletes. Called Cybathlon, and hosted by the Swiss National Competence Center of Research, it’ll be held in October 2016 in Switzerland. So what does it involve?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AvKHrDXvUsM
One place that tech drastically affects sports is in the Paralympic Games. In 2012, there was controversy surrounding sprinter Oscar Pistorius’ carbon-fiber prosthetic legs. Many questioned if they gave him an advantage over the other sprinters and their human legs. It’s an unsurprising controversy: as equipment continues advancing, there will be more concerns over the advantages it offers.It should come as no surprise that there’s going to be an Olympic Games of sorts for robot-assisted paratheletes. Called Cybathlon, and hosted by the Swiss National Competence Center of Research, it’ll be held in October 2016 in Switzerland. So what does it involve?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AvKHrDXvUsM
- Mar 16, 2009
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One of the recent health trends in Japan is limiting your purine body intake. Just about anything you eat or drink contains purines, which break down into uric acid. While a certain level of uric acid is beneficial to the body, particularly in maintaining the health of blood vessels, having too much in the blood stream results in the condition called hyperuricemia, and can lead to a host of medical problems such as gout, easily one of the most unpleasant old-timey-sounding maladies to be stricken with.
It’s commonly thought that beer is a major purine source, and some staff members at our Japanese sister site have had friends tell them they’re cutting back in an effort to reduce their purine intake. However, one of their acquaintances, a self-proclaimed beer expert, made the bold assertion that compared to other dietary sources, beer actually contains hardly any purine bodies at all.
At first we were skeptical. After all, you don’t become a “beer expert” without spending a considerable amount of time drunk, so could we really trust his testimony? On the other hand, we’d hate to waste even a single valid reason to knock back a cold one, so we decided to check with the experts.
We logged onto the homepage of Japan’s Gout Research Foundation, something we’d never imagined ourselves doing, outside maybe needing an innocent looking website to switch to if someone walks by while we’re browsing naughty websites at the public library. The foundation’s homepage includes a chart with the purine body contents of various foods and beverages, and we took a look at the one for beers.
The purine amounts posted were for serving sizes of 100 milliliters (3.4 ounces) of beer. The very lowest, 3.3 milligrams of purines, was listed cryptically as belonging to “Company A, SD,” which we’re speculating is code for “Asahi Super Dry.” Even the highest, the mysteriously designated “Company E,” had only 6.9 milligrams. With a standard-size can of beer in Japan holding 350 milliliters, that works out to a total of less than 25 milligrams.
It’s commonly thought that beer is a major purine source, and some staff members at our Japanese sister site have had friends tell them they’re cutting back in an effort to reduce their purine intake. However, one of their acquaintances, a self-proclaimed beer expert, made the bold assertion that compared to other dietary sources, beer actually contains hardly any purine bodies at all.
At first we were skeptical. After all, you don’t become a “beer expert” without spending a considerable amount of time drunk, so could we really trust his testimony? On the other hand, we’d hate to waste even a single valid reason to knock back a cold one, so we decided to check with the experts.
We logged onto the homepage of Japan’s Gout Research Foundation, something we’d never imagined ourselves doing, outside maybe needing an innocent looking website to switch to if someone walks by while we’re browsing naughty websites at the public library. The foundation’s homepage includes a chart with the purine body contents of various foods and beverages, and we took a look at the one for beers.
The purine amounts posted were for serving sizes of 100 milliliters (3.4 ounces) of beer. The very lowest, 3.3 milligrams of purines, was listed cryptically as belonging to “Company A, SD,” which we’re speculating is code for “Asahi Super Dry.” Even the highest, the mysteriously designated “Company E,” had only 6.9 milligrams. With a standard-size can of beer in Japan holding 350 milliliters, that works out to a total of less than 25 milligrams.
- Jun 22, 2009
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Wanna feel good? Watch this!
http://www.sharedots.com/this-waitress-becomes-victim-of-greatest-prank-ever-conceived-197.html
http://www.sharedots.com/this-waitress-becomes-victim-of-greatest-prank-ever-conceived-197.html
- Mar 16, 2009
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RetroActive said:
This is outrageous. blatant innuendo.
krebs303 said:This is outrageous. blatant innuendo.
I'm cured; I promise. Thankfully I still like music.
krebs303 said:
If that's your thing you should pick up a Quadrivium.
http://www.amazon.com/Quadrivium-Classical-Liberal-Geometry-Cosmology/dp/0802778135
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