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http://whitecoatunderground.com/ Quacks lie. In some ways, that’s what separates us from them. Real doctors are stuck with the messy truth: with bad news, with uncertain outcomes.

White Coat Underground

Hyena

http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/3/757.full

Effects of Toxoplasma on Human Behavior

Although latent infection with Toxoplasma gondii is among the most prevalent of human infections, it has been generally assumed that, except for congenital transmission, it is asymptomatic.

Cell Size and Scale

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/ Some cells are visible to the unaided eye The smallest objects that the unaided human eye can see are about 0.1 mm long.
(Click on the magnifying glass http://www.bio.davidson.edu/Biology/aatable.html

Amino Acid Abbreviations

WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements

The periodic table is a table of the chemical elements in which the elements are arranged by order of atomic number in such a way that the periodic properties (chemical periodicity) of the elements are made clear. http://www.webelements.com/
BEN FRANKLIN SHOULD HAVE SAID ELECTRONS ARE POSITIVE? --- Wrong. Many authors bemoan the fact that Ben Franklin labeled "resinous electricity" as negative, and "vitreous electricity" as positive. http://www.austincc.edu/wkibbe/truth.htm

BEN FRANKLIN SHOULD HAVE SAID ELECTRONS ARE POSITIVE

If you live nearly anywhere in North America, Europe, or Asia, it’s no news that December 2009 and early January 2010 were cold.

Winter Temperatures and the Arctic Oscillation : Image of the Day

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=42260
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/

Alan Sokal Articles on the "Social Text" Affair

Book first published in French by Éditions Odile Jacob , October 1997.
http://www.fen.bilkent.edu.tr/~yalabik/applets/collapse.html

The double slit experiment and the collapse of the wavefunction

by Cemal Yalabik , Bilkent University , Physics Department . May 2002 This applet demonstrates how the wavefunction of a particle - say an electron - develops in time as it passes through the two slits in an interference experiment.
This is one of several shortened indices into the Quantum Physics Sequence . http://lesswrong.com/lw/r7/quantum_physics_revealed_as_nonmysterious/

Quantum Physics Revealed As Non-Mysterious - Less Wrong

Learn Quantum Theory in Ten Minutes

So you want to learn quantum theory in ten minutes? Well I certainly can't give you the full theory in all its wonder and all its gory detail in that time, but I can give you a light version of the quantum theory in about that time. And won't that impress your friends!

Understanding scientific studies (EUFIC)

Obviously, this ‘headline’ is fictitious, but it got your attention, didn't it? Reports of new research findings in the area of food and health seem to get a lot of media coverage, after all, food and health issues are of interest to nearly everyone. Reporters, academics, and health professionals all want the latest information—as do consumers.
I have resigned as Editor of Archives to start an online journal for insect biology produced in collaboration with the Library of The University of Arizona.

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