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‘I can hear a building over there’ — researchers study blind people’s ability to echolocate
( Public Library of Science ) Everybody has heard about echolocation in bats and dolphins. These creatures emit bursts of sounds and listen to the echoes that bounce back to detect objects in their environment. What is less well known is that people can echolocate, too.
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Silver Spring resident reaps winning Multi-Match ticket
Silver Spring resident Dan Kumbalasiri went out for a package of diapers and came home with 0,000. The money was in the form of a winning Multi-Match ticket which he bought while buying diapers for his 6-month-old baby.
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Press Release
Profectus BioSciences Inc. Posted on:25 May 11 Profectus BioSciences, Inc., a leader in the development of therapeutic vaccines against chronic infectious diseases and cancers, announced today that the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) has immunized the first subject in a U.S. phase 1 clinical trial of Profectus’ multi-antigen HIV plasmid DNA (MAG-pDNA) vaccine administered with various doses of …
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What’s In A Simple Line Drawing? Quite A Lot, Our Brains Say
A new study using sophisticated brain scans shows how simple line drawings can capture the essence of a beach or a mountain for viewers just as well as a photograph would. Researchers found that viewing a “beach” scene depicted in a line drawing activated nearly the same patterns of brain activity in study participants as did viewing an actual color photograph of a beach. The same was true when …
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine Commencement Honors Leaders in Discovery and Innovation; U.S. Senator Gillibrand …
Mount Sinai School of Medicine today honored U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), Nancy G. Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and three scientific pioneers at its 42nd commencement ceremony held at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Senator Gillibrand also addressed the audience as commencement speaker. (PRWEB) May 15, 2011 Mount Sinai School of Medicine today honored U …
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Campus honors six with Outstanding Women of Color in Education awards
The Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate has announced this year’s Outstanding Women of Color in Education awards.
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Some cool the art institutes images:
Chicago (ILL) Art institute of Chicago, Lakeshore East : ” Skyline “
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Chicago – The Loop: Art Institute of Chicago – South Stanley McCormick Memorial Court – Fountain of the Great Lakes
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In Front of the Chicago Art Institute
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Baby shortage poses threat to ‘national security’
So few babies are born on the island these days that the government now fears the problem threatens Taiwan’s very existence. It has prompted Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou to order recently a com …..
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Baby shortage poses threat to ‘national security’
So few babies are born on the island these days that the government now fears the problem threatens Taiwan’s very existence. It has prompted Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou to order recently a comprehensive set of solutions to what has been described as a matter of ‘national security’.
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