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By possum

From the no kidding department comes the idea

Children of immigrants who enter school with low math and reading skills have a better chance of catching up with their peers if they attend a school with high-performing students, well-supported teachers and services to families of English as a second language (ESL) children

Now who in their right mind would have thought any less.  Children prosper in situations with fine resources the same way adults grow.
A promising clinical trial is completed for HIV.  The results remain controversial but progress is being made.

Although our vaccine regimen did not prevent acquisition of SIV infection, it substantially reduced the levels of virus in the blood of these animals and prevented the development of AIDS

In his essay "What is Man?" Mark Twain argues through a character

Your [mental] machinery did it for you-automatically and instantly, without reflection or the need of it.

Now science is finding supporting evidence for that view even in complex decisions.

Even for arbitrary and somehow complex visual decisions, it seems to be purely a matter of the amount of sensory information pushing the brain toward one choice or another.

That is to say, decisions may be made by the area of the brain receiving the input without the complex processing available in the frontal or other lobes.

We all know hospitals are not the best places to be when we are ill.  There are other sick people around who may have contagious diseases.  Now comes the bad news.

Although infection control has been substantially ramped up in Canadian hospitals since the SARS crisis of 2003, resistant bacterial infections post-SARS are multiplying even faster

Science is coming to the aid of populations in dire straits such as Darfur.  Satellite imaging

shows before and after satellite images of areas the Washington-based human rights organization believes are, or could be at risk of, being under siege.

One more benefit of our ongoing space program as we fine inventive ways to use information already available.

Peace.

Full post as published by Never In Our Names on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).