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Shiny, Happy, Medilicious

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2008-04-30 09:26:57 by Michael in Medgadget
...Dartmouth and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has discovered that cancer medications have names that are associated with "lightness, smallness, and fastness". Moreover, Gregory Abel, a Dartmouth linguist, goes further to say that there might be a "subtle effect on both the patient taking the medicine and the doctor prescribing it." The study,...
 
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How to get me to buy your book

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2008-03-07 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Dartmouth, demonstrated this in an experiment in which subjects were shown a sequence of flashing dots on a computer screen. The dots were timed to occur once a second, with five black dots in a row followed by one moving, colored one. Because the colored dot appeared so infrequently, it grabbed subjects attention and they perceived it as...
 
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13 Earth Lovin Solar Gadgets

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2008-04-22 03:04:32 by UberReview in The Uber-Review
...Dartmouth College. The scalable, sloar-powered, science platforms ought to perform well in the endless daylight of Antarctic summer as scientists and their laptops are towed over the ice at a sedate 5 mph. [ Zedomax via The Raw Feed ] Solar Powered Roller Blading Chariot Bob Schneeveis, the inventor of the Solar Powered Walking Chariot...
 
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May 1 is BASIC day

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2008-05-01 21:58:11 by John Biggs in CrunchGear
...Dartmouth Time Sharing System, which is pretty much the basis for every multi-user operating system in existence. Thank you, Mssrs. Kemeny and Kurtz. Without you many of us wouldnt have jobs
 
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Edward N. Lorenz, Father of Chaos Theory, Disappears Like The Wind From a Butterfly's Wings

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2008-06-28 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Dartmouth College in 1938 and a masters degree in math from Harvard in 1940. He worked as a weather forecaster during World War II, leading him to pursue graduate studies in meteorology; he earned masters and doctoral degrees in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943 and 1948 Dr. Lorenz was a staff member of...
 
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BehindTheMedspeak: When scanners lie

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2008-10-30 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Dartmouth Medical School. Doctors do, too. Radiology centers send written reports to doctors, but the doctors may have no idea whether the M.R.I. was done well and interpreted well. Its a huge problem, Dr. Black said Unlike C.T. scans or X-rays, which transmit radiation through the body to produce images, M.R.I.s use powerful magnets and...
 
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No Smoking Room Website encourages girls to say "no" to smoking

2008-11-18 03:36:58 by Editor in Gizmodiva.com
 
Despite being repeatedly warned about the ill effects of smoking, young girls are exposed to intense social and media pressures to smoke. To stay away from smoking, a new Web site has been launched through Children's Hospital at Dartmouth
 
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