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• Four things you can do now to lower your risk of breast cancer
• Advice on going out of area for cancer treatment
• Food safety during the heat of summer
• Gluten intolerant, celiac or just overconsumption of refined grains?
• Too much sugar contributes to poor cholesterol. Who knew?
• 'Edible Food-like Substances'?
• What's wrong with what we eat?
• Hey, I recognize that face!
• Not all dogs shake the same
• The Terrafugia flying care approved by FAA
• Fascinating: The secret powers of time
• Furniture that exceeds your space-saving dreams
• A carbon neutral Britain by 2030? If they can, why not us?
• Perfect pitch: Finding the notes among us
• Patterns written by sound
• Making bubbles
• Pulling the plug on the old light bulb
• Cancer self-assessment is easy to do
• Olive oil could help breast cancer patients lose weight
• A breast cancer vaccine on the horizon? Could be. Could be huge!
• Saving Louisiana's wildlife one pelican at a time
• Nikola Tesla.
• ARC GIS Imagery for DeepWater Horizon response
• DD would like to give you a FREE one!
• Scientists create synthetic 'life'. Enormous potential for good.
• A drink a day may keep some calories away.
• Health care reform for seniors explained
• Hummingbird spotted in Reno
• The Western Tanagers are migrating through Reno now
• Excellent explanation of breast cancer mechanisms
• Trying to get that lipid and cholesterol number down? Here's how.
• The power of germs and 'Babies'
• Bloated after meals? Here's help for the gassy misery of it all.
• Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
• Maven changes course on rBST in milk
• If a Pug can be green, so can you
• Taxing sugary sodas? It's probably a good idea.
• Save money and ditch your multi-vitamin
• Time to ban rBGH in milk and meat
• Alice Waters has a lot to say about food, kids and The Edible Schoolyard
• Anna Lappe on 'Diet for A Hot Planet'
• KFC wants to kill us all with a 'Double Down'
• Sugar, obesity and metabolic syndrome
• Apple iPad as an ebook reader?
• Is the Apple iPad a netbook killer?
• Reasons to love the Apple iPad
• Reasons to hate the Apple iPad
• The year open data went world-wide
• What is that stop sign costing you?
• Make your own flash memory hard drive
• Creating a living building
• Exercise for woman: The news gets better and better still
• No, caffeine does NOT dehydrate you. Really.
• Reno weighs in better than average
• Full body airport scanners and radiation
• The science of a good beer
• National I.D. cards may be next
• Do we really need 3D TeeVee?
• My backyard birds: Reno, Nevada
• Dinosaur's: Why more colorful that previously thought?
• Diet fact, fiction or maven's way?
• Chile earthquake just shortened your workday!
• Controlling Your Cancer Care Costs
• Earthquake! Be prepared.
• Snacking: A necessary evil that can be tamed
• Dealing with motion sickness
• Don't get tricked by so-called 'healthy' hamburgers
• Reporter diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer
• Are you getting all the health insurance benefits you deserve?
• Breast Cancer: Treatments for early, confined cancer
• Health notes: clinical trials, weight loss and mood
• A snow blower for real men
• Hey, Boys and Girls! Make your own Batman and Robin comic!
• Kyle Franklin Air Show Comedy Act
• Animator vs Animation.
• Incredible! Scale model Ferrari.
• Is Coke losing its fizz. CSPI thinks so.
• Cleaning for a reason gives help to cancer patients
• Radiation therapy safe, effective and lifesaving
• The Fordson Snow Machine: ahead of its time in 1929
• Save your money on multi-vitamins
• Stress and memory? Good causal links.
• Depression and a thinner cerebral cortex?
• Multidisciplinary approach helps cancer patients
• Flicker in my backyard
• Creationism vs. science?
• Repair or replace those aging appliances?
• A great Pan Am Clipper short film
• Geo-technical aspects of the Haitian earthquake
• Really ready to lose weight? Here's the simplest way possible.
• Sopwith Camel and Spitfire flying in formation
• A couple of Lancairs running the California coast. Sweet.
• Any wonder why the owl is my fav bird?
• New apps for those on the go
• Interet hoax update on cancer from NCCN
• Can red make Olympians see more gold?
• Does media violence inspire real violence?
• Stop drinking yourself fat
• Every answer you need for a climate change skeptic
• Not exactly rocket science: a science blog for everyman or woman
• No, you are not the center of the universe
• Beginner resistance band workout
• Easy chair workout for everybody of every age
• Keeping your New Year's diet resolutions
• The physics of water under low gravity
• Sully on the economy and aviation safety
• Capt. Chesley Sullenberger at the Commonwealth Club
• 8 Resolutions toward a better brain for 2010
• Getting over the ridiculous health claims
• Join NBCC webcast for facts on mammography guidelines
• 33rd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
• Cancer patient pocket guides available from CURE
• A great B-52 story.
• General Motors may be on to something with Hy Wire
• Up close and personal with a U-2
• Debunking supplement and aromatherapy myths
• Water as luxury and what can be done about it
• Behold the wonder of a 1,000 lb pumpkin
• Why do leaves turn red in the fall?
• Take the money and run?
• Janaki Alavalapati on forests' renewable energy potential
• 10 things that a breast cancer patient doesn't want to hear
• Breast Cancer Awareness month is over. Breast cancer isn't.
• What is pancreatic cancer anyway?
• Senator Harry Reid and the Unified Smart Grid
• Susan Solomon on climate change
• How to band migrating birds
• A warm piglet is a happy piglet
• Museum of Animal Perspectives: Armadillo cam
• Myth: The media accurately reports breast cancer science
• Myth: My Senators and Members of Congress have no role in what happens in breast cancer
• Time to understand the limitations of screening mammography
• Six ways to take a mental vacation for good health
• Myth #18: Second opinions are only for treatment options. Once I know I have breast cancer, I can get a second opinion on how to treat the disease.
• Truth: Hormone replacement therapy increases your risk of breast cancer
• Will somebody help George Will understand climate change?
• Do you really need to grow better eyelashes? Maybe not.
• Proper hand washing technique for flu season
• Boston Dynamics robotic Big Dog
• Myth: In terms of survival mastectomy is better than cutting out the cancer and having radiation.
• Truth: The mortality rate is higher for African American women
• Myth: Everyone's breast cancer is the same.
• Myth: Everyone who has a positive BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 will get breast cancer.
• AARP wants you to go 'green' and win!
• Myth #8: Most women with breast cancer have a family history of the disease
• NPR story finds the gaping flaw in 'fee for service' medical model
• How to create a river in the laboratory
• Myth #9: Men don't get breast cancer
• Truth #7: We don't know how to prevent breast cancer
• A book for husbands/partners of breast cancer patients
• Myth #6: Mammograms prevent breast cancer.
• Truth #5: Breast cancer mortality rates are declining
• First hand account: Samoa earthquake and tsunami
• Wingsuit base jumping: "now it's getting boring so we play around."
• Breast Cancer: Avon Foundation Breast Center at Johns Hopkins
• Have you just been diagnosed with breast cancer?
• Myth #4: When breast cancer shows up, it may have been in your body for 6-10 years
• Myth #3: MRI is better than mammography
• Myth #2: Mammograms can only help and not harm.
• DropBox: A better way of sending, synching large files
• Tired of fighting the CD burner software?
• Myths about breast cancer: Self exams save lives.
• Create a memorable password system
• EU moving to protect young ears from MP3 noise levels
• Baby owls: cute bundles of fluff at London Zoo
• Is there any benefit from taking multivitamins?
• More jobs in a greener Nevada? Could be so.
• Max Baucus: go home to Montana and stay there.
• New film ‘Earth Days’ takes a sometimes-devastating look at the history of environmental activism
• NASA | Feeling the Sting of Climate Change
• How not to take off in a seaplane. Ouch.
• A note of hope from a seven year breast cancer survivor
• Tips and resources for vitamin and supplement smarts
• Do Vitamin D and Omega-3s live up to their promise?
• Call and get those lab results for yourself
• Where my bees at?
• Autolib: Paris to launch electric car sharing
• Got insomnia? There's a simple, safe and free prescription.
• A sneaky problem: inner ear dysfunction
• Evidence-based healthcare. Dartmouth symposium.
• A smart grid? What is it? Why? How? Now?
• Clean coal? Surely, you jest.
• Global warming? What a hoax!
• Horizon PEM Fuel Cells : powering toys a new way
• NOAA Fisheries
• NASA to take a closer look at solar activity with SDO mission
• Perseid Meteor Shower
• Not simple: The role of personal responsibility in health care reform
• Aircraft collision in the Hudson River VFR Corridor
• Get texters off the road: Summit on distracted driving slated
• Kids not getting enough Vitamin D for future good health
• Exercise guide for seniors
• Protect your health by preventing antibiotic resistance with these 5 tips
• Vitamin D: another weapon in the arsenal against cognitive decline
• The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
• Conquest: the online magazine for M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Sunscreen: less is actually more
• What climate change means for the land and agriculture
• Take a 'bite' out of global climate change
• "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
• A living, breathing 'green' driveway?
• Study repudiates 'chemo brain'
• It works: Weight Watchers online Momentum Plan
• Are proposed medical insurance co-ops the answer?
• How to reform healthcare reform: Science Friday
• Getting an appointment at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Amazing strength and gymnastic ability in Poland
• Exercise: Getting past the drive to be thin
• Train vs tornado. Train loses.
• Riversimple : viable hydrogen car startup venture?
• I'm not suggesting that they can't fly in Abu Dhabi, but....
• Unmanned drones: bigger, smaller and definitely stranger than you may have expected
• Oh, those clever Japanese. Motorcycle tow trucks.
• Got money to burn? Fortified foods.
• Lunch and a massage, anybody?
• Foods don't 'burn' fat, even in magazines
• Two tier safety system in airlines: Duh, do you think?
• Controlling your weight at the juice and smoothie bar?
• Tips for eating less: so simple you'll wonder how you missed it
• Alyssa Milano: Food Inc and food safety PSA
• Food and lifestyle choices that can affect memory
• Peapod NEV is almost here
• New Interior Secretary spells hope for the Everglades
• Golden Gate bridge turns 70 today. Happy birthday!
• Warning: do not carry fuel in your airplane other than in the tanks.
• Swiss military aviation
• Nutrition helps keep cancer patients alive
• Red Bull helicopter does back flips
• More reasons to get additional Vitamin D
• Making better food choices: posting calories
• CR take note: Two hot, new consumer resources to empower us
• Miles O'Brien nails it: Colgan crash and deregulation
• 5 Key Points to know about Obama's Health Plan
• Mental Stimulation is Not Enough for Brain Fitness
• 10 tips on loving your life
• The Consumerist: A CR blog
• Driving safety from AAA
• Is your food making you sick?
• How much RAM memory do you have or need?
• Being Mindful of the Moment
• High Fructose Corn Syrup: Not off the hook yet
• Shai Agassi: A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars
• Breast Thermography: not likely to replace mammography soon
• The Need for Health Insurance
• Brain training improves memory and attention, with lasting effects
• Still looking for that 'right' diet?
• Ooops, I thought I tied it down better than that !
• MIT creativity meet third world orphans in the wash
• Integrative and alternative medicine in cancer treatment
• Why women should strength train
• Close your eyes and trust the pilot on these
• Avoid temptation of 'cheap' health plans
• The Science of Place and Well-Being
• Volvo's 'City Safety' collision avoidance system explained
• The 'Uno': you've got to see this motorbike!
• The James Bond jet: BD-5
• The engine to end all engines
• How to really help a sick friend
• If Florida can do it solar, so can Nevada
• Nutrition Action from CSPI
• Acai berries: Good for you or your wallet?
• Drink 'green' and save money, too
• Cancer care: Chance to ask the experts!
• Chinook water extraction
• Critical thinking in approaching cancer treatment
• VW To Launch 258 MPG Car: Starting price $600
• Deep Solar Minimum: How low is low?
• Amory Lovins Advocates for a Cleaner, Safer Energy Future
• Awesome airport runway in Portugal
• Kudos on German effeciency
• Railroad fans will love these .... snow plows
• His robot legs may make a difference
• Seven decades of stupid diet tricks
• Health and wellness factoids
• Don't contribute to spam
• ATP pilots needed for airspace simulation study
• There are still records to be set
• Disappearing coral reefs: the rain forest of the seas
• Sleep disorders: misunderstood and underestimated
• 5 diet tips that everybody can live with
• Brain Awareness Week: Check out great tools from Posit Science
• Making a difference - Buddy can you spare a ride?
• Breast density and your risk of breast cancer
• Getting the right start to your cancer journey
• This gives new meaning to 'humungous'
• Troubleshooting common computer problems yourself
• NTSB Report: Fossett and N240R
• Neti pots: getting past the "eeeewwww" factor to soothe factor
• PET and CT scans critical new modality in determining chemo effectiveness
• Health care IS economic recovery
• 10 pieces help solve cancer puzzle
• What makes a good commercial airline pilot?
• HIGHLIGHTS: A Green Recovery, A Low Carbon Economy
• Creating Jobs for a Green Economy
• Non-reflective mirror
• Irrational fear of irradiation making us sick
• Low carb diets: Are they making us stupid?
• 6 Tricks to Help You Remember
• Carrier landing video
• NAA Spring Awards Luncheon and Collier Trophy winner.
• US Airways, Flight 1549 crew testifies before Congress
• Debunking medical myths
• Amazing video: US Airways Flight 1549 trucked through city
• Trent 900 jet engine being destroyed by simulated bird strike
• UPS pursuing green technology for the brown trucks
• I want one and I want it now.
• A first person account of the Hudson River ditching
• Message from Repower America
• Renewable energy in Nevada? You bet.
• Lost there, felt here: Thomas L. Friedman
• Bookmark these calculators and Hubble telescope references
• Sleep tight to avoid high blood pressure
• Obesity epidemic
• A pilots' perspective: Bombardier crash in Buffalo, New York
• Vaccine and autism link: it's over, or should be
• Mass migration of golden rays caught on film
• Exercise to ward off irregular heartbeat
• Your Health By The Numbers
• Catastrophic satellite collision
• Update: Bombardier Dash 8
• Bombardier Dash 8 crashes into Buffalo, New York home
• Exotic species pushing out native in Florida Everglades
• Interview with crew of U.S. Airways flight 1549
• Flat screen plus rabbit ears doesn't equal digital
• Spam: in more than your inbox
• Salmonella outbreak widens
• Do not try this at home: nose over
• Flying car
• To Our Leaders: Give Us 100% Clean Electricity in 10 Years
• A little dirt: good for what ails you
• Restaurant smoke and mirrors produce calorie nightmares
• Tough national standards: the only way to tackle energy and environmental challenges
• F-16 Intercepts Jet & Turboprop Legally Flying Through MOA
• Rod Machado - aviations' funny man
• The confusion over High Fructose Corn Syrup and obesity rates
• How to boost your intelligence: 10 tips
• There are no drive-ins on the way to Mars
• Ernest Madu: Bringing world-class health care to the poorest
• Ditching technique described and analysed
• New evidence of warming in the Antarctic
• Clean air equals a longer life
• storms, eggs and bad breath - oh, my!
• Did you know this about gold?
• Take your power line and stick it?
• An airline captains' perpective: Miracle on the Hudson
• Take the gallon challenge: indoor use
• Just go chill- your brain that is.
• Why don't cars use carbon capture?
• Heart failure and hip fractures- the connection
• A negative verdict for glucosamine and chondroitin supplements
• New Russian jet fighter SU-30
• U.S. Airways jet ditches in Hudson River
• It's about time: Surgical checklists
• If Massachusetts then why not America?
• Did you know? Don't blink!
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: Michael Pollan
• Dangerous 'go-arounds'?
• Cirrus G3 EVS Infrared Vision System
• Interview of new AOPA chief, Craig Fuller
• Navy Blue Angels lined up for 2009 Reno Air Races
• Do you get enough Vitamin D?
• High Cost of Medicine - Marketing Disease/Pushing Drugs
• No wing, no prayer
• Wish you were here: Postcards from Mars
• Inside Diamond's D-Jet, Personal Jet Aircraft
• Cirrus single engine jet test flight
• Cessna turbo-diesel Skyhawk 172
• CrownAir's "New" Cessna 210 Centurions
• Aviation Safety Magazine Profiles the Garmin 696's Top Safety Features
• The first 'green' hangar of the future
• Ginko Biloba: save your money
• Making the label promises meet the reality
• Sharp at any age: exercise to reverse cognitive decline
• Caring for sensitive teeth
• Still taking Vitamin E? Time to reconsider.
• Happiness: A good kind of contagious
• Lung Cancer Gene Discovery A Sign of Cancer's Future
• Obesity worsens locally advanced breast cancer prognosis
• Aggressive treatment of nodal mets indicated
• Role of MRI in staging disappointing
• Neo-adjuvant Zometa shows promise
• Hormone replacement therapy and risk
• Breast cancer patients: caution with skin creams
• Femara shows promise in early stage disease
• Sounds like Tamoxifen is doing the trick
• Continental 737 goes off runway at Denver
• The first thing you need is a second opinion
• Virgin 19 heavy lands SFO
• Virgin 19 heavy, cleared for taxi takeoff: London
• Aerobot flying fish: elegant in flight
• The future of GA: Smartfish?
• Miles O'Brien to leave CNN: Science, Space and Tech unit to go, too.
• STS-126 return to Edwards AFB
• The Raptor Demo at the 2008 Aviation Nation Air Show at Nellis AFB.
• 2008 Nellis Airshow fun
• Flying the new STOL CH 750 light sport utility airplane
• They fly just a bit different in Russia
• Addison Pemberton's Boeing 40
• Painful mammograms? Here's help.
• Cancer patients and dietary supplements
• First commercial use of an autopilot: Curtiss Condor
• Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy may be enough for early stage breast cancer
• Top 10 Ways to Reduce Risk
• Fire bombers over Santa Barbara wildfire
• F-16's out of Eielson AFB, Alaka
• Boeing 737-900 takeoff with an open window
• Landing a Pilatus Porter in Corcheval, France
• 3-D Doppler ultrasound helps identify breast cancer
• C-17 Smoke Angels
• These will tighten the sphincter!
• Incredible Pilatus Porter short, soft field landing
• Taking off from a small road in the Congo
• Fokker-50 Sudan ops
• Here's to the world's flight attendants
• Racing airliners!
• World's shortest commercially served runway?
• Americans with Disabilities Act to be more cancer survivor friendly
• Jonna's Body, Please Hold. A Cancerous Dark Comedy - A Film by Jonna Tamases
• Are You A Working Breast Cancer Survivor?
• Family gets booted from airline
• Psycho flight attendant?
• 70 years of Icelandair
• Worlds' Biggest Aircraft
• Funny Scottish Air Traffic Controllers
• JFK: Just another crappy day at the office
• Royal Air Force ATC gals aren't easily flustered by a rocket attack
• Royal Air Force ATC gals rock!
• Air Traffic Worldwide
• Post Mastectomy Care
• Assess your breast cancer risk
• Hatha Yoga for cancer patients
• Coping with the fear of recurrence of cancer
• What is breast cancer?
• Breast Cancer: Is breast MRI right for me?
• Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer
• Tour of the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Tour of the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center: Support, Programs, Services
• Motherhood, metastisized breast cancer and clinical trials
• Now that's airport security I can like !
• Ridge Soaring the Hog Back - Paradise Valley, MT
• Oh, those funny Germans and their gliders
• Five airports - 1 flight
• Chicago Airport Faces Serious Growing Pains
• Your pathology report, and why you should care
• Types of breast cancer: Not a one size fits all disease
• Aviation ringtones for your phone
• Digital Mammography
• How breast cancer biopsy is performed
• Choosing the right doctor
• Hair loss during cancer treatment: a chance to try a radical new style!
• Becoming a sharper pilot with the Brain Fitness Program Classic
• Your first visit to the Oncologists' office - part 1
• Chemotherapy before surgery?
• Don't let distance keep you from the best cancer care
• Airborne Ops Rocks!
• Those amazing Hercules C-130's
• Soy products and breast cancer survivors
• Reno's own Ben Scott and the 2008 airmail odyssey
• F-22 action at the 2008 Reno Air Races
• Photos from National Aeronautics Association awards event
• Breast Cancer breakthrough
• The role of exercise in breast cancer outcomes
• Some kinda crosswind landings!
• Dr. Dara Richardson-Heron of the Susan G. Komen Foundation: breast cancer survivor speaks
• University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Video: Breast cancer diagnosis in young women
• University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Video: What is cancer?
• Breast Cancer: Not always a lump
• Just when you think you can't make a difference in cancer treatment
• Please! Get a second opinion in a breast cancer diagnosis.
• Delta Air Lines is taking flight for the fight against breast cancer.
• SciTechBlog: Interesting post on Fossett search
• Join the Army of Women today
• A personal breast cancer journey
• Rocket Man-1, NASA-0
• Blue Angels over San Francisco Bay: Fleet Week
• Miles O'Brien and Lt Col Cynthia Ryan show what it takes to search
• Civil Air Patrol: Never Let Go video
• Wien Air Alaska: 1980 commercial
• Landing on the worlds' shortest runway
• GE Wright Brothers ad
• Trading Jet A for algae? Maybe.
• Reno Air Race 2008 photo gallery
• "MayDay!":Nevada Wing, Civil Air Patrol is on the job
• Fighter pilot gets a great photo op .... Ooops.
• Everybody loves the Great Reno Balloon Race
• California wildfire photographs tell a story that is as inspirational as it is frightening
• Flying the Sierra BiPlanes Waco over Lake Tahoe, Nevada
• JFK Tower Audio: Evacuation of Tower Due to Fire
• F-22 Raptor: Radical Aviation Video
• Virtual Western Airlines: Join today and fly
• Virtual WAL 777 landing at SFO
• A loving tribute to Western Airlines
• A Look At Airlines That Are Just Memories
• The Only Way to Fly ..... That Was Western Airlines
• The Blackbird Pratt & Whitney J58 engines and fuel
• Ahhh, the old days landing at HongKong Kai Tak airport
• Rough day on the freeway.
• 360 degree view of Airbus A-380 cockpit