• Cars

    Detroit Becomes Electric

    By Seth Fletcher Posted on 1.14.2009 3 Comments

    1.15.2009 at 02:42pm - Comment by DamienMcKenna

    How many of these will be featured in the next Transformers movie? ;-)

  • Best of What's New

    Wii Fit Photo Gallery

    By Posted on 10.28.2008 Comments

    12.22.2008 at 11:05am - Comment by DamienMcKenna

    It looks really neat, but I could just see myself falling off the board doing many of these exercises ;-)

  • Science

    A Cure for the Uncommon Flu

    By Posted on 8.18.2008 4 Comments

    Ninety years ago the Spanish flu swept across the globe, killing between 50 and 100 million people in only a few months. Since then, the specter of another flu pandemic dealing death and woe around the world has periodically terrified the medical and popular communities. But scientists searching for ways to prevent a similar outbreak in the form of the H5N1 bird flu have found a cure for the deadliest flu in the most unlikely place: nonagenarian immune systems.

    12.22.2008 at 10:48am - Comment by DamienMcKenna

    According to the CDC only 753 people died of the flu in 2002, a near 200% increase from 2001 when only 257 died from it: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf (page 16) Where this "30,000" figure comes from is still a mystery.

  • Science

    A Cure For World’s Deadliest Disease?

    By Posted on 7.28.2008 44 Comments

    Though it may seem like merely a yearly inconvenience to most, the flu in fact kills around 36,000 Americans annually and costs the country between $71 and $167 billion dollars; the equivalent of 10 September 11ths in deaths and a Hurricane Katrina in damages every year. Most attempts to prevent the flu focus on vaccination, but a new study suggests drugs could actually prevent the deadliest symptoms of the disease.

    11.4.2008 at 01:42pm - Comment by DamienMcKenna

    According to the CDC only 753 people died of the flu in 2002, a near 200% increase from 2001 when only 257 died from it: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_13.pdf (page 16) Where this "36,000" figure comes from is still a mystery.



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