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Google Flu trends tracker - the new service launched by Google.org holds both an amazing promise and a somewhat disconcerting threat.
The flu tracker was created by Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, and it uses aggregated search information to estimate flu activity in the US, or as Google.org itself explains: “We’ve discovered that there is [...]

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Your passwords and indiscretions for world+wife to see.
OK - I admit it’s a problem that’s also inherent in Firefox, but Google’s new browser, supposedly built from the ground up, should really NOT do this. It’s absolutely effing bonkers!
What am I on about? Google Chrome allowing users to view ALL their saved passwords for different websites, [...]

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I just found this piece of scaremongering prudent advice in the safety instruction manual of my new Toshiba laptop:
Turn Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Wireless WAN Functionalities off for Cardiac Pacemakers Turn Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Wireless WAN Functionalities off when near a person who may have a cardiac pacemaker implant or other medical electric device. Radio waves [...]

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IP6? IP6 Plus? What is it, What does it do? What evidence is there?
If you want to skip all my IP6 background etc. and go straight to the conclusion - scroll down right to the end of this article. IP6 is a dietary supplement that is growing in popularity both for cancer patients and for [...]

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Is Aspartame safe for you? Can Aspartame cause cancer? Or brain damage? Can Aspartame cause blindness? Is it poisonous? Or are all the above nonsense and Aspartame is actually very safe?

Which research should I believe?
These sort of questions are asked by consumers of the NutraSweet product every day. I am a great fan of Diet [...]

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Single mother Alex De-Gale was kicked out of the Big Brother House this week.
The transcript released by Channel 4 quotes Alex as allegedly saying to Darnell Swallow, another contestant, that she would punish the other housemates with her “gangster friends”.
Tuesday, 17 June 22:17
Darnell: Sylvia is keeping it real, said if it had been me, I’d [...]

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Context note: It’s interesting that many people will read this article, and wherever it says “mice” they will read “humans”.
‘Wonder drug’ Resveratrol is in the news again: research, first published in 2006 by researchers led by David Sinclair at the Harvard Medical School, shows that mice live longer when treated with Resveratrol, a [...]

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I don’t mind fad diets. They provide a great pastime for hundreds of millions of people (many of them not as overweight as they think), they make writers rich, and everyone is happy, but I do have an instinctive dislike of bad unsupported science.
The weapon of bad science is often anecdotes. Usually the anecdotes have [...]

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