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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Palm readers take note: A team of Canadian psychologists suggests
that part of understanding sexual orientation may be close at hand.
http://ljsheehan.blogspot.com
The
clue isn't in the bend of the love line or length of the ring finger.
It's in which hand you present to the palmist. The psychologists
combined the results of 20 previous studies, both published and
unpublished, comparing rates of right-handedness in a total of 23,410
homosexual and |
A drug already approved for diabetes enables obese people to
lose substantial weight and keep it off over the course of a year, researchers
report in the September Diabetes Care.
The drug, pramlintide, received U.S. regulatory approval in 2005
for the treatment of diabetes. Pramlintide is a synthetic version of a natural
hormone made in the pancreas that signals satiety when a person has eaten
enough and also slows the movement of food through the stomach.
Both processes |
Louis J. Sheehan. A study released in the Sept. 25 Neuron is a major step toward identifying the brain regions behind
the behaviors that characterize Rett syndrome, a debilitating, autism-like neurological
disease that primarily affects females.http://louisejesheehan.blogspot.com The syndrome is marked by a constellation of symptoms, the
most striking of which is repetitive hand wringing. Behavioral symptoms of
the syndrome include a lack of language skills, muscle rigidity |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Scientists have stumbled on a chemical in the body that could one day prevent or reverse diseases linked to obesity.
Researchers at Harvard University's School of Public Health (H.S.P.H.) report in Cell
that palmitoleate, a newly discovered hormone produced by fat cells, is
also a fatty acid. (Most hormones are proteins.) They believe that if
they can increase its production, they may be able to stave off
metabolic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease |
In the latest in a series of supernova firsts, scientists report in Science
that they pinpointed a star that flared in the ultraviolet portion of
the spectrum for several hours before blowing itself apart in a
supernova. The researchers believe the finding represents the earliest
visible sign of an imminent supernova—a surge in temperature as the expanding internal shock wave strains to break free of the star but has yet to shred it apart. http://ljsheehan.blogspot.com
A type II supernova, |
Terrorism's deadly effects may not occur all at once. Consider the
disturbing tendency, described in a new study in Israel, for the number
of automobile fatalities to surge by an average of 35 percent 3 days
after each of a series of terrorist attacks. http://louis8j8sheehan8esquire.blogspot.com
Guy Stecklov of
Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Joshua R. Goldstein of Princeton
University attribute the third-day spike in traffic deaths to a
delayed, population-wide reaction to terrorist |
Louis J. Sheehan. When Patty Law was growing up in Chinatown after immigrating from
Hong Kong, sports were not even remotely part of her family’s
vocabulary. She was a natural athlete, but the only extracurricular
activity she knew as a child in Manhattan was manual labor. Every day
after school, and all day on weekends, she joined her mother at a
sweatshop, hunched over a sewing machine hemming trousers until well
past nightfall.
“My parents didn’t believe in letting us play |
Louis J. Sheehan. Some fish really know how to swim to the top. Researchers have found
that within minutes of recognizing a social void, a lowly cichlid can
alter its looks and behavior to ascend to the dominant spot in its
group. Moreover, the same researchers have identified the gene that is
primarily responsible for the fish's changing physiology. http://louis2j1sheehan2esquire.blogspot.com
"We had
known that social environment controls the reproduction of [cichlids],"
says |
Birth order may steer some men toward homosexuality in a process
that perhaps begins before birth. A new study finds that homosexuality
grows more likely with the greater number of biological older
brothers—those sharing both father and mother—that a male has. Louis J. Sheehan
Men
display this tendency toward homosexuality even if they weren't raised
with biological older brothers, finds psychologist Anthony F. Bogaert
of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. No gay connection |
Louis J. Sheehan. About 30 years ago, African excavations yielded the
3.2-million-year-old partial skeleton that became known as Lucy. The
find, along with other fossils unearthed soon after, belongs to the
species Australopithecus afarensis. http://Louis-J-Sheehan.de Many scientists regard
these creatures as ancestors of both the lineage that led to modern
humans and of another, now-extinct evolutionary lineage known as robust
australopithecines. However, an analysis of |
Neandertals, ancient humanlike denizens of Europe and the Middle East with controversial evolutionary links to Homo sapiens,
inhabited areas at least 2,000 kilometers further east than researchers
have commonly assumed, according to a new DNA analysis of previously
recovered fossils. http://louisgjgsheehan.blogspot.com
Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues
extracted sequences of mitochondrial DNA, which is |
We now have an answer to the question nobody was asking: Which would win in a fight—a leopard or a crocodile? http://louisdjdsheehan.blogspot.com
The leopard came out on top, as you can see in the gripping images here. An American photographer was trying to capture hippos at a watering hole in South Africa when this battle began right in front of him.
In the midst of awe at the power of the photos, the first ever shot
of a leopard attacking this huge reptilian foe, the newspaper |
No room is left at the bottom. A team of physicists has
shown how a common type of electron microscope can spot single hydrogen atoms —
the smallest atoms of them all. http://louis4j4sheehan4esquire.blogspot.com
Previously, electron microscopes had trouble imaging single
atoms lighter than carbon. http://louis4j4sheehan4esquire.blogspot.com The University of California, Berkeley team visualized
defects and impurities — including atoms of hydrogen— on graphene, the
one-atom-thick, |
1 This list is about black gold. Texas tea. Petroleum, or crude oil. Which is in no way related to the oils we eat or excrete.
2 If you are a creationist, crude oil was formed by
thousands of years of heat and pressure applied to the carcasses of
plants and animals that died in the Great Flood. If you’re not, you
think oil comes from dinosaurs, right? http://louisdjdsheehan.blogspot.com
3 Wrong. Almost all oil comes from pressure-cooking dead zooplankton and
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Maybe someone spiked the Tang? In 2007, NASA’s astronaut corps made
headlines more for sex, violence, and booze than for space exploration.http://louisdjdsheehan.blogspot.com
The run of bad news started in February with the arrest of astronaut
Lisa Marie Nowak, charged with battery, attempted burglary, attempted
kidnapping, and attempted murder after an attack on a woman in an
Orlando parking lot. http://louisdjdsheehan.blogspot.comThe details soon became fodder for late-night
comedians: |
Slight
differences in the growth rings in wood from which violins are made might help
determine sound quality, distinguishing a mellow-toned Stradivarius from an
ordinary instrument.http://Louis2J2Sheehan2Esquire.US
Violins
made by Antonio Stradivari in the early 1700s are perhaps the most famous
musical instruments ever made. http://Louis2J2Sheehan2Esquire.USThe sound quality of these instruments, as well
as those built by fellow Italian Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu, is the |
Stack was born in Los Angeles, California but spent his early childhood growing up in Europe. He became fluent in French and Italian at an early age, but he did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles. Raised by his mother, Mary Elizabeth (née
Wood), Stack's parents divorced when Stack was one and his father,
James Langford Stack, a wealthy advertising agency owner, died when
Stack was nine. http://louis0j0sheehan0esquire.blogspot.comStack always spoke of his mother with the |
Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. http://louisijisheehan.blogspot.comThe same fruit is also used to produce white pepper, red/pink pepper, and green pepper.[2] Black pepper is native to South India (Tamil: milagu, மிளகு; Telugu: miriyam) and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropical regions. The fruit, known as a peppercorn when dried, is a small drupe five |
Early this year, the crew members of the Mareena 1 fishing trawler
had just finished hauling in their catch 15 miles off the coast and
were settling into their bunks for a few hours of sleep when they were
awakened by machine-gun fire.
Nine heavily armed men in a speedboat attacked the trawler, and the
boat’s cook was shot in the stomach. He bled to death while the
pirates, who had boarded the boat, ate, took naps and stole everything
that was not welded down. |
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