Ghostwritten articles overstate benefits of hormone replacement therapy and downplay harms: “The first academic analysis of the 1500 documents unsealed in recent litigation against the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth (now part of Pfizer) reveals unprecedented insights into how pharmaceutical companies use ghostwriters to insert marketing messages into articles published in medical journals. Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, associate professor in the Department of Physiology at Georgetown University Medica…

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So there you are just starting out in Second Life, you have 4000 ideas and no idea how to achieve them other than mulling through the tip and trick of everything to do with Second Life, one thing is for sure, your google fu will never fail as much as it does now, but you continue none the less. Plan A is to get some land, you cant do anything without your own little space to fiddle in right? The plan is simple, rent and enjoy, build a little paradise, a base of operations, at place to make your riches with as little disruption as possible

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The life of a Neighbour.

According to the NY Times the book will go on sale in ebook form weeks ahead of the print book’s publication date of September 21.

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Deepak Chopra’s “Muhammad” to be released early as ebook

There’s no engine running when Jackson Poole loads up his ice-cycle to start on his organic ice cream route. Instead it’s all muscle power since his ice cream truck is made up of a bicycle/cooler reports the San Francisco Chronicle . Poole rides his custom-made bicycle cart (he originally wanted an ice cream truck but wasn’t old enough for a drivers license) through the streets of San Anselmo, selling organic ice cream treats made locally at Three Twins Ice Cream.

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The Organic Ice Cream Bike

(The very first Tesla/Mercedes Benz electric A-Class, at Tesla headquarters in Palo Alto, California. (Jim Motavalli photo) PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA — I got an unexpected treat during a recent visit to Tesla Motors’ headquarters near San Francisco: They let me be the first journalist, ever, to drive the electric version of the Mercedes A-Class. Let me say up front, I was totally captivated by this car, a product of the growing collaboration between Tesla and Daimler

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An exclusive first drive of a Tesla-powered electric Mercedes

The great thing about the seemingly never-ending Mark Hurd saga, other than its seeming never-endingness, is that the paucity of real detail about what happened and the silence of the protagonist have allowed pundits to draw a veritable cornucopia of lessons out of it. I’ve been struggling for a while with just what lesson I wanted to draw — so many choices! — but the events of this week have offered up a new one that I think I’ll go with: boards of directors aren’t very good at running corporations

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Mark Hurd, Oracle, HP and the Limits of Boards

By analysing the preferences of over 3,000 participants across 108 genres of music, film, books and TV, a research team led by Peter Rentfrow has established there are five dimensions of media consumption: Communal, Aesthetic, Dark, Thrilling and Cerebral. A key finding was that the trends in people’s genre preferences tend to span different media formats: books, music, film, TV etc. Those who score highly on the Consumer dimension tend to enjoy media that involve people and relationships, …

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I posted this as a reply to another discussion thread, but a few in-world peers liked it so much they suggested I start a separate conversation with it as the springboard. As always, feel free to contribute both constructive feedback and solutions. I am only as right as people let me believe, so your silence is my best friend! To frame this conversation allow me to say that I agree the backlash against Linden Lab for banning the Emerald Viewer is a bit over-reactive but there are three key precedents that have now been set by it

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What is the REAL outcome of banning Emerald?

Physicist Sean Carroll, one of the people behind Cosmic Variance here at DISCOVER blogs, tweeted yesterday: “I think Stephen Hawking could say ‘ice cream is delicious’ and get massive media coverage.” He’s probably right. Last month the renowned physicists made the news by warning of the great threat of human extinction over the next couple centuries, but kindly softened the blow by saying that we’ll be fine if we can get through our growing pains and get off this planet. Back in April, the …

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Hawking Says God Not Needed to Kick-Start Big Bang; World Freaks Out | 80beats

Since it is the opinion of some that display names cannot exist because it will enable people to grief with display names, what are some other SL features people can grief with that have to be eliminated so we can be protected from the hordes of trolls just waiting to get us? I’ll start us off: Teleport requests

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What other features have to be eliminated to stop griefing?

The most fun I’ve ever had doing an interview was at this year’s TechEd when I got a chance to talk with Jen & Sean McCown, the famous Midnight DBAs . Jen and Sean are two amazing SQL Server experts who have a passion for teaching and a knack for making SQL fun

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Interview with the Midnight DBAs: Jen & Sean McCown

It’s Labor Day in the U.S. as I write this post. To my own amazement, I’ve spent most of the past month truly relaxing — reading lots of books, playing tennis, running, hanging out with my family and eating food I mostly shouldn’t — scones and donuts for breakfast, BLT s and burgers for lunch

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Six Ways to Supercharge Your Productivity

“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic doctor

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The Ultimate Workaround To Mission Hostile Health IT: Humans (a.k.a. "Scribes")

You know the issues, LL gave deadline, now passed, for the Emerald folk to make changes to the viewer code, and essentially clean house of some individuals. Skipping the internal drama at Emerald that followed, the bottom line line is that announced they would not or could not comply. What steps will LL take now and when?

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When will the other shoe drop on Emerald?

(Cross-posted on OpenLeft and DailyKos ) Hey everyone, this is Levana Layendecker with DFA and Jason Rosenbaum from the PCCC. Together again and better than ever

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ACTION TIME: Closing the "Enthusiasm Gap"

It seems common knowledge in the world of neuroscience that episodic memories are formed through conscious awareness. However, a couple of years ago Voss and Paller found that this may not necessarily be the case. They had subjects perform a forced choice recognition task using kaleidoscope images (for novelty’s sake)

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Is recognition without awareness possible?

One of the most frustrating aspects of taking care of cancer patients is that in general, with a handful of specific exceptions, we do not have good curative therapies for patients with stage IV cancer, particularly solid tumors. Consequently, we are forced to view patients with stage IV cancer as “incurable” because, the vast majority of the time, they are incurable. Over the years, we have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at patients with stage IV disease, largely with dissapointing r…

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The saga of Avastin and breast cancer

By Duncan Geere, Wired UK The uncharacteristically snowy weather that hit Northern Europe and North America in the winter of 2009/10 was caused by a rare combination of two separate weather oscillations in the Atlantic and Pacific, claim meteorologists. The harsh winter and heavy snow surprised forecasters, arriving with temperatures at the lowest they’d been for nearly 30 years

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Heavy European Snowfall Caused by ‘Weather Collision’

Before you buy something on eBay, you always look at the feedback score of the seller to get an idea about his past dealings with other eBay members. A high score usually indicates a good reputation of the seller in the eBay marketplace and you can further click the member’s profile page to read all the comments and ratings that have been left by other eBay members to whom he has sold goods in the past

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Instantly Summarize an eBay Seller’s Reputation