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QUEST Community Science Blog - KQED
KQED's QUEST Science Blog KQED features 8 bloggers from renowned SF Bay Area science, environment, and nature organizations to bring audiences closer to our world-class science research centers, museums, and the natural beauty of our open spaces.
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Reporter's Notes: The Graying of HIV
http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/11/26/reporters-notes-the-graying-of-hiv/Turkey and Tryptophan
http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/11/26/turkey-and-tryptophan/Turkey cannot be the only culprit of induced drowsiness after a Thanksgiving meal. With the proximity to Thanksgiving, I thought it would be fun to shed some science on the holiday and turkey is a great specimen to study. …
Producer's Notes: Waiting for the Electric Car
http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/11/25/producers-notes-waiting-for-the-electric-car/The Tesla Roadster is an all-electric sports car you can buy today. General Motors, Chrysler and Ford face an uncertain future. They have been lobbying Congress for a $25 billion bailout, which representatives seem reluctant to grant them. It seems like an odd time to be talking about technological breakthroughs in the automotive industry. …
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A Few Minutes with Andy
http://andymccullough.blogspot.comhttp://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/blog_rabbitears.jpgOkay I know I am a dinosaur and probably not a single person who reven knows what a blog is much less migth read this one shares my angst. But I do not have cable nor a satellite dish. We don't even have an antenna on our roof. We have
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Dharmendra S Modha's Cognitive Computing Blog
http://www.modha.orgprogram that explores BAY AREA Science, Nature, and Environment. You can see the video here. The people that you see are Rajagopal Ananthnarayanan, Anthony Sherbondy, and Anthony Ndirango. Also, please see the blog entry by the producer Sheraz Sadiq here. Posted by dsmodha at 03:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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20 Places You Can Find Free Money at Home
http://www.promotionalcodes.org.uk/1247/20-places-you-can-fi...There is free money you can find without ever leaving home. Here’s how: 1. Save energy for free money: turn off lights when you are not using them, and lower your thermostat at night or when no one is home. You can easily, and effortlessly, save 10% on your heating and cooling bills by lowering the temperature in winter, and slightly increasing the temperature in the summer. You can save even more if you replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent light (CFLs) bulbs to reduce your energy usage by 75%.
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Underwater Wilderness on KQED
http://news.caloceans.org/2008/10/underwater-wilderness-on-k...10-minute special report
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Billion Year Plan
http://billionyearplan.blogspot.comat around 2:45:54 UTC. These times are uncertain by +/- 15 seconds or so. The time at which any fragments might reach the ground depends a great deal on the physical properties of the object, but should be around 2:46:20 UTC +/- 40 seconds. From: http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/10/09/asteroid-2008-tc3-strikes-earth/ Okay, so Asteroid 2008 TC3 wasn’t an Earth-killer, but rather a crowd-thriller. It wasn’t miles across-not even tens of meters across. It was, perhaps, a few meters in size, similar in volume to mid-size car. In fact, it didn’t even hit the Earth&#82
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5 Elements of my Life
http://tz-life.blogspot.comus, causing more breathing and more carbon goodness. Another expert said it was a little warning sign, a gift from nature, like a snake’s rattle. Another said the tone attracts the male. Then why in MY ear? Does anybody really know? (extracted from Why do mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ear?)
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A Reston Kid Rambles
http://restonkid.blogspot.combubble tanks: This game looks really addictive. NASA's MESSENGER probe has sent back the first fly-by photos of the planet Mercury. This is really cool. In case you missed it: On Tuesday, an asteroidentered Earth's atmosphere and exp0loded with a force equivalent to a small nuclear bomb. The asteroid burned up before hitting the ground, but the fact that it was identified a day ahead of time gives us hope that we might have some warning before we
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Walking with ‘Sharp-eyed’ Margot
http://www.humanflowerproject.com/index.php/weblog/walking_t...’s “wind-swept meadows.” San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park has been in the news as of late. The new California Academy of Sciences building opens on Saturday. Read a glowing review here or read about the collections at KQED’s Quest Community Science Blog. Another attraction in Golden Gate Park is the 70-acre Strybing Arboretum. The arboretum was founded with $100,000 from Helene Strybing’s estate. The legacies of two other women are prominent here, as
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Mind Hacks
http://www.mindhacks.comand meaning (largely owing to the problems with the temporal lobes). But because dementia trends to affect the brain in a progressive but patchy way, it can sometimes result quite unusual or surprising symptoms. The Quest programme is a radio show, a video of Keith Jordan - a patient affected by FTD, and a narrated photo essay. Another great production from Quest, who we
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