BBC Future column: Hypnic Jerks

Source: Mind Hacks

Here’s my column at BBC Future from last week. You can see the original here. The full listof my columns is here and there is now a RSS feed, should you need it As we give up our bodies to sleep, sudden twitches escape our brains, causing our arm ...
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A Day to Remember Our Fallen

Source: American Thinker

On Memorial Day, many Americans have a barbeque, spend the day in a department store looking for sales, or otherwise enjoy a day off work. What often does not happen is a reflection on the true meaning of the holiday. Memorial Day is intended to ...
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Our quest is to provide the best eye care

Source: IBN Live

BANGALORE: One of the few pre-Independence institutes pan India, Prabha has been into Eye Care since 1940. A super speciality Ophthalmic Hospital, today Prabha Eye Clinic ...
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'Bionic' eye to help blind

Source: This is Dorset

SUCCESSFUL clinical trials of an experimental ‘bionic eye,’ which could restore sight to thousands of blind people in Britain, have been welcomed by Dorset Blind Association. Sufferers of a condition called retinitis pigmentosa, which ca ...
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Pitcher is seeing her success clearly

Source: N.J. Courier-Post Online

Before the Gloucester County College softball team took the field to defend its national title last weekend, starting pitcher Kristina Morgan gave each player a motivational quote on a slip of paper, as she had done every game before. What wou ...
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Longhorn pole vaulter Masterson moves past her setbacks

Source: Austin American-Statesman

Make one thing clear. Natasha Masterson is going places. The NCAA track and field championships just won't be one of them. Masterson, the Longhorn junior pole vaulter from Hendrickson, is as determined and upbeat as they come, traits th ...
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Researchers Regenerate Optic Nerve In Mice

Source: Medical News Today

Editor's Choice Main Category: Eye Health / Blindness Article Date: 25 May 2012 - 13:00 PDT Individuals blinded by optic nerve damage from glaucoma or trauma might be able to regain at least some visual function in the ...
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Canadian art on display in Massachusetts

Source: Globe and Mail

Visual art Published Friday, May. 25, 2012 3:57PM EDT Last updated Friday, May. 25, 2012 3:59PM EDT ((Art Evan for The Globe and Mail)) Hide caption Widow , a bear made of felt flowers, by artist Janet Wright Cheney ...
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Young Missouri boy 'beats all the odds'

Source: Belleville News-Democrat

Aiden McVicker's bright smile and high-pitched giggle can light up any room. The 11-year-old Cameron boy has a lot to smile about - two loving parents and sisters; a long, healthy diagnosis; and a charity that has provided more than $25,000 in scholarshi ...
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