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Well some use horror movies as a "dating technique":

There might be scientific basis to it too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misattribution_of_arousal
http://pingpong.ki.se/public/pp/public_courses/course07392/published/1296198335804/resourceId/4306963/content/Dutton%20and%20Aron%5B1%5D.pdf

Child and teen suicide rates rose for the first time in more than a decade in 2004 - and many psychological experts said the stronger warning labels that led to a drop in the number of prescriptions for antidepressant drugs may be to blame. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Annual Summary of Vital Statistics released Monday, the suicide rate rose more than 18 percent in those 1 to 19 years old, from 2.2 per 100,000 in 2003 to 2.6 per 100,000 in 2004. In those 15 to 19 years old, the figures reflected a more than 12 percent rise in suicide, from 7.3 per 100,000 in 2003 to 8.2 per 100,000 in 2004. Story continues below Advertisement The rise occurred at the same time that the Food and Drug Administration mandated heightened warnings on the labels of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a particular class of antidepressant medications that includes Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft.

Some links relevant to the program...

The Stewart Report summary:
http://www.iegmp.org.uk/report/summary.htm
(there's a link to the full text there too)

ICNIRP Publications
http://www.icnirp.de/pubEMF.htm

Karolinska Institutet:
http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=130&l=en

Long-Term Sickness and Mobile Phone Use:
http://www.acnem.org/journal/pdf_files/23-2-septem ber_2004/23-2_mobile_phones-hallberg.pdf
PDF; a paper co-authored by Olle Johannson. It wasn't directly mentioned on the program but I guess has informed his views.

Electrohypersensitivity: State-of-the-Art of a Functional Impairment:
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/G78U43 45510209JQ.pdf
PDF; authored by Olle Johannson.

Powerwatch:
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/

The telegraph article that seemed to be the source of the "teachers demand no wifi" section of the program:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2007/04/23/nwifi23.xml

This isn't supposed to be an unbiased list of views; it's just links relevant to the program (which in my view, wasn't unbiased). Anyway - read, look for more, and make your own mind up.

(posted AC; I don't need the Karma)

One point is that there's very little variation between individuals in terms of coding sequence - in this chromosome from the article there's only just over 1 base where there are known single base changes per gene. The most common type of variation is in the number of times repeated streaches of DNA are repeated, this generally (though not always) has no effect on an individual. The numbers of such repeats in the draft sequence are not meaningful in the published sequence.

Databases of variation in the human genome are maintained. The paper accompanying the release of the finished sequence does discuss variation - and notes that in some areas of chromosome people have different numbers of copies of a large region which includes genes.

Nature has made the Full text of the article announcing the completion of the chromosome one finished sequence available online. While this is good, it's still not the open publishing which ought be demanded by those spending public money on scientific endevours such as this.

If you are running Fedora/SUSE two good sites, to browse are BioLinux and BIOrpms:
http://biolinux.org/
http://apt.bea.ki.se/packages.html

The sites have RPMs for most of the basic packages along with descriptions (some packages are a bit old, however).

Hey, some studies have shown that moderate (like, 1 drink a day) beer intake helps you grow new brain cells. Kinda like those other studies that show that moderate red wine drinking is good for your heart.

(Still waiting for a study that shows that pr0n boosts immune function or something though.)

Socialism is all about looting the productive. Without a capitalist economy to loot, it's all downhill spiral. Every industry that gets nationalized will slowly bleed to death; with medicine, it's we who will bleed.

wrong!

download the world health chart program and check correlation beetween private vs public health care systems and indicators like child survival, life expectancy, and so on.

check also the cost of health care vs GDP.

pure private health care systems seems to be less effective and less efficient as well

Yes, I too love coffee, but drinking coffee in the morning is wasted, because your body is already full with adrenaline, elevated blood sugar, and so on - your body's normal way of getting you going after a full nights sleep. What you should do is drink your beloved cup of coffee six or eight hours after you woke up, since that is when you need it the most.

Another interesting tidbit: Gilberto Fisone, a researcher at Karolinska Institutet, found that a "medium sized" cup of coffee has a double effect in that it stimulates a key protein called DARPP-32, which amplifies the effect of coffee. For more information, read this article.

If you want to email them, here is the nobel prize's secretary of medicine.

You are right in the sense that to create the sequence, data from several individuals are used, but no more than 5-10 are actually required. Look up a tutorial on shotgun fragment assembly if you are curious to know more! Larger samplesizes can be effectively handled by just looking for differences between the individuals and the "concensus" sequence for that species - somewhat like what encoding a movie does, storing only differences from the last frame. Have look at for instance hgvbase to see all human sequence variations we know so far.

You are right in the sense that to create the sequence, data from several individuals are used, but no more than 5-10 are actually required. Look up a tutorial on shotgun fragment assembly if you are curious to know more! Larger samplesizes can be effectively handled by just looking for differences between the individuals and the "concensus" sequence for that species - somewhat like what encoding a movie does, storing only differences from the last frame. Have look at for instance hgvbase to see all human sequence variations we know so far.

Cut'n'paste from this site found trough google .

Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden to a family of engineers. His family was descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great power in northern Europe. At age 9, he moved with his family to Russia where he and his brothers were given first class education in the humanities and natural sciences by private teachers.

Nobel invented dynamite in 1866 and later built up companies and laboratories in more than 20 countries all over the world. A holder of more than 350 patents, he also wrote poetry and drama and even seriously considered becoming a writer.

The idea of giving away his fortune was no passing fancy for Nobel. Efforts to promote peace were close to his heart and he derived intellectual pleasure from literature, while science built the foundation for his own activities as a technological researcher and inventor.

On November 27, 1895, Nobel signed his final will and testament at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. He died of a heart attack in his home in San Remo, Italy on December 10, 1896.