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msnNOW Taps Social Media to Find, Explore the Web’s Hottest Trends in Real-Time

By Guest PostFebruary 17, 2012Technologybing, bloggers, bob visse, demand dashboard, Facebook, friday video, grammys, html, info snackers, jeremy lin, klaus diaconu, mobile phone, msn, msnnow, music industry, new york knicks, rebecca black, social media, Twitter, whitney houston, YouTube

*Go behind the scenes with msnNOW, a new service that provides up-to-the-minute updates on breaking news, trends, and social conversations.*

REDMOND, Wash. – It was a story that everyone hoped wasn’t true. On Saturday, Feb. 11, the day before the Grammys, Twitter and Facebook posts reported that one of the music industry’s once brightest stars, Whitney Houston, had died. Variations on the hashtag #RIPwhitney filled the top trending spots on Twitter. Facebook feeds were filled with memories of the late singer’s music – a first kiss, a first dance or first song ever bought. And YouTube exploded with videos of Houston’s past performances.

An hour or so after reports of the singer’s death began appearing via social media sites, the mainstream media began reporting confirmations of her death. As the day progressed, the major cable news stations began reading celebrity tweets aloud memorializing the singer and encouraging readers to visit their Facebook fan pages to join in the discussion. (more…)

‘Daughter of the Struggle’

By Guest PostFebruary 17, 2012Culture, Entertainmentcivil rights, civil rights leaders, civil rights movement, heroes

Ayanna Gregory celebrates heroes of civil rights movement

Wearing a mauve-colored dress with flared sleeves that flowed with each dance step, soul singer, educator and activist Ayanna Gregory celebrated the history of the American civil rights movement with an evening of song and spoken word before an enthusiastic audience on Wednesday evening, Feb. 15, in the Gore Recital Hall of the University of Delaware’s Roselle Center for the Arts. (more…)

Color is Key in Controlling Flies, UF Researchers Find

By Guest PostFebruary 17, 2012Sciencebehavioral test, carrier, cholera, Cuba, dysentery, electricity, florida fly baiter, fly control, haitian refugee, house fly, hurricane, jeff hertz, joseph diclaro, natural disaster, pest problem, phil koehler, plumbing, program, robert h wells, roberto pereira, tsunamis, typhoid fever, university of florida, war fighter protection

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — As a carrier of as many as 100 types of germs, the common house fly is hardly as innocuous as its name might suggest.

Military personnel know this firsthand, and their need for effective fly control has helped University of Florida researchers create an innovative new fly control device. (more…)

High Population Density is Greatest Risk Factor For Water-Linked Diseases

By Guest PostFebruary 17, 2012Healthoutbreaks, population density, risk factor, water linked diseases

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Water-associated infectious disease outbreaks are more likely to occur in areas where a region’s population density is growing, according to a new global analysis of economic and environmental conditions that influence the risk for these outbreaks. (more…)

Echoes From an Exploding Star

By Guest PostFebruary 16, 2012Sciencebinary star systems, eta carinae, exploding star, great eruption, stellar eruption

Astronomers watch a delayed broadcast of a powerful stellar eruption

Astronomers are watching the astronomical equivalent of streaming live video of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, which initially was seen on Earth nearly 170 years ago. (more…)

When Nerve Meets Muscle, Biglycan Seals The Deal

By Guest PostFebruary 16, 2012Healthcell culture, motor neuron disease, neuromuscular junction, protein biglycan, spinal muscular atrophy, synaptic stability

In the absence of the protein biglycan, synapses at neuromuscular junctions in mice began to break up about five weeks after birth, according to a new study led by Brown University researchers. Reintroducing byglycan helped fix the loss of synaptic stability in cell culture. The research may be relevant to efforts to treat motor neuron diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and spinal muscular atrophy. (more…)

Fish of Antarctica Threatened by Climate Change

By Guest PostFebruary 16, 2012Environment, Natureantarctic fish, antarctic fish lineage, anti freeze proteins, antifreeze glycoproteins, climate change, evolution of antifreeze, polar conditions

A Yale-led study of the evolutionary history of Antarctic fish and their “anti-freeze” proteins illustrates how tens of millions of years ago a lineage of fish adapted to newly formed polar conditions – and how today they are endangered by a rapid rise in ocean temperatures. (more…)

UCLA Scientists Boost Memory By Stimulating Key Site in Brain

By Guest PostFebruary 16, 2012Sciencealzheimer, americans, barbara knowlton, brain, brain cells, brain site, critical junction, cyber city, disease, entorhinal cortex, eric behnke, hippocampus, itzhak fried, john stern, memory, nanthia suthana, neuro prosthetic devices, neuroscientist, roy mukamel, taxi cab, ucla, united states, video game, virtual passenger, zulfi haneef

*Mechanism holds potential for improving recall in dementia patients*

Have you ever gone to the movies and forgotten where you parked the car? New UCLA research may one day help you improve your memory.

UCLA neuroscientists have demonstrated that they can strengthen memory in human patients by stimulating a critical junction in the brain. Published in the Feb. 9 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, the finding could lead to a new method for boosting memory in patients with early Alzheimer’s disease. (more…)

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