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Submission + - Alzheimer's disease as form of diabetes (physorg.com)

Submitted by Atzanteol on Sunday September 30, 2007 @04:53PM

Atzanteol writes: Insulin, it turns out, may be as important for the mind as it is for the body. Research in the last few years has raised the possibility that Alzheimer's memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes.

Submission + - Sputnik at 50: An improvised triumph (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

caffiend666

on Sunday September 30, 2007 @02:39PM

caffiend666 writes: "According to an AP News article, "When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score a stunning Cold War triumph. But 50 years later, it emerges that the momentous launch was far from being part of a well-planned strategy to demonstrate communist superiority over the West." "At that moment we couldn't fully understand what we had done," Chertok recalled. "We felt ecstatic about it only later, when the entire world ran amok. Only four or five days later did we realize that it was a turning point in the history of civilization." "And that winking light that crowds around the globe gathered to watch in the night sky? Not Sputnik at all, as it turns out, but just the second stage of its booster rocket...""

Submission + - 5 Hotspots Where Languages Are Becoming Extinct (anthropology.net)

Submitted by

Ant

on Sunday September 30, 2007 @02:27PM

Ant writes: "Anthropology.net shares an alarming report on the rate of extinction of languages . It says, "Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth — many of them never yet recorded — will likely disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and how the human brain works." Seen on Neatorama."

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