10 Interesting Links From May 6th
May 7th, 2009
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- Study: Cat Parasite Affects Human Culture | LiveScience – A parasitic microbe commonly found in cats might have helped shape entire human cultures by manipulating the personalities of infected individuals, according to a new study.
Infection by a Toxoplasma gondii could make some individuals more prone to some forms of neuroticism and could lead to differences among cultures if enough people are infected, says Kevin Lafferty, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Breath-test ruling jeopardizes thousands of state DWI cases – TwinCities.com – Minnesota may be forced to drop thousands of driving-while-impaired cases and change the way it prosecutes others in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling Thursday, prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed.
The state's highest court ruled that defendants in drunken-driving cases have the right to make prosecutors turn over the computer "source code" that runs the Intoxilyzer breath-testing device to determine whether the device's results are reliable.
- This is Your Brain On Caffeine – Researchers from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine sought to investigate the biological mechanisms of caffeine withdrawal in a paper published recently in the online edition of the scientific journal Psychopharmacology. They looked at brain electrical activity and blood flow during caffeine withdrawal to examine what was taking place physiologically during acute caffeine abstinence, including the likely mechanism underlying the common 'caffeine withdrawal headache.'
- Apache Junction subdivision basks in solar savings – Hill and her neighbors are the prototypes for greener living, according to officials with the Habitat for Humanity of Central Arizona and Salt River Project, who celebrated on the bright day with 18 families living in homes powered by the sun.
- Star Trek: The Experience Expected To Re-open In 2010 Part 2 of ST:TE Documentary | TrekMovie.com – Star Trek The Experience closed down at the Las Vegas Hilton last September, but since October we have been reporting that it may have new life at a new location in Vegas. According to the best info we can gather, it looks like a new STTE will be back in 2010 at Neonopolis in downtown Las Vegas. More details below plus a new entry Vernon Wilmer’s STTE Documentary.
- The mantii have hatched! – Duke City Fix – After many years of trying (9 to be exact) I have finally succeeded in capturing a praying mantis hatch moments after it happened! Our yard has tons of the old egg pods all over the place — mostly under our portal and on the apple tree branches — and every year I intend to find an unhatched one and watch it for the day it hatches. Somehow I always miss it. Sure, we're able to find baby mantii all around the yard which is really cool, but I keep missing the big hatch moment — until today!
- DailyTech – Intel Invests in ASM International to Secure Nanometer Process Technologies – Intel Capital, the investment arm of Intel Corporation, has bought 4 percent of semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASM International (also known as ASMI) through open market transactions.
- Now bankrupt, Coyotes could end up in Canada – Less than an hour before the National Hockey League commissioner planned to broker a deal to sell the Phoenix Coyotes and strip team owner Jerry Moyes of his duties Tuesday, Moyes filed for bankruptcy to sell to his own buyer.
Moyes, as part of a Chapter 11 reorganization filing, agreed to sell the team for $212.5 million to a BlackBerry wireless magnate who plans to move the team to a yet-to-be determined location in southern Ontario, Canada.
- Top excuses and tactics: Why haven’t you started your own business? « I Will Teach You To Be Rich – As a coach who works with lots of corporate employees with entrepreneurial urges and an author of the book on the topic, I totally agree that starting a business is a great idea in this economy.
Today, I wanted to share some advice for those who might need a tiny bit more guidance on working through your business ideas and fears.
- Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims – CNN.com – Now Daniels and other motorists who have been stopped by Tenaha police are part of a lawsuit seeking to end what plaintiff's lawyer David Guillory calls a systematic fleecing of drivers passing through the town of about 1,000.
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