http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700039354/Dave-Barrys-ahem-take-on-the-World-Cup-soccer-not-skiing.html?s_cid=rss-38

http://ask.doctoroz.com/question/dangerous-chemicals-living-room
A lot of the materials we work with in the living room can be potentially harmful. Here’s a list of some common dangers:

• Rug, carpet, upholstery cleaners. These cleaning products can contain perchloroethylene (used in dry cleaning), naphthalene, and ammonium hydroxide. The fumes given off by these products can cause cancer and liver damage and have been known to cause dizziness, sleepiness, nausea, loss of appetite, and disorientation. Read the rest of this entry »

Combattre, fuir, subir ?
Jean-François Dortier
À l’école ou au travail, dans la vie privée ou dans la vie sociale, les épreuves sont multiples. La façon d’y faire face se résume à trois stratégies fondamentales : combattre, fuir ou… ne rien faire. Read the rest of this entry »

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/08/the-silence/8040
By T. C. Boyle
Dragonfly
What a dragonfly was doing out here in the desert, he couldn’t say. It was a creature of water, a sluggish slime-coated nymph that had metamorphosed into an electric needle of light, designed to hover and dart over pond and ditch in order to feed on the insects that rose from the surface in soft moist clouds. But here it was, as red as blood if blood could shine like metal, hovering in front of his face as if it had come to impart some message. And what would that message be? I am the karmic representative of the insect world, here to tell you that all is well amongst us. Hooray! Jabba-jabba-jabba! For a long while, long after the creature had hurtled away in shearing splinters of radiance, he sat there, legs folded under him in the blaze of 118-degree heat, thinking alternately: This is working, and I am losing my mind.  And this was only the first day. Read the rest of this entry »

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/how-to-save-the-news/8095/1/

How to Save the News
Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content-the list of what’s killing journalism is long. But high on that list, many would say, is Google, the biggest unbundler of them all. Now, having helped break the news business, the company wants to fix it-for commercial as well as civic reasons: if news organizations stop producing great journalism, says one Google executive, the search engine will no longer have interesting content to link to. So some of the smartest minds at the company are thinking about this, and working with publishers, and peering ahead to see what the future of journalism looks like. Guess what? It’s bright.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a18iFVbqD70

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/04/earlyshow/leisure/books/main6458828.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pIFUOav2xE

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/buyer-beware-tainted-underwear-pt-1
Think the brand new underwear you just bought is clean? Think again. There’s something lurking in your lingerie. The Dr. Oz team lab-tested undergarments from coast to coast and bargain basement to designer boutique. The results were shocking, with samples testing positive for yeast, fecal matter, even blood. Learn what you should do to disinfect your intimates. Click here to watch Part 2.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=are-men-the-more-belligerent-sex
Men are more dangerous, but women can be just as aggressive
By Scott O. Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz
The notion that men have shorter fuses than women has acquired the status of a psychological shibboleth. More than 30 years ago Stanford University psychologists Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin concluded in an influential book that sex differences were minimal in most psychological traits but considerable when it comes to aggression. This opinion has endured ever since. Read the rest of this entry »

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=16163154&source=hptextfeature Artificial life, the stuff of dreams and nightmares, has arrived
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=now-aint-that-special-the-implicati-2010-05-20

Now ain’t that special? The implications of creating the first synthetic bacteria
By Arthur L. CaplanIs life special, so special that we cannot understand it, much less create it? Are living things endowed with some sort of special power, force or property that distinguishes the inorganic from the organic, the living from the dead? Can life be nothing more than the precise interaction of physical stuff? Read the rest of this entry »

http://www.scienceshumaines.com/geopolitique-de-l-eau_fr_24012.html
René-Eric Dagorn
Les problèmes géopolitiques autour de l’eau ne sont pas toujours ceux que l’on croit. Si des tensions existent autour du partage des ressources des grands fleuves, ce sont des questions plus politiques qui structurent les espaces de l’eau : concurrence ville-agriculture, pollution des nappes phréatiques et réfugiés climatiques.

Brain disorder eradicates ethnic but not gender bias.
By Janelle Weaver
Prejudice may seem inescapable, but scientists now report the first group of people who seem not to form racial stereotypes.Children with a neurodevelopmental disorder called Williams syndrome (WS) are overly friendly because they do not fear strangers. Now, a study shows that these children also do not develop negative attitudes about other ethnic groups, even though they show patterns of gender stereotyping found in other children. “This is the first evidence that different forms of stereotypes are biologically dissociable,” says Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, director of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany, who led the study published April 12 in Current Biology. Read the rest of this entry »

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/environnement/la-bataille-des-ogm_502140.html