1a) Herbie Hancock - The Piano
Tracks: My Funny Valentine
2) Quantum Trickery: Testing Einstein's Strangest Theory
"One of the most extreme points of view belongs to Dr. Zeilinger of Vienna, a bearded, avuncular physicist whose laboratory regularly hosts every sort of quantum weirdness. In an essay recently in Nature, Dr. Zeilinger sought to find meaning in the very randomness that plagued Einstein.
"The discovery that individual events are irreducibly random is probably one of the most significant findings of the 20th century," Dr. Zeilinger wrote.
*** Dr. Zeilinger suggested that reality and information are, in a deep sense, indistinguishable ***, a concept that Dr. Wheeler, the Princeton physicist, called "it from bit."
In information, the basic unit is the bit, but one bit, he says, is not enough to specify both the spin and the trajectory of a particle. So one quality remains unknown, irreducibly random. As a result of the finiteness of information, he explained, the universe is fundamentally unpredictable.
"I suggest that this randomness of the individual event is the strongest indication we have of a reality 'out there' existing independently of us," Dr. Zeilinger wrote in Nature.'
My "Matrix Revolutions" review
Zeilinger site
on quantum teleportation
3) Fate of Endocrine-Disruptor, Pharmaceutical, and Personal Care Product Chemicals during Simulated Drinking Water Treatment Processes
4) Experts Urge Less Focus on Antioxidants
"Experts aren't suggesting antioxidants aren't important or that people shouldn't eat foods that contain them. Instead, they're saying not enough is known about how they work to justify focusing one's diet on any particular antioxidant or food."
Even people trying to address specific health problems would do better to eat a broad mix of foods than to tailor their diets around certain ingredients, the experts say.
When people get prostate cancer, all of the sudden they make all the changes in their diet," Erdman says. "We don't even know if those changes make a difference then. *** But we know that if people eat that diet before getting cancer, you don't tend to get it ***."
Clearly, it's a spread of actives (anticarcinogens, antioxidants, antivirals and antibacterials) working in synergy over a long period of time that produce maximum prophylactic effect (see My BioShields files in sidebar link).
5) 1Association of Muscular Strength with Incidence of Metabolic Syndrome in Men. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 37(11):1849-1855, November 2005.
"Purpose: To examine the association between muscular strength and incidence of metabolic syndrome.
Methods: Participants were 3233 men (20-80 yr) initially free of metabolic syndrome who had two or more clinical examinations between 1980 and 2003...
Conclusions: Muscular strength was inversely associated with metabolic syndrome incidence, independent of age and body size.
Potential benefits of greater muscular strength presumably through resistance exercise training should be considered in primary prevention of metabolic syndrome."
6) Weight Training Combats Metabolic Syndrome
7) Playing The Didgeridoo and Sleep Disorders
"Researchers in Switzerland examined 25 patients who suffered from snoring and moderate obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome, both common sleep disorders.
Half the group were given daily lessons in playing the didgeridoo, a wind instrument about 1.5 metres (yards) long which originated in northern Australia and is traditionally made from the trunk of a tree hollowed out by termites.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal's online edition on Friday, found that those who played the unusual instrument over a four-month trial period saw a significant improvement in their daytime sleepiness and apnoea.
Their partners also reported less disturbance from snoring.
The researchers said training the upper airways through the breathing techniques required to play the didgeridoo was behind the improvement."
Didgeridoo - Google
8) Verden Psychiatric Hospital - Photo Gallery
9) Polar bears drown as ice shelf melts
"Scientists have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf. The researchers were startled to find bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food."
10) Year-End Views
25 Most Interesting Webcams of 2005
Reuters Pictures of the Year
Reuters 2005 Award Winners
World Press Photos - Winners Gallery 2005
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