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Hikers found Ötzi in 1991 in the Italian Alps. His well-preserved body told researchers that Ötzi had hardened arteries and tooth cavities, fancied tattoos, ate ibex for his last meal, and died with a arrow in his back. Scientists in 2008 gathered that Ötzi likely came from a vanished population - his sequenced mitocho...
The new sequencing, completed by researchers at Italy's Institute for Mummies and the Iceman (yes, that's a real place), uncovers 96% of Ötzi's genome. It comes from DNA in the nuclei of cells harvested from his pelvic bone.
He had brown eyes and type O blood.
Lactose didn't sit well with him.
They also uncovered some health problems. Ötzi's genes predisposed him to coronary heart disease, which might explain his hardened arteries. Also, portions of the genome for Lyme borreliosis mixed in his DNA suggest he had the earliest known case of Lyme disease.
Head researcher Albert Zink told Nature blogger Ewen Callaway that despite his satisfaction with the findings, he's disappointed the study didn't come out in time for the Iceman Murder Mystery television special.
In an effort to make a 'healthy chocolate' researchers were able to replace about half the fat of the bars with micro-bubbles of juice.
These tiny bubbles, created using a "Pickering emulsion" synthesis, ensure that the chocolate still has that chocolaty "mouth-feel" we crave — the firm and snappy texture that melts in your mouth.
"Everyone loves chocolate - but unfortunately we all know that many chocolate bars are high in fat," study researcher Stefan Bon said in a statement from the University of Warwick. "However it's the fat that gives chocolate all the indulgent sensations that people crave - the silky smooth texture and the way it melts i...
The process involves the mixing of two liquids that don't usually mix, like water and oil. This combination, which would usually separate out into two layers, is held in a mixed state by solid particles in the mix.
The fruit juice gives the chocolate (either white, milk or dark) a slightly fruity taste, but the researchers said they are also able to use a vitamin C solution (ascorbic acid) instead of the juice, which would remove the fruity taste.
"We've found a way to maintain all of those things that make chocolate 'chocolatey' but with fruit juice instead of fat," Bon said. "Our study is just the starting point to healthier chocolate - we've established the chemistry behind this new technique but now we're hoping the food industry will take our method to make...
The process also prevents the whitening effect that happens to chocolate that's been sitting around too long, which FYI is called a "sugar bloom."
The study was published August 8 in the Journal of Materials Chemistry.
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Court TV had a Dickensian quality about it. I went to LA for the Menendez and O.J. trials, but then followed them religiously on Court TV. So many people did that that we had a common prism through which to talk, perceive the world. The backyard fence was temporarily reconstructed when we could discuss Lyle and Eric’s ...
Dependence on the media is part of why it’s so loathed. You always hate the thing you need and have no control over. My voice mail is full of people venting over the coverage of Littleton–too little, too much, glorifying the killers, not glorifying the police. And as ubiquitous as TV is for things like the Colorado sho...
Today the media brought good news: a new diet pill, a beacon of hope to a couch potato like me who doesn’t exercise and intends to keep eating Ben & Jerry’s into dotage.
As for that big Slate fee burning a hole in the pocket, my favorite charity is Save Our Aging Religious. Sounds like a Saturday Night Live joke, but it’s money for nuns without 401(k)’s or Social Security who don’t have a crop of young nuns coming along to look after them. They’re largely responsible for the life I lea...
Beck: "It's insanity. This is her hero's work"
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- White House communications director Anita Dunn fired back at criticism from TV commentator Glenn Beck on Friday, saying that a Mao Tse-tung quote Beck took issue with was picked up from legendary GOP strategist Lee Atwater.
White House communications director Anita Dunn says she picked up a Mao quote from a legendary Republican.
"The Mao quote is one I picked up from the late Republican strategist Lee Atwater from something I read in the late 1980s, so I hope I don't get my progressive friends mad at me," Dunn told CNN.
As for Beck's criticism: "The use of the phrase 'favorite political philosophers' was intended as irony, but clearly the effort fell flat -- at least with a certain Fox commentator whose sense of irony may be missing."
On Thursday night's program, Beck showed exclusive video of Dunn discussing the communist leader, who was responsible for a cultural revolution in 1966 that included re-education camps and setting the army and students on witch hunts against his opponents.
Millions of Chinese suffered or died, most notably teachers, writers, political opponents or anyone deemed a "reactionary."
Dunn, taped in a speech in what appears to be a church, said the leader's philosophies were a guidepost for her own strategy on politics. She also praised the philosophy used by religious icon Mother Teresa.
"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa -- not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why ...
The comments set Beck into a tirade.
"It's insanity. This is her hero's work," he said. "She thinks of this man's work all the time?
"It would be like me saying to you, 'you know who my favorite political philosopher is? Adolf Hitler.' Have you read Mein Kampf? [She wants to] fight your fight like Hitler did," Beck said.
Dunn recently blasted Fox News saying that the cable news organization often operates as either "the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party."
"When he [Obama] goes on Fox, he understands that he's not really going on it as a news network at this point. He's going to debate the opposition. And that's fine. He never minds doing that.
"They're widely viewed as a part of the Republican Party. Take [the GOP's] talking points, put them on the air, take [the GOP's] opposition research, put them on the air," Dunn said.
Fox News in a statement to CNN said its programming was comparable to the editorial page of a newspaper.
Still, Beck wasted no time Thursday in using Dunn's comments to blast the Obama administration for promoting what he deems a radical agenda.
"America, how many radicals is it going to take? How many radicals surrounding our president before you understand that when the president said he wants to transform the country, he wants to transform it all right," Beck said.
"He'll go on Fox because he engages with ideological opponents," Dunn said. "He has done that before, and he'll do it again."
But it's not just Dunn, a Democrat, who has used Mao as someone she reads.
Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog group, points out that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, also a Fox News contributor, quoted Mao in a 1995 Roll Call profile.
"War is politics with blood; politics is war without blood," Gingrich said, citing Mao.
Karl Rove, another Fox News contributor, wrote in a December 2008 Wall Street Journal op-ed that President Bush "encouraged me to read a Mao biography."
Beck led the charge against Obama's former green jobs czar Van Jones over a petition Jones signed in 2004 calling for an investigation into whether government officials deliberately allowed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to occur.
Jones said of the petition on the Web site 911truth.org: "I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever." Jones has also come under fire for comments he made, also before his White House job, including those in a video on YouTube. In it, he uses a vulgar expression to describ...
Jones resigned from his post in September, saying in a statement that he came to Washington to "fight for others, not for myself."
"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future," Jones' statement said.
Jones is a co-founder of colorofchange.org, a group that recently has been pressing advertisers to boycott Beck's program after Beck called Obama a racist.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has withdrawn from plans to be a commencement speaker at his alma mater, Virginia Military Institute, and won't participate in any other graduation ceremonies amid the persisting scandal over a blackface photo.
News outlets report the Democrat is abstaining from graduations throughout Virginia this season. Northam's spokeswoman Ofirah Yheskel said Monday that he deiced weeks ago to skip ceremonies over concern he would divert focus from graduates.
Northam has resisted calls to resign since February, when a racist photo surfaced from his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. He denies being in the photo but admits wearing blackface while portraying Michael Jackson at a dance party.
New campaign finance records show Northam's fundraising efforts dried up. He also canceled his appearance at a Sunday fundraiser for a state senator.
exhaust you, but they will also challenge.
many pieces follow the trail back beyond the turn of the century.
Junior discovers Nintendo, not when academicians decide to announce it.
the future, and playing to a small, self-congratulatory audience.
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The MakerBot Replicator makes anything!
Speaker 1: Hey I'm Donald Bell here at CES 2012. LL Cool J is joining me, talking about Boomdizzle. Tell me about Boomdizzle. Speaker 2: Boomdizzle... Is a site that we created and actually a company that we created where we designed this virtual studio and basically making it possible for a kid in New York, and a kid ...
A high powered business lobby group is pressurising for a new highway link between Auckland City and Manukau’s eastern suburbs.
The group, Auckland Business Transport Forum, consists of representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the Employers and Manufacturers Association, Ports of Auckland and road user groups.
It has launched a campaign aimed at reversing an Auckland City Council decision to pursue public transport options.
An eastern highway was abandoned after a rethink by Council lead it to favour encouraging Aucklanders to use public transport instead of their own vehicles.
An eastern highway had earlier been mooted as one way of reducing peak hour congestion, and also as a way of luring heavy trucks serving the container port from suburban roads.
An estimated $100 million each years is drained from the economy due to this congestion, and the Forum says this cost will not be addressed solely through public transport solutions.
Taxi cabs were parked on Atlantic Avenue near the bus terminal at South Station.
It has been 10 months since a city-commissioned review of the taxi industry called for creation of an advisory committee to respond to reports of corruption and poorly enforced regulations. Mayor Thomas M. Menino and successor Martin J. Walsh each vowed to follow through.
But no committee has been established and little has changed. Those involved in the taxi industry — drivers, passengers, and even taxi medallion owners — say they are frustrated by the slow pace of promised reform.
Walsh’s office is still working to cobble together a task force to look at the issues related to taxis and ride-sharing companies, an effort being managed by the Office of Intergovernmental Relations. But no members have been formally appointed, said Gabrielle Farrell, spokeswoman for the mayor’s office.
“Once the committee is formalized, there will be a robust public process as part of a planned, multifaceted approach to addressing the issues and opportunities that exist within the industry,” Farrell said.
In April 2013, the Globe reported that the city’s $1 billion taxi industry was plagued with corruption and lacking government oversight. In Boston, each cab is assigned a medallion, one of a limited number of licenses valued at as much as $700,000 each. Drivers, considered independent contractors, must pay medallion ow...
But according to Globe reports, some drivers were forced to pay bribes to receive the keys to a car. Others were saddled with mysterious charges by medallion owners that they had no power to dispute. And the Boston Police Department, tasked with enforcing city regulations, rarely imposed discipline on owners.
Drivers had hoped that the establishment of an advisory committee would help end some of those abuses, but many are now skeptical that change will come anytime soon.
Their frustrations also come as the taxi industry clamors for regulations on Uber, the controversial ride-sharing service that is taking a growing share of taxi drivers’ business.
Donna Blythe-Shaw, a representative for the United Steelworkers and the Boston Taxi Drivers Association, said much of the hope for reform within the taxi industry has ebbed, in part because of the disruption of an election and the arrival of a new mayor.
“We lost a lot of momentum,” Blythe-Shaw said.
Paul F. Jean, spokesman for Tutunjian — owner of Boston Cab, the city’s most prominent medallion owner, and the target of many of the corruption allegations — said that even for owners, the last year and a half of inaction has put the industry in limbo, and that many owners are waiting for answers that would bring stab...
Rob Raimondi, another of the city’s most prominent medallion owners, said he has been surprised that a formal body had not been established to begin to grapple with the issues facing the industry.
Last year a judge granted a request to freeze some of the assets of Edward J. Tutun-jian (above).
Meanwhile, a raid at Tutunjian’s Boston Cab headquarters conducted by the Internal Revenue Service last year has not resulted in any charges. Neither the IRS nor the US district attorney’s office responded to requests for updates on the investigation.
Though there has been little progress within city government, a lawsuit is moving through the courts. Liss-Riordan filed suit against Tutunjian on behalf of the taxi drivers, arguing that drivers should be classified as employees rather than contractors, entitling them to benefits and barring them from being forced to ...
Medallion owners disagree that most drivers want to be classified as employees, arguing that drivers are able to earn more money by paying a lease fee and keeping the revenue from fares and tips.
But last year a judge granted a request to freeze some of Tutunjian’s assets, declaring that it was likely that the drivers’ lawsuit would ultimately be successful. Two months ago, an appeals court affirmed that opinion, repeating that it was probable the drivers would win their case and potentially be awarded millions...
During the mayoral campaign, Walsh vowed to change the city’s taxi regulations and add a clause that requires Boston taxi drivers to be classified with the state as employees — granting them labor rights. If the Supreme Judicial Court rules in favor of the drivers in Liss-Riordan’s lawsuit, Walsh may not have a choice.
“It’s my fervent hope that when Mayor Walsh takes a close look at this, he’ll see that the reform that is needed is not just a superficial revamping around the edges — it’s a complete overhaul of the system,” Liss-Riordan said.
Within the Boston Police Hackney Carriage Unit, the entity responsible for regulating taxis, a reshuffling in the leadership structure has led to heightened scrutiny of individuals seeking to purchase medallions. Reports surfaced last year that Tutunjian was trying to sell some of his medallions, but Jean said the taxi...
Boston police Sergeant Michael McCarthy said the agency has been more stringent in assessing potential medallion owners.
And it’s unclear whether people actually want to buy medallions right now, Blythe-Shaw said. With the wait for a commission to say whether, and how, the city’s taxi regulations might change, coupled with the growing competition, it’s hard to anticipate whether the purchase of a medallion would provide a good return on ...
• Graphic: How does a cabbie make money?
A few days ago the liberal media was all abuzz over how Paul Ryan supposedly muscled his way into back of a soup kitchen in Ohio and started washing already-cleaned pots and pans as a photo op.
It turned out later, however, that soup kitchen staffers had left some dirty pots and pans for Ryan to wash. Yes, it was part of a campaign photo-op, but the pots and pans were actually dirty and Ryan actually cleaned them. NBCNews.com's "First Read" blog noted the crucial update to the tempest-in-a-teapot on Tuesday. ...
On the eve of the vice presidential debate, President Obama sat down for an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC's World News.
It doesn't seem to matter what the president or vice president say on their re-election campaign trail. Even their most outrageous statements like Biden's "put y'all back in chains" remark are given the benefit of the doubt by the supposedly non-partisan media. More often than not, we're told by liberal media "fact che...
Take for example, the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler who furiously spun in Obama's favor in a fact-check column on Thursday that dealt with a comment from 1998 by then-State Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.). Eager to slam Romney even though his campaign has not made an ad on the matter -- nor did Kessler quote anything R...
There’s no denying that what Rep. Todd Akin said was completely inappropriate, but for it to receive four times more coverage than the Vice President of the United States’ indefensibly racist gaffe is unconscionable. Todd Akin is a congressman. Joe Biden is one heartbeat from being the leader of the Free World. Once ag...
If Ronald Reagan was the "Teflon President," then Joe Biden is the "Teflon Blowhard." He’s spent his entire career with his foot firmly lodged in his mouth, uttering an endless stream of impossibly stupid, vulgar, and insensitive things. And yet the media fall all over themselves to make excuses for blustery "Old Uncle...
On Sunday's Meet the Press on NBC, after host David Gregory played a clip of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani criticizing Vice President Joe Biden's recent gaffes, and the media's double standard in giving so little attention such moments, correspondent Chuck Todd dismissed Giuliani's criticisms as part of a...
On Saturday's Fox News Watch, as the group discussed the media's tepid attention to Vice President Joe Biden's "chains" gaffe, panel member and left-leaning FNC analyst Kirsten Powers asserted that "There is a glaring media standard, no question about it."
On Friday's Inside Washington on PBS, regular panel member and liberal Washington Post columnist Colby King admitted that it "bothers" him that Vice President Joe Biden felt the need to "resort to colloquialisms to talk to African-Americans," referring to the Vice President's "chains" gaffe in Danville, Virginia.
On Friday's Inside Washington on PBS, regular panel member Evan Thomas dismissed media claims that Mitt Romney's recent trip abroad suffered from gaffes as the Politico correspondent asserted that the GOP presidential candidate spoke the truth about the Olympics in London and the social problems of the Palestinians.

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