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Will this New Drug End the Obesity Epidemic?

Monday, November 14th, 2011

Orlistat. Sibutramine. Rimonabant. Metformin. Exenatide. Pramlintide. These are the six main anti-obesity drugs that are prescribed to patients suffering from morbid obesity. The reason these names are not better known is because of the side of effects that each of these drugs possess. Only in a last ditch effort, are these drugs prescribed, where the […]

Will the Polar Bear be our new national animal?

Monday, November 14th, 2011

We are all familiar with the increasing global temperatures that encourage the melting of arctic ice but we don’t really think too much about how this will effect species other then ourselves. “Canada is home to two-thirds of the world’s polar bear population and we have a unique conservation responsibility to effectively care for them,” said […]

A new ‘Sixth-Sense’

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

  A clip from the movie ‘Minority Report’ starring Tom Cruise. From YouTube   Have you ever seem the movie The Minority Report starring Tom Cruise? In the movie, he plays Chief John Anderton who uses out-of–this world technology to find criminals and solve ‘pre-crimes.’ Well, modern science is not that far off from making Chief Anderton’s technology […]

So is it too late?! Just ask David Suzuki…

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

On November 3rd, I witnessed one of the greatest examples of communicating science that I have ever seen. That evening, the University of British Columbia (UBC) was the lucky host to one of the most influential Canadians of our time: David Suzuki. He presented a lecture entitled “The Global Eco-crisis: Is it too late?”   […]

After the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster- The Effect of Radiation on Human Health

Friday, November 11th, 2011

    There was Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on March 15th 2011 which released radioactive materials due to equipment failures and nuclear meltdown. Concern remains over the potential effect on human health from radiation leaks at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.   What is radiation?    Radiation is a process in which energetic particles or waves travel […]

Robot suits put to use in countering radiation in Fukushima

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Not many news stations talk about Fukushima any more. After the 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck Northeast Japan, I remember being glued to the computer for hours and hours trying to get the most recent news on the situation in Japan. What is happening now? A quick search turned up a news headline on robot suits in […]

Are YOU a snake-lover or an ophidiophobia (snake-phobia)?

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Are snakes one of your favourite animals or are they your least? Although some may adore them, I am among the people who are terribly afraid of them, or what people call an ophidiophobia. Who would have known that, “pythons’ big heart [could] hold clues for human health[?]” (The Associated Press). Scientists now learned that when […]

Biodegradeability: (Bio)Plastic and its (re)use

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Plastic Bags and Landfills: A Perspective from SJSU NEWS on Vimeo. Even though plastic, which is present in many aspects of our lives, has many applications and usages, it is not biodegradeable. The reason of the continuation of manifacturing plastic is that it “only takes up 5 percent of the world’s oil supplies and, in […]

One Plastic Bottle Can Light Up My Life

Monday, November 7th, 2011

One of the goals of education is to teach students to apply the knowledge they’ve acquired in the classroom to solve problems that exist around the world. Inspired by the Appropriate Technologies Collaborative principles, students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) took heed to this concept and developed the “solar bottle bulb.” In Manila, […]

What Are You Doing Right Now? Get To Sleep!

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Everyone has adjusted their watches, clocks, phones and laptops an hour earlier on November 6th. It may be that we all got “25” hours on the day, but let’s face it and allow me to ask, what have we done with the extra hour? With all the assignments and projects from different courses, social events […]

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