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May 18, 2012

Got the guts to be an organ donor? #EveryLittleBitHelps

It hasn’t been hard graft so far, but should we stem the tide of organ donor slogans on Twitter? I think not. Keep ‘em coming. No donation too small, no organ refused. Help someone liver little longer…wear your heart on your sleeve, even if we don’t see eye to eye, go on play a lung?

Tim Lihoreau has offered a dozen or so but worries that they’re now getting cornea, which is rich given “Guten …

Anti-inflammatory food

Education regarding lifestyle, diet and exercise might be the key to avoiding chronic inflammation. “A comprehensive food-based strategy for reducing inflammation and thus reducing the incidence and severity of a large array of chronic illnesses and declining health is supported by a large and growing volume of scientific investigations,” US researchers suggest.

They outline the wide range of compounds present in a huge number of foods and nutrients all of …

May 17, 2012

Spinning up plutonium

After a half century of trying, spectroscopists have finally pinned down the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of plutonium-239. The finding will have implications for future studies of the solid-state physics of this important nuclear fuel and might point the way to improved approaches to the long-term storage of nuclear waste as well as the development of nuclear-powered spaceflight.

You can read the full …

Organ donors on Facebook and Twitter

UPDATE #EveryLittleBitHelps – hashtag H/T to @JoForrest

There is far too much squeamishness regarding organ donation and transplant. Some of it is down to emotional attachment and denial, which is to be expected. Much of it is due to our own death anxiety, again an evolutionarily adaptation one can assume. Then there’s the question of religion, which muddies the waters of many a debate.

Regardless, it is time …

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