All posts containing "milk"
- August 18, 2010
- 09:23 PM
- 66 views
More poop Mommy; I'm hungry!
by The Science Pundit in The Science Pundit
A few years ago, a cousin of mine told me the story of the time she was at a public swimming pool (in Utah, I believe) when her infant son demanded to be fed. She did what came naturally: she began to breastfeed her son. This act didn't go over very well with at least one of the pool's patrons, who came over to my cousin and sneered "That's disgusting! I have young children and they don't need to see that!" My cousin mused on how curious it was that this lady wasn't bothered by her children ........ Read more »
Hsu, M., Hsu, Y., & Wu, W. (2002) Consumption of flea faeces and eggs by larvae of the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 16(4), 445-447. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.2002.00388.x
- July 29, 2010
- 03:51 PM
- 106 views
Hubble Bubble
by The Astronomist in The Astronomist.
The Copernican principle holds that humans are not privileged observers of the Universe. Copernicus stated that the Earth is not at the center of the solar system or at any particularly special position in the heavens. Modern cosmology has extended this idea to reason that the earth does not occupy any unique position in the Universe. Modern philosophy of science pushes the principle even further to conclude that every observer (even if they be they little green men) should reason as if they wer........ Read more »
Adam Moss, James P. Zibin, & Douglas Scott. (2010) Precision Cosmology Defeats Void Models for Acceleration. arXiv preprint. arXiv: 1007.3725v1
Conley, A., Carlberg, R., Guy, J., Howell, D., Jha, S., Riess, A., & Sullivan, M. (2007) Is There Evidence for a Hubble Bubble? The Nature of Type Ia Supernova Colors and Dust in External Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal, 664(1). DOI: 10.1086/520625
- July 19, 2010
- 07:05 AM
- 106 views
Sex after dawn: Marriage and natural selection
by Jeremy Yoder in Denim and Tweed
The book Sex at Dawn, by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, has had a lot of press in the last month—it first popped up on my radar with Eric Michael Johnson's review for SEED, and then it became unavoidable (for me, anyway) when Dan Savage devoted a whole column and podcast to it. The thesis of Sex at Dawn is that early humans were highly promiscuous, and that modern expectations of monogamy are probably not consistent with our biology. I haven't read the book yet, but the discussion surrou........ Read more »
Gillespie, D., Lahdenperä, M., Russell, A., & Lummaa, V. (2010) Pair-bonding modifies the age-specific intensities of natural selection on human female fecundity. The American Naturalist, 176(2), 159-69. DOI: 10.1086/653668
- July 17, 2010
- 11:35 PM
- 114 views
Quasars in the very early universe
by Charles Daney in Science and Reason
Quasars are powered by the gravitational (potential) energy of their central supermassive black holes. However, their distinctive features – their extremely high luminosity in particular – are very dependent on characteristics of matter close to the black hole. Most supermassive black holes (SMBH), including those at the centers of the Milky Way and our close neighbor M31 (Andromeda), are responsible for fairly small amounts of radiation in any part of the electromagnetic spectrum. T........ Read more »
Jiang, L., Fan, X., Brandt, W., Carilli, C., Egami, E., Hines, D., Kurk, J., Richards, G., Shen, Y., Strauss, M.... (2010) Dust-free quasars in the early Universe. Nature, 464(7287), 380-383. DOI: 10.1038/nature08877
- July 7, 2010
- 06:14 AM
- 39 views
Fat – I’m Not To Blame Its My Bugs!
by Michael Ash in Nutri-Link Ltd - Clinical Education
A trial to see if the ingestion of a probiotic bacterium enriched drink might have a beneficial impact on central obesity was funded by Snow Brand Milk Products company in Japan and the results were published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition this June 2010. [i]
Whilst it may seem a stretch that bacteria can [...]... Read more »
Kadooka Y, Sato M, Imaizumi K, Ogawa A, Ikuyama K, Akai Y, Okano M, Kagoshima M, & Tsuchida T. (2010) Regulation of abdominal adiposity by probiotics (Lactobacillus gasseri SBT2055) in adults with obese tendencies in a randomized controlled trial. European journal of clinical nutrition, 64(6), 636-43. PMID: 20216555
Bäckhed F, Ding H, Wang T, Hooper LV, Koh GY, Nagy A, Semenkovich CF, & Gordon JI. (2004) The gut microbiota as an environmental factor that regulates fat storage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(44), 15718-23. PMID: 15505215
Naoki Takemura, Takuma Okubo, & Kei Sonoyama. (2010) Lactobacillus plantarum strain No. 14 reduces adipocyte size in mice fed high-fat diet. Experimental Biology and Medicine . info:/20558839
- July 5, 2010
- 06:06 AM
- 135 views
Large flat whites taste stronger than regular flat whites
by Lorimer Moseley in BodyInMind
Australia is, I think, the home of the Flat White – a coffee that is a bit like a latte with less milk and that has quite recently started infiltrating the UK coffee scene. Of course, Monmouth at Borough Market has been doing a very good flat white for a few years, but then again, [...]... Read more »
Crisinel AS, & Spence C. (2010) A sweet sound? Food names reveal implicit associations between taste and pitch. Perception, 39(3), 417-25. PMID: 20465176
- July 2, 2010
- 05:45 AM
- 134 views
In the news this month: a drop in eta Carinae's stellar wind
are the violent explosions of massive stars, so bright that the events can be seen in distant galaxies. But not all apparent explosions are genuine supernovae. Some fall into the category of , the sudden increase in brightness of a star without the terminal explosion. One such impostor event was the , a star which is amongst the most massive known in the Milky Way. Located 7,500 light years away in the constellation of Carina, the star is five million times more luminous than the Sun and an est........ Read more »
Mehner, A., Davidson, K., Humphreys, R., Martin, J., Ishibashi, K., Ferland, G., & Walborn, N. (2010) A SEA CHANGE IN ETA CARINAE . The Astrophysical Journal, 717(1). DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/717/1/L22
- June 18, 2010
- 07:00 PM
- 151 views
Heat treating stone for tools: Ethnoarchaeological insights
by Julien Riel-Salvatore in A Very Remote Period Indeed
I'm rereading a terrific paper by Kathryn W. Arthur (2010), in which she describes the acquisition and development of stone tool manufacture and maintenance among a group of Konso women in SW Ethiopia (the stone tools they produce they subsequently use in hideworking) . While I'll have much more to say about it in its own right, since I've been doing a bit of thinking about prehistoric heat treating of lithic raw material these past few days, I was struck by this passage:The majority of hidework........ Read more »
Arthur, Kathryn Weedman. (2010) Feminine Knowledge and Skill Reconsidered: Women and Flaked Stone Tools. American Anthropologist, 112(2), 228-243. info:/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01222.x
Brown, K., Marean, C., Herries, A., Jacobs, Z., Tribolo, C., Braun, D., Roberts, D., Meyer, M., & Bernatchez, J. (2009) Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans. Science, 325(5942), 859-862. DOI: 10.1126/science.1175028
- June 10, 2010
- 05:30 AM
- 122 views
Dairy prevents heart attacks?
by Yoni Freedhoff in Weighty Matters
A sarcastic thank you to Scott Gavura from Science Based Medicine and Science Based Pharmacy whose tweet lead me to suffer through reading the latest in a never ending stream of Big Milk sponsored published info-studies.This one?Funded by Big Milk with a first author who has had speaking gigs with the Swedish Dairy Association and the International Dairy Federation this study has been reported as being proof that dairy consumption reduces the risk of heart attacks.The study?The authors, via a pr........ Read more »
Warensjo, E., Jansson, J., Cederholm, T., Boman, K., Eliasson, M., Hallmans, G., Johansson, I., & Sjogren, P. (2010) Biomarkers of milk fat and the risk of myocardial infarction in men and women: a prospective, matched case-control study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.29054
- June 1, 2010
- 10:07 PM
- 71 views
Pesticides Linked to ADHD: Salad with a Side of Suspected Toxins
by Polly Palumbo in Momma Data
I try to buy organic fruits and veggies, at least the dirty dozen. Organic milk too. Pasta, once or twice. Pajamas, never. So you may not be surprised to learn I read the new study linking ADHD to pesticides as my children gobbled up grapes that were not organic, this being New Jersey and not the West Coast where I imagine pesticide-free is an achievable if not cost-effect lifestyle. After finishing the article published in the curre........ Read more »
Bouchard, M., Bellinger, D., Wright, R., & Weisskopf, M. (2010) Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Urinary Metabolites of Organophosphate Pesticides. PEDIATRICS, 125(6). DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-3058
- May 24, 2010
- 03:22 PM
- 106 views
Purifying bacterial DNA from contaminated food samples
by epibio in EpiCentral
Contaminated food is becoming an increasing bacteria are the most common cause of food-borne illnesses. Lambertz et al. at the National Food Administration in Finland describe a sensitive and specific real-time PCR assay to detect the food-borne pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Traditional culture-based methods are limited by the low isolation rate of this Gram-negative bacterium in naturally contaminated samples. Using the MasterPure™ Complete DNA and RNA Purification Kit, the rese........ Read more »
Lambertz, S. et al. (2008) TaqMan-Based Real-Time PCR Method for Detection of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Food. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74(20), 6465-6469. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01459-08
- May 21, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 136 views
On the recent systematic food allergy review
by Colby in Nutritional Blogma
All over the media last week were reports that the prevalence of food allergies is grossly overestimated. That is indeed good news, let’s have a quick look at the systematic review that led to these statements (1).
The review focused on foods which account for over 50% of food allergies: cow’s milk, hen’s egg, peanut, tree [...]... Read more »
Chafen, J., Newberry, S., Riedl, M., Bravata, D., Maglione, M., Suttorp, M., Sundaram, V., Paige, N., Towfigh, A., Hulley, B.... (2010) Diagnosing and Managing Common Food Allergies: A Systematic Review. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 303(18), 1848-1856. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.582
- April 25, 2010
- 11:42 PM
- 195 views
Active galaxies and supermassive black hole jets
by Charles Daney in Science and Reason
Most galaxies have a supermassive black hole in their center – sometimes even more than one. These black holes can have masses up to ten billion solar masses (1010 M⊙) or more. One of the largest known examples is part of a binary system, and it weighs in at 1.8×1010 M⊙ – see here, here, or here. (There are exceptions, such as the nearby M33, which apparently does not have a central black hole of mass more than 3000 M⊙.)All black holes gravitationally attract ........ Read more »
Evans, D., Reeves, J., Hardcastle, M., Kraft, R., Lee, J., & Virani, S. (2010) THE HARD X-RAY VIEW OF REFLECTION, ABSORPTION, AND THE DISK-JET CONNECTION IN THE RADIO-LOUD AGN 3C 33. The Astrophysical Journal, 710(1), 859-868. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/710/1/859
- April 14, 2010
- 05:07 AM
- 188 views
Jewel Wasps manipulate specific brain centers to turn their prey into zombies
by Björn Brembs in bjoern.brembs.blog
Jewel Wasps (Ampulex compressa) are amazing creatures and their form of parental care has received quite some attention not onkly by scientists but also from the general media, and rightfully so. This parasitoid wasp serves for its young by hunting cockroaches as food. But it doesn't serve the cockroach to the offspring in pieces. No, it first performs brain surgery on the 'roaches to render them docile and then lays an egg onto the pacified animal from which a larva will hatch which then burr........ Read more »
Gal, R., & Libersat, F. (2010) A Wasp Manipulates Neuronal Activity in the Sub-Esophageal Ganglion to Decrease the Drive for Walking in Its Cockroach Prey. PLoS ONE, 5(4). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010019
- April 13, 2010
- 01:20 PM
- 138 views
ResearchBlogCast: Milk tolerance among ancient “swedes”
by Dave Munger in ResearchBlogging.org News
Each week, Research Bloggers Kevin Zelnio, Razib Khan, and I will choose a journal article to discuss in podcast form. We’ll make sure it’s an article that we or someone else has covered on their blog, so ideally, you’ll read the blog post first to get a general understanding of the research, then listen to [...]... Read more »
Malmstrom, H., Linderholm, A., Liden, K., Stora, J., Molnar, P., Holmlund, G., Jakobsson, M., & Gotherstrom, A. (2010) High frequency of lactose intolerance in a prehistoric hunter-gatherer population in northern Europe. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10(1), 89. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-89
- April 12, 2010
- 06:41 AM
- 249 views
Light from a distant black hole pierces the Milky Way
by Professor Astronomy in Professor Astronomy
Video credit: University of Michigan / Boston University / Cosmovision
We went looking for a small black hole in our neighborhood, maybe a few hundred light-years away, and instead we found a supermassive black hole nearly 7 billion light-years away. Sometimes astronomy can be that way...
Back in February, my colleagues and I were looking at white dwarfs with the Keck I telescope in Hawaii. Before our second night started, the astronomers at the neighboring teles........ Read more »
J. Vandenbroucke, R. Buehler, M. Ajello, K. Bechtol, A. Bellini, M. Bolte, C. C. Cheung, F. Civano, D. Donato, L. Fuhrmann.... (2010) Discovery of a GeV blazar shining through the Galactic plane. Astrophysical Journal Letters. arXiv: 1004.1413v1
- March 15, 2010
- 09:52 PM
- 296 views
Discriminating Cathinone Analogs
by DrugMonkey in DrugMonkey
sourceMy Google news alert for MDMA, Ecstasy and the like has been turning up references to a cathinone analog called variously 4-methylmethcathinone (4-MMC), mephedrone (2-methylamino-1-p-tolylpropan-1-one), Meow-Meow, MMCAT and a few other things. There has been one fatality attributed* to 4-MMC that I can find and a few bits of seized-drug analysis confirming that the stuff is indeed being used. A quick scan over at PubMed finds little reported on the effects of this compound in animal models........ Read more »
DALCASON, T., YOUNG, R., & GLENNON, R. (1997) Cathinone: An Investigation of Several N-Alkyl and Methylenedioxy-Substituted Analogs. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 58(4), 1109-1116. DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(97)00323-7
- March 12, 2010
- 03:01 AM
- 248 views
Galaxies are slowly running out of gas
by Charles Daney in Science and Reason
Galaxies are made of stars, and stars are made of... gas. So a large part of understanding how galaxies evolve and grow is understanding how much "gas" (literally, not "gasoline") is present in galaxies – but has not yet been incorporated in stars – at different periods in the history of the universe.What periods of the universe are most interesting in this regard? The answer is: periods somewhat less than the first half of the universe's existence since the time of the big bang, rou........ Read more »
Tacconi, L., Genzel, R., Neri, R., Cox, P., Cooper, M., Shapiro, K., Bolatto, A., Bouché, N., Bournaud, F., Burkert, A.... (2010) High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star-forming galaxies in the young Universe. Nature, 463(7282), 781-784. DOI: 10.1038/nature08773
- March 10, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 240 views
Rattling neuroethology’s windows
by Zen Faulkes in NeuroDojo
As I’ve written recently, I don’t feel all that at home and comfortable in the field of neuroscience. I feel much more at home in the discipline of neuroethology, which investigates the neural bases of naturally occurring animal behaviour. It is populated by people who still appreciate diversity.
Having said that neuroethology is my intellectual home, I would like to rattle the windows in my own house a bit.
Neuroethology has a bunch of great people working on cool stories. And yet it is n........ Read more »
Bullock, T. (1999) Neuroethology has pregnant agendas. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, 185(4), 291-295. DOI: 10.1007/s003590050389
- March 10, 2010
- 06:15 AM
- 197 views
Vaccinia virus in Brazil: What a long, strange trip
by iayork in Mystery Rays from Outer Space
Krishna, milking a cow
Vaccinia virus is a widespread virus whose natural host remains unknown. It turns out to be pretty good at jumping across species.
Vaccinia, of course, is the vaccine against smallpox. Even though smallpox is eliminated in the wild,1 vaccinia is still very widely used in research and even, to some extent, in [...]... Read more »
Moussatché N, Damaso CR, & McFadden G. (2008) When good vaccines go wild: Feral Orthopoxvirus in developing countries and beyond. Journal of infection in developing countries, 2(3), 156-73. PMID: 19738346
Alzhanova, D., Edwards, D., Hammarlund, E., Scholz, I., Horst, D., Wagner, M., Upton, C., Wiertz, E., Slifka, M., & Früh, K. (2009) Cowpox Virus Inhibits the Transporter Associated with Antigen Processing to Evade T Cell Recognition. Cell Host , 6(5), 433-445. DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2009.09.013
Essbauer, S., Pfeffer, M., & Meyer, H. (2010) Zoonotic poxviruses☆. Veterinary Microbiology, 140(3-4), 229-236. DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.08.026
DRUMOND, B., LEITE, J., DAFONSECA, F., BONJARDIM, C., FERREIRA, P., & KROON, E. (2008) Brazilian Vaccinia virus strains are genetically divergent and differ from the Lister vaccine strain. Microbes and Infection, 10(2), 185-197. DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2007.11.005
Abrahão, J., Guedes, M., Trindade, G., Fonseca, F., Campos, R., Mota, B., Lobato, Z., Silva-Fernandes, A., Rodrigues, G., Lima, L.... (2009) One More Piece in the VACV Ecological Puzzle: Could Peridomestic Rodents Be the Link between Wildlife and Bovine Vaccinia Outbreaks in Brazil?. PLoS ONE, 4(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007428
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