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What Doctors Don’t Know About the Drugs They Prescribe

April 7, 2013

Ben Goldacre Physician, author TEDTalks can sometimes portray science in triumphalist tones, with fabulous innovations that are changing the world forever. But the real action in science is often around dirty, messy, angry problems, and my TEDTalk is about the dirtiest I’ve seen yet. Doctors need the results of clinical trials to make informed...
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Nazi-Acquired Buddha Statue Came From Outer Space

September 28, 2012
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Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Date: 26 September 2012 Time: 01:12 PM ET A Buddha statue dating back to the 8th to 10th centuries is carved from a rare iron meteorite. CREDIT: Elmar Buchne It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones’ plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe...
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The ten habits of remarkably charismatic people

September 24, 2012
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Some people instantly make us feel important. Some people instantly make us feel special. Some people light up a room just by walking in. We can’t always define it, but some people have it: They’re naturally charismatic. Unfortunately, natural charisma quickly loses its impact. Familiarity breeds, well, familiarity. But some people are remarkably charismatic:...
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Man enters hospital for kidney stone, leaves as a woman

May 25, 2012
Support: Stevie's wife Debbie, right, stood by her after the discovery and they are still together

A husband and father of six children went into hospital for a kidney stone and came out as a woman – and she doesn’t mind one bit. Steve Crecelius says he felt ‘validated’ when a nurse reading his ultrasound said, “Huh, this says you’re a female”. Steve attended a Denver, Colorado hospital due to...
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Centuries old bible mean Christianitys downfall

May 25, 2012
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File © Iran claims a recently discovered, centuries old bible will prove once and for all that Islam is the one true religion. The bible, confiscated from smugglers by Turkish authorities in 2000 is believed to come from the fifth century and is made from animal hide. Experts believe it may be a copy...
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BRAVE FACE: How Aesha Mohammadzai is rebuilding her life after being left for dead

May 21, 2012
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AESHA Mohammadzai is a 22-year-old woman who’s experienced enough pain for 22 lifetimes. She’s the Afghan teenager, who at 18 fled to the United States after being left severely disfigured for defying the Taliban. Ms Mohammadzai had her nose and ears cut off by her brutal husband for attempting to escape their arranged marriage....
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Church airbrushes out leader’s $30K watch

April 7, 2012
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This photo, posted on the church’s web-site caused a scandal when the site’s editors erased the patriarch’s watch. Photo: AP. Source: Sunday Herald Sun IT could have been an Easter miracle but the mystery of a “disappearing” $30,000 watch from the wrist of the most senior member of the Russian Orthodox Church has actually...
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iJourney: An Ego Strategy to Avoid Surrender

March 27, 2012
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What is conventionally called “love” is an ego strategy to avoid surrender. You are looking to someone to give you that which can only come to you in the state of surrender. The ego uses that person as a substitute to avoid having to surrender. The Spanish language is the most honest in this...
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George Clooney arrested at Sudan protest

March 17, 2012
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Hollywood movie star George Clooney has been arrested at Sudan’s embassy in Washington at a protest about the escalating emergency in Sudan. The Sudanese government has been blocking humanitarian aid from reaching a volatile border region where hundreds of thousands of people are short of food. Clooney, his father Nick and other activists ignored...
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Minhaj Gedi Farah becomes face of hope from the famine

November 11, 2011
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Then-seven-month old Minhaj Gedi Farah weighed 3.1kg when he first arrived in the Dadaab refuge camp in Kenya. Picture: AP WHEN the world first bothered to notice the famine sweeping east Africa, one child seemed to appear in media outlets everywhere. HE’S truly one of the lucky ones. Minhaj Gedi Farah was seven months...
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