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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

People who don't stink still wear deodorant | Synopsis

People who don't stink still wear deodorant

e-science: identificato in Sardegna un gene responsabile della sclerosi multipla (Nature Genetics, 09 May 2010)
e-science: identificato in Sardegna un gene responsabile della sclerosi multipla (Nature Genetics, 09 May 2010) by zipckr
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For most, putting on deodorant is a necessary ritual on par with brushing teeth or washing hands. But for people who produce no armpit stench, it is totally unnecessary. Despite that, nearly three-quarters of those people still use deodorant daily, a new study finds. The findings, published Thursday in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, show just how much a person's daily life is dictated by what's considered normal. "They're spending their money, exposing their skin to what may in a few instances not be good for their skin. It sort of suggests to me that there are a lot of conformists around," said study co-author Ian Day, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Bristol. [10 Odd Facts About the Female Body] Several years ago ago, scientists discovered that a gene called ABCC11 determined whether people produced  wet or dry earwax.

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  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Iceman mummy finds his closest relatives | Synopsis

Iceman mummy finds his closest relatives

[Piazetta Monteoliveto, Naples, Italy] (LOC)
[Piazetta Monteoliveto, Naples, Italy] (LOC) by The Library of Congress
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Excerpt:

SAN FRANCISCO? tzi the Iceman, an astonishingly well-preserved Neolithic mummy found in the Italian Alps in 1991, was a native of Central Europe, not a first-generation?migr? from Sardinia, new research shows. And genetically, he looked a lot like other Stone Age farmers throughout Europe. The new findings, reported Thursday (Nov. 8) here at the American Society of Human Genetics conference, support the theory that farmers, and not just the technology of farming, spread during prehistoric times from the Middle East all the way to Finland. "The idea is that the spread of farming and agriculture, right now we have good evidence that it was also associated with a movement of people and not only technology," said study co-author Martin Sikora, a geneticist at Stanford University. In what may be the world's oldest cold case,?

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Chris Gignoux

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0.0746514"I think it's really intriguing," Gignoux said. "The more that people are sequencing these ancient genomes from Europe, that we're really starting to see the impact of farmers moving into Europe."
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Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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