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Oregon Health & Science University scientists have successfully produced functional auditory hair cells in the cochlea of the mouse inner ear. The breakthrough suggests that a new therapy may be developed in the future to successfully treat hearing loss.
Treatment For Hearing Loss? Scientists Grow Hair Cells Involved in Hearing
why haven’t I heard this song before?
Perhaps not weathering the years so well.
THE LAS VEGAS STORY – Music by Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics by Harold Adamson
YouTube – My Resistance Is Low – Jane Russell, Hoagy Carmichael
One of the only songs that occured between 1927 and 2008. There were some other sounds but this and about four other songs were actually songs.
Almost 12 percent of the deaths among Native Americans and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says.
A white police lieutenant received a three-day unpaid suspension for comments in a conversation with a black detective that “deeply offended” the white police chief, but did not offend the detective.
A particularly optimistic design firm in Dubai called Timelinks has proposed designs for the Ziggurat, a complete city to be layered inside of a massive pyramid that could serve as home for a million people at a time.
Dubai: City-In-a-Pyramid Could House a Million Dubaians, Power Itself
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, in a landing configuration was photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Module Columbia.
Deaf people could one day have their hearing restored through a groundbreaking gene therapy technique, a new study suggests.
November 2, 1943 Himmler’s telegram to Mufti: ‘To the Grand Mufti: The National Socialist movement of Greater Germany has, since its inception, inscribed upon its flag the fight against the world Jewry. [...] In the recognition of this enemy and of the common struggle against it lies the firm foundation of the natural alliance that exists between the National Socialist Greater Germany and the freedom-loving Muslims of the whole world. [...]‘ Reichsfuehrer S.S. Heinrich Himmler
Hitler: Ach, der Jews, I hate them! Mufti of Jerusalem: Me too! Hitler: BFF!
From the lawyer’s Inflammatory and provocative cases to his controversial terrorist links, Barbet Schroeder follows the winding trail left by this ‘devil’s advocate’, as Jacques Verges forges his unique path in law and politics.
Set out below are more than 500 of the western world’s greatest books, spanning the period from BC to 1954.
Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next. [Lat., Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus, Et certam praesens vix habet hora fidem.] – Epistoloe Ex Ponto (IV, 3, 49)
Aquila non captat muscas – The eagle does not catch flies. Aut inveniam viam aut faciam – I shall either find or make a path. Omni solum forti patria – Every land is a brave man’s country. Su se robore firmat – He strengthens himself by his own might. Latin sounds smart.
A new book on US design guru Buckminster Fuller engages with the breadth of his interests, says Ken Powell
Thinking outside the box with Buckminster Fuller – Building Design
Jurors heard graphic and disturbing testimony Monday in the child sex trial involving the former pastor of a Ponchatoula church.
WAFB Channel 9, Baton Rouge, LA |Prosecutors play taped confessions in former pastor’s trial
Turbo-folk stars glorified the criminal milieu surrounding Milosevic. They may have wallowed in drugs, but they embraced a mystical patriotism, too.
Zeljko Cvijanovic: Why Serbia stopped dancing to turbo-folk | World news | The Guardian
