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Great Holiday Card

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Best Season to Get #Pregnant: not May. Unfortunately, winter babies will suffer more #healthproblems!
http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/07/best-season-get-pregnant

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We’ve known for a long
time that summer babies are healthier than winter babies but not the why. …
Right. And these are babies that are born in the summer versus those that are born in the
winter. There’s been this correlation that’s been around for a long time. Scientists have
seen that children that are born in the winter tend to have more health problems later in
life. They tend to be slower growers, have higher incidences of mental illness, and even
early death.
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Around 12 July interesting discussion of correlation between the months of ones birth and later
health problems. Winter born children are more susceptible to health problems. The theory
proposed is that this has to due with flu and the shortening and premature birth.

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/story/5-biggest-trends-biopharma-rd-2013/2013-12-20?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#more

Battle for the Americas: between N & S American #fauna coming together after the Isthmus of Panama was formed 3 Mya
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6143/230.summary

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Alfred Russel Wallace, the father of biogeography, recognized the faunal melting pot created when the tip of Central America collided with South America and forged the Isthmus of Panama, and in 1876 he postulated what is now called the Great American Biotic Interchange. The story has a dark ending: South American fauna compete poorly at home and away, and many species go extinct.
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Interesting discussion of the Isthmus of Panama. The Isthmus was formed about three million years ago from volcanic action and divided the two oceans. It allowed two very different groups of fauna, that from North America and that from South America to come together. Most of the South American fauna expired as predicted by Wallace.

THE POLITICAL SCENE

STATE OF DECEPTION

Why won’t the President rein in the intelligence community?

BY RYAN LIZZA

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Good read on how 9/11 led to secret laws & courts & how they turned the US into a “State of Deception”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/16/131216fa_fact_lizza HT @wcarey22

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ipad-family-board-games-for-christmas-afternoon/#twitter

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/22/magazine/ebays-strategy-for-taking-on-amazon.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/missing-links-access-to-papers-raw-data-plummets-by-17-each-year/282548/

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http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/424

mis-sense change (G84E) in HOXB13 was found overall in 1.4% of prostate cancer cases and in 0.1% of unaffected controls

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22236224