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POPSSome coma patients able to learn basic responses The fascinating (but preliminary) findings, presented in Nature Neuroscience, may eventually help doctors evaluate coma patients’ potential for recovery. The authors found a strong correlation between cognitively damaged patients who seemed to exhibit such learning and those who showed some level of improvement months after their injury, as measured by a standard coma recovery scale
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POPS"If science knew all the answers, it would stop" Hilarious pro-science, anti-flimflam rant by Irish comedian Dara O' Briain (sorry, I'm too lazy to pull out the character map for the diacritical mark), who happens to have a little bit of a scientific background.
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POPSNew NATO S-G wants to make its reach global Some things never change. Just like 10 years ago, NATO is still an obsolete bureaucracy trying to find a new mission to justify its existence. The temporary sense of relevance provided by the post-9/11 invocation of the mutual-defense provision didn't make NATO fundamentally useful in the long term.
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POPSActual Tea Party Quotes So one of them is blaming Obama for two wars that started under Bush and a law that was both passed and renewed under Bush. Then we have a couple who claims that Democrats everywhere are "demonizing" the troops. Now, there may well be fringe activists within the Democratic Party who do such things, but Democratic politicians? Especially when a Democratic president wants to commit more troops to one of the wars? The fact that a piece like this, which seems to be trying hard to be favorable to the Tea Party goers, couldn't find more coherent people to quote gives me real pause.
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