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Free evidence-based pandemic H1N1 coverage from EBSCO

From: EBSCO Publishing
Sent: Friday, 20 November 2009 8:08 AM
To: Andrew Mitchell
Subject: EBSCO's Continuous Pandemic H1N1 Coverage

Dear EBSCO Customer,

Early in September, as public concern about Pandemic H1N1 and the upcoming flu season began to grow, the medical and nursing editors from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) responded by offering the latest evidence-based, flu-related information for free.

As the pandemic expands, we continue to offer free flu information resources, located at www.ebscohost.com/flu. We are pleased to provide public support via continuously updated, evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center, EBSCO's clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center. Please visit this site often, post links to the site on your home page, and feel free to share, post, and email this link to your colleagues, patrons, family and friends.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank those who have provided such positive feedback from this effort. To learn about EBSCO's editorial processes for systematically identifying, evaluating and selecting evidence, visit this page.

Sincerely,

Marcie Brown
Technical Communications Manager
EBSCO Publishing
10 Estes Street
Ipswich, MA 01938

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30 Minutes a Day — Jack Cheng

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[CG Textures] - The worlds largest free texture site

Check out this website I found at cgtextures.com

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Monbiot.com » Death Denial

There is no point in denying it: we’re losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a contagious disease. It exists in a sphere which cannot be reached by evidence or reasoned argument; any attempt to draw attention to scientific findings is greeted with furious invective. This sphere is expanding with astonishing speed.

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Dodge Viper logo is an upside-down Daffy Duck. - Boing Boing

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The 5 Phases of Caffeine Intake - The Oatmeal

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A crustacean eye that rivals the best optical equipment - "Go Evolution"

Normally, such a structure should still perform poorly over the entire visible range. What makes the structure work is that the tubes are made of membranes containing molecules that also have a refractive index that differs depending on the orientation of the light field. Now, we have four different refractive indexes: two associated with the form birefringence and two associated with the membranes. All four of them vary depending on the color of the light coming down the tubes. The form birefringence changes in just the right way to compensate the changes due to the membrane, providing a quarter waveplate that works well across the entire visible spectrum.

How good is this? A simple quarter waveplate made from a piece of quartz is accurate to within about ±20 degrees over the entire visible range—this is on the bad side of absolute junk. A quarter waveplate that makes use of form birefringence for better performance clocks in at around ±9 degrees. R8 beats this by a factor of three with a variation of just ±2.7 degrees over the visible range.

All I have to say at this point is: go evolution.

Contrary to the author's statement this research is, of course, evidence of Intelligent Desgin. How could 'evolution' (random change over time) result in something so complex?

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Why am I here? An effective philosophy

Sometimes just a few words say about all that needs to be said:

  1. Your life is your own damn fault.
  2. Take responsibility for it.
  3. Learn what you need to do to fix it.
  4. Take action on what you’ve learned.
  5. Enjoy the results.

– Larry Winget

This is a bloody good philosophy in my book.

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Showcase Of Beautiful Textured Web Designs « Smashing Magazine

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