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Josh Turner - Your Man Lyrics Baby, lock the doors and turn the lights down low Put some music on that's soft and slow Baby, we ain't got no place to go I hope you understand I've been thinking 'bout this all day long Never felt a feeling quite this strong I can't believe how much it turns me on Just to be your man There's no hurry, don't you worry We can take our time Come a little closer, let's go over What I had in mind Baby, lock the doors and turn the lights down low Put some music on that's soft and slow Baby, we ain't got no place to go I hope you understand I've been thinking 'bout this all day long Never felt…

bpod-mrc: X-Rayed Skeleton A web of chromatin grows along the DNA inside the nucleus of our cells – it’s represented in bright colours in this mouse nerve cell. The skeleton-like chromatin changes as stem cells develop into nerve cells, shaping the life inside by controlling access to the DNA. Understandably, scientists want to take a close look at chromatin, but many have found it too sensitive to lab techniques. Here, x-rays fired into the nucleus from many angles, gently highlight two different types of chromatin in 3D without causing any damage. One form of chromatin (blue green) is surrounded and linked to heterochromatin (red-yellow), a more compact form which …

Stuck at your work desk? Standing up and walking around for five minutes every hour during the workday could lift your mood, combat lethargy without reducing focus and attention, and even dull hunger pangs, according to an instructive new study. The study, which also found that frequent, brief walking breaks were more effective at improving well-being than a single, longer walk before work, could provide the basis for a simple, realistic New Year’s exercise resolution for those of us bound to our desks all day. There is growing evidence, of course, that long bouts of uninterrupted sitting can have undesirable physical and emotional consequences. Studies have sho…

While many paid tribute to Carrie Fisher's legacy on Tuesday by sharing their favorite scenes from Star Wars or When Harry Met Sally, some fans chose to remember the actress for her work destigmatizing mental illness. According to the New York Times, MTV senior political correspondent Ana Marie Cox helped kick off the trend by writing on Twitter, "I’m pretty open about being in recovery; I’ve been more circumspect about mental illness. In honor of Carrie Fisher: I’m bipolar, too." Soon the hashtag #InHonorOfCarrie had over 180,000 unique visitors on Twitter with many revealing their mental-health issues. Fisher was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was 25,…

whitehouse: “Wars can end. The most bitter of adversaries can become the strongest of allies. The fruits of peace always outweigh the plunder of war. This is the enduring truth of this hallowed harbor. It is here that we remember that even when hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of tribalism is at its most primal, we must resist the urge to turn inward. We must resist the urge to demonize those who are different. The sacrifice made here, the anguish of war, reminds us to seek that divine spark that is common to all humanity. It insists that we strive to be what our Japanese friends called otagai no tame ni— ‘with and for each other.’” —President Obama during a histo…

medresearch: Study: Nanoparticles Could Help Overcome Treatment-Resistant Breast Cancer Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have been able to generate multifunctional RNA nanoparticles that could overcome treatment resistance in breast cancer, potentially making existing treatments more effective in these patients. The study, published in the Dec. 14, 2016, online edition of American Chemical Society’s ACS Nano and led by Xiaoting Zhang, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Cancer Biology at the UC College of Medicine, shows that using a nanodelivery system to target HER2-positive breast cancer and stop production of the prote…

medresearch: Study: Nanoparticles Could Help Overcome Treatment-Resistant Breast Cancer Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have been able to generate multifunctional RNA nanoparticles that could overcome treatment resistance in breast cancer, potentially making existing treatments more effective in these patients. The study, published in the Dec. 14, 2016, online edition of American Chemical Society’s ACS Nano and led by Xiaoting Zhang, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Cancer Biology at the UC College of Medicine, shows that using a nanodelivery system to target HER2-positive breast cancer and stop production of the prote…

neurosciencestuff: (Image caption: A visualization of the brain, reconstructed from MRI scans, shows tracts of white matter connecting different regions of the brain to one another. A new study that uses computational modeling to investigate brain stimulation finds that stimulating network hubs - areas of the brain that are strongly connected to other parts via white matter - results in the global activation of many brain regions. Credit: Jean Vettel, Army Research Laboratory/PLOS Computational Biology) New study describes what happens when the brain is artificially stimulated Stimulating the brain via electricity or other means may help to ease the symptoms of variou…

neurosciencestuff: (Image caption: A visualization of the brain, reconstructed from MRI scans, shows tracts of white matter connecting different regions of the brain to one another. A new study that uses computational modeling to investigate brain stimulation finds that stimulating network hubs - areas of the brain that are strongly connected to other parts via white matter - results in the global activation of many brain regions. Credit: Jean Vettel, Army Research Laboratory/PLOS Computational Biology) New study describes what happens when the brain is artificially stimulated Stimulating the brain via electricity or other means may help to ease the symptoms of variou…

life: Debbie Reynolds has died at the age of 84. She is pictured here in an early photo shoot for LIFE magazine in 1950, 2 years before she starred in Singin’ in the Rain. (Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #DebbieReynolds World News

Mysterious Tears... CRYING accompanies us from the day we are born. One expert explains that as babies, crying became our “acoustic umbilical cord,” because we cry to have our emotional and physical needs cared for. But why do we shed tears as we grow older, when we can communicate in other ways? Emotional tears flood our eyes for a variety of reasons. We may cry because of grief, frustration, or physical or psychological suffering. But euphoria, relief, and achievement likewise provoke emotional tears—in this case, tears of joy. Tears can also be contagious. “If I see someone else weeping—whatever the cause—I can’t help but feel moved to tears,” says María. May…

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In lots of measurable ways, life gets better as you get older: Studies indicate that people get more agreeable and conscientious and trusting as they age, and having survived the ravages of time, they gain in wisdom, too. Especially, according to a new paper, in bed. Published in the Journal of Sexual Research, a research team led by University of Minnesota postdoc Miri Forbes analyzed data on 6,000 people aged 20 to 93. The responses were survey questions completed by mail in 1995, 2003, and 2013. As Forbes and her colleagues note in a new post about their research at the Conversation, people’s outlook on sex shifted as they got older — caring more about the “t…

Date: December 20, 2016 Source: University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences Summary: Compared with the total time spent on social media, use of multiple platforms is more strongly associated with depression and anxiety among young adults, researchers have found in a national survey. People who report using seven to 11 social media platforms had more than three times the risk of depression and anxiety than their peers who use zero to two platforms, even after adjusting for the total time spent on social media overall. Compared with the total time spent on social media, use of multiple platforms is more strongly associat…

Record-breaking desert rains send waterfalls down Australia’s Ayers Rock Strong winds and unprecedented torrential rains have triggered flash floods in Australia’s Northern Territories, forcing mass evacuations and sending waterfalls down the landmark Uluru/Ayers Rock sandstone formation. The desert area witnessed some 23.2cm of rain within 24 hours after a storm reached the region on Christmas night, which brought the total amount of rainfall to 37.3cm in December, renewing a monthly record. World News

A lawyer died and arrived at the Pearly Gates. Saint Peter asked him, "What have you done to merit entrance into Heaven?" The lawyer thought a moment, then said, "A week ago, I gave a quarter to a homeless person on the street." Saint Peter asked Gabriel to check this out in the records, and after a moment Gabriel affirmed that it was true. Saint Peter said, "Well , that's fine, but it's not really quite enough to get you into Heaven." The Lawyer said, "Wait, wait! There's more! Three years ago, I also gave a homeless person a quarter." Saint Peter nodded to Gabriel, who, after a moment, nodded back to affirm that it was true. Saint Pe…

Actually, the Big Bang theory does not postulate that the universe was all contained in a single point. The theory only postuates that early in the universe, it was extremely compact, hot, and expanding rapidly. It makes no attempt to extrapolate to zero time, because the math fails, and every professional in the business thinks that a failure in the math means that there is some new physics principle at work that will alter the equations for those super-early moments. That doesn’t stop people from ignoring the mathematical failure and postulating what did happen. Indeed, that is the way physics progresses. But the honest answer is that for the very early time, when the …

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