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Korry Busch

What's your flavor? : Flavors.me - 0 views

flavors.me

personal website webdesign

shared by Korry Busch on 26 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Korry Busch on 26 Jul 10
     
    Another personal online portal.
KiOntey Turner

Wilderness: Chest Injuries Treatment: First Aid Information for Wilderness: Chest Injuries - 0 views

firstaid.webmd.com/rness-chest-injuries-treatment

chest injuries emergency

shared by KiOntey Turner on 30 Jun 10 - Cached
  • The injured person should be given  oxygen at a rate appropriate to the clinical situation.
  • The neck and back of the injured person should be immobilized after a possible chest injury.
  • KiOntey Turner on 30 Jun 10
     
    Information pertaining to an event of an emergency to the chest area.
Damonte Johnson

News : New study provides guidelines for safe levels of iPod listening - 1 views

www.deafnessresearch.org.uk/els+of+iPod+listening+3211.twl

study news iPod deafness

shared by Damonte Johnson on 30 Jun 10 - Cached
  • The study, by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital in Boston, indicates a typical person can safely listen to an iPod for 4.6 hours per day at 70 percent volume using stock earphones, according to Cory Portnuff, a doctoral researcher in CU-Boulder's speech language and hearing sciences department.
  • The researchers found that listening to music at full volume through an iPod for more than five minutes a day using stock earphones can increase the risk of hearing loss in a typical person
  • Typical individuals can tolerate about two hours a day of a decibel unit known as 91-dBA before risking hearing loss, Portnuff said. The term dBA stands for "A-weighted decibels, a scale that takes into account that the human ear has different sensitivities to different frequency levels,"
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  • Loud sounds can stress and potentially damage delicate hair cells in the inner ear that convert mechanical vibrations, or sound, to electrical signals that the brain interprets as sound. "Over time, the hair cells can become permanently damaged and no longer work
  • No one set of earphones is more dangerous than another," he said. "While isolator style earphones are capable of producing higher levels of sound than earbuds, most people use them at a lower volume than earbuds because they block out background noise. It's important to monitor the level of volume control settings."
  • Damonte Johnson on 30 Jun 10
     
    Website specifically on iPod vollume levels. It was a study done back in 2006 but with the new iPods with louder music it can only get worse.
alex walters

Sense of touch influences our decisions - life - 04 July 2010 - New Scientist - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...-influences-our-decisions.html

touch sense Massachusetts Institute of technology

shared by alex walters on 06 Jul 10 - Cached
  • alex walters on 06 Jul 10
     
    This article is about how the sense of touch can influence a persons decision.
Thomas Bailey

YouTube - Sulfur Hexafluoride Blooper - 1 views

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sulfur hexafluoride deep voice professor Anoka-Ramsey Community College

shared by Thomas Bailey on 13 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Thomas Bailey on 13 Jul 10
     
    What happens when a person inhales sulfur hexafluride.
Korry Busch

Google Buys Metaweb, the One Company That Could Revolutionize Google Search « KurzweilAI - 0 views

www.kurzweilai.net/ld-revolutionize-google-search

google metaweb acquisition raymond kurzweil 7_19_10 Internet_Telecom News

shared by Korry Busch on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Korry Busch on 20 Jul 10
     
    Google has acquired Metaweb, which maintains a database of 12 million "entities" (persons, places, or things), and all the different ways they relate and you might refer to them.
Daphne Emrick

Survey: Teens more accepting of out-of-wedlock pregnancy - USATODAY.com - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...2010-06-03-teensex03_ST_N.htm

TEENS SURVEY SEXUAL INTERCOURSE PERCENTAGE ACCEPTANCE WEDLOCK

shared by Daphne Emrick on 19 Jul 10 - No Cached
  • Among teens in the USA, the percentage who have had sexual i
  • tercourse or say they'd be pleased if they or their partner were to get pregnant hasn't changed much since early in the decade, and there appears to be a growing acceptance of having babies outside marriage, a government report
  • said Wednesday. From 1995 to 2002, "it was pretty much across-the-board improvements in those risk factors," says lead author Joyce Abma, a statistician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. "It is a source of concern to see that forward movement kind of stalling
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  • Based on in-person interviews with 1,381 girls and 1,386 boys ages 15 to 19 in 2006-2008, more than four in 10 never-married teens in the USA have had intercourse at least once, Abma and her co-authors estimate. That's a slight drop from 2002, the last time the National Survey of Family Growth was conducted, but it was not statistically significan
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