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Death rates dive in California

Written on 4 Apr, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

A state agency has concluded that Californians are healthier and dying at a slower rate than people in other states. The bad news is that fatalities in the Golden State due to Alzheimer’s, chronic liver disease, and suicide are up.... (Continue reading)

Discrimination at Cal Poly? Say it isn’t so, part two

Written on 20 Mar, 2013 in Featured, Opinion | 31 comments

Discrimination at Cal Poly? Say it isn’t so, part two OPINION By NATE HONEYCUTT (Editor’s note: This is part two in a two-part opinion piece.) Does the study by the young researcher show that Cal Poly meets the “legal definition... (Continue reading)

What is stress reduction?

Written on 13 Mar, 2013 in Discovered, Featured | 5 comments

By GARY E FORESMAN MD (Editor’s note: This is part two in a five-part series on stress management.) In Part I of the series I gave a very physiologic perspective to the definition of stress. Of course, everyone’s own subjective... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly student dies on campus

Written on 11 Feb, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

A Cal Poly student died early Sunday morning outside his residence hall on campus. [Tribune] Second-year biology major Brandon Huang stopped breathing around 11:56 p.m. Saturday outside Poly Canyon Village. University police performed CPR on Huang, 20, but they did... (Continue reading)

California lawmaker proposes earthquake warning system

Written on 4 Feb, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 33 comments

State Senator Alex Padilla has introduced a bill to create a statewide early warning system for earthquakes that would cost at least $80 million. [Mercury News] The proposed system would warn residents up to 60 seconds in advance of an... (Continue reading)

Myers’ Cocktail

Written on 18 Dec, 2012 in Discovered, Featured | 8 comments

By GARY FORESMAN As each day goes by, we hear about the epidemics of illnesses not adequately treated by Western medi¬cine. Whether drug-resistant infections or chronic illnesses that drugs may mask the symptoms of but can never actually treat, people... (Continue reading)

Balloon Fest 2012, event photos

Written on 13 Dec, 2012 in Eye on the Coast, Featured | No comments

The sun dawns on a huge group of excited teenagers all intensely engaged and excited by an opportunity to do science and engineering on Dec. 8. Eighty-Seven students in 24 teams from local middle and high schools compete to answer... (Continue reading)

Megastorms could flood portions of California’s Central Coast

Written on 30 Nov, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 63 comments

Editor’s note: The article will appear in the January 2013 issue of Scientific American. They are making it freely available now because of the flooding underway in California. By Michael D. Dettinger and B. Lynn Ingram Huge flows of vapor... (Continue reading)

Re-thinking ginkgo

Written on 28 Nov, 2012 in Discovered, Featured | 5 comments

By GARY FORESMAN Much confusion exists regarding the efficacy, or lack thereof, of ginkgo for the enhancement of memory. Recently a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial assessed the utility of a standardized ginkgo biloba extract (GBE) in the treatment of... (Continue reading)

California Attorney General files lawsuit against local air district

Written on 16 Nov, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 35 comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: See a brief of the California Attorney General’s lawsuit at the bottom of this story. By KAREN VELIE California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris filed a lawsuit in mid-October against the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control... (Continue reading)