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Archive for September 2nd, 2005

Gladiators and Blood!

While trying to find peer-reviewed articles on the liver of Piacenza I found this title and abstract:
Ferdinand Peter Moog and Axel Karenberg.
Between Horror and Hope: Gladiator’s Blood as a Cure for Epileptics in Ancient Medicine,
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences. Volume 12, Number 2 / June 2003. Pages: 137 - 143. DOI: [...]

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Send your name to Pluto

NASA is inviting people to submit their names to be added to a CD being sent to Pluto as part of the New Horizons mission.
The form to submit your name can be found here. You can also search for other names to see what sort of company you’re in. James Kirk is boldly going where [...]

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The best description I’ve heard of the oracle of Delphi was by a Channel Five continuity announcer: “…and now a programme about the original agony aunt.” An oracle is where you would take a problem to a god, or possibly a ghost. Hopefully you would leave with an answer.

The priestess of the oracle of Apollo [...]

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