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The Loh Life: Close Encounters of the TAFKAP Kind, Part One: Rinse and Go
04/23/2007
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Sandra Tsing Loh declares that being in your 40s isn't what it used to be.
The Loh Down on Science: Does Laughter Make You Nicer?
04/20/2007
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After studying a group of test subjects, researchers at the University of Kent in the UK say we're more giving after having a good laugh.
The Loh Down on Science: Making the Skies Safer
04/19/2007
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How do you keep dangerous chemicals off airplanes? Scientists are developing a way to detect the "aura", or chemical makeup, of hazardous materials using the electromagnetic spectrum.
The Loh Down on Science: Who's the Daddy?
04/18/2007
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Figuring out paternity in the offspring of wasp spiders can be more complicated than the Anna Nicole Smith case.
The Loh Down on Science: Chocolate Vitamins
04/17/2007
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Here's more evidence that dark chocolate is good for you. A cocoa beverage made by the Kuna Indians contains a powerful antioxidant that helps cells repair damage. The Kuna suffer from far fewer diseases.
The Loh Life: Zen Birthday Party, Part Two: The Execution
04/16/2007
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Sandra Tsing Loh wins the kids over with pizza, candy and basket-tossing at her daughter's fifth birthday party.
The Loh Down on Science: No Wonder Men Never Ask for Directions
04/16/2007
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Duke University scientists say humans naturally resist being told what to do. The psychological term for the unconscious trait of not following good advice is call "reactance".
The Loh Down on Science: Can You Hear Me Now?
04/13/2007
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Do you suffer from tinnitus, or ringing in your ears? Doctors at UC Irvine have a treatment. Just listen to a sound for 90 seconds, every few hours.
The Loh Down on Science: Next Floor: Venus
04/12/2007
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In the future, it may be possible to visit outer space without blasting off. All it would take is a very long elevator ride... 62,000 miles long.
The Loh Down on Science: A Nose for Your Car
04/11/2007
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Forget a cardboard tree hanging from your rearview mirror. German engineers have developed a "smell detector" which automatically turns on a car's ventilation system.
The Loh Down on Science: Blindingly Bright
04/10/2007
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The Cyphochilus beetle is a one of the whitest creatures on Earth, thanks to tiny scales reflecting light off its body.
The Loh Life: Zen Birthday Party, Part One: The Plan
04/09/2007
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Sandra Tsing Loh does away with the "jumpy house" and goes low-key for her daughter's fifth birthday.
The Loh Down on Science: Teamwork
04/09/2007
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In most mammals, sperm take an "every man for himself" attitude, racing to fertilize an egg first. However, since rodents have multiple partners, sperm from each male appear to link up to improve their chances.
The Loh Down on Science: Paging Dr. Mom...
04/06/2007
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Kissing a "boo-boo" may work after all. There's a painkiller more powerful than morphine in human saliva.
The Loh Down on Science: Frisky Seahorses
04/05/2007
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Seahorses, long thought to be monogamous, have a dirty little secret. Scientists at Britain's Sea Life Center say it turns out that seahorses are having tons of dangerous liaisons.
The Loh Down on Science: Are PDAs Bad for the GNP?
04/04/2007
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An industrial psychologist at the University of Calgary says technology is turning us into time-wasters. When typewriters were in vogue, only 5% of the population were procrastinators. Now, 26% of us put things off, and that could be costing the Gross National Product $50 billion.
The Loh Down on Science: Keep it Simple
04/03/2007
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Advertisements with multiple meanings may be clever, but not everybody gets the pun. What's worse, researchers at the University of Washington discovered test subjects who caught an ad's double entendre didn't like the commercial.
The Loh Life: Killer Abs, Part Two: Hip Drop
04/02/2007
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Sandra Tsing Loh finds that bellydancing class isn't your normal exercise class.
The Loh Down on Science: The Next Generation of Rovers
04/02/2007
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What do you get when you mix the best traits from an octopus, a crab and a primate? A robot designed at JPL in Pasadena called LEMUR (Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robot).
The Low Down on Science: They Moooved
03/30/2007
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Mitochondrial DNA from cows appears to prove that the pre-Roman Etruscans migrated to Italy from the Middle East.
The Loh Down on Science: Peek-a-Boo Squid
03/29/2007
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Thousands of feet under the ocean's surface, Japanese scientists have videotaped squid that produce flashes of light, perhaps as a form of communication.
The Loh Down on Science: Watch Out for the Fashion Police
03/28/2007
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Compression stockings might help prevent what's known as "Economy Class Syndrome" -- blood clots that develop in the legs during long airplane flights.
The Loh Down on Science: But They Smell Nice...
03/27/2007
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A report in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that bath products containing lavender or tea tree oil may cause young boys to develop breasts.
The Loh Life: Killer Abs, Part One: Belly Up
03/26/2007
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Sandra Tsing Loh dishes about the hot fad among stay-at-home moms.
The Loh Down on Science: Littering That's Good for the Planet
03/26/2007
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UC Berkeley researchers are using discarded bags of plant waste to calculate climate change, looking at the rate at which the green trash decomposes.
The Loh Down on Science: Wobble-ology
03/23/2007
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Scientists in Switzerland and Australia have been working feverishly to solve an age-old mystery: the mathematical model that will make an unstable restaurant table stop wobbling.
The Loh Down on Science: Want to Cuddle?
03/22/2007
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Cal State Northridge biologists wondered why anti-social western banded geckos paired off for daytime naps. The answer didn't have to do with mating or socializing, but being able to keep moist.
The Loh Down on Science: Hiding in Plain Sight
03/21/2007
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Canadian physicists have figured out a way to see neutrinos, subatomic particles considered the smallest bits of matter. Now, they're trying to get a visual on dark matter.
The Loh Down on Science: Love Hurts
03/20/2007
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Male crickets don't just attract females with their love songs. Parasitic flies, which implant deadly larvae in the crickets, are also lured by the mating calls.
The Loh Life: Red Light
03/19/2007
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Sandra Tsing Loh finds that planning an after-school activity comes with a whole lot of rules and regulations.
The Loh Down on Science: If You're Happy and You Know It...
03/19/2007
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Researchers at the University of Toronto say your mood plays a role in your ability to focus. Test subjects who were in a good mood had creativity, but were unable to pay attention to details -- and vice versa.
The Loh Down on Science: You Are What You Drive
03/16/2007
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Looking like your dog is one thing. Now, scientists in Germany say in a study, test subjects were accurate 70 percent of the time when matching pictures of people with the cars they drove.
The Loh Down on Science: Getting Better with Age
03/15/2007
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Mover over, teeny-boppers. In Uganda, older female chimpanzees are more popular to males than their younger counterparts.
The Loh Down on Science: You Really Don't Want to Open That...
03/14/2007
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An archeologist in England recently unearthed more than an ancient settlement, dating from 300 AD. He says he also unleashed a curse.
The Loh Down on Science: Not So Dumb After All?
03/13/2007
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Manatees aren't considered very smart animals, but a University of Florida Professor of Veterinary Medicine says the aquatic mammals can teach us things about brain development.
The Loh Life: Beowulf on Ice
03/12/2007
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Sandra Tsing Loh discovers what could be the most unusual cultural event of the year.
The Loh Down on Science: You Are Getting Sleepy...
03/12/2007
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We tend to sleep two hours less each night than we did 40 years ago. But researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say there's no perfect amount of sleep that would work for everyone.
The Loh Down on Science: Pets May Help Newborns' Allergies
03/09/2007
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Newborns who live in homes with dogs and high concentrations of airborne bacteria may have better protection from wheezing than newborn children in other homes.
Jamie Court: Universal Health Plans Take Wrong Approach
03/08/2007
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Jamie Court, president of the Santa Monica-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, says the current crop of health care proposals in California would benefit political contributors more than patients.
The Loh Life: Cookie Dominatrix, Part Two: Burn This
03/05/2007
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Cooking doesn't come easy to Sandra Tsing Loh.
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