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A 1,700-year-old curse tablet written in ancient Greek has been translated. A fiery ancient curse inscribed on two sides of a thin lead tablet was meant to afflict, not a king or pharaoh, but a simple greengrocer selling fruits and vegetables some 1,700 years ago in the city of Antioch, researchers find. Written in Greek, [...]
Even though pain is by far the leading reason people seek medical care, pain education at North American medical schools is limited, variable and often fragmentary, according to a Johns Hopkins University study published in The Journal of Pain. The study examined the curricula at 117 medical schools in the United States and Canada and went beyond a simple analysis of historical presence-or-absence criteria in assessing pain education for medical students. This measurement does not distinguish the number of classroom hours devoted to pain education or coverage of various pain topics... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Archaeologists working in Israel have unearthed a 1,600-year-old bathhouse. “This is a bathhouse that measures 20 by 20 meters and dates to the fourth-fifth centuries CE (A.D.),” excavation director Rina Avner said. “The remains visible in the field include the frigidarium (cold room), tepidarium (warm room) and caldarium (hot room), as well as a courtyard [...]
A prehistoric settlement which dates back to the Iron Age has been found at Bare, in southern Serbia. Due to torrential waters and intensive agriculture at the location, the multilayer site Bare is now largely destroyed. “Had the site been investigated in the sixties of the last century, the archaeologist’s findings would have been far [...]
The remains of Jane Austen’s Steventon home, where she wrote drafts of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, have been unearthed in Hampshire, UK. Debbie Charlton, of archaeologists Archaeo Briton, who led the dig, said: “Our main focus for the project is putting together the puzzle of what Jane’s first home was like.” Although [...]
: HMS Countway Library of Medicine Director's Blog Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine and the new frontiers in biomedical computing 2011-12-21 Crystallizing Methods for Drug Effects Yet another powerful example of the novel syntheses in which the aggregation of individual knowledge sources becomes a lot more than the sum of its parts : Using only the most well accepted and conventional of compedia of drug characteristics , Cami et . al demonstrate the power of integrative reasoning and systematic applications of guilt-by-association to predict accurately , across an interval of 5 years , hundreds of novel adverse events across more than 800 drugs . This performance is likely to improve further as they proceed to integrate healthcare data from electronic health records
Researchers have confirmed the precise origin of some of the rocks at Stoneheneg to Pembrokeshire, Wales. It has long been suspected that rhyolites from the northern Preseli Hills helped build the monument. But research by National Museum Wales and Leicester University has identified their source to within 70m (230ft) of Craig Rhos-y-felin, near Pont Saeson. [...]
Archaeologists have unearthed several graves in a cemetery in Poland which contain all sorts of treasures and weapons. Archaeologists stumbled upon the cemetery, which dates to the late 10th and early 11th centuries, after surveying a highway-construction site near the village of Bodzia, roughly 90 miles (150 kilometers) northwest of Warsaw. The find is reported [...]
The fossilized remains of a tusked, wombat-like creature found in Tasmania have been identified for the first time as a dicynodont. The dicynodont, similar to a mammal, lived about 250 million years ago, predating dinosaurs. The University of Tasmania unveiled the fossils and images yesterday for the first time, five years after bushwalkers Bob and [...]
The remains of a church which dates back to the late 17th century has been found in Florida. Now archaeologists are trying to determine if it is one of two possible churches. First, we know that in 1677, the governor of Florida ordered a stone church built in St Augustine to honor Nuestra Señora de [...]
Archaeologists are using ground-penetrating radar to survey the ancient city of Isos in Turkey. A team of archeologists has begun working on examining the site of the ancient city of Isos in southern Turkey by making use of ground-based sensors to visualize the underground features of the city’s structures, the district governor has said. skender [...]
Two men in Greece have been arrested for illegally unearthing a 2,600-year-old helmet. The two Greek suspects were arrested on Thursday in the southern town of Pyrgos. Police say one of the men also had six antique silver coins in his house. Under Greek law, all antiquities found in the country are state property. That [...]
An amusing look at correlation. Less amusing when you realize that this kind of analysis is often used to drive public debate. Hat tip: Carey Goldberg