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A number of studies have shown cardiovascular benefits of eating flavanol rich cocoa. Cocoa is the important substance of chocolate. Especially dark chocolate can contain high levels of flavanols. The possible underlying mechanisms of these cardioprotective properties of chocolate can be several. The biggest question that remains is about the right dose of dark chocolate. From prior publications suggestion were made about the right dose: an average amount of 6.7 grams of chocolate per day, corresponding to a small square of chocolate twice or three times a week no more than 25 gram, or 2.5 squares of dark chocolate, a day up to .....read more »

Despite it being summer holidays there were a lot of submission for the latest Scientia Blog Carnival: Scientia Pro Publica. So let's start. If you want to know more about the dance of bees, the waggle dance (yes it really exists) have fun over at More than Honey, The Making of a Bee Documentary and it's post Out with the Radar Bees. It has all the ins and outs on he famous „dance-language“ of the honeybees. Quantum Mechanics something very complicated or a conspiracy of instrumentalists? The Truth Re-Revealed at This Scientific Life. As human beings, believe it or not, we've a lot .....read more »

This is what I normally do on my Sunday morning workout. EnjoyRelated posts: Give Your Mind A Workout, online cognitive therapy The Morning Report ..read more »

This blog will be the location for the next edition of the Scientia Pro Publica blog carnival on August the 30th. You can submit your posts by using this automated submission form . They are still seeking hosts for upcoming issues; we still have some open hosting slots through the end of 2010 [see schedule]. If you have always wanted to host an issue of Scientia Pro Publica on your blog, now is your chance! The purpose of this blog carnival is simple: to provide a large public platform that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing published within .....read more »

Now that's a very interesting idea. The end of the social media decade, starting the new decade: The Decade of Games. How to use this layer to get people to take their medication on time? Watch this video and enjoy. By now, we're used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web -- building a "social layer" on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the "game layer," a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce. Related posts: Proun Game Inspired on Kandinsky’s Paintings More .....read more »

In normal every day life with face to face contact the physical characteristics and knowledge about social background form the identity of your contact. It's stable and three dimensional. You know that person, it's therefor very difficult for the other to claim another identity or create impressions inconsistent with how you know him or her. Online identity is a different topic. You can create ideal identities not necessarily overlapping your real identity. It's a controlled setting in which you can create different identities from the person you really are. Moreover, from research it has been shown that people act .....read more »

These terms are used for those children in their twenties. They are also sometimes called "boomerang kids", meaning those kids that start or finish college or jobs and decide to move back in with their parents. I read this excellent article about it in the New York Times Magazine. It's about the age group of my children, my friends children and even my residents. When we were in our twenties this period of our lives was marked with: completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child. In these days and age, the twenty something are characterized by: One-third .....read more »

Another magnificent pen. Very robust, to use outside and inside, good weather, bad weather, you name it. Been drooling a couple of days since I first saw it on Uncrate. Haven't been writing on this pen fetish for a while but now you have it. I am not going to buy it, ehhhh. Built for the government and looking every bit as official as you'd expect, the Embassy Pen ($40). The pen itself is made from anodized aluminum, and features a knurled grip, a medium black SPR4 pressurized Fisher Space Pen ink cartridge, and a built-in stainless steel clip for affixing .....read more »

Sheryl WuDunn's book "Half the Sky" investigates the oppression of women globally. Her stories shock. Only when women in developing countries have equal access to education and economic opportunity will we be using all our human resources. Related posts: Gender and Medical Education Gender differences in frontal lobes Science, gender and the emergence of depression in American psychiatry 1950-1980 ..read more »