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Alaska Boy Burned In "Rednecked Flamethrower" Incident

Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:22 PM EST (Juneau Empire)

ANCHORAGE - Two Anchorage men who told investigators they were horsing around with a "redneck flamethrower" set a 5-year-old boy's head on fire and have been charged with felony assault and reckless endangerment, according to police and court records.

alaska, odd-news, restraining-order, iguana, burn, flamethower

Canine Influenza in Alaska: 1st confirmed cases.

Seeded on Tue Jul 7, 2009 5:18 PM EDT (KINY)

Yet another reason to keep your hands clean: your pooch! First ever confirmed cases of dog flu made it to Alaska.

alaska, health, dog-flu, dogs, iguana, civ, canine-influenza, canine-influenza-virus

Afterbirth-It's What's For Dinner

Seeded on Fri Jul 3, 2009 10:34 AM EDT (TIME)

"Most mammals, Cassandra explained, eat their placentas, to which I countered that most dogs eat their poop. For those of you who have never seen one, the placenta is to the baby what Stephen Baldwin is to Alec Baldwin."

health, placenta, afterbirth

How do scientists become cranks and doctors quacks?

Seeded on Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:30 AM EDT (Science-Based Medicine)

For the scientists who become cranks he argues that arrogance is likely a necessary ingredient for that transition to occur.

health, medicine, crank, iguana, quack

Failure is certainly an option

Seeded on Sun May 31, 2009 12:52 PM EDT (News at Nature)

"In a move that parallels similar complaints in medicine and the physical sciences, a group of researchers is calling for their colleagues working in conservation and ecology to report failure."

research, science, medicine, failure, iguana, peer-review

Still Irritating After All These Years: Study Of Adult Children And Parents

Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 1:30 PM EDT (Science Daily)

ScienceDaily (May 10, 2009) — The majority of parents and adult children experience some tension and aggravation with one another, a new study says. But parents generally are more bothered by the tensions—and the older the child, the greater the bother.

child, mom, science, parents, relationship, psychology, iguana, mothers-day

Diet quality and mortality

Seeded on Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:29 AM EDT (News at Nature)

"Background/Objectives: To study quality of diet in relation to all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer mortality.

cancer, food, diet, health, nutrition, heart-disease, iguana

Veterinary Oncologists Advance Cancer Drugs For Humans And Pets

Seeded on Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:56 PM EDT (Science Daily)

"To help organize nationwide trials in tumor-bearing dogs using cancer drugs, the National Cancer Institute has launched the Comparative Oncology Trials Consortium (COTC)."

cancer, dog, iguana, oncology, veterinary, home-garden

One Phone Number To Rule Them All

Seeded on Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:21 AM EDT (Technology Review)

It's coming...

technology, iguana, phone-number, google-voice

Illegal Clotheslines! Energy Savings Thwarted

Seeded on Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:36 PM EDT (www.sitnews.us)

"Using a clothesline instead of a dryer would save huge amounts of energy. But it is against the law for Americans to line dry their laundry!

energy, green, odd-news, illegal, iguana, clothesline

Trolls Frustrate Obama

Seeded on Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:38 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

"Unlike privately run Web sites, whose managers are free to remove nettlesome material, the White House finds itself searching for a way to combat these disruptive users without infringing on their right to free speech and inciting cries of censorship."

politics, free-speech, town-hall, trolls, iguana

Coolest 737 Boeing Jet Paint Job

Seeded on Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:29 PM EDT (www.sitnews.us)

It's a bird, it's plane, no, it's an Alaskan Airlines Jet that has a sled dog painted on it among other things... First they had the Salmon Thirty Seven (737, get it?) depicting a huge beautifully painted wild king salmon and now this design, by a grade school aged kid.

entertainment, jet, alaska-airlines, iguana, 737, dogsled

Pet hospice movement gaining momentum

Seeded on Tue Apr 7, 2009 5:57 AM EDT (The American Veterinary Medical Association)

"What I'm a little fearful of is that some people really seem to feel that being with an animal or taking it through its last days is sort of an enrichment experience.

dog, pet, iguana, veterinary, hospice, palliative, home-garden, avma

Seward's Day

Seeded on Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:48 PM EDT (adn.com: Alaska)

Today is Seward's Day in Alaska, the date set aside to commemorate the signing of the treaty to transfer ownership of Alaska from Russia to the United States. William Henry Seward was the U.S. secretary of state who negotiated the purchase.

history, alaska, holiday, iguana, march-31, seward

Veterinary colleges find cause for hope in stimulus plan

Seeded on Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:13 AM EDT (The American Veterinary Medical Association)

The record $789 billion economic stimulus plan Congress passed in February to pull the economy out of recession is a mixed bag for the veterinary profession.

politics, recession, veterinary, stimulus

Do We Love Our Dogs More than People?

Seeded on Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:29 AM EDT (TIME)

"Americans have fallen in love with their dogs. We have dog walkers, dog groomers, dog parks and dog-friendly hotels. We buy organic dog food, put our pets on puppy Prozac and dress them up in costumes for Halloween.

dogs, pets, iguana, home-garden, human-animal-bond

Putting ethics on the spot in neurology

Seeded on Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:38 AM EDT (News at Nature)

"Are physicians morally and legally obliged to render a medical opinion at all times? More importantly, could we be held liable, in the absence of a formal doctor–patient relationship, for failing to point out to a would-be patient that they might have medical conditions requir …

health, doctor, ethics, neurology

Particle oddball surprises CDF physicists at Fermilab

Seeded on Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:22 PM EDT (http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/Y)

Large Hadron Collider? Meh. Good Old Fermilab in Illinois still finding all the cool particles.

physics, science, matter, quark, particle, fermilab, antiquark

Cancer Breakthrough: Tales Of 'Trojan Horse Drug' And 'Miracle Dogs'

Seeded on Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:25 AM EDT (Science Daily)

"Oscar's recovery was extraordinary enough, but his case was unusual for another reason. Oscar is a Bichon Frise, who scientists reporting in Salt Lake City, Utah at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society on March 23 call "the Miracle Dog." Joseph A.

cancer, health, canine, anal, sac, adenocarcinoma, nitrosylcobalamin

Alaska Lawmakers Consider Outlawing Bestiality

Seeded on Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:37 AM EDT (adn.com: Alaska)

The link between animal abuse and domestic violence is irrefutable. House Bill 6 would make bestiality a misdemeanor in Alaska. What's sad is there are people opposed to this law.

alaska, politics, bestiality, domestic-violence, veterinary, animal-abuse

New Degree Creates Doctor Nurses--And Confusion

Seeded on Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:08 AM EST (NPR)

A new program confers the title "Doctor" to human nurses. This is, understandably, causing rifts within the medical community: "Are you a doctor doctor or a doctor nurse?"

nurse, health, doctor, veterinary