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The Everything to do with Sex Show is probably Canada's largest show where businesses of all types that are closely or remotely connected with love and sex come together to present themselves. A visit ensures you of a few hours of carefree entertainment.
Published Oct 25, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Lifestyle
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The IBEX spacecraft will explore the boundaries of the heliosphere, the protective bubble around our solar system which stops most life-threatening radiation from elsewhere in the galaxy.
Published Oct 18, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Science
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A new magnetic resonance technique makes it possible to measure the temperature in internal body tissues in a non-invasive way and could therefore help to target heat therapy for cancer.
Published Oct 18, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Health
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The global decline of bee populations is said to have dramatic consequences for our food production. Research now shows that agriculture is largely unaffected by this phenomenon.
Published Oct 18, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Environment
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The legal battles over the status of the grey wolf as an endangered species are continuing in the US while at the same time a discussion is ongoing regarding the wolf species we are talking about.
Published Oct 17, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Environment
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Why have peacocks such elaborate tails, why have birds of paradise often such crippling plumage? Sexual selection is the answer, but how does sexual selection actually work? Thanks to the humble yeast, we may now be able to find the answer.
Published Oct 16, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Science
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On a cross between physics, chemistry, biology and what some could possibly call blasphemy, European scientists have developed a self-assembling integrated circuit, an important step towards the ultimate goal: self-assembling computers.
Published Oct 16, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Technology
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Oxford professor and biologist Richard Dawkins discusses Harun Yahya's Atlas of Creation, at the first international conference on political Islam, Sharia law and civil society, organised by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain.
Published Oct 16, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Religion
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Toronto's College subway station was closed on Friday night because a suspicious package has been found inside the station. People are not allowed inside.
Published Oct 11, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Crime
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The Christian right is delighted with Sarah Palin. They consider her "one of us," a follower of the Holy Bible. But the Bible doesn't quite agree with them.
Published Oct 6, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Politics
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Sarah Palin, the cutie that was supposed to help McCain defeat Obama, is fast sinking away in the mediocrity she spreads around. Now, more evidence is surfacing that she is a young earth creationist.
Published Sep 30, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Politics
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An Australian fertilization clinic has been granted the first licence in Australia to practise therapeutic cloning. The group at the centre is now part of only a handful of teams on the planet working on this promising technology.
Published Sep 25, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Health
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The US National Institute of Mental Health drops a controversial study of chelation therapy for children with autism. The agency says there are better uses for its resources.
Published Sep 25, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Health
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It seems that passive immunity therapies such as therapies based on monoclonal antibodies are slowly but surely maturing into safe and useful cures.
Published Sep 24, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Health
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The LHC had been shut down after a large helium leak into sector 3-4 of the LHC tunnel. Because the tunnel must be warmed in order to allow a thorough investigation and repairs and must then be cooled again, the LHC will not be restarted before 2009.
Published Sep 24, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Science
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Neanderthals are often portrayed as knuckle-dragging brutes, but new discoveries are more and more pointing in other directions. One mystery that is currently fascinating scientists is the discovery that they ate seals and dolphins.
Published Sep 23, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Science
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The planet has increasing difficulties keeping up with the speed with which humanity is consuming natural resources. As of today, we have used up all resources the earth can produce in 2008, i.e. we are now borrowing from 2009.
Published Sep 23, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Environment
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Belgium has found the ultimate recycling program. In a bold and unprecedented move, candle wax will now be collected separately in order to recycle it.
Published Sep 23, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Environment
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Efforts to save the Mallorcan midwife toad and to reintroduce it into its natural environment, may be causing its extinction because of a fungal infection that was unknown at the time of the reintroduction.
Published Sep 23, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Environment
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Naturally occurring bacteria help keep the immune system in check, and may help ward off auto-immune diseases such as type 1 diabetes.
Published Sep 22, 2008 by ■ Bart B. Van Bockstaele in Science
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Bart B. Van Bockstaele
Citizen Journalist
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Reporting from: Toronto, Canada Registered: Mar 24, 2007
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I am a computer programmer turned author and translator who lives in Toronto since 1996.
As a translator, I specialize in IT-subjects, financial subjects and scientific subjects, mainly medical and pharmaceutical subjects. I translate from/into English and Dutch/Flemish.
As an author, I have written five books and co-authored two. I am currently working on another project.
I love technology, not because it is "cool" but because of what it can do for me.
My current passion is Japanese culture and language. I sing enka, practice Japanese classical dancing (nihonbuyou), kitsuke (kimono dressing) and wasai (Japanese tailoring).
My website has not been updated for several years, due to lack of time, but I still do maintain a weblog for De Standaard, a major Dutch newspaper in Belgium (in Dutch). It can be found at this link.
I am also the Toronto correspondent for Wereldnet, a program by the VPRO on Dutch state-owned radio. This is a link to most of the programs in which I have appeared so far since August 2001 (in Dutch). |
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