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Elizabeth Cunningham Perkins is a freelance writer (since 1990), consulting hypnotist, shamanic minister, outsider artist, free-verse poet and urban rock gardener in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After retiring from social work in 1994, she began performing as a shamanic jester and studying natural sciences.
Elizabeth has become expert in travel, health, spirituality, cosmology, nature and expressive arts.
She is a Milwaukee--and internet--enthusiast who enjoys sharing what she has learned from years of wide-ranging life adventures as a freelance temporary worker and odd-jobber. Tweet @ShamanicShift!
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Scientists have shown that the breakdown of a key intracellular cleaning mechanism, caused by mutated huntingtin protein build up, may bring on the later, most devastating symptoms of Huntington's disease, a finding that suggests new treatment strategies.
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Star pictures captured by a new instrument developed at the University of Michigan (U-M) confirm that Epsilon Aurigae is eclipsed every 27 years by a pancake-flat dusk disk orbiting its companion star edge-on, in an unlikely alignment for a binary system.
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Protecting industrially-important bacteria from virus and plasmid infections could bring huge economic rewards, a team of scientists at Wageningen University in the Netherlands is reporting at the Society for General Microbiology's 2010 spring meeting.
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Because songbirds learn to sing the way humans learn to talk, from their elders, neuroscientists expect the recent decoding of the Zebra finch's genome to reveal many helpful clues about the evolution, development and disorders of human vocalization.
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If you see more toads than usual hopping down the roads of your neighborhood, it could be an earthquake early warning signal, according to researchers at The Open University in the UK.
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A USDA researcher reports that his team has developed a new process for converting soybean oil into a non-toxic, natural sunscreen agent that is friendlier to the environment than many petroleum-based ingredients.
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A University of Denver sociology professor who studied 504 capital cases concludes that defendants convicted of killing "high-status" victims are more likely to be sentenced to death.
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A Université de Montréal team found that Zen meditation thickened the gray matter of the brain and reduced sensitivity to pain and emotion.
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A team of scientists compared genetic sequences from 75 arthropod species and drew a new family tree for the most successful phylum of animals on Earth.
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University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have announced that a new drug treatment for Huntington's disease was well-tolerated and improved cognition in an early stage clinical trial.
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Sociology professor Kathleen Tierney, a nationally recognized disaster expert at the University of Colorado, Boulder, claims that there is no such thing as an inevitable, natural disaster, though earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes are bound to happen.
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A European Space Agency (ESA) team from the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, released the Proba-2 satellite's new images of the Sun and declared the first three months of its technology testing mission a success.
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a spectacular new image of the Cat's Paw Nebula, a glimmering region of dust and gas near the center of the Milky Way.
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Based on new research, the British Medical Journal is reporting that quitting smoking after an early stage lung cancer diagnosis can double a patient's chances of surviving five years or longer.
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Scientists at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco, report that they have identified a protein linked to neural cord defects that affect one in 1000 live human births.
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MIT researchers report that an oddball gastropod known as the "scaly-foot" snail sports a unique energy-dissipating shell that could model better battle armor designs.
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A team of physicists from the universities of Glasgow, Southampton and Bristol in the UK reports that they have succeeded in tying knots in laser beams.
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While astronomers are searching for extraterrestrial life on faraway planets and moons, some scientists are pondering whether life exists, or could exist, beyond this universe.
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The video appears to show a common enough airport scenario: Friends who seem to be longing to say their "Good-byes" at the airport departure gate, the way folks used to before 9/11.
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Scientists at Columbia University write that undersea volcanic rocks along the eastern U.S. coast might provide optimal storage sites for carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by nearby industrial sources. The undersea rocks could even recycle the greenhouse gas.
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