We listen to music and talk to people. Watch on cable channel 11 in the Boise area or on-line at TVCTVOnline.org. Watch previous shows here, and check out the backgrounds here. Join us at MOA’s Facebook page for discussion throughout the week. :)Also this week, ‘The Lost Blue Bucket Mine’, the Drexel Heritage Foundation’s video project from the Vale Film Festival 2011, TVCTV’s Kids’ Kamp 2011 final-cut production, still and video footage of Niagara Falls by Chris Sandoval (who also edited the Film Fest project :) ), Jaway family portraits by Cassie Reding of Reding Photography, and short shorts, ‘Hillbilly Havoc’ and ‘Slim Pikins Falls Out a Tree’. :D

SINCE 1900, the life expectancy of Americans has jumped to just shy of 80 from 47 years. This surge comes mostly from improved hygiene and nutrition, but also from new discoveries and interventions: everything from antibiotics and heart bypass surgery to cancer drugs that target and neutralize the impact of specific genetic mutations.

Now scientists studying the intricacies of DNA and other molecular bio-dynamics may be poised to offer even more dramatic boosts to longevity. This comes not from setting out explicitly to conquer aging, which remains controversial in mainstream science, but from researchers developing new drugs and therapies for such maladies of […]

If natural and/or political events don’t send us reeling for a while in terms of technological development over the next few years, these are questions we’ll have to answer before too long. I do hope we choose to ask how long we and those around us *want* to live, and not to dictate how long anyone is allowed to live and under what circumstances.

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The control room at TVCTV is down this week, which means we won’t be comin’ to you live, *but* since tonight’s show will be a pre-recorded event the scrolling DDR won’t be an issue and you’ll finally get to see the video while we bring you this awesome music *one MORE time*, so again: Just finished remastering some old live videos of BMR (well, from ‘08/’09; an eternity in entertainment :D ) for some fans and will be airing them this weekend for your viewing and listening pleasure (MOA-style, of course :D ). Look for cameos from members of Actual Depiction, as well as Sam Casady, Nicole Alspach, Scott Long, Mary Prisco, Hannah & Emma Pawek, RD Ayres (RIP), Dr. Maitland and his lovely assistant, Megan, over at Four Seasons Dentistry, Mike LaCasse (from Two Week Notice) and Pete, Ivy & Cecily Black, Paige Kilborn & Ashley Cowan. Enjoy!

We’ll be back live next week or the week after, depending upon how the studio remodel goes, and we look forward to talkin’ with you then. :)

We (usually) listen to music and talk to people. Watch on cable channel 11 in the Boise area or on-line at TVCTVOnline.org. Watch previous shows here, and check out the backgrounds here. Join us at MOA’s Facebook page for discussion throughout the week. :)

The control room at TVCTV is down this week, which means we won’t be comin’ to you live, *but* since tonight’s show will be a pre-recorded event the scrolling DDR won’t be an issue and you’ll finally get to see the video while we bring you this awesome music *one MORE time*, so again: Just finished remastering some old live videos of BMR (well, from ‘08/’09; an eternity in entertainment :D ) for some fans and will be airing them this weekend for your viewing and listening pleasure (MOA-style, of course :D ). Look for cameos from members of Actual Depiction, as well as Sam Casady, Nicole Alspach, Scott Long, Mary Prisco, Hannah & Emma Pawek, RD Ayres (RIP), Dr. Maitland and his lovely assistant, Megan, over at Four Seasons Dentistry, Mike LaCasse (from Two Week Notice) and Pete, Ivy & Cecily Black, Paige Kilborn & Ashley Cowan. Enjoy!

We’ll be back live next week or the week after, depending upon how the studio remodel goes, and we look forward to talkin’ with you then. :)

Researchers say physical inactivity has become a global pandemic.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Physical inactivity causes 1 in 10 deaths worldwide, series of studies in Lancet say
• Researchers suggest public health officials treat inactivity as a pandemic
• Inactivity often rises with age and is higher in women as well as in high-income countries
• Studies: Exercise events and better public transportation help improve physical activity

(CNN) — Physical inactivity causes 1 in 10 deaths worldwide, according to a series of studies released in British medical journal The Lancet, putting it on par with the dangers of smoking and obesity. The results also suggest that public health officials treat this situation as a pandemic.

Specifically, Harvard researchers say, inactivity caused an increase in deaths from coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancers and caused more than 5.3 million deaths in 2008 worldwide.

If physical inactivity rates were to go down by even 10% to 20% worldwide, they say, it could save between a half-million and 1.3 million lives each year. This could also raise global life expectancy by almost a year.

FDA approves new diet drug

“This summer, we will admire the breathtaking feats of athletes competing in the 2012 Olympic Games,” wrote Dr. I-Min Lee, a Harvard researcher and the lead author of an article accompanying the series of studies. “Although only the smallest fraction of the population will attain these heights, the overwhelming majority of us are able to be physically active at very modest levels, which bring substantial health benefits.”

This series of five studies was specifically timed to be released just days before the start of the 2012 Olympics in London next week, and each of the studies focused on one specific issue related to physical inactivity and its effect on global health.

Should you get scanned when you are pregnant? (Susan Farley for The New York Times)

Pregnant women are exposed to twice the amount of radiation from medical scans as they were a decade ago, a new study has found.

Although the total amount of radiation exposure to pregnant women is still relatively low, the doubling effect in just a decade is the latest indicator that medical scans are exposing patients to record amounts of ionizing radiation, a type of radiation that can alter cells and lead to health risks, including cancer.

Researchers from Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School looked at the […]

A new scanning device that emits significantly more radiation than conventional methods is gaining popularity among dentists despite the potential risks to young patients, an examination by The New York Times has found.

Designed for dental offices, the device, called a cone-beam CT scanner, provides brilliant 3-D images of teeth, roots, the jaw and even the skull. This technology, its promoters say, is a safe way for orthodontists and oral surgeons to work with more precision and to identify problems that otherwise might go unnoticed. But there is little independent research to validate these claims.

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In 2009 Professor David Nutt caused controversy for the UK government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs after stating the cannabis should be declassified to a Class C (rather than Class B) illegal drug.  During his time on the Council, Prof. Nutt had also claimed that recreational use of ecstasy is less dangerous than horse-riding. He was sacked from his government-advice post by Alan Johnson, the then Labour UK Home Secretary, who wrote to Nutt, “I cannot have public confusion between scientific advice and policy and have therefore lost confidence in your ability to advise me as chair of the ACMD.” By that logic, Johnson must have breathed a huge sigh of relief when three more scientist experts on the Council soon resigned. […]

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A sign offers military financing at a used car lot in Oceanside, Calif. on Oct. 12, 2006. The lot is one of many businesses in downtown Oceanside that offer credit to Marines from nearby Camp Pendleton.

By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor

Nearly 36,000 active-military members who hold security clearances have recently sought urgent financial advice or aid because heavy debts and delinquent bills threatened to void their classified status, according to a nonprofit that helps troops and veterans solve money problems.

“You can lose that security clearance if you have credit or debt issues,” said John E. Pickens III, executive director of VeteransPlus. “If you lose that clearance, you can become un-promotable or you can be taken from your assignment. And, ultimately, you can even receive a bad-conduct discharge. […]

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49-year-old man with unstable angina.

A common iodide contrast agent given to millions of patients who undergo medical scans every year raises the risk of thyroid disease, a new study shows.

Iodide, a form of the chemical element iodine, is widely used as a radiocontrast agent to allow doctors to see blood vessels and tissues in medical imaging tests. In a typical year, about 80 million doses of iodinated contrast agents are administered worldwide, largely for CT scans, cardiac catheterizations and other angiograms, and their use is growing as the technology spreads to developing countries.

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A linen bra found in an Austrian castle in 2008. The garment dates back 600 years. CREDIT: Archeological Institute of the University of Innsbruck View full size image

A surprisingly modern-looking linen bra dating back 600 years has been found in a medieval castle in Austria.

According to the Associated Press, the lingerie was first discovered in 2008, but the garments have flown under the radar until now. The finding is a surprise to fashion historians, who have believed that the bra was a relative newcomer to the clothing scene, dating back only a century or so.

“We didn’t believe it ourselves,” Beatrix Nutz, the University of Innsbruck archeologist who discovered the garments, told the AP. “From what we knew, there was no such thing as bralike garments in the 15th century.” [Cleavage Countdown: 8 Facts About Breasts]

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Four bras in total were discovered mingled among dirt, straw, leather and other fabric scraps in Lemberg Castle in Tyrol, Austria. The bras had cups like today’s lingerie, and one sported broad shoulder straps and the remnants of what was likely a back strap. According to the University of Innsbruck, the bras were once embellished with lace.

The fashion timeline has always pegged the invention of the modern bra to the late 1800s, after corsets began to go out of fashion. Though the French word “brassiere” first appeared in Vogue in 1907, American Mary Phelps-Jacobs patented the first bra design in the United States. Her version consisted of two handkerchiefs stitched together with ribbons for straps.

The Austrian discovery suggests that, instead, women wore bras first. Only later were the garments pushed out by corsets, then revived in the 1800s as fashions changed. 

The researchers also found linen underwear in the castle, Nutz told the AP. But that garment would have to belong to a man — medieval women went bare under their skirts.

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Been havin’ a discussion at ‘American Reality’ (on Facebook) about past civilizations and the idea of them having technologies we consider to be relatively new or unique to us. Yet another example. :D

President Barack Obama meets with his national security team in 2010. Flickr/White House

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Obama administration over the deaths of three American citizens who were killed by US drone strikes in Yemen last year. Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan were killed in the same attack in early September; Awlaki’s 16 year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, was killed in a separate strike later that month.

“This suit is an effort to enforce the Constitution’s most fundamental guarantee, the guarantee of due process,” said Jamil Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU on a conference call with reporters. “Ten years ago extrajudicial killing by the United […]

The National Ignition Facility set a record of laser shots on July 5 by delivering 1,000 times more power than what the U.S. uses. CREDIT: Damien Jemison/LLNL View full size image

A U.S. fusion lab has made a record-shattering laser shot that focused a cluster of lasers on a single target like a mini Death Star. The new record for the highest-power laser shot paves the way for the lab’s efforts to create sustainable fusion energy, similar to what takes place in the fiery heart of stars.

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) delivered more than 500 trillion watts (terawatts or TW) of power during its historic test shot on July 5 — about 1,000 times more power than the entire United States uses at any given time. That power came from 1.85 […]

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