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Archive for December 4th, 2006

Discovery: How Folic Acid is Absorbed

Scientists have discovered how the vitamin folate is absorbed in the intestinal tract.  The discovery may lead to being able to test infants that cannot absorb this important nutrient.
Folate, also known as folic acid or vitamin B9, is important for growth and gene expression in the fetus.  Babies who are deficient in it, or cannot absorb [...]

December 4th, 2006
Topic: Body & Mind, Health Tags: ,

Psiphon Fights Censorship

Earlier this year we covered that Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto was creating some software called Psiphon that lets people bypass firewalls. Psiphone is designed to let people access sites that are blocked for censorship reasons like in China where there is a lot of online censorship.
“psiphon is a censorship circumvention solution that [...]

December 4th, 2006
Topic: Direct Action, Freedom, Mind Space, Technology Tags: , , , , , , , ,