Curiosity rover finds radiation levels on Mars are safe for humans

It's been three months since NASA's Curiosity rover set foot wheels down on Martian terrain, and now the space agency has divulged what it's learned about radiation on Mars. Marking the first time radiation has been measured from the surface of another planet, preliminary data collected using the rover's Radiation Assessment Detector (or RAD for short) revealed that levels on the ground are similar to what astronauts encounter on the International Space Station. What's that mean for space travel? "The astronauts can live in this environment," Don Hassler, principal investigator on Curiosity's RAD hardware, said in a press conference. However, humans would still experience higher levels of radiation on the way to and from the red planet than on its surface. The results are encouraging, but they're just one of many developments left before Homo sapiens set foot on Mars. For more details on the RAD's findings, look below for the press release.

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Rugby: South Africa hold firm for win over Scotland

EDINBURGH: South Africa survived a second-half surge from Scotland to win 21-10 in the second round of autumn test matches at Murrayfield on Saturday, making it two wins out of two on their European tour.

Both Springbok tries came from hooker Adriaan Strauss with fly-half Pat Lambie adding one conversion and three penalties.

For Scotland, scrum-half Henry Pyrgos came off the bench to score a try and Greg Laidlaw had one conversion and one penalty.

The South Africans will now take wins over Ireland and Scotland on to Twickenham next Saturday when they will be looking to finish off their autumn series in style with a win over England.

The loss was Scotland's fourth straight defeat at Murrayfield and it means crucially that they will not be among the top eight seeds when the 2015 World Cup draw is made next month.

Scotland made three changes from the team that lost 51-22 to the All Blacks, with David Denton and John Barclay joining skipper Kelly Brown in the back row for the injured Ross Rennie and Alasdair Strokosch, and Euan Murray back in at tighthead prop in place of Geoff Cross.

Springboks coach Heyneke Meyer opted for two changes from the side that edged Ireland 16-12 in Dublin with Gurthro Steenkamp in for CJ van der Linde at loosehead prop and Juan de Jong taking over from Jaco Taute at outside centre.

South Africa applied the early pressure and signalled their attacking intentions after four minutes by punting into touch close to the Scottish line instead of kicking a makeable penalty.

That attack foundered, but three minutes later fly-half Lambie opened the scoring for the visitors with a penalty from just inside the Scottish half.

Laidlaw levelled at 3-3 in the 10th minute when a Springbok forward failed to roll away in the tackle, but Lambie restored the South African lead shortly after when Laidlaw was penalised at a lineout.

Some big hits from the Boks in the tackle and deft footwork from Lambie had Scotland back-pedalling and the pressure paid dividends after 21 minutes when the Springbok pack mauled its way over the Scottish line and Strauss touched down.

There was further trouble for the Scots as tearaway lock Richie Gray was forced off the field after taking a heavy knock to the head and then Laidlaw missed a straightforward penalty kick.

South Africa were well on top against a static Scotland side and further infringements by the home side saw Lambie stretch the lead to 14-3 with a penalty after 31 minutes.

Scotland finally threatened the Springbok line two minutes later, but after a series of rucks, flanker Alastair Kellock was penalised for not releasing the ball and the teams went in at the break with South Africa well in command at 14-3.

Things went from bad to worse for the Scots shortly after the restart when hooker Strauss intercepted a Mike Blair pass 30 metres out and trundled in under the posts for his second try which put South Africa 21-3 up.

Scotland then brought on Glasgow scrum-half Pyrgos for his second cap, replacing Blair, and he immediately made his mark by bursting through a gap in the Springbok lineout to score.

The home side were suddenly in the driving seat and came close to adding a second try only to be thwarted by some stout defending from the Springboks camped on their own line.

South Africa were reduced to 14 men for the last five minutes when lock Flip van der Merwe was yellow-carded for coming in from the side, but despite their pressure, the Scots were unable to score again.

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Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs biopic will consist of just three (long) scenes

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs-biopic will consist of just three 30-minute scenes of the late Apple CEO presented in real-time, showing events backstage at major product launches.

Sorkin announced the script details at the Newsweek/Daily Beast's Hero Summit event on Thursday.

"That's the movie," he said, according to a tweet from the Beast's official account.

Like the definitive Walter Isaacson-authored biography of Jobs, which offered candid material from the tech guru, the scenes will likely shed a very real light on the late Apple CEO.

Many had expected the film would focus on the creative brainstorming behind hit products like the iPhone and iPad.

But, as Sorkin did with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Network," Jobs' character will likely speak for himself more than the plot events will speak for him.

Jobs was a powerful and demanding force in the minutes leading up to long-anticipated unveilings of his key products, including the smartphone and tablet.

"No point in writing about someone unless they're flawed," Sorkin said, according to the summit's official Twitter handle.

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Looking Back On 2012 Election Technology

The country knew who its next president would be late in the evening of Election Day. But despite a nationwide push to electronic voting, some municipalities took days longer to finish counting their votes. Larry Norden of the Brennan Center for Justice looks at technologies and systems that worked during this year's election, and at voting processes that fell short of the mark in counting the vote.

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Pioneer Ridge Middle School students raise $600 to fight cancer

GARDNER, Kan. - One local fifth-grade class has raised more than $600 to help fight leukemia and lymphoma.

The students at Pioneer Ridge Middle School in Gardner, Kan., are raising the money for the Pennies for Patients campaign, of which 41 Action News is a proud partner.

The money will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Tracy Draeger said the 27 students he teaches in his fifth-grade class have come together to raise the money.

"Every one of the kids brought in something and sometimes they'd bring in so much money, I'd be like, ?Are you sure this is okay with your parents,?" he said.

Pioneer Ridge has raised $2,200 school-wide.

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Prostate cancer screening is a dud | Troy Media

Tags: Alan Cassels, Evidencenetwork.ca, Health, Health - Cancer

?A PSA test won?t let you live longer, but your life will feel longer.?

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November 15, 2012

VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 15, 2012/ Troy Media/ ? It?s Movember, and the kick off to prostate cancer charitable activities of all stripes begins in earnest, where we?ll be surrounded by recommendations from charities, doctors and media to get screened for the disease.

Last summer I was asked if I would debate a prominent urologist in Vancouver over the value of the PSA test, a simple blood test to determine a man?s risk of having prostate cancer. This was what I?d been waiting for. I had just published Seeking Sickness, a book about medical screening and was eager to see if anyone could step forward and publicly argue against what I was saying about PSA testing ? which I think is a bad idea.

Having studied the research behind the PSA test, I concluded that the PSA test is a dud.

Yes, it is true that prostate cancer is a condition that kills about three per cent of the male population, so it would seem to make sense to employ a ?screen early and screen often? mentality.

The main problem with looking for cancer with a PSA test is that the test finds evidence of cancerous cells in the prostates of most men who are getting to be a certain age (I won?t say old).

Changes to our prostate cells are not rare at all, and come as naturally to older guys as wrinkles and grey hair. While we?d all like to avoid the rare and rapidly fatal form of prostate cancer, the PSA test mostly finds the slow-growing type that will never go on to hurt us. Yet usually if a ?high? PSA score is found, doctors and patients strong biases are to treat the cancerous cells.

Physician and author Dr. Gilbert Welch is an expert on cancer screening and calls PSA testing ?the poster child for over-diagnosis.? He estimates that nearly two million American men have been unnecessarily treated for prostate cancer ? treatment that leaves as many as 40 per cent of them incontinent or impotent. As one doctor told me: ?a PSA test won?t let you live longer, but your life will feel longer.?

Nevertheless, my research on PSA tests found that there are still many players in the game promoting the test, especially some of those individuals and organizations with arguably vested interests or much at stake: some urologists who do prostate surgery, radiation therapists who apply the radiation, drug companies who supply treatments and organizations who try to raise prostate cancer awareness.

The largest prostate cancer awareness group in the U.S. gets financial support from some of these groups and is even supported by Depends, the company that makes adult diapers.

Yes, many raise money for these charities in good faith, because they appreciate what men diagnosed with prostate cancer endure and want to improve their quality of life. Fair enough. Just make sure your favoured charity is not encouraging a test that can often do more harm than help, and supplying men with balanced information before asking them to take the test.

But back to the debate. The urologist and I were supposed to meet for a taped TV debate. Finally someone was willing to step into the ring with a little punk like me!

And then he bailed.

The reason given, I heard from the organizers, was that he didn?t want to see an upstart get publicity for his book and its message. He?s probably right: If people read independent analyses of PSA testing they?d come away with a different picture of the test than what many urologists and cancer charities put forward.

My skepticism around the PSA test was vindicated earlier this year when a respected group that provides ?gold-standard? independent analyses of screening, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), announced that healthy men should not be screened with a PSA test, pure and simple.

There?s plenty of money to be made from telling men that they have disease lurking in their bodies, and the PSA is a classic case of this. Offering a screening test to a perfectly healthy person demands that we supply a good answer to the question: What if the treatment is worse than doing nothing?

Was that the question that scared my opponent off?

Alan Cassels is an expert advisor with EvidenceNetwork.ca and a drug policy researcher at the University of Victoria. He is the author of the new book, Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease [Greystone, 2012]. He is still willing to debate any urologist on the value of the PSA test.

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