Web Snob: October 10, 2008 Breasts and Bags Edition

Women and s Charity Golf Event Benefiting Cancer Research... more

PINK and Cancer Research: The Less Obvious Link   Predicted Hopeful Side Effect Pulling from Inside, New Kindness Current Efforts Putting Intelligence to work Nullifying Knotted mystery of cancer Successes Along The Way Paralleled Insights Narrow Kiss of death’s early approach Future Plethora of scientists Incite Naked brilliance to Karate chop cancer from our vocabulary MeeAugraphie 10/09/08 I chose, today, to see what else I could see behind t... more

Several movie stars, athletes and television personalities have donated their shoes in the past to raise funds for good causes and they have always been a success. This time 19 pairs of shoes will be auctioned on eBay for Cash for kids, Cancer Research Foundation, No More Landmines and Agnus College Charitable Trust. Agnus College staff collected all of the shoes, and last year they created a three-mile line of pairs of shoes, which was supposedly the longest they...... more

A new study published in the journal CANCER shows, psychological support, such as, active participation in intervention sessions that focus on improving the mood, on how to cope effectively, including altering health behaviors, helps breast cancer patients live longer than others who do not receive such support.   read more ... more

Women who have a history of 2 or more close family members being diagnosed with breast cancer under fifty are at over four times greater risk of developing the disease, even if they do not carry the two genetic mutations linked to the disease. This raises their lifetime risk to 40 percent according to Steven Narod and other researchers at the University of Toronto. He hopes this new research will help advise women early of their risk of breast cancer. The study involved 1492 women from 3... more

WASHINGTON – If breast cancer runs in the family, women can be at high risk even if they test free of the disease’s most common gene mutations, sobering new research shows. The genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked with particularly aggressive hereditary breast cancer, and an increased risk of ovarian cancer, too. When a breast cancer [...]... more

In this video from the 2008 Dust or Magic Institute, Warren Buckleitner talks about how children’s portable computing devices are changing childhood and comes to some insightful conclusions. Born the same year as BF Skinner’s teaching machine (1958), Warren Buckleitner has been reviewing children’s technology products now for over half of his life. After five years in the classroom and ten years at the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, he established Children’... more

The Japan Ocean Policy Research Foundation on Friday decided to ask the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to recognize that a continental shelf spanning 740,000 square kilometers belongs to Japan. (donga.com) ... Tags: japan news , news on japan [ Read More ] ... more

Equine-assisted healing techniques for people diagnosed with autism and cerebral palsy will be scientifically tested in 2009 by two separate professional research teams, with $US100,000 in funding from the Horses and Humans Research Foundation (HHRF).... more

After having the AMAZING opportunity to meet my favorite designers, Heatherette , earlier in the year, my one wish in the fashion world would be to meet Betsey Johnson .  Can you tell Im a child of the 80’s?   I have been such a huge fan for so long.  And here is why: How can you not love the woman who comes up with this amazingly fun sundress and styles her model like that?  I totally heart Betsey.  Now if I could get my fat ass back into my Betsey Jo... more

Really, apey.  Look at it – just look! This HP laptop disguised as a totally fashionable clutch debuted at the Vivienne Tam show at the Spring 09 NY Fashion Week.  No word yet on price or more important, specs.  HP says it will be released at the first of the year.  Will definitely keep you posted. ... more

So I am desperately trying to learn this site – its about time, since its been live for 6 months or so, huh?  I am not 100% sure I’m going to be able to live with this magazine format, Im not even 50% sure.  But I am trying to learn a few things to make it easier.  This is the geek part of me coming out. ... more

I just finally finished reading Barbara Walters new book, Audition .  I like Barbara just fine, but never have had a particularly big interest in her, although, Lord knows, she’s had a much more eventful and interesting life than I ever will have.  I’m just not that politically minded I guess, and I know she is, so I have sort of steered clear. Anyhow, I guess all the gossip about the *scandalous* things her book had within its pages got me interested enough (plus the f... more