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Year in Apps: The Biggest Hits, Misses and Absolute Fails of 2013

Gadget Lab picks out the most memorable apps of the year, may they be for success, failure or hype.

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By Mary Ellen Godin, Reuters

MERIDEN, Connecticut -- A $100 million claim on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor is the first legal action to come out of the Connecticut school shooting that left 20 children and eight adults dead two weeks ago.?

The unidentified client, referred to as Jill Doe, heard "cursing, screaming, and shooting" over the school intercom when the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, opened fire, according to the claim filed by New Haven-based attorney Irv Pinsky.

"As a consequence, the ... child has sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined," the claim said.

Pinsky said he filed a claim on Thursday with state Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr., whose office must give permission before a lawsuit can be filed against the state.

The parents of a 6-year-old girl who survived the Connecticut school shootings that resulted in the deaths of 20 other children at her school seek to file a claim for $100 million, saying their child was traumatized. NBC's Kate Snow has more.

"We all know its going to happen again," Pinsky said on Friday. "Society has to take action."

Twenty children and six adults were shot dead on Dec. 14 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The children were all 6 and 7 years old.

Pinsky's claim said that the state Board of Education, Department of Education and Education Commissioner had failed to take appropriate steps to protect children from "foreseeable harm."

It said they had failed to provide a "safe school setting" or design "an effective student safety emergency response plan and protocol."

Pinsky said he was approached by the child's parents within a week of the shooting.

The shooting, which also left the gunman dead, has prompted extensive debate about gun control and the suggestion by the National Rifle Association that schools be patrolled by armed guards. Police have said the gunman killed his mother at their home in Newtown before going to the school.?

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Chinas central bank to keep monetary policy stable

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China's central bank has said it will continue to implement a prudent monetary policy next year and pay close attention to potential financial risks. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said in a ...

China appoints new security chief

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China's top legislature Friday appointed Guo Shengkun as minister of public security, replacing Meng Jianzhu. Guo's previous post was party chief of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, ...

Chinese rare earth firm to form megacompany

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China's top rare earth producer announced Friday it will gain control of 12 other firms in the sector, making its first move to form a megacompany. Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth (Group) ...

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Turkey`s Besiktas has sealed a deal with Atletico Madrid`s Portuguese winger Simao Sabrosa, the soccer club said in a statement on Thursday. Besiktas said that club officials agreed on a ...

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A clash of cultures is likely as the matriarchal Moon opposes aggressive Mars and the Sun meets dark Pluto in your house of communication. Take a deep breath and count to ten whether you are dealing with your children, neighbors, siblings, or your parents. Try to understand the other's point of view and avoid making any hasty decisions or speaking out in anger.

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As we close out the year, it's time to take a look back at things. I've never been all that keen on "year's best" lists for applications, though that doesn't mean they don't necessarily serve a purpose. There are so many good apps, so many updates. Instead, I think it's a little more fun to take a look at how each one of us uses our phones and tablets.

Are they travel companions? I, for one, remember all too well navigating the backwoods (or what seemed like the backwoods) or Louisiana and Mississippi and Georgia and Florida during my school-age years, playing soccer. We did it with maps. On paper. That didn't move. Or update. That any of us made it back alive is a miracle.

What about bedside readers? Does your tablet even make it out of the boudoir? Does it spend as much time (or more) in the bathroom as you do?

I'm always fascinated to read about how folks use their technology, and inevitably I learn a trick or two that I'll want to try as well. So let's walk through what I used in 2012, and how I used it. In the coming days, you'll hear from the other names and faces behind Android Central and see just what it is we use on a daily basis. Want to get in on the fun yourself? Hit up this forum thread and share your stash with the world.

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PASADENA, Calif.?? Since captivating the world with its acrobatic landing, the Mars rover Curiosity has fallen into a rhythm: Drive, snap pictures, zap at boulders, scoop up dirt. Repeat.

Topping its to-do list in the new year: Set off toward a Martian mountain ? a trek that will take up a good chunk of the year.

The original itinerary called for starting the drive before the Times Square ball drop, but Curiosity lingered longer than planned at a pit stop, delaying the trip.

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Curiosity will now head for Mount Sharp in mid-February after it drills into its first rock.

"We'll probably be ready to hit the pedal to the metal and give the keys back to the rover drivers," mission chief scientist John Grotzinger said in a recent interview at his office on the sprawling NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory campus, 15 miles (24 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles.

The road trip comes amid great expectations. After all, it's the reason the $2.5 billion mission targeted Gale Crater near the Martian equator. Soaring from the center of the ancient crater is a 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) peak with intriguing layers of rocks.

Curiosity's job is to figure out whether the landing site ever had the right environmental conditions to support microbes. Scientists already know water flowed in the past, thanks to the rover's discovery of an old streambed. Besides water, life as we know it also needs energy, typically provided by the sun.

What's missing are the chemical building blocks of life: complex carbon-based molecules. If they're preserved on Mars, scientists figure the best place to hunt for them is at the base of Mount Sharp, where images from space reveal hints of interesting geology.

It's a six-month journey if Curiosity drives nonstop. But since scientists will want to command the six-wheeled rover to rest and examine rocky outcrops along the way, it'll turn into a nine-month odyssey.

Drill, rover, drill
Before Curiosity can tackle a mountain, there's unfinished business to tend to. After spending the holiday taking measurements of the Martian atmosphere, Curiosity gears up for the first task of the new year: Finding the perfect rock to bore into.

The exercise ? from picking a rock to drilling to deciphering its chemical makeup ? is expected to last more than a month.

"We have promised everybody that we're going to go slowly," said Grotzinger, a geologist at the California Institute of Technology.

Curiosity's low-key adventures thus far are in contrast to the drama-filled touchdown that entranced the world in August. Since the car-sized rover was too heavy to land using a parachute and airbags, engineers invented a daring new way that involved lowering it to the surface by cables. The risky arrival proved so successful and popular that NASA is planning an encore in 2020.

Curiosity joined another NASA rover, Opportunity, which has been exploring the Martian southern hemisphere since 2004. Opportunity's twin, Spirit, stopped communicating in 2010.

After nailing the landing, Curiosity fell into a routine. The first month was dominated by health checkups ? a tedious but essential prerequisite before driving. A chemistry laboratory on wheels, it's the most high-tech spacecraft to land on another planet, so extra care was taken to ensure its tools, including its rock-zapping laser and robotic arm, worked.

Once it got the green light, it trundled to a waypoint that's home to three unique types of terrain to perform science experiments. Every time Curiosity roves, it leaves Morse code tracks in the soil, providing a visual signal between drives. The dots and dashes spell out JPL, short for Jet Propulsion Lab, which built the rover.

Postcards from Mars
So far, its odometer has logged less than a mile. Despite the slow going, scientists have been smitten with the postcards it beamed home, including a stylish self-portrait and tantalizing glimpses of Mount Sharp.

Huge expectations weigh on the mission with NASA balancing the need to feed the public's appetite while pursuing discoveries at its own pace. Last month, the space agency quashed Internet speculation that Curiosity had detected complex carbon compounds in a pinch of Martian soil by issuing a statement ahead of a science meeting where the team was due to present the latest findings.

American University space policy professor Howard McCurdy said Curiosity is currently in a transition, caught between the landing that went viral and the scientific payoff that's expected at Mount Sharp.

"It is interesting, but slow," he said in an email. "I expect public interest will rise as the rover gets closer to its destination."

Curiosity's prime mission lasts two years, but NASA expects the plutonium-powered rover to live far longer. A priority for its human handlers is to learn to operate it more efficiently so that it becomes second nature. Before heading to Mount Sharp, engineers plan a software update to Curiosity's computers to fix remaining bugs.

"We'll need to be pretty careful," project manager Richard Cook said of the upcoming drive. "We may find terrain that we're not comfortable driving in, and we'll have to spend time driving around stuff."

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* This is the novelization of an RP NotAFlyingToy and I completed over the course of four years. Hope you can enjoy this as much as I did writing it the first time, and writing it now in its synchronized format.*

When the Walls Fall Down

See I had these walls
Built up so strong
Built when I was young
In wars I've won

But if I'm alone
Stone upon stone
So tall I could not see
Beyond my wall

But your walls fall down
And your walls fall down

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Developmental analysts tend to agree that the average human child begins to form long-term, complex memory at the age of five or six. Anything prior to that is lost permanently, perhaps coming back in the form of strange dreams, or subconscious emotional responses to specific stimuli.

I spent a lot of free time researching stuff like that, during long summer hours when I confined myself to my room, and thought that I had nothing better to do. Yet, with each line that I poured over and committed to memory, it only continued to confirm a single fact that resonated in my mind, like the clanging of a bell.

I was not normal, and I never had been. I could remember nothing prior to my early adolescent years, and it wasn?t as if the memories faded as I struggled to think further and further back, they just stopped, as if I?d hit a mental block. I?d spent countless sleepless nights struggling to resurrect what I knew I should remember, but couldn?t, and all it ever brought me was a distinct feeling of anxiety and a splitting headache.

Over time, I reflected on this less and less, figuring that it was nothing I should waste my time worrying about, since there was obviously nothing I could do about it. Even Codger, my grandmother, had told me ?not to be stupid and quit worrying about the past?. The only reason why I?d even bothered mulling over it this morning as I woke up was because I?d woken from a rather violent dream.

While sleeping, the details had been so incredibly vivid that I was almost positive that it was real. I had seen the flames, heard the screaming of dozens of people, and felt the searing heat of it against my skin. The nauseating smell of burning flesh was so acrid that I was certain I smelled it even after I had woken up.

I wondered, but I wouldn?t ask questions. Codger had reassured me that everything would come to light in due time, and that she?d make sure I was ready for it. Whatever ?it? was, I still didn?t know, and I?d threatened the old woman with impalement and she still wouldn?t give an inch.

We have a curious relationship, Codger and I.

I stood in front of a full-length mirror that she had bought for me, critically eying myself in the reflection as I turned from one side to the other. Tall, nearly five-ten, and unnaturally skinny, I tended to stick out in a crowd like a sore thumb. Untamable, curly red hair and freckles did nothing to ease this fact.

Codger had reassured me that being ?different?, as she called it, was certainly not a bad thing. She considered it my saving grace. In hindsight, I don?t know that I cared about how I looked as much as I cared about what I couldn?t remember. With the dream still buzzing around in the back of my mind, I could feel the tension in my shoulders, a deep-seated ache beginning to roll down my spine.

?Jaz!? I heard her hollering from downstairs, and the smell of burning toast began to filter underneath my bedroom door. Shuffling to the stained, second-hand oak dresser that was the only piece of furniture in my room other than the mirror and the ancient four-poster I slept on, I pulled out a pair of well-worn jeans and a black tee-shirt before slipping them on.

I grabbed for my dark grey hooded sweatshirt, tugging it on over my head as I made my way to the door, stepping out into the dark hallway and meandering towards the stairs. Codger was not one who wasted time or money on decorations (or renovations, for that matter). The two-story home that she had owned probably since her own parents passed away smelled like mildew, had more than one broken window, and a few of the walls had cracks creeping up from the baseboards. There were leaks in the roof, the stairs were creaky, and I was almost certain that a raccoon had taken residence in the attic.

But, it was home nonetheless.

The stairs ended in the front foyer, a doorway off to the right opening into the living room, and then on into the kitchen. To the left, the dining room sat, a single table with a few mismatched chairs the only pieces of furniture occupying the small space. I turned to the right, stepping past the faded yellow couches that stunk of cigarette smoke, scooping my bag off of the old recliner chair, startling the cat that I always forgot we had, and sending it scurrying across the floor, hissing and spitting the whole time.

The kitchen was about as fifties hip as it could get, with outdated appliances and ages, peeling linoleum flooring. Codger had set out a plate of dangerously burnt toast, a melting slather of butter sinking into the crispy surface. I watched her as she shuffled around, her house-coat drifting around her feet. She often reminded me of a garden gnome, short and squat as she was, with glasses that made her grey eyes look about four times their normal size.

She scratched at a patch of balding scalp in between her hair curlers, glancing over her shoulder in my direction before slipping me a mischeivous, toothy smirk. Amused, I realized that she'd remembered to put her teeth in today.

"What're you smiling about?" I muttered, pretending to sound grumpy. It wasn't a difficult act to put on. Codger said that my attitude was worse than the cat's on better days.

"Nothing at all." the aged woman replied, reaching over and nudging the plate towards me with gnarled fingers. I sat down on the diner-style stool, picking up one piece of toast and narrowing my eyes at it before taking a bite.

It was a surprising relief to actually taste the bitterness of the carbon. It was a relief to taste anything at all, and it didn't take me long to realize that Codger had done it on purpose. "You figured it out then," I said, gratefully.

"Even if it tastes like shit, you'll eat cuz you can taste." Codger replied with a nod. "Bitter was the last thing I could try before forcing you to eat in spite of everything."

My appetite had been poor, lately, because for whatever reason my tastebuds were not cooperating. It was a good day if I could taste anything at all, or feel hunger, and Codger had been experimenting with various potent concoctions to try to kick everything back into gear. It was just another one of those paroxismal issues that I dealt with on a day-to-day basis, like my strange memory issues. It was just a part of life, and I'd learned to not question it. I just dealt with it. Happily, I took another bite, brushing the crumbly bits off my fingertips as I watched Codger shuffle around the kitchen.

"What had you in bed so early last night? You didn't practice." she asked me, moving to the stove and pulling off a rusty kettle that was beginning to whistle with steam.

I shrugged. "Wasn't feeling up to it. Classes were shitty and I had a bunch of homework to do."

Her eyes narrowed as she glanced sideways at me. Beneath her gaze, I felt myself wither slightly. "Did you finish it?" she retorted, her tone sharp.

Glancing sideways, I sheepishly shook my head. Codger gave nothing away, pouring the hot water into a chipped mug before going to the nearest cabinet and withdrawing a small, black vial. It reminded me of a vanilla extract container, but she and I both knew that the spice was not what the bottle held. She put a single drop, barely a mililiter of the dark fluid into the hot water, before grabbing a bland teabag and dunking it inside. This, she handed to me, her hand lingering on the handle even as I reached to take it from her.

Our eyes met.

"You can't afford to get lazy." she warned me before releasing the ceramic container to my grasp. I grit my teeth, nodding once before bringing the scalding liquid to my lips.

The practice she was referring to wasn't something generic, like piano or knitting. My eyes trailed from the mug as I swallowed mouthful after mouthful of boiling fluid, towards the wall over the stove, where Codger's shotgun sat mounted. It was, perhaps, the only thing in the entire house that she took care of. The gleaming double-barrel was her prize possession, and she wielded it like a gunslinger.

Mine was a nine millimeter pistol, a gun with an impressive kick and an even more impressive capacity to kill whatever it fired at. The large, tipped bullets I generally used in practice obliterated targets, and they were designed to create an exit wound easily three times larger than the entry wound, if I were to ever fire at a human being.

When Codger had first introduced me to weapons, I had been shy about using them. Yet, something felt comfortable and familiar about the handle as it settled into the palm of my hand. I had no difficulty taking aim and firing. I could handle the kick, and I hit the target every time.

Every. Time. The accuracy was disconcerting at first, but Codger had reassured me that those things came naturally to some people, and that it was a gift that should be nurtured, because you "...just didn't know anymore these days".

It was yet another one of those things on the lengthy list of 'questions I shouldn't ask'.

Downing the last of the fluid, I could feel the ache in my back dissipating to nothing, leaving behind a tingling, cold sensation that raised goosebumps up along my arms. Codger had moved on, dumping the hot liquid into the sink and setting the kettle back on the stove. When she reached for the mug, I handed it to her.

"You have class?" she asked me as I reached for my bag, slipping it up over my shoulders. I nodded, reaching and grabbing for a pair of keys that lay next to a pile of mail she was never going to read.

"Just be careful today." she warned me. Startled at her tone, I lifted my eyes to hers, finding them briefly filled with worry, before they clouded over with her usual grumpy scowl.

"You're going to be late." she muttered, waving me off. I sighed, turning away and disappearing towards the front door, never once glancing back as I stepped into the frigid air, and slammed the door behind me.

We lived on the fringe of the small town of Charlotte, Connecticut, where everyone knew everything about everyone else, and where gas prices tended to dip simply because people didn?t see a reason to buy any in the first place. You were as likely to see someone riding horseback as you were an axel vehicle, and the majority of the roads were unpaved, with potholes that could easily rip off your fender. Locals called them natural speed-bumps.

I had to travel through this town to get to school on the weekdays. So, after making my way down the long, gravel drive in Codger?s rarely-used Range Rover, I turned left onto Jackson Street, moving from gravel to a somewhat-paved road. Dawn was beginning to surface beyond the dusky hills that were still coated with morning mist, turning the sky a faint red-orange. I let my mind wander back to the images of fire that were locked in my mind?s eye, but they were less distinct now, fading like the mist in the presence of the sun.

As I hit the city limits, I slowed to just under thirty, rolling the windows down to let in the cool air. I passed by the grocers, the hardware store, the fabric shop, and one of the few restaurants in-town. Codger and I had never been, mostly because of its obscure title: ?Tony?s?.

A few people were already up, sweeping the sidewalk, and getting ready for another day. Some of them glanced my way, looking first to the vehicle before spying me, and lifting their hand in a wave. I smiled back before moving on.

There were no lights in town. The only light that existed cropped up at the on-ramp to Interstate 60, which I immediately took, progressively increasing speed until the Rover shuddered and groaned, warning me that it hadn?t had enough time to warm up just yet. The car was so like my grandmother that I nearly laughed out loud.

There was generally no traffic out here, especially this early in the morning, so it wasn?t too much of a surprise that I shared the road with only one other vehicle, a sturdy-looking Cadillac, polished black with tinted windows. With three other lanes to share, it rode up right behind me, and stayed there.

At first, it didn?t bother me, but when I changed lanes, intending to let the other pass, the car moved into place right behind me, staying just two feet off my rear bumper. I glanced into the rear-view mirror, brow furrowing as I narrowed my eyes. Must have been someone dicking around. I hadn?t been speeding, and certainly if this was an undercover cop they might have turned on their lights.

My exit was coming up. Tapping the breaks, I jerked the wheel to the right, swerving away from the other car at the last possible minute. There was a screech of tires, and I found myself, finally, driving on my own.

?That was so weird,? I muttered under my breath, unable to help glancing in the rear-view every five minutes for the rest of the ride. As the road stretched on ahead, I could see the signs leading on towards Jefferson University. It was a sprawling campus, set in the middle of a large forest, with buildings tucked into hillsides and nestled in the midst of copses of massive oak trees. Most of the buildings were old, but well-kept, structured from brick and mortar rather than wood and cement.

I pulled into the South lot, specifically reserved for the students attending the school, and found a spot close to the back and the nearest exit.

Several other students were filing in as well, in the typical morning rush. The lot tended to fill up quickly around this hour. Eager to avoid dodging cars in search of parking spaces, I grabbed my bag, jumped out of the car, and started to walk towards Memorial Hall.

A voice called to me from beneath the shadow of one of the many oaks that dotted campus.

?I?m waiting the day when that old clunker just collapses right onto its frame, Red.?

Part of me suggested I keep moving, to just ignore his voice and walk to class, but the other part of me, the stronger, angrier, and stubborn part froze my feet mid-stride as I whipped my head in the direction of the one who had shouted after me.

?Don?t hold your breath, Milo. No, wait, as a matter of fact, go ahead and hold it, and don?t let it go until I?m done with class.?

The biting sarcasm came so easily when this kid addressed me, it was almost like it was meant to be. He laughed, stepping out into the sunlight, his glasses sitting on the ridge of his nose as he fixed me with a pair of Summer-green eyes.

?And did I happen to mention that the scarf you?re wearing is uniquely hideous?? I added, for the hell of it. It truly was an ugly accessory, and I wasn?t much of a fashionista. It was a purple and yellow knitted thing. Unfortunately, the insult did nothing to phase him.

?You aren?t one to talk about what looks good and what doesn?t.? he said, giving me a pointed once-over. I shuffled my feet, fighting the urge to spring forward and deck him. It wouldn?t be the first time. Before I had a chance to respond, though, he lifted a hand to tussle his dirty-blonde hair, smiling at me easily, confidently.

I wanted so badly to hit him that it hurt.

?Speaking of classes, though, I happened to have a schedule change. And look who I get to share English Comp with??

My scowl deepened, and I abruptly turned, beginning to stalk away from him. He quickly caught up, messenger bag slapping against the back of his thigh as he loped at my side. Milo was tall, and sturdy. At least six-two, with broad, squared shoulders and a lean physique; it was very easy for him to look down at me as I marched at his side, dutifully ignoring his smirk as I gripped the straps of my bag with white-knuckled force.

?What?s got you in such a bad mood, Jaz?? his voice dripped sarcasm. Yet, even out of the corner of my eye, I could see that he was looking around, rather than at me. Scanning the area, but why?

I?d first met Milo on one of my errand trips into town a few months before school started. Codger had sent me to the department store to get a new hammer, and he had been doing summer staffing there, planning, I guess, to work through college to help cover expenses.

He?d come up behind me when I was browsing, and startled me so badly that I spun and dropped the hammer on his foot. He called me a ?clumsy git?, and I hollered that he shouldn?t have startled me in the first place, and stormed out of the store. I had completely forgotten about the hammer.

He?d never struck me as anything more than a care-free dumbass with nothing better to do than pick on another girl he just barely knew. Yet, today I could tell something was different. There was tension in his shoulders, and he seemed, well, jumpy.

?You look more jittery than a crack addict.? I noted snidely, only briefly glancing up at his face. I was surprised, even startled, to find that his eyes were laced with worry.

The instant he saw me looking, though, the expression cleared, and he was back to sneering at me.

?Takes one to know one, Red.?

My hand fell from its grip on the bag, falling close to his, and something like a strange, painful burst of static shock sparked between his fingers and mine. I jumped away from him, clutching my hand to my chest as he did something similar, staring at me with wide eyes.

?Jesus Christ,? he breathed, his expression souring. ?You didn?t have to fucking taze me. I was only kidding!?

I didn?t answer. Too surprised to speak, I simply turned and raced away, determined to skip class and hide out in the library until I was certain that I wouldn?t have to lay eyes on Milo Sturn for the rest of the day.

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Home Health Tests

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Not every cough and sniffle calls for a visit to the doctor?s office, nor does every scrape and burn necessitate an expensive trip to the emergency room. In most cases you can tell if a home remedy will do the trick or if professional medical care is advisable, but you will certainly have occasions where you?re just not sure if the symptoms will pass or if you need professional help.

Many people would probably appreciate having ways to determine their relative state of health between annual physicals or check-ups in order to see if they need additional care or alternately, if their efforts to improve health and fitness are paying off. So here are just a few simple health tests that you can perform on your own at home to check yourself out.

Temperature

Fevers are indicative of an infection, or rather, they are the result of your body fighting an infection. In most cases there is no cause for concern. Although a fever will make you feel pretty awful, the majority are low-grade and break within a matter of hours or just a couple of days.

However, there may be extreme scenarios in which you require hospitalization with a fever, such as an unusually high temperature (103 degrees Fahrenheit or greater), an extended fever (lasting longer than a week), or accompanying symptoms like excessive vomiting (leading to dangerous dehydration), chest or abdominal pain, confusion or hallucinations, or any other symptoms that seem serious. Taking your temperature with an inexpensive home thermometer can give you a quick gauge of the severity of a fever.
Pulse

Studies show that your resting heart rate can offer you an early warning of your risk for heart attack. The average adult heart should beat about 60 times per minute. This rate indicates optimum health and extremely low risk for heart attack. But once your pulse gets over about 75 beats per minute your risk for heart attack rises significantly.

Luckily, testing your resting heart rate is easy. All you have to do is sit and relax for a few minutes and then take your pulse (at your wrist or throat). If the number is high, it may be time to talk to your doctor.
Blood pressure

High or low blood pressure can be to blame for a number of symptoms that range from annoying to potentially deadly. Those on the low end of the spectrum may experience fatigue, dizziness, and fainting, while high blood pressure can be to blame for headaches and even strokes. But if you purchase a blood pressure cuff and learn how to read it (you can find them on Amazon for about ten bucks and there are tons of tutorials online that will show you how to use one), you can track your own blood pressure to determine if it might be playing a role in your symptoms.
BMI

Your body mass index is not exactly easy to calculate, but it?s certainly not rocket science. To start, measure your weight (in pounds) and height (in inches). Now divide you weight by your height squared. So if you are 60 inches tall (five feet) and you weigh a hundred pounds, for example, your equation would be 100/60?60, or 100/3600, resulting in an answer of 0.028. You will then multiply this number by 703 (called the conversion factor), which will result in your body mass index (in this case about 19.7).

So what does this number mean? In general, you want the number to fall in the 18.5 to 25 range as this is considered to be the healthiest weight for your height. If your calculation comes out below 18.5 or above 25, you could be at an unhealthy weight (although you may want to talk to your doctor for further information).

(Note from the editor: this post is essentially a guest post. Project Swole does not support BMI in the slightest. BMI is a joke and does not reflect a measure of healthiness in anyone who has more muscle mass than the average person. Instead, you want to use body fat percentage to determine how much fat you are holding on your body with respect to non-fat tissue. This can be calculated using either calipers or an electronic hand-held tool.
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Granted, this type of home health test only applies to about half of the population, but as test kits at home go, this one is pretty popular. Although you will probably want to go to the doctor eventually if your test is positive, a negative result could save you an unnecessary trip.

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Genetic engineering enables individual brain cells of research animals to ignite in brilliant color to trace the elaborate connections of a nervous system

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During the last decade, researchers have labored intensively to find new methods to photograph the complex networks of nerve cells that make up the brain and spinal cord, an attempt to overcome the severe limitations of earlier imaging technologies. The emerging science of connectomics, intended to map such connections, will be made possible by deploying these techniques.

In 2007, Jeff Lichtman, Joshua Sanes and colleagues at Harvard University came up with one of the most notable examples of the new brain-cell imaging methods. Brainbow lights up neurons in about 100 different hues, enabling a precise tracking of neural circuitry and synapses, the gaps between brain cells.

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Scientists engineer a mouse or another model animal with a gene that randomly causes each neuron to express differing amounts of a red, green or blue fluorescent protein, producing a palette of varying pastel-like colors. Slices of tissue are photographed and recombined to produce detailed imagery of the brain?s structural topography. (The original discovery of what is called green fluorescent protein by Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shinomura and Roger Y. Tsien, from which these new multi-colored fluorescent proteins are derived, was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.)
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