TV Review: House - “Guardian Angels” (Blogcritics.org) A pre-Halloween treat on House -- dead people and angels without wings. Don’t let the title fool you. This episode is not filled with metaphysical puzzles or deep discussions regarding the afterlife. This week was like a refreshing page taken out of the season one handbook – strictly formula, complete with a dying patient, an intriguing medical mystery, misdiagnoses by House’s team and a final ... [News Source]

Who’s on first in battle against BSE? (Prairie Star) In the old Superman comics there is an alternative world, an alternate reality, where things are topsy-turvy, or opposite. This alternate reality place was called “Bizarro world.” [News Source]

Scientists find new causes for neurodegeneration (PhysOrg) Diseases that cause neurons to break-down, such as Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Mad Cow Disease), continue to be elusive to scientists and resistant to treatments. [News Source]

Tests ‘miss BSE traces in food’. Cows infected with BSE might still be getting into the food chain because tests can miss traces of the deadly disease, scientists fear. [News Source]

Absent prions blow hole in BSE theory. Abnormal prion proteins assumed to be the infectious agents that cause mad cow disease and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease might not be to blame after all. [News Source]

Grass-fed gain for NZ beef from US mad cow row (Stuff) Arrogance comes before a fall – just ask my sportswriting colleagues who are sheepishly wending their way home from the World Cup. [News Source]

Scientists Find New Causes For Neurodegeneration (Science Daily) Diseases that cause neurons to break down, such as Alzheimer's, continue to be elusive to scientists and resistant to treatments. A new finding demonstrates an unpredicted link between a virtually unknown signaling molecule and neuron health. Scientists connect the loss of this molecule to massive neurodegeneration in the brain, which plays a key role in the survival of nervous system cells. [News Source]

Ervolino: Banana split or no split? (The Record) "Can you DO that?" a woman asked me recently in the grocery store, as I stood by the banana bin in the produce department's fruit aisle. "I don't see why not," I replied. "I'm doing it. You can do it, too. I guess. As long as nobody sees you." [News Source]

About the birds and the bees (and the buck$ too) (Clarion News) Don’t know how much you’ve heard about this. It’s made a bit of news lately but you still don’t hear people talking about it. Honey bees have been disappearing and people are alarmed. [News Source]

Absent prions blow hole in BSE theory (New Scientist) Abnormal prions might not be the infectious agents that cause BSE after all, prompting fears that UK testing might be missing some cases [News Source]