World / Science & Education
Education: School Official in Dispute With State on Severance
05.07.2008 20:10
nytimes.com
A $740,000 severance package negotiated by the departing superintendent at the Keansburg Board of Education is being challenged in court.
World
Science & Education
Ideas & Trends: Maybe Chicken Little Wasn’t Paranoid After All
05.07.2008 19:09
nytimes.com
“Civilization killers” are one thing, but when it comes to earth-bound objects, smaller rocks matter too.
World
Sciences
The Urge to End It
05.07.2008 19:09
nytimes.com
Is suicide the deadly result of a deep psychological condition — or a fleeting impulse brought on by opportunity?
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Sciences
Numerology
05.07.2008 19:09
nytimes.com
An Oxford mathematician’s breezy tour through the integers and elsewhere.
World
Sciences
Out From Animals - The National Curriculum
05.07.2008 18:13
roomthirteen.com
Out of Animals from T4's Mobile Act Unsigned show they have learnt with The National Curriculum
World
Books & CD
White Denim - Workout Holiday
05.07.2008 18:13
roomthirteen.com
Texas trio White Denim produce an album full of complete diversity
World
Books & CD
Mumford & Sons - Mumford & Sons
05.07.2008 18:13
roomthirteen.com
A bit like watching paint dry but in a bluegrass stylee. Hmmm.
World
Books & CD
Anais Mitchell - Hymns For The Exiled
05.07.2008 18:13
roomthirteen.com
New Folk Awards winner for a reason: no topic too big or small for this singer-songwriter.
World
Books & CD
Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
05.07.2008 15:15
roomthirteen.com
Alt-country heartthrob Kathleen Edwards returns with the gorgeously laid back 'Asking for Flowers'
World
Books & CD
Function Of Glucose Transport Molecule Clarified By UCLA Researchers
05.07.2008 10:20
medicalnewstoday.com
Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have solved the structure of a class of proteins known as sodium glucose co-transporters (SGLTs), which pump glucose into cells. These transport proteins are used in the treatment of chronic diarrhea via oral rehydration therapy, saving the lives of millions of children each year. The solution of the SGLT structure will accelerate development of new drugs designed to treat patients with diabetes and cancer.
World
Biology
Pesticides May Be Responsible For Reproductive Abnormalities
05.07.2008 09:17
medicalnewstoday.com
A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot. But University of Florida scientists have found the opposite is true. In a study with wide implications for a longstanding debate over whether agricultural chemicals pose a threat to amphibians, UF zoologists have found that toads in suburban areas are less likely to suffer from reproductive system abnormalities than toads near farms - where some had both testes and ovaries.
World
Biology
'Smart' Materials Get Smarter With Ability To Better Control Shape And Size
05.07.2008 08:22
medicalnewstoday.com
A dynamic way to alter the shape and size of microscopic three-dimensional structures built out of proteins has been developed by biological chemist Jason Shear and his former graduate student Bryan Kaehr at The University of Texas at Austin. Shear and Kaehr fabricated a variety of detailed three-dimensional microstructures, known as hydrogels, and have shown that they can expand and bend the hydrogels by altering the chemistry of the environment in which they were built.
World
Biology
Stone Age art caves may have been concert halls
05.07.2008 07:26
stonepages.com
Prehistoric peoples chose places of natural resonant sound to draw their famed cave sketches, according to new analyses of paleolithic caves in France. In at least ten locations, drawings of...
Ireland
Archeology
Digging up the past at the Ring of Brodgar
05.07.2008 07:26
stonepages.com
Work will start next week to unearth the secrets of one of Europe's most important prehistoric sites. The Ring of Brodgar in Orkney (Scotland), the third-largest stone circle in the...
Ireland
Archeology
Exploding asteroid theory strengthened by new evidence
05.07.2008 07:26
stonepages.com
Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana (USA) in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America - when the end of...
Ireland
Archeology
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