ANIMALS - Parasite helps itself to sugar
Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite that causes sleeping sickness, is transmitted to mammals by the tsetse fly, and must adapt to the divergent metabolisms of its hosts. A new study shows how it copes with the frugal diet offered by the fly. ...
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ANIMALS - Primates shows us what it takes to make it as a scientist
Whether you're looking for a graphic novel about the early breakthroughs in primate research, an account of the rigors of fieldwork, or just a scientific version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Louis Leakey as a slightly horny Willy Wonka, this is the book for you. ...
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CLIMATE - Sydney's urban areas to be hit hardest by global warming
Green spaces, trees and bodies of water are must-have design features for future development in Sydney's suburbs after researchers found that by 2050 global warming combined with Sydney's urban heat island effect could increase temperatures by up to 3.7°C. ...
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CLIMATE - Temperature increases causing tropical forests to blossom
A new study led by Florida State University researcher Stephanie Pau shows that tropical forests are producing more flowers in response to only slight increases in temperature. ...
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ECONOMICS - CHART OF THE DAY: Remember When People Said Surging Interest Rates Would Be Bad News For Stocks?
The spike in real interest rates has meant huge outflows from emerging markets. .. ...
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ECONOMICS - Compliance Technology Now A Necessity For Hedge Funds
Once viewed as a luxury reserved for only the largest hedge funds, compliance technology has entered the mainstream. The complexity of reporting obligations, combined with the expanded number of hedge fund investment advisers that are now registered with the SEC and CFTC, are the drivers of the increased usage. While one size definitely [...] ...
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EDUCATION - Internships: Education or Unpaid Labor? Let's Ask Interns.
Long considered the quickest on-ramp to prized jobs in the media business, unpaid internships are increasingly controversial, with lawsuits against Hearst, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, Gawker Media and "The Charlie Rose Show," among others, challenging their legality. ProPublica, the investigative news nonprofit, has been tracking the topic and recently raised more [...] ...
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EDUCATION - Oregon Could Be The First State To Let Students To Go College Tuition-Free
Oregon's "Pay it Forward, Pay it Back" plan lets students enroll with no money down, so long as they agree to pay up to 3% of their future salaries. .. ...
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ENERGY - Oil Price is Bullish for Electric Car Sales | EV News Report
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ENERGY - Waterways warmed by climate change will increase electricity prices in southern Europe
Desdemona Despair is the clearinghouse for all of the very worst news about the future of life on Earth, such as global warming, climate change, deforestation, overfishing, acidification, oil spills, resource depletion, drought, pollution, overpopulation, dead zones, mass extinction, and doom. ...
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ENVIRONMENT - England's polluted beaches: stop this tide of filth
Overflowing, misconnected sewers â?? plus messy dogs and seagulls â?? are fouling up efforts to keep bathing water clean. And the wet summers are adding to the mess. How is one Devon seaside town coping? ...
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FASHION - Wear A Peplum To Perfect A Pretty, Polished Office Ensemble
Over the past year, trendsetters from Prabal Gurung to Proenza Schouler, Emma Stone to Victoria Beckham have taken a shine to peplum. Despite its scene-stealing tendencies, the trend's surprising versatility and flattering silhouette are the reasons it keeps coming back. ...
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GARDENS - 100 years ago: Birds protect trees from insect-pests
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 9 July 1913: Insect pests have an economic as well as zoological interest; we need to study them ...
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MOVIES - 50 Of The Best Movies Ever Are Your Blu-ray+Digital Deal Of The Day
Today you can get yourself an awesome blu-ray collection in one click. Amazon is offering the Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection for $185, which is over $400 off the original retail price, and quite the bargain for 50 amazing films. Even if you managed to get all of these separately for $10/pop, that would have still been 500 bucks. The best part of this deal is de ...
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MOVIES - How Universal Pictures Staged the Biggest Comeback In Hollywood
After a few costly flops, Universal has released seven movies in a row that topped the box office their opening weekend. ...
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MUSIC - Scientists unveil historical clues to Stradivari's craft
A new study, by Marco Malagodi from the Università degli Studi di Pavia in Italy and colleagues, uses a range of analytical methods to identify the techniques used by violin master Antonio Stradivari in the 17th century, and attempts to replicate his craftsmanship. The work is published online in Springer's ... ...
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PEOPLE - One Story That Explains How Successful People Think
This couple married at a baseball game to raise money for charity and get hitched with all of their friends present, exemplifying how to think outside the box. ...
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PLANTS - Psilocybin Mushrooms Promote Growth of New Brain Cells, Can Even Cure PTSD And Depression -
Past studies from Imperial College London strongly suggest that psilocybin in "shrooms" can cure depression and PTSD, and now studies from South Florida confirm that "shrooms" and psilocybin are like the miracle plant cannabis that is gradually being legalized, a miracle product of the earth with multiple potent medical uses. ...
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SCIENCE - 'Holographic Duality' Hints at Hidden Subatomic World | Wired Science | Wired.com
According to modern quantum theory, energy fields permeate the universe, and flurries of energy in these fields, called “particles” when they are pointlike and “waves” when they are diffuse, serve as the building blocks of matter and forces. But new findings suggest this wave-particle picture offers only a superficial view of nature’s constituents. ...
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SCIENCE - Detection of single photons via quantum entanglement
Almost 200 years ago, Bavarian physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer discovered dark lines in the sun's spectrum. It was later discovered that these spectral lines can be used to infer the chemical composition and temperature of the sun's atmosphere. Today we are able to gain information about diverse objects ... ...
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SCIENCE - Scientists solve titanic puzzle of popular photocatalyst
A breakthrough in our understanding of the properties of titania (titanium dioxide) - the basis of self-cleaning window technology - has been made by scientists at UCL, uncovering a decades old misunderstanding that has clouded our knowledge of how mixed phase [1] titania catalysts operate. ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/tmb/2012/atom.jp
SCIENCE - Two papers investigate the thermodynamics of quantum systems
(Phys.org) —As one of the pillars of the natural sciences, thermodynamics plays an important role in all processes that involve heat, energy, and work. While the principles of thermodynamics can predict the amount of work done in classical systems, for quantum systems there is instead a distribution ... ...
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SPACE - British Astronomers to Join Search for Intelligent Alien Life
Astronomers in the UK have announced plans to join in on the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence. ...
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SPACE - Curiosity Mars rover hits the road
Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover begins the long drive to its primary mission destination, the foothills of Mount Sharp - a journey that will probably take many months to complete. ...
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SPACE - How Beliefs in Extraterrestrials and Intelligent Design Are Similar: Scientific American
Arguments of divine intervention—alien or otherwise—start with ignorance ...
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SPACE - Pluto moons get mythical new names
The International Astronomical Union names the two most recently discovered moons of Pluto: Kerberos and Styx - but misses out the popular vote of Vulcan. ...
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SPACE - Potential solution to meteorite mystery: Chondrules may have formed from high-pressure collisions in early solar system
(Phys.org) —A normally staid University of Chicago scientist has stunned many of his colleagues with his radical solution to a 135-year-old mystery in cosmochemistry. 'I'm a fairly sober guy. People didn't know what to think all of a sudden,' said Lawrence Grossman, professor in geophysical sciences. ...
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SUSTAINABILITY - The Sustainable Joes go off-grid in the city
It's an experiment in zero-energy, zero waste living. ...
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TREES - Trees: our life savers are dying
Jim Robbins: For centuries we've treated forests poorly. Yet we're only just learning how crucial trees are to our survival ...
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URBAN - Gentrifying Into the Shelters
Revitalizing poor areas brings rent increases that displace low-income families, who have nowhere else to go. ...
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WATER - A Green Alternative That Might Just Save the Planet | Climate Central
Producing biofuels in the sea removes at a stroke many of the serious problems with conventional biofuels. ...
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WATER - Antarctic lake 'might have fish'
There could be some complex animals, perhaps even fish, living in the deeply buried Antarctic Lake Vostok, a new study suggests. ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/67373000/jpg/_67373987
WATER - First manned mission to deepest hydrothermal vents - video
Marine ecologist Jon Copley and his colleagues squeezed into a submersible for their journey into the darkness of the Cayman Trough ...
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WATER - Harnessing Ocean Current Energy — Promising New System Developed
Ocean currents are a very promising-looking source of renewable energy. A new ocean current energy harnessing system may finally make it practical. ...
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WATER - North Sea leaks 'reality check' for British oil industry, says Greenpeace
Environmentalists say industry's arctic safety case undermined by figures showing 55 pollution incidents in last month ...
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WATER - Walls of Water Make Chaotic Currents More Predictable: Scientific American
Ocean currents and other chaotic phenomena are supposed to be inherently unpredictable. But mathematicians are finding a method to nature's madness ...
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WIND - UK Prime Minister Launches World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm
It's been a long time in the making -- 12 years to be precise -- but the London Array, the world's largest offshore wind farm, is officially up and running. At a launch event today in Margate, Kent, UK Prime Minister David Cameron called the project ...
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WIND - Wind Power — 241,000 MW New Capacity 2012 To 2017 (Forecast)
Wind power continues to be the leader in the clean energy arena (and even in the energy arena as a whole in many ways and places). Someday, the projection is that solar power will catch up and become the #1 source of energy worldwide, but until then, wind is having its day in the sun ...
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WORK - 5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years
Image by Getty Images via @daylife We're seeing more and more recruiters use the web as a place to search for talent and conduct employment background searches. This trend is set to increase year over year and I've been predicting that an "online presence search" will become as common as a [...] ...
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WORK - A Surge in Part-Time Workers
The June jobs report saw a surge in part-time workers, and the health care law that starts coming into full effect next year might be in part responsible. ...
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WORK - BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Jobs of the Week
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WORK - For the Employment Rate, an Uptick
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WORK - Jobs Are Not The Problem!
Jobs are a lagging indicator. Friday's strong employment report does not change any of the concerns that have been affecting global markets negatively since the May top, and moves the specter Fed tapering back to the front burner. ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://b-i.forbesimg.com/assets/images/avatars/generic_profi
WORK - Knowing When It's Time To Quit Your Dysfunctional Workplace
By Jennifer Gilhool On the plane to Rome and then to Marseilles from Shanghai, I began reading Powering Up: How America's Women Achievers Become Leaders by Anne Doyle. It is a fantastic book and it has inspired me to look again at my options. I feel that I have out-grown the [...] ...
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WORK - Nightmarish Arizona Restaurant Has Some Of The Strictest Employee Rules We've Ever Seen
Amy's Baking Company, an Arizona restaurant that became notorious after a "Kitchen Nightmares" episode .. ...
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WORK - Psychological Testing on the Job Market: What You Need to Know: Scientific American
Technology and psychology are reshaping the search for the best employees ...
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WORK - Words Of Wisdom To Anyone Eager To Start An Encore Career
The author of the 'Encore Career Handbook' delivers a commencement speech to fiftysomethings who are about to make the world a better place. ...
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WORK - Workers Across America Are Getting Stuck In Crappy Temp Jobs
The growth of temp work following the Great Recession is harming workers and burdening the economy as a whole. ...
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WORK - You should move to Minneapolis: Lowest-unemployment big city in America.
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