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Science in Society RSS FeedsThis Week in Science - A Drop in the Ocean | Monitoring Meiosis | Nailing Down the Superfluid Transition | Probing Pulsar Rotation | Monsoon Forcing | An Iron Hand for Silicon | Girl Power | Mystery of an Unextreme Microbe | Heat or Acid? | Immune Sentinels | Nature or Drug Abuse? | Natural Resistance | Lineage Identity...Feed Source: www.sciencemag.org Editors' Choice - Astronomy: A Comet Dates Jupiter | Sociology: I Liked You From the Start | Genetics: Wrapped Up Right | Climate Science: Here's Looking at You | Cell Biology: Push Me Pull You | Chemistry: Sacrifices at the Surface | Education: Science Illustrated... Findings - CDC Finds No Physical Cause for Mysterious Disease | A Volcanic Trigger for Europe's Little Ice Age... [Editorial] The Global Knowledge Society - Author: Nina V. Fedoroff... [News of the Week] Around the World - In science news around the world this week, an Italian official will also be a defendant in the earthquake trial, Japanese experts have questioned the safety of?and need for?nuclear power, biodiversity in the Andes is threatened, and Nobelists are lobbying for a gigantic neutrino experiment.... [News of the Week] Random Samples - Thomas Edison is still number one when it comes to invention. Researchers think they know why the male orb-web spider will often voluntarily break off his whole sex organ while it's still lodged in the female's abdomen: It continues to transfer sperm into the female long after the male has fled or been consumed. A British seismologist has a geologic twist on the classic nightstand "word-a-day" calendar: the daily rock. And this week's numbers quantify the price offered for DNA sequencing company Illumina and the percentage of plant collectors who have found more than 50% of the world's known species.... [News of the Week] Newsmakers - This week's Newsmakers are Janet Rowley of the University of Chicago, Brian Druker of the Oregon Health & Science University, Nicholas Lydon of Blueprint Medicines, and Masato Sagawa of Intermetallics Co., winners of the Japan Prizes; Scott Doney, whose nomination to be chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been withdrawn by the White House; Johannes Vogel, an expert on fern genetics, who took over as director of Berlin's Natural History Museum this week; and Paul Alivisatos of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Charles Lieber of Harvard University, Jacob Bekenstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ronald Evans of the Salk Institute, Michael Aschbacher of the California Institute of Technology, and Luis Caffarelli of the University of Texas, Austin, winners of the Wolf Prizes.... [News & Analysis] Avian Influenza: The Limits of Avian Flu Studies in Ferrets - How concerned should people be that what happened in the controversial experiments that exposed ferrets to H5N1 avian influenza viruses engineered to be more transmissible will apply to humans?Author: Jon Cohen... [News & Analysis] Cell Biology: Donation Spurs a Cell Observatory?And Bigger Plans - The Broad Institute received a $32.5 million gift last week to take on one of the biggest challenges in biology: mapping the molecular "circuitry" inside several kinds of mammalian cells.Author: Jocelyn Kaiser... [News & Analysis] Astronomy: Celebrated Exoplanet Vanishes in a Cloud of Dust?Or Maybe Not - Last week, Fomalhaut b, an exoplanet that once enjoyed celebrity status, faced an identity crisis after astronomers failed to spot it in a new round of observations.Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee... [News Focus] Genomics: China's Sequencing Powerhouse Comes of Age - With new sequencing centers in Europe and the United States, BGI hopes its growing clout will help deliver the benefits promised by genomics?and revenue to pay off a mounting debt.Author: Dennis Normile... [News Focus] Ecology: Rebuilding Wetlands by Managing the Muddy Mississippi - When spillways were opened to divert the flooding Mississippi last spring, scientists studying the waters sought data that might help restore the river's eroding delta.Author: Carolyn Gramling... [News Focus] Oil Resources: Technology Is Turning U.S. Oil Around But Not the World's - The high price of oil is driving technological innovation that has reversed the decline in U.S. oil production, but the world will increasingly depend on OPEC and ?non-oil? oil.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge - Author: Colin Norman... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Photography - Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winner, an honorable mention, and the "People's Choice" in the Photography category in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Illustration - Science and the National Science Foundation announce three honorable mentions and the "People's Choice" in the Illustration category in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Informational Posters & Graphics - Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winner, an honorable mention, and the "People's Choice" in the Informational Posters & Graphics category in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Interactive Games - Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winner, three honorable mentions, and the "People's Choice" in the Interactive Games category in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.... [Special Feature] 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge: Video - Science and the National Science Foundation announce the winner, two honorable mentions, and the "People's Choice" in the Video category in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.... [Letter] Investing in Libya's Education - Author: Sema K. Sgaier... [Letter] Invasive Species Unchecked by Climate - Author: Philip E. Hulme... [Letter] Invasive Species Unchecked by Climate?Response - Authors: Michael T. Burrows, David S. Schoeman, Carlos M. Duarte, Mary I. O'Connor, Lauren B. Buckley, Carrie V. Kappel, Camille Parmesan, Benjamin S. Halpern, Chris Brown, Keith M. Brander, John F. Bruno, John M. Pandolfi, William J. Sydeman, Pippa Moore, Wolfgang Kiessling, Anthony J. Richardson, Elvira S. Poloczanska... [Technical Comment] Comment on ?Abiotic Pyrite Formation Produces a Large Fe Isotope Fractionation? - Authors: Andrew D. Czaja, Clark M. Johnson, Kosei E. Yamaguchi, Brian L. Beard... [Technical Response] Response to Comment on ?Abiotic Pyrite Formation Produces a Large Fe Isotope Fractionation? - Authors: Romain Guilbaud, Ian B. Butler, Rob M. Ellam... [Letter] Proceed with Planning Despite Multiple Models - Author: Robert Dickinson... [Book Review] Have We ?Met the Enemy?? - Guillemin describes the aftermath of and investigation into the fall 2001 anthrax letters.Author: David A. Relman... [Book Review] When Do Incentives Corrupt? - Analyzing incentives in terms of power rather than as trades, Grant concludes that their use to further desired social and political goals raises some ethical concerns.Author: Tyler Cowen... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 27 January 2012.... [Policy Forum] Scientific Publications: Coercive Citation in Academic Publishing - Many journal editors appear to strategically target authors and papers to pressure them into citing the editors' journals.Authors: Allen W. Wilhite, Eric A. Fong... [Perspective] Economics: Ready, Steady, Compete - Women's willingness to compete can be increased through appropriate affirmative action.Author: Marie Claire Villeval... [Perspective] Evolution: Surviving in a Toxic World - Natural variations in a single gene of wild C. elegans populations confer resistance to the bacterial toxin avermectin.Author: Adrian J. Wolstenholme... [Perspective] Neuroscience: To Stop or Not to Stop? - Does chronic drug abuse cause brain abnormalities, or do they develop before the onset of dependence?Authors: Nora D. Volkow, Ruben D. Baler... [Perspective] Climate Change: Marching in Near Lock-Step - A cave record from Peru closely matches climate patterns seen in cores from Greenland and the North Atlantic Ocean.Author: Donald T. Rodbell... [Perspective] Physics: Seeing the Superfluid Transition of a Gas - The universal thermodynamic functions of a superfluid formed from a fermion gas of strongly interacting lithium atoms have been measured precisely.Author: Wilhelm Zwerger... [Brevia] Nanoscopy in a Living Mouse Brain - Super high-resolution microscopy resolves neuron dynamics in the cerebral cortex of a living mouse.Authors: Sebastian Berning, Katrin I. Willig, Heinz Steffens, Payam Dibaj, Stefan W. Hell... [Research Article] High-Resolution View of the Yeast Meiotic Program Revealed by Ribosome Profiling - During yeast sporulation, the production of most proteins is tightly regulated by both messenger RNA levels and translational control.Authors: Gloria A. Brar, Moran Yassour, Nir Friedman, Aviv Regev, Nicholas T. Ingolia, Jonathan S. Weissman... [Research Article] The Southern Ocean?s Role in Carbon Exchange During the Last Deglaciation - Radiocarbon measurements of deep-sea corals reveal the presence of old, carbon-rich water in the Southern Ocean.Authors: Andrea Burke, Laura F. Robinson... [Report] Spin-Down of Radio Millisecond Pulsars at Genesis - Numerical calculations show that processes responsible for spinning up millisecond pulsars may also lead them to slow down.Author: Thomas M. Tauris... [Report] Revealing the Superfluid Lambda Transition in the Universal Thermodynamics of a Unitary Fermi Gas - Thermodynamic quantities for the superfluid transition of a strongly interacting atomic Fermi gas were measured.Authors: Mark J. H. Ku, Ariel T. Sommer, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Martin W. Zwierlein... [Report] Iron Catalysts for Selective Anti-Markovnikov Alkene Hydrosilylation Using Tertiary Silanes - Iron catalysts offer a potentially cheaper route than platinum for certain commercially useful carbon-silicon compounds.Authors: Aaron M. Tondreau, Crisita Carmen Hojilla Atienza, Keith J. Weller, Susan A. Nye, Kenrick M. Lewis, Johannes G. P. Delis, Paul J. Chirik... [Report] High-Latitude Forcing of the South American Summer Monsoon During the Last Glacial - High-latitude processes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres both influence the South American Summer Monsoon.Authors: Lisa C. Kanner, Stephen J. Burns, Hai Cheng, R. Lawrence Edwards... [Report] Natural Variation in a Chloride Channel Subunit Confers Avermectin Resistance in C. elegans - Resistance to avermectin, an anti-nematode drug, is conferred by a deletion in a glutamate-gated chloride channel.Authors: Rajarshi Ghosh, Erik C. Andersen, Joshua A. Shapiro, Justin P. Gerke, Leonid Kruglyak... [Report] Affirmative Action Policies Promote Women and Do Not Harm Efficiency in the Laboratory - Increasing the representation of competition-averse individuals does not alter overall output.Authors: Loukas Balafoutas, Matthias Sutter... [Report] Female Leadership Raises Aspirations and Educational Attainment for Girls: A Policy Experiment in India - The effects of female leaders on girls occur via policy changes in the short run and parental aspirations in the longer run.Authors: Lori Beaman, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande, Petia Topalova... [Report] Untangling Genomes from Metagenomes: Revealing an Uncultured Class of Marine Euryarchaeota - Reconstruction of whole genomes from a complex microbial community has revealed an evolutionary surprise.Authors: Vaughn Iverson, Robert M. Morris, Christian D. Frazar, Chris T. Berthiaume, Rhonda L. Morales, E. Virginia Armbrust... [Report] Sequential Signaling Crosstalk Regulates Endomesoderm Segregation in Sea Urchin Embryos - Separation of deuterostome endoderm and mesoderm occurs through sequential interactions between Notch and Wnt signaling.Authors: Aditya J. Sethi, Radhika M. Wikramanayake, Robert C. Angerer, Ryan C. Range, Lynne M. Angerer... [Report] Growth of Western Australian Corals in the Anthropocene - Cores taken from massive corals indicate that temperature rather than ocean acidification has governed reef growth.Authors: Timothy F. Cooper, Rebecca A. O'Leary, Janice M. Lough... [Report] Innate Response Activator B Cells Protect Against Microbial Sepsis - A specialized population of B lymphocytes is important for controlling bacterial infections and preventing sepsis.Authors: Philipp J. Rauch, Aleksey Chudnovskiy, Clinton S. Robbins, Georg F. Weber, Martin Etzrodt, Ingo Hilgendorf, Elizabeth Tiglao, Jose-Luiz Figueiredo, Yoshiko Iwamoto, Igor Theurl, Rostic Gorbatov, Michael T. Waring, Adam T. Chicoine, Majd Mouded, Mikael J. Pittet, Matthias Nahrendorf, Ralph Weissleder, Filip K. Swirski... [Report] Abnormal Brain Structure Implicated in Stimulant Drug Addiction - A neurological marker of addiction vulnerability occurs in sibling pairs who do not take drugs.Authors: Karen D. Ersche, P. Simon Jones, Guy B. Williams, Abigail J Turton, Trevor W. Robbins, Edward T. Bullmore... New Products - A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.... [Podcast] Science Podcast - The show includes how corals respond to climate change, inherited factors for drug addiction, 2011 Visualization Challenge winners, and more.... Verizon and BT Announce Cross-Network Video Calling & Telepresnce -
Verizon and BT announced a deal enabling each of their respective customers initiate high-quality video conferences and telepresence sessions. I spoke with representatives from BT and Verizon to learn more about their collaboration.
Marc Hambley, Sr. Product Manager at BT explained, "We are connecting our respective telepresence exchanges together - that will allow BT clients to have meetings with Verizon clients, either hosted on BT service or ... Why Apple's A5 Processor is Big (Siri) + Why Doesn't Siri Support Dictating Emails? - According to CNet, Apple's A5 processor includes noise-reduction circuitry licensed from a start-up called Audience. Audience's technology enhances speech and works well even when you hold the phone are arm's length ('far-field speech'). This explains the mysteriously larger A5 processor on the iPhone 4S and why the previous gen iPhone 4 didn't get the Siri via a simple iOS software upgrade.The iPhone 4S has just a few advantages over the iPhone ... Forget Super Wi-Fi! Go with Super Wi-Fi! Wait. What? - Everyone is hyping the new Super Wi-Fi standard which uses lower-frequency white spaces between television channel frequencies. These lower frequencies enable the signal to travel further (miles) and penetrate walls better than the higher frequencies previously used (hundreds of feet). Well, forget about Super Wi-Fi!I met with Thomas Ngeow from Altai Technologies at ITEXPO, a Hong Kong-based company and he explained they coined Super Wi-Fi for on... Billionaire Gives Secrets to Startup Success - Sir Terry Matthews is a Welsh/Canadian high tech entrepreneur, and Wales's first billionaire. He has directly started 89 companies with an amazing 83 out of 89 success rate. It's an even more astounding fact when you consider that according to TMC's Peter Bernstein, 90% of startups fail. Terry has sold many of these companies for millions and even hundreds of millions of dollars. Terry Matthews keynoted the StartupCamp at ITEXPO in Miami and he w... TMC Showcases the Top 40 "Newsmakers" at ITEXPO - There is a lot of news (product launches, new versions) being made at TMC's ITEXPO, some of which I've already covered (Digium, Xorcom) ITEXPO has a record number of exhibitors that have unveiled new products and services at ITEXPO in Miami.
There have been many competing shows over the years, most notably VON, which suffered an untimely demise. ITEXPO and VON were the two best shows focused on VoIP and IP communications. ITEXPO has continued t... Rich Tehrani With ITEXPO Facts + Super Wi-Fi, M2M, StartupCamp & VC Funding - Rich Tehrani gave some interesting ITEXPO facts during his keynote introductions. He also covered Super Wi-Fi, M2M, Facebook IPO causing new millionaires to fund new companies and StartupCamp, which in the past has had actually VCs in the audience write checks to startups after they gave their pitch / demo during StartupCamp. Watch the video:
Tags: facebook, funding, ipo, ... New Digium IP Phones Up Close - I got to see the new Digium IP Phones up close - sort of. I ran into Digium's Steve Sokol in their ITEXPO booth and proceeded to ask Steve about these new IP phones. I asked him if they were developed internally (yes) or white-labeled, where they were being built (China), and a few other questions.
I was about to ask him to see a demo when a Digium employee interrupted and asked Steve to give a demo to two attendees standing a few feet away. Ste... Ingate SIP Trunking Session at ITEXPO is Packed! - Ingate, makers of SIP-capable enterprise firewalls, has done it again! Every show they have one of if not *the* largest conference room and they continually pack it in - often standing room only in the back. I stopped in to check it out. This short video followed by a cool interactive panoramic says it all:... The Crowd Gathers to Enter ITEXPO Exhibit Floor - Good crowd entering the show floor as it opens.
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... Sprint's Michael A. Rouleau Kicks off ITEXPO Keynotes - The keynotes have started with Michael Rouleau telling the story of a company that has invented a flying car. It can travel 65mph on the ground and I think he said 115mph or 150mph in the air with a range of 450 miles. Hit traffic on I-95? Fly over it! He went onto explain all the issues this great idea has - $200,000 price tag, certified for both flight and ground, need for pilot's license, etc. Now he's discussing M2M examples. He said customer... Digium Gamechanger! Launches D40, D50, & D70 IP Phones - Today, at ITEXPO, the premiere communications event, Digium launched a line of IP phones that work in conjunction with their Asterisk and Switchvox solutions. This truly could be a gamechanger, since Asterisk is a popular IP-PBX solution that popular 3rd party phone vendors such as Aastra, snom, and Polycom offer products for. This move by Digium and the impact on these phone vendors could be quite interesting. This reminds me of 2008 when Aastra... Spam Soap - The MSP-Friendly Cloud-based Messaging Service Provider - At ITEXPO, I met with Eric Pinto, sales engineer from Spam Soap, a cloud-based messaging service provider. Founded in 2002, back in the early cloud days, Spam Soap pioneered the use of the MX record email filtering model. Today, Spam Soap has thousands of customers worldwide using a range of cloud-based messaging services, including, anti-virus filtering, anti-spam filtering, preserving business continuity, protecting confidential information,... Asterisk 1-2-3 so Packed They Moved to Bigger Room! - I heard the Asterisk 1-2-3 session, the first one of the day was standing room only will people waiting outside the door trying to get in. I went to check it out when I saw people filing out. What gives? I captured video and heard someone say that they were moving to a bigger room. I then headed to the new room and captured some photos.
QT_WriteOBJECT('http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/2012/01/31/IMG_1855.MOV', '590','443', '', '... Zultys MX Release 7.0 Unified Communications Release Adds Android Support - At ITEXPO in Miami, Zultys today announced their latest UC software offering mobility features for Android, call center enhancements, and third-party CRM integrations. The latest major firmware release for the MX platform, MX Release 7.0 Unified Communications Software is a secure, all-in-one SIP-based IP phone system that is highly scalable and highly customizable. This version also includes enhancements to SIP security.
Zultys introduced ... Gadget Lovers! LaGuardia Airport Adds Electric Outlets to Waiting Gate Seats - Gadget lovers rejoice! LaGuardia Airport has added electric outlets to roughly every other seat in the seats by all the gates. The electric outlets sport a glowing blue light that draws gadget lovers like moth to a flame. It was so annoying when I previously came to LaGuardia airport and had to struggle to find an outlet to plugin. Now your iPad, iPhone, Android, iPod touch, and any other gadget won't be drained surfing the Web, checking email, e... Senior scientologist charged with perverting justice - One of the Church of Scientology's senior international figures, Jan Eastgate, has been charged for a second time with perverting the course of justice. Eastgate is the international president of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights -- a hate group found by the Church of Scientology engaged in a hate campaign against psychiatry and psychiatrists.... Chinese government attacks ?evil cult? dance group performance in Seattle - The Consul General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco has written an official letter addressed to members of the city council of Seattle, Washington, dismissing a performance of a Falun Gong-related dance group and asking him not to attend, nor to congratulate the group. Naturally nobody takes him seriously.... Police arrest 9 suspected Jerusalem cult members - Police arrested nine people Monday suspected of being members of a Jerusalem cult. In August, 2011, the cult's three central defendants were indicted in the Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday, in a case of what police and social workers have called the worst abuse of its kind they have seen in decades.... Eddie Long apologizes for Torah ceremony in which he was crowned ?King? - Megachurch pastor Eddie Long has apologized to the Anti-Defamation League over an incident in which he was wrapped in a Torah scroll and crowned "king." The stunt was the idea of visiting speaker 'Rabbi' Ralph Messer.... Missionary Couple Slain in Mexico; Peace Pact in Puebla - A married couple who had served for 28 years as Baptist missionaries in Mexico were murdered on last week Tueday at their home near Monterrey in El Cercado, Santiago, Nuevo Leon. The area has suffered heavily from attacks by drug cartels in recent weeks, including the murder of the mayor of El Cercado, leading to the tentative conclusion that the crime was committed by people serving narcotics traffickers.... Polygamous sect leaders make tax payments; avoid evictions - Leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs, have paid Arizona county treasurers about $930,000 in back taxes. In making the partial payment they avoided possible evictions of sect members.... Japanese security agency inspects AUM cult splinter group?s facilities - The Public Security Intelligence Agency in Japan on Friday inspected several properties of Hikari no Wa -- a splinter group of the notorious Aum Shinrikyo cult. Security officials believe the group is still under the influence of cult founder Shoko Asahara, who is on death row for a series of AUM crimes.... Unique construction project under way at FLDS ranch - An unusual building is under construction on the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas. Speculations regarding its purpose range from a place to house a statue of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs to a new temple.... Polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs controlling sect from behind bars - Six months after he was jailed for life plus 20 years for his so-called 'spiritual marriages' to two teenage girls it's clear Jeffs continues to pull the strings, call the shots and rule with an iron fist in the twin border towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona. Mike Watkiss reports.... French Court Upholds Scientology Fraud Conviction - Updated A French appeals court on Thursday upheld the Church of Scientology's 2009 fraud conviction on charges it pressured members into paying large sums for questionable remedies. The case centered on the complaints of several people who spent huge amounts of money for the cult's 'purification packs' and other alleged 'cures.'... Copyright © 2012, Stop Identity Theft Now. All Rights Reserved. |