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College Textbooks: Enhanced Offerings Appear to Drive Recent Price Inc
This 2005 government report considers changes in college textbook prices and what factors have contributed to these changes (such as CD-ROMs and other instructional supplements). The report notes that "in the last two decades, college textbook prices have increased at twice the rate of inflation but have followed close behind tuition increases."Includes a summary and the full text, with diagrams and charts. From the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Exotic Physics Finds Black Holes Could Be Most 'Perfect,' Low-viscosit
In three spatial dimensions, it is a close relative of the quark-gluon plasma, the super-hot state of matter that hasn't existed since the tiniest fraction of a second after the big bang that started the universe. When viewed in 10 dimensions, the minimum number prescribed by what physicists call "string theory,"it is a black hole. At Long Last, Scientists Figure Out How Plants Grow
Scientists have known since 1885 that the plant growth hormone auxin exists. They've known of its dramatic effects on plant growth and development since the 1930s. But only now do scientists know how it works. Researchers Define Who We Are When We Work Together And Evolutionary O
Whether it is barn-raising or crafting a business plan, humans are among the few creatures that are able to work well cooperatively. According to an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, our success at cooperation results from three distinct personality types. [Misc] Man lived inside drawbridge
CHICAGO — For three or four years, a homeless man achieved the impossible: He found a cheap place to live on pricey Lake Shore Drive. Actually, Richard Dorsay lived under Lake Shore Drive, in a wooden shack built into the beams and girders of the drawbridge that crosses the Chicago River... [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. Bacterial Cooperation As A Target For Anti-infectious Therapy
Resistance to antibiotics is spreading dangerously among bacteria, some of them being resistant to all known medicine. In a paper recently published in Ecology Letters, André and Godelle suggest a radically novel line of attack consists in disorganizing infections, instead of killing individual bacteria. They conclude that instead of facing billions of microscopic individuals the drug is only facing a reduced number of larger organisms (infections) with slower evolutionary rate. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... Guarding Ideas or Just Patent Blackmail?
June 2005 article about "so-called 'patent trolls' [who establish patents, but do not use them and then] send legal letters warning companies that their products are infringing on patents, and asking for millions of dollars in licensing fees."Includes information about the coining of the term "patent troll"and a history of this activity. From the online companion to the Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper. Drug-eluting Stents Found Safe And Effective In Study On Cardiac Patie
Following two studies of patients who were treated with cardiac stents, physicians at Rhode Island Hospital continue to recommend drug-eluting stents as a safe and effective treatment.
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