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Hot Dust And Moisture Collide To Fuel Asian Summer Rainy Season
Who would think that something like dust in the air could trigger rain? According to a new NASA study, this is just what's happening over South Asia's Tibetan Plateau. Very small dust particles called aerosols blow in from desert regions and collect in the atmosphere over the plateau's slopes early in the region's monsoon season, helping trigger rainfall. British Vogue Fashion Shows
Photos from the fashion shows of major fashion designers in London, Paris, Milan, and New York. Includes news updates and photos from key collections of women's ready-to-wear and menswear back to the autumn/winter 2001-2002 season. From British Vogue. Nuclear North Korea Not
New Scientist and others are already casting doubts on whether North Korea really did detonate a nuclear device underground on Monday. The magazine points to discrepancies in the reporting of the size of the explosion as hinting that NK may have simply detonated a massive cache of conventional explosive in ... New Mechanism In Development Of Severe Inherited Disease Discovered
Scientists have shown that the genetic defect that causes Cockayne Syndrome affects a key function of the cell - the transcription of genes coding for ribosomal RNA. Cockayne Syndrome is a recessively inherited disorder that belongs to a group of diseases in which defects in one of the numerous DNA repair systems lead to non-functioning proteins and, thus, to severe health impairments. These disorders also include, for example, Xeroderma pigmentosum and a type of hereditary bowel cancer. Tuck Professor Uses Statistical Formula to Predict the Academy Award f
This February 2005 news release (with a link to the full report) describes how a "professor of international economics at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth used a combination of history and statistics to forecast who will receive the highest honor in filmmaking."The "formula relies on three variables: a film's total Oscar nominations, number of Golden Globes won, and whether or not it's a comedy."From the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Stanford Study Reveals That Cells Linked To Asthma And Eczema Also Hel
Mast cells are immune cells known mostly for their unwanted effects: they cause the wheezing of asthma, the itching of eczema, the sneezing and runny nose of hay fever and, in extreme cases, the life-threatening shock of anaphylaxis. But researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that these cells also have some very beneficial effects. Shopping Cart: Wireless Concierge
We knew it was inevitable but come to find out wireless, interactive consoles in shopping cart handles have been in place for two years in Canada. Freaky. In Beyond the Beyond. Religious Costume &Clothing Links at the Costumer's Manifesto
A compilation of links to dozens of sites about traditional religious apparel. "In this list many religions are grouped together by clothing style, not necessarily by philosophical affiliation. So, for example Lutherans and Anglicans are grouped with Catholics (since they use similar vestments) while Byzantine Catholics are grouped with Eastern Orthodox for the same reason."Maintained by a costume designer and theater professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Volcanic Blast Likely Killed And Preserved Juvenile Fossil Plesiosaur
Amid 70-mile-an-hour winds and freezing Antarctic conditions, an American-Argentine research team has recovered the well-preserved fossil skeleton of a juvenile plesiosaur -- a marine reptile that swam the waters of the Southern ocean roughly 70 million years ago. Who Laid The First Egg? Scientists Closer To Linking Embryos Of Earth'
A decade ago, geobiologist Shuhai Xiao and his colleagues discovered thousands of 600-million-year-old embryo microfossils in the Doushantuo Formation, a fossil site near Weng'an, South China. In the February issue of Geology, the journal of the Geological Society of America, Xiao will report discoveries about the intermediary stage that links the embryo to the adult.
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