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Midges Send Undeniable Message: Planet Is Warming
Small insects that inhabit some of the most remote parts of the United States are sending a strong message about climate change. New research suggests that changes in midge communities in some of these areas provide additional evidence that the globe is indeed getting warmer. Researchers created a history of changing midge communities for six remote mountain lakes in the western United States. [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedly delivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind." 'Trash' In Blood May Identify Cardiovascular Disease Earlier
By analyzing the "trash"left in blood by the body's metabolism, a team of cardiologists and geneticists at Duke University Medical Center has found what may be new markers for measuring cardiovascular health, to complement such traditional measures as cholesterol and triglycerides. Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators Through High-Stakes
This paper describes factors leading to corruption in K-12 standardized testing, such as cheating by teachers, administrators, and students, "teaching to the test"(often cutting out creative curriculum elements), and exclusion of low performers from the test process. From the Education Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University. Opens directly into a PDF document. Toward A Music Search Engine That Lets You Type In Regular Words And R
Electrical engineers and computer scientists are working together on a computerized system that will make it easy for people who are not music experts (like the senior author's mom) to find the kind of music they want to listen to -- without knowing the names of artists or songs. You type in regular words like "high energy instrumental with piano,""funky guitar solos"or "upbeat music with female vocals,"and get songs in return. Plant Hybrids to Drive Biofuels
The processes for growing crops as raw material for fuel and converting it to liquids are in their infancy, so expect ethanol andbiodiesel to become much more energy efficient. In Autopia. Breakthrough May Help Industry Create More Powerful Computer Chips
A University of Central Florida research team has made a substantial inroad toward establishing extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) as a primary power source for manufacturing the next generation of computer chips. Ancient Flood Disrupted Ocean Circulation And Triggered Climate Coolin
As the giant North American ice sheets melted an enormous pool of freshwater, many times larger than all of the Great Lakes, formed behind them. About 8400 years ago this pool of freshwater burst free and flooded the North Atlantic. About the same time, a sharp century long cold spell is observed around the North Atlantic and other areas. Researchers have often speculated that the cooling was the result of changes in ocean circulation triggered by this freshwater flood. The sudden addition of so much freshwater would have curtailed (suppressed) the sinking of deep water in the North Atlantic and as a consequence less warm water would be pulled north in the Gulf stream. Preposterous Headdresses and Feathered Ladies: Hair, Wigs, Barbers, an
This companion to a 2003 exhibit at the Yale University's Lewis Walpole Library features "a selection of prints [from the second half of the 18th century] focused on hair and wigs, and on the hairdressers and barbers who created and tended them."Includes images of prints such as "A Doleful Disaster, or Miss Fubby Fatarmin's Wig Caught Fire"and "A French Hair Dresser Running through the Streets to his Customers." New Drug Sidesteps Gleevec Resistance In Human Trials
An experimental drug under development by Bristol-Myers Squibb is showing early promise in reversing the signs and symptoms of patients whose chronic myeloid leukemia failed to respond to Gleevec, which is considered the standard of treatment for the disorder.
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