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The Reading Cure: How to Organize a Book Group With a Social Conscienc
This opinion piece provides suggestions for starting a reading group centered on "socially conscious and political novels."It includes ideas for forming and running the group and a briefly annotated list of reading suggestions that includes both classics and contemporary novels. From the website for Mother Jones magazine. Purdue 'Metamaterial' Could Lead To Better Optics, Communications
Engineers at Purdue University are the first researchers to create a material that has a "negative index of refraction"in the wavelength of light used for telecommunications, a step that could lead to better communications and imaging technologies. Findings are detailed in a paper appearing Dec. 15. How to Foil a Phone Thief
Next time somebody tries to swipe your mobile, fight back with prerecorded screams, digital locks that render your handset useless or other antitheft tech. By Aria Pearson from Wired magazine. Male Body Odor Can Stink Like Urine or Have a Pleasant Vanilla Smell,
Why the same sweaty man smells sweet like vanilla to one person and repellent like urine to another comes down to the smeller's genes. Up to one-third of adult humans cannot perceive an odor in a component of male body odor that induces physiological responses in both men and women. To those who do, androstenone either takes on a pleasant sweet odor or a repulsive urine-like one. New research traces this variability to mutations in a single odorant receptor gene, a finding that raises questions of how people detect other people's body odor. Earth Observation Essential For Geohazard Mitigation
Every year geohazards -- such as volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis -- claim thousands of lives, devastate homes and destroy livelihoods. In an effort to reduce their impact, more than 250 scientists from around the world gathered to adopt a declaration for an internationally coordinated program to help save lives and reduce human suffering worldwide. Alternate Routes
Companion to an exhibit "about the diversity, subjectivity, and meaning of maps."Includes photographs and drawings of locations in Southern California. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. TiVo Series3: Holy Heavenly Set-Top Box
Pricey but nearly perfect, this high-def DVR boasts net-connected features and, of course, beautiful video. Age, Burden, Divorce And Heavy Tea Consumption Are Significant Risk Fa
A cross-sectional survey found that old age, being male, having a moderate working burden, being divorced/widowed and heavy tea consumption remained significant independent risk factors for erosive esophagitis. Meanwhile, routine consumption of greasy food and constipation were considered significant independent risk factors for non-erosive reflux disease. Rants: Go Trojan Gamers!
Readers go on (and on!) about the University of Southern California's quality game-development programs. Plus: Links to our most popular blog posts. Hurricane Katrina Emergency Animal Shelter at LSU
"Animal evacuations and recovery plans for New Orleans pets and displaced animals."Site provides information about locations that are providing "care and shelter for pets until they can be reunited with their families who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina."Site provides contacts, updates on space available, volunteer and donation information, and clinics and shelters that need to transfer pets. From the Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Veterinary Medicine.
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