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Improving Emergency Food Responses
A food aid expert outlines emerging best practice standards for emergency international food aid, including areas such as information systems, analytical tools and strategic targeting of beneficiaries. 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). Quad Rugby Central
"Quad [quadriplegic] rugby, or wheelchair rugby as it is also called, is a sport with roots going back to wheelchair basketball and ice hockey. ... The sport was originally called murderball due to the aggressive nature of the game."The site has information on the game's history, rules, a documentary film on the sport, players, and teams, as well as a newsletter and many links to sites about wheelchair sports and supplies. Explaining a 21st Century Version of Young's Experiment
When light strikes a metallic array of tiny openings, smaller than the wavelength of the light itself, interesting entities known as plasmons may be created. An electromagnetic phenomenon like light itself, the plasmons are waves of electrons that move on the surface of a material like ripples on a pond, but they can oscillate back and forth at the frequency of the incoming light. Like water ripples on a pond surface, plasmons travel in the plane of the metal but with a wavelength smaller, sometimes considerably smaller, than the original light. First Draft Of The Pig: Researchers Sequence Swine Genome
A global collaborative has produced a first draft of the genome of a domesticated pig, an achievement that will lead to insights in agriculture, medicine, conservation and evolution. Human Sperm Created From Embryonic Stem Cells
Researchers have created human sperm from embryonic stem cells. The embryonic stem cells were cultured in a new medium containing vitamin A derivative (retinoic acid), using a new technique. Low Birth Weight Of A Baby Entails Risks For The Baby's Father
Parents whose children are born with a low birth weight run greater risk of dying of cardiovascular diseases. Even the fathers are at greater risk. These findings are published in a new report by Karolinska Institutet. The report shows that genetic factors affect both birth weight and the risk of cardiovascular diseases. The Boarding Pass Brouhaha
A researcher lands in hot water for creating a website that allowed visitors to create fake boarding passes capable of fooling airport screeners. Why isn't the TSA in trouble for staging such easily circumvented security theater in the first place? Commentary by Bruce Schneier. Experience America
Companion to a series of television programs about "RV travel and the lifestyle surrounding it."Features a brief history of motor homes, resources for RV owners, and details about travel destinations, such as Louisiana back roads and bayous, the Lincoln Trail, and upstate New York. Also includes recipes for regional cuisine. From a business supporting RV enthusiasts. Why False Memories Sometimes Feel Like They Are Absolutely True
Neuroscientists say the places a memory is processed in the brain may determine how someone can be absolutely certain of a past event that never occurred. Information retrieved from memory is simultaneously processed in two specific regions of the brain, each of which focuses on a different aspect of a past event.
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