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Tasmanian Tiger Extinction Mystery Could the world-fabled Tasmanian Tiger have survived beyond its reported extinction in the late 1930s? Australian researchers hope to find out by extracting and analyzing DNA from animal droppings found in Tasmania in the late 1950s and '60s. Clive Thompson on Game-Changing Startups Clive Thompson explains how the truly revolutionary businesses are still out there -- hiding in plain sight.

 [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... Phonics, Whole-word And Whole-language Processes Add Up To Determine R Reading specialists have often pitted phonics against holistic word recognition and whole language approaches in the war over how to teach children to read. However, a new study shows that the three reading processes do not conflict, but, rather work together to determine speed. [Ironic] Professional beggars prowling about the streets of Moroccan c The government plans to crack down on the scam used by faux beggars in growing numbers for a kind of "emotional blackmail", a cabinet minister was quoted as saying... Air Pollutants Linked Blood Clotting In Mice, Mechanism Identified Air pollution is caused by any particulate matter, chemical or biological agent that changes the natural characteristics of the atmosphere. Exposure to particulate matter has been linked to an increased risk of heart problems, including increased risk of heart attack. A new study in mice has now identified a mechanism by which exposure to particulate matter leads to accelerated blood clotting and thrombosis, something that can precipitate heart attacks and stroke. Yahoo Pipes for Scientists I’ve talked about Yahoo Pipes before. It was Berkeley chemist and Sciencebase regular Mitch Garcia who turned me on to them with his clever pipe that allows anyone to search as many chemistry journals as possible that offer ASAP and in press papers online and to produce a live feed from the results that is [...] [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Schizophrenia Candidate Genes Affect Even Healthy Individuals Do gene variants that convey risk for schizophrenia affect apparently healthy individuals? Although these genes are present in every human, individuals may have different versions of these genes, called alleles. While many people who possess these "risk alleles"do not end up with schizophrenia, this does not mean they are unaffected by the presence of the risk allele. Physicists Say Universe Evolution Favored Three And Seven Dimensions Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they are undetectable. The big question is why we experience the universe in only three spatial dimensions instead of four, or six, or nine.
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