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71 articles from SATURDAY 4.9.2010
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SATURDAY 4. SEPTEMBER, 2010
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01:47
Mariner Rig Accident Undercuts Efforts to End Drilling Moratorium
As lawmakers call for new inquiries into Thursday's accident, oil industry executives say it will now be more difficult to lift the government's offshore drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Google to pay 8.5 million dollars to settle Buzz case
Google has agreed to pay 8.5 million dollars (US) to settle a privacy lawsuit over a Buzz social networking tool added to free email service Gmail in February, according to court documents. -
01:25(AP) -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes relief may be in sight for the beleaguered news media industry.
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01:25(AP) -- Google says Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is investigating whether its Web search rankings are fair.
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'Top Chef's' Short Ribs Get NASA Twist for Spaceflight (SPACE.com)
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The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution by Timothy Taylor | Book review
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'It is a myth that mathematicians are all too busy contemplating the mysteries of prime numbers that we don't notice what we look like'
When I look in the mirror, I see a 10cm scar across my brow. It's new and I'm still getting used to it. Very conveniently, it runs the length of my left eyebrow but, to my eyes, it makes my face look very asymmetrical. As a mathematician who researches symmetry, this has caused me a huge amount of anxiety. Studies show that we are drawn to faces that are more symmetrical because it is an indicator of good genetic heritage. Bottom line, symmetry = beauty.
I got the scar after I clashed heads with a Swedish novelist in a recent tournament for the England Writers Football Team. Playing football is my way of keeping fit. I don't work out but I jog, partly because I find the exercise gives my brain room to allow my subconscious to explore the latest problem I'm working on. Coffee and chocolate are my other key ingredients in proving mathematical theorems, but I'm conscious of what I look like in the mirror enough not to overdose on the chocolate.
I guess what other people expect to see if they were looking at a mathematician in the mirror is a bearded, bespectacled man with wild hair sprouting in every direction. My department does have those who conform to this 19th-century stereotype, but a good proportion don't. It is a myth that we're all too busy contemplating the mysteries of prime numbers to notice what we look like. As one of the public faces of my subject, I am keen to contradict people's preconceived idea of what a mathematician looks like.
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Clive Chatters, chairman of the New Forest national park authority, pays tribute to the work of amateur naturalists in the recently published symposium Biodiversity in the New Forest.
Their observations and recording underpin the work of the professionals whose research helps to shape conservation policy and practice. The symposium suggests that most species are under great pressure and many are declining. But all is not yet gloom and doom, as ponds around Burley make clear.
During an enforced evacuation as the Blitz hit Southampton, schoolteacher LW Stratton studied a number of ponds in the area. His findings in 1942 were published after the second world war and much of his collection is now in the Manchester Museum.
His research has provided a basis for my study of the molluscs in these ponds that will span 60 years. The quest has involved a fair measure of social history. The ponds had to be located. Some have gone and one is now known by a different name. Another was found only when the records of the former village pharmacy came to light.
The changing landscape also had to be considered. Old photographs show the terrain around some of the ponds; one from the 1890s shows a leaning oak on the bank. The tree is still there, the water long gone.
There have been some gains, but the most noticeable change is the disappearance of the largest species formerly found in several of the ponds. Still resident in the garden pond where it was found in 1942, the great pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis, seems to have vanished from the wild. It used to be abundant in the ponds along Pound Lane.
Locals recall that they were drained in the 1950s to eliminate the snails, which at the time were thought to be carriers of red water disease. Potentially fatal for cattle and ponies, the disease is actually tick-borne. If the locals' memories are correct, the snails were victims of a serious miscarriage of justice.
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00:22(AP) -- A German court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s subsidiary YouTube LLC must pay compensation after users uploaded several videos of performances by singer Sarah Brightman in violation of copyright laws.
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00:22An international collaboration led by a University of Pennsylvania anthropologist has shown that environmental factors, like temperature and light, play as much of a role in the activity of traditionally nocturnal monkeys as the circadian rhythm that regulates periods of sleep and wakefulness.
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00:22NASA satellites and the International Space Station are keeping eyes on Hurricane Earl as it heads for New England. Watches and Warnings are posted in the U.S. northeast.
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00:22More American adults are texting but they are not tapping out nearly as many messages per day on their cellphones as teenagers, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.
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00:22One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals -- such as amino acids and nucleotides -- have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation?
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00:22One of the most severe complications of brain surgery is a life-threatening blood clot in the lungs called a pulmonary embolism.
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Ontario Scientists Retain Legislative Independence from Engineers
OTTAWA—The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) appears to have staved off legislation that would... -
00:16A broad research coalition has formally weighed in on the stem cell case, urging...
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New Zealand Earthquake Pictures: Walls, Roads Crumble
See wrecked cars and collapsed buildings following a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday.
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00:07A surge in hormones allows millions of migrating Christmas Island red crabs to make their epic annual trek to the ocean, a new study says.
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AP - A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck much of New Zealand's South Island early Saturday and caused widespread damage, but there were just two reports of serious injuries. Looters broke into some damaged shops in Christchurch, police said.
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