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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Sep 03, 2011


Public Invited to Community Day for NASA's Desert RATS Test
Sacramento Bee
2, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For years, NASA's Desert RATS – or Research AndTechnology Studies – team has been trekking to the Flagstaff, Ariz., area for its annual tests. This year the public can come see what they have been up to. ...
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Editor resigns over climate paper
BBC News
But he also blames the researchers themselves for not referencing all the relevantresearch in their manuscript. "The problem is that comparable studies published by other authors have already been refuted..., a fact which was ignored by Spencer and ...
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BBC News
Tech Museum Rediscovers Islamic Golden Age of Invention
Patch.com
The Tech Museum presents these and other Islamic contributions to science and technology in in "Islamic Science Rediscovered," in the touring exhibition's only West coast stop. The Golden Age of the Islamic World (circa 8th to 18th centuries CE) comes ...
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ASU ranked in top 25 in the world in biological sciences
Arizona State University
In turn, the boost in world-class faculty, focus on teaching science as it is practiced, and promotion of strong undergraduate research experiences, has drawn an increasingly diverse undergraduate and graduate student base. Since 2003, enrollment in ...
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Government of Canada to Promote Science and Math for Students in London
Marketwire (press release)
Themed programming weeks: National Engineering Week, National Science and TechnologyWeek, Earth Week. Scientist/Expert in Residence Program, with a dedicated laboratory space that will showcase a different area of research each month and give youth an ...
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Consider this on Labor Day: New studies on psychological health and work
MinnPost.com (blog)
Over at his Frontal Cortex blog at Wired, science writer Jonah Lehrer riffed this week on happiness research, including the impact that commuting has on our happiness. He cites, for example, a survey involving 1000 women living in a large, ...
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MinnPost.com (blog)
Students and faculty settle in at STEM magnet programs
Concord Independent Tribune
Fifth-graders Jessica Higgins, left, and Gabrielle Carbello build a tower out of plastic cups during a STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) class at Coltrane-Webb Elementary School Wednesday morning. Credit: Photos by James Nix Lara Cabaniss ...
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Science Teachers Urged To Be Innovative
Ghana
... in Bolgatanga in the Northern region during its 53rd Conference on the theme, “Science andTechnology Education: a tool for creating wealth out of waste”. He said thousands of students are turned out in science related studies whilst many research ...
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ESF On The Cutting Edge
SUNY-ESF Headlines
The NC Brown Center for Ultrastructure Studies in the Department of Sustainable Construction Management and Engineering at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has received $350000 in electron microscopy equipment from Pfizer ...
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JSerra science students get new state-of-the-art lab
OCRegister
JSerra Catholic High School science teacher Betty Cappelletti, who led an effort to turn a vacant classroom into a $150000 science lab, demonstrates how students can use SimMan, a simulated human, in their medical studies. Toshiba's donation was a ...
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Graded on innovation, these educators are top of the class
The Journal News | LoHud.com
The 15-year veteran at Blind Brook Middle School prefers to emphasize the social in social studies. He teaches World War I by setting up his classroom as a trench. He covers labor by having students negotiate contracts. Last year, he had his class ...
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The Black Death is dead (thanks to evolution)
Forbes
Politicians who attack evolution, whether from ignorance or from some political or religious agenda, only hurt our future potential as a technology leader. I can only hope that the public won't support these anti-science positions.
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Finding Truth in Integrative Veterinary Oncology: Poly-MVA
Huffington Post
As my readers and clients know, the rest of the story is how I got involved in the integrative veterinary health movement, and it illustrates vividly how human behavior and science work in the advance of knowledge and technology. ...
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Study: Air toxins didn't hit harmful levels after spill
Houston Chronicle
The report, published Friday in Environmental Science and Technology, a scientific journal, found that the measurements for benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene were many times below the federal limits. It also found no significant difference in ...
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DOE creates $145m fund in bid to lead solar sector
NewNet
Eight projects will receive $25.9m for research into solar energy grid integration systems. The studies will focus on designing components to aid the incorporation of solar energy into the transmission grid and help advance smart grid development. ...
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NewNet
In-the-red Britain needs real skills
Financial Times
Current government plans to favour AAB entry grades will jeopardise redbrick university departments teaching professional skills such as computer science, engineering and earth science. Key skills such as geology are concentrated in a relatively small ...
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Chris Christie Studies: Tough To See
First Things (blog)
But respectfully presented to conservatives, an approach that could be easily accepted as “one Republican opinion about unsettled science among several others.” And again, shades of No Cap and Trade opinion are not going to matter. ...
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Science fiction review roundup
The Guardian
Kooky, otherworldly Karou lives in Prague where she studies art by day and, at night, runs errands for a benign if monstrous sorcerer called Brimstone who tasks her to collect human and animal teeth. Karou travels through mysterious portals, ...
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No, technology is not going to destroy your privacy in the future
Gizmodo
For decades now, science fiction author David Brin has been arguing that technology is pushing us towards a "transparent society" where we lose our privacy but gain "transparent" systems of authority to make up for it. A transparent authority is any ...
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Pax River Navy briefs
So Md News
Science Applications International Corp. of Lexington Park; Booz Allen Hamilton of McLean, Va.; L-3 Communications of Mount Laurel, NJ; and National Technologies of Alexandria, Va., received modifications June 2 to previously awarded contracts to ...
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Lloyd Center gets $50000 Motorola STEM grant
SouthCoastToday.com
Now in its fifth year, the Motorola program awards $5.5 million to 100 non-profit organizations across the country that foster and support science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) initiatives for teachers and US preschool through university ...
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High School Classes Set on New Technology, Modern Lessons
Patch.com
“I think it makes a difference in terms of communication with parents,” High School Social StudiesTeacher Bob Fenster said. Since students and parents can access the grade book at home, it allows them to keep track of assignments and test scores, ...
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How to make the perfect French fry
CNN (blog)
Mhyrvold studies the science behind cooking, and has written a 2438 page, $600 book called Modernist Cuisine that is the touchtone for what is known as molecular gastronomy, which meldsscience and cooking to create incredible concoctions. ...
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Bottom to top: Union Grove Middle makes academic turnaround
Maryville Daily Times
Union Grove Middle School led the district's four middle schools in all tested subject areas: reading, math, social studies and science. TVAAS measures academic gain from year to year. A zero equals one year's growth, and it's equal to the state's ...
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Distinct features of autistic brain revealed in novel Stanford/Packard ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Instead of comparing the sizes of individual brain structures, as prior studies have done, the new analysis generated something akin to a topographical map of the entire brain. The scientists essentially mapped the autistic brain's distinct cliffs and ...
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Mikulski Cardin Announce National Science Foundation Grant for University of ...
PoliticalNews.me (press release)
"Science and technology are the keys to winning the future and moving America's economy forward into the 21st century," said Senator Cardin. "As a hub of research and development, Maryland has the capacity to kickstart our economy, but we need bright ...
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Detecting covert consciousness in the vegetative state
The Guardian (blog)
Owen's pioneering research shows that some patients who were previously thought to be completely unconscious are in fact aware of both themselves and their surroundings. It also shows that much-maligned brain scanning technology can be used not only to ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Crestor Fails To Beat Lipitor In Imaging Study
Forbes
I've covered science and medicine for Forbes from the Human Genome Project through Vioxx to the blossoming DNA technology changing the world today. Email me or follow me on Twitter. AstraZeneca announced this morning that its cholesterol drug Crestor ...
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Shell's strategy to develop manpower for Nigeria's oil, gas industry is ...
The Nation Newspaper
Sunmonu stated these yesterday at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology(RSUST), Port Harcourt, at the award/farewell ceremony for the ten 2011 beneficiaries of the Anglo/Dutch oil giant's Niger Delta Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme. ...
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Past civilizations capable of great accomplishments
Kansas State Collegian
In my opinion, present day science and research looks at the past through lenses made in the present. When we say technology, we are talking about today's technology. There could have been far more advanced technologies in the past that we don't know ...
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CAP's Islamophobia Report raises some new questions by Aydoğan Vatandaş*
Today's Zaman
The school was run by the Pelican Foundation, which was established in December 2005 and primarily focuses on math, science and technology. Now, they are trying to start a similar smear campaign against Kenilworth Science and Technology School, ...
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The Code War
The Smart Set
In 2008, the Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies — a center for emergency management and disaster research launched in part through a contribution from Hillary Clinton — opened at John Jay College in New York City. ...
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All SFMS students will have to learn in schedule this year
Coon Rapids Herald
Science and social studies will no longer be on the student schedules for all three trimesters. Students will have science and social studies for two of the three trimesters and they will be in other classes in the remaining trimester. ...
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Church Lady: Ministering to young minds
Marconews
It also includes literature that is incorporated into every lesson from science to social studies. When studying the alphabet and phonics, great literature for children, such as Caldecott Medal, or books that excite children to learn are included to ...
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What's happening in the principal's office?: Leaders share focus for school year
Shelby Star
This year, we will have a daily focus time to meet student needs along with concentration on the new common core standards for math and essential standards for science and social studies. Our theme is outer space and our students will soar as we ...
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Information galore awaits students at Curtin's open day
The Borneo Post
Terence Tan, a highly experienced and award-winning lecturer of the university's School of Engineering and Science, will facilitate the workshop. At 11.00 am, the School of Foundation and Continuing Studies will present a talk entitled Skills for the ...
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Gulf Shores, Orange Beach schools push 'Learning for Life' transformation
al.com (blog)
He said learning academies would focus on funneling students into areas of interest and into career training that focuses on targeted jobs or college studies. Some areas were design and construction technology, health services, business and management, ...
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al.com (blog)
Anniversary List | News@UH
By newsatuh
News@UH. University of Hawaii System newsletter ... Holland, Kim N Researcher, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, UH Mānoa. Parsa ... Assistant Specialist, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, UH Mānoa. Tuzon, Denise ...
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