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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN News, Oct 07, 2011


Technology Leaders and Scholars Remember Steve Jobs
Scientific American
Some friends of Scientific American wrote to us expressing their appreciation of the life of one of the great inventors and technology visionaries. Here are some of their thoughts and reflections. TECH RENAISSANCE MAN: Some science and technology...
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Scientific American
Google Science Fair Winners at the White House
Scientific American (blog)
Let's make more heroes out of young scientists when we launch the Google ScienceFair in 2012!” About the Author: Editor in Chief, Mariette DiChristina, overseesScientific American, ScientificAmerican.com, Scientific American MIND and all newsstand ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Now: Bring Science Home Every Week!
Scientific American (blog)
By Mariette DiChristina | October 6, 2011 | At Scientific American, we appreciate the value of a good experiment. So in May, we launched Bring Science Home as a series of free science activities for parents to do together with their six- to 12-year-old ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Science Bloggers for Students – Supporting public school science programs
Scientific American (blog)
But now through October 22, 2011, I'm throwing my gauntlet down in the biggest philanthropic online Battle Royale in support of public education: The ScienceBloggers for Students DonorChoose.org Challenge. I'm representing the Scientific American Team ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Amoebas for a Better Science Tomorrow
Scientific American (blog)
A number of Scientific American bloggers are participating, and we're competing against each other and a whole bunch of other blog networks to raise cash for science supplies. If you've been paying any attention to what's been happening to education ...
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Why conservative white men are more likely to deny climate change
Globe and Mail
... versus 9 per cent of other adults, Scientific American reports. By “confident,” researchers referred to conservative white men who self-reported a high understanding of global warming. Among conservative men less familiar with the science, ...
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Globe and Mail
October 2011 Advances section: Additional resources
Scientific American
By Anna Kuchment | October 1, 2011 The Advances section of Scientific American'sOctober issue includes coverage of preschoolers' innate sense of the scientific method, a report suggesting the US Environmental Protection Agency is failing to do enough ...
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Scientific American
NSF launches Science360 Radio for web, iPhone and Android
KOLD-TV
AP Entertainment News Video By Erin Jordan - bio | email The National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched Science360 Radio, the first Internet radio stream dedicated to programming aboutScience, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). ...
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Ninth-Year USC Student Blogs for Scientific American
mediabistro.com
He says Scientific American was one of the only magazines he'd pick up as a kid while sitting in his pediatrician's waiting room. Later, he started buying the magazine at newsstands. Adds the developmental psych doctoral student: I started reading ...
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Cancer Vaccines
Scientific American
Eric von Hofe, cancer researcher and president of the biotech company Antigen Express talks about his article in the October issue of Scientific American called A New Ally Against Cancer, about cancer vaccines. Eric von Hofe, cancer researcher and ...
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Paul Hoffman Named President and CEO of Liberty Science Center
MarketWatch (press release)
Widely published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Time, Wired and more, he describes himself as "a journalist and biographer whose work explores the relationship between genius, madness, obsession and ...
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Now You Can Journey To The Exoplanets On Your iPad
Gizmodo Australia
By Kristen Philipkoski on October 5, 2011 at 5:50 AM Scientific American has launched a nifty new app that lets you explore exoplanets — planets outside our own solar system — from the comfort of your iPad. Journey to the Exoplanets takes exoplanets ...
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Vitamin D Makes the Grade
Food Processing
The headline in the March 23, 2009, issue of Scientific American, “Vitamin D deficiency soars in the US, study says,” could lead anyone to be alarmed. The study referred to, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, concluded that less than a ...
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Science on Screen: Explaining Why Zombies Want to Eat You and Other Mysteries ...
Smithsonian (blog)
Edison's early cinematic developments were covered by Scientific American, while Popular Science and similar magazines devoted articles to film technologies like color and 3D processes. And yet for over a hundred years, feature films have played with ...
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Smithsonian (blog)
Support Growing for Ban on Chimpanzee Testing
PETA (press release) (blog)
In a true sign of the times, the editors at Scientific American, one of the most widely read scientific publications in the world, now agree with PETA that experiments on chimpanzees should be banned. "That chimps and humans react to trauma in a like ...
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PETA (press release) (blog)
Tevatron's Last Day
About - News & Issues
The folks over at Scientific American have created a nice little eulogy, complete with links to a variety of stories about the Tevatron and Fermilab. And they weren't the only ones. Perhaps the most poignant was the one at the Symmetry Breaking blog, ...
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Parents avoid child vaccines at their peril
Irish Times
Each of these three beliefs is false, as MF Daley and JM Glanz explained in Scientific Americanlast month, summarising the current situation regarding childhood vaccination. Apart from sometimes causing mild fevers, there is little evidence that ...
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2011 Chemistry Nobel for . . . Quasicrystal Physics!
PhysicsCentral.com (blog)
Although the structures are strikingly similar to the quasiperiodic tilings invented by mathematician Roger Penrose (which Martin Gardner popularized in a 1977 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American), there was little in the crystallographic ...
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PhysicsCentral.com (blog)
Introducing #SciAmBlogs bloggers: Jason Goldman
Scientific American (blog)
But if you had asked me 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, I don't think I'd have told you that I was going to be a scientist or science writer. I always liked my science classes. I remember picking out old issues of Scientific American and National Geographic ...
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Scientific American (blog)
LETTERS: NCT, Oct. 2, 2011
North County Times
The Second Law of Thermodynamics proves the universe has not always existed, but where the "preexistent" energy came from is unknown to science. The entire concept "rests on untested and untestable assumptions" (Scientific American) and is full of ...
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Government obstructing access to science data, panel says
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
... and contact a scientist with a paper out and expect to get it cleared through the press office at the Institute,” said Nancy Shute, the president of the National Association of Science Writers and a contributor to NPR and Scientific American. ...
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Indium Corporation expert to deliver keynote at IMAPS 2011
Global SMT & Packaging Magazine
He has authored or edited five books on science, electronics, and optoelectronics, as well as several technical papers and articles for Scientific American. Dr. Lasky holds numerous patent disclosures and is the developer of several new concepts in SMT ...
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Giant ozone hole found above Arctic
The Independent
we need to protest to stop such outragous and threatening scientific american funded geoendangering research before its too late. this cannot go on and on unchecked. I can certainly recognise and understand a gigantic scam when I see one! ...
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Error and Trial: Italian Scientists Face Prison as Earthquake Manslaughter ...
Scientific American
... paid to the foreshocks leading up to the earthquake," says Robert Yeats, a professor emeritus in geoscience at Oregon State University in Corvallis and co-author of the article "Hidden Earthquakes" in the June 1989 issue of Scientific American. ...
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Scientific American
Nobel Prize: Not for an Oregon contender
OregonLive.com
But overall, Reuters hasn't been very successful at picking winners, according toScientific American blogger John Matson. He points out that "only 13 of the 111 picks (11.7 percent) made between 2006 and 2010 have gone on to receive a Nobel, ...
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OregonLive.com
Students building satellite that's seen as future of space research
UC Berkeley
According to a recent Scientific American article, at least two-dozen student CubeSat missions have been successfully completed and many more are in the works. “At Berkeley, we see an exciting future for CubeSats,” says Lin “With the continued ...
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UC Berkeley
Hot and Cold: Dwarf Planet Makemake Could Have Extreme Temperatures Side by Side
Scientific American (blog)
... he prefers an alternate pattern resembling a familiar object comprising light and dark blocks: “soccer-make.” About the Author: John Matson is an online news reporter for Scientific Americanfocusing on space, physics and mathematics. ...
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Anna Gunn, John de Lancie, Annabeth Gish Star in Alan Alda's Radiance ...
Playbill.com
Alda, whose screenplays include "The Four Seasons" and "The Seduction of Joe Tynan," has a long-time interest in science. He is host and an interviewer of the award-winning PBS series "Scientific American Frontiers." In 2010, he hosted the science...
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Playbill.com
Darwinizing Metamorphosis with Magic
Discovery Institute
... the University of Liverpool, who worked in the 1950s on a so-called "larval transfer" hypothesis -- an idea so radical it "provoked frank disbelief among many biologists" (eg, see the uncharitable remarks posted by Scientific American in 2009). ...
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Bounty of Rare Earths Discovered in Afghanistan
LiveScience.com
Recently equipped with hand-held equipment for doing the geophysical surveys, perhaps they can finish the job. Follow Scientific American on Twitter @SciAm and @SciamBlogs. Visit ScientificAmerican.com for the latest in science, health andtechnology ...
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LiveScience.com
Uncommon Descent | Scientific American wrestles with science's ...
By News
Here Philip Ball offers us “10 Unsolved Mysteries: Many of the most profound scientific questions—and some of humanity's most urgent problems—pertain to the science of atoms and molecules” (Scientific American, October 10, 2011): For example, #1: ... people might want to consider alternatives. How about, life isn't principally chemistry, but information in motion. Now, how did that happen? Probably easier to just plough the same old furrows fruitlessly. Follow UD News at Twitter !...
Uncommon Descent
Enviornmental Science News - » Many U.S. Drinking Water Wells ...
By Scientific American
... are also hugely important and arguably more so." This article originally ran at Environmental Health News, a news source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media ... See all stories on this topic » · Scientific American ...
Enviornmental Science News
Enviornmental Science News - » Beamline Scientist
By Scientific American
The beamline has an active user community covering many scientific disciplines ranging from earth and environmental science, biological and bio-medical imaging, materials science to scientificaspects of our cultural heritage. ...
Enviornmental Science News
History: Science in Print
By admin
Page nineteen sported a keen defence of “Mr Cheselden's intended operation on the drum of the ear” and in subsequent issues medical features are as common as pieces about new technologicaladvancements. Science magazine covers from early ... Wartime pages of Scientific American and Popular Science are filled with expositions of the latest planes and weaponry; they seem to have been as much propaganda tools as informative guides. The tensions of the Cold War are also ...
Bluesci - Cambridge University...
Liberty Science Center – Paul Hoffman Named President and CEO ...
By New Jersey Technology Council
Widely published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Time, Wired and more, he describes himself as “a journalist and biographer whose work explores the relationship between genius, ... About Liberty Science Center – A NJ not for profit institution: Dedicated to providing transformative experiences that connect schools and society withscience and technology, Liberty Science Center is the New Jersey-New York City region's largest ...
NJTC TechWire
NYC's Ring of Steel pt 3: Motion Capture: Scientific American Video
... Energy & Sustainability; Evolution; Health; Mind & Brain; Space; Technology; More Science ...Bring Science Home: Make a homemade compass .... Scientific American Newsletter ... News 4 hours ago | 1 ...
www.scientificamerican.com/video.cfm?id=1185378220001
Steve Jobs Dies at 56 - Scientific American | e! Science News
Tell your friends. Get science news via ... Read the whole article on Scientific American · More from ... from CBC: Technology & Science. Wed, 5 Oct 2011, ...
esciencenews.com/sources/scientific.../10/.../steve.jobs.dies.56
Obama Bestows Medals of Science, Technology » American Scientist
President Barack Obama awarded seven National Medals of Science and five ... In othertechnology news, the L.A. Times looked at what went wrong at the ...
www.americanscientist.org/.../obama-bestows-medals-of-scien...
Fewer Big Asteroids Close In on Earth - Scientific American ...
Fewer Big Asteroids Close In on Earth - Scientific American ... Google News science &technology · Knight Science Journalism Tracker. Peer review within ...
www.nasw.org/fewer-big-asteroids-close-earth-scientific-ameri...
River Basins Could Double Food Production: Study - One News ...
Science on One News Page on Monday, 26 September 2011. ... Food Production : Study:Scientific American http://t.co/1EUgIScX via @sciam 12 hours ago ...
www.onenewspage.com/.../River-Basins-Could-Double-Food-...
Scientific American editors call for chimp testing ban - Science news ...
28.09.11 - The editors of Scientific American magazine have called for a ban on chimp testing and for scientist to spend more time developing alternatives to ...
www.drhadwentrust.org/.../83-scientific-american-editors-call-...

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