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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jul 16, 2011

Search engines 'rewire our memory'
Telegraph.co.uk
The research is the result of four studies examining the way that memory works. One study asked participants to answer trivia questions before presenting them with a series of words, colour-coded in red or blue. Participants were quicker at identifying ...
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The truth about NASA's space tech spinoffs
msnbc.com
And different economic studies have suggested that investment in the space program has per dollar payoffs ranging from 3:1 all the way up to 21:1. But signs exist all around us in daily life. For instance, NASA's need for smaller, lighter electronics ...
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Private-Public Partnership Gives Entertainment Creative Community Access to ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Ready on the SET was established to help encourage young people to pursue studies and careers inscience, engineering and technology through authentic portrayals in popular entertainment in order to ensure there is a next generation of creative problem ...
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SMART Scholars Visit NAF Washington
DVIDS
The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the Department of Defense to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and ...
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Cross, Stephen
Irish Central
Georgia Tech Ireland was officially opened in 2006 at the IDA Business and Technology Park,Athlone. Established by Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the applied research and real-world problem-solving arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology, ...
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In school visits, Brizard studies CPS strengths, weaknesses
WBEZ
New CEO looks hard at teaching, lack of technology. by Linda Lutton Jul. 15, 2011 CEO Jean-Claude Brizard, left, and Garvey principal Michelle Van Allen visit a third grade classroom. Chicago's new schools chief has been getting to know the school ...
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Michael Laiskonis Asks Dave Arnold: Hydrocolloids and Eggshells
Eater National
In food science, research follows economic incentive, so there are a lot of papers out there on eggshells. After sifting through 30 or 40 articles, I can safely say you have no hope of figuring out a priori how thick a shell will be. ...
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B.Tech, LL.B. (Hons.) – A Bold Experiment from the University of Petroleum and ...
Bar & Bench
The aim of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the fast evolving techno-legal issues in the science and technology sectors. With companies spending huge exhaustive amount of capital for the research and development purpose, ...
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Trawls and Trash Represent One-Two Punch for Threatened Turtles
Scientific American
Research published in Nature more than 10 years ago warned that current fisheries activities would doom Pacific sea turtles, and a paper in Science in 1972 identified the threat of microplastics in the ocean. (Scientific American is part of Nature ...
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New finding shows a research area to expand in EMSL Radiochemistry Annex
PhysOrg.com
More information: Felmy AR, et al. 2011. "Heterogeneous Reduction of PuO2 with Fe(II): Importance of the Fe(III) Reaction Product." Environmental Science &Technology 45:3952-3958. DOI: 10.1021/es104212g.
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World Education Summit 2011 Day 2: 'Desire to innovate, research is must'
India Education Diary
Therefore, the Ministry of Human Resource Development has tied up with the Ministry of Science and Technology for an increase in the level of fellowship, so that researchoutput is much higher. Each ministry must have a certain percentage devoted to ...
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NASA Solicitation: Research Opportunities in Fundamental Physics
Space Ref (press release)
While NASA's Science Mission Directorate plans to study dark matter and dark energy through observational means, and to seek clues to when General Relativity might fail through studies of physics in the strong gravity environment near black holes, ...
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Professor receives NSF grant to study language patterns in STEM classrooms
William and Mary News
Charity Hudley was able to pursue that research with support from the William & Mary Office of the Provost, her community studies professorship, the William & Mary School of Education, the Charles Center and the Virginia Commonwealth University's ...
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Four Professors Earn Highest Faculty Distinction at Carnegie Mellon
TMC Net
She is a past member of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's InformationScience and Technology Board.
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The Science of Research: Students Put Classroom Learning into Laboratory Practice
Loyola University New Orleans
After graduation, Reeves plans on attending graduate school to further his studies in stream fish conservation. Promoting one's research is almost as important as doing the research itself. The students' research culminates with the Annual Biological ...
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Personalized Medicine And the Future of Cancer Treatment
Voice of San Diego
Greg Faulkner lives in San Diego and writes as a member of the San Diego Center for Ethics inScience and Technology Writing Group. The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and the San Diego Center for Ethics in Science and Technology will be hosting a free ...
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news In detail
Knowledgespeak
Mayo Clinic Proceedings publishes studies in clinical and laboratory medicine, clinical research, basic science research, clinical epidemiology, health policy and general and internal medicine. The journal also offers unique features such as Concise ...
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Ratted Out: Science Finds Source of Fatty Food Cravings
TakePart - Inspiration to Action
University of California, Irvine, and the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa performed studies on rats that recorded the reactions to a series of foods. Upon immediately ingesting fatty foods, the rats began producing chemicals in the gut called ...
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14 Northwest Florida School Districts get $3.6 million Grant
WJHG-TV
The Florida Department of Education is giving a $3.6 million grant to the panhandle area educational consortium, or PAEC, for technology studies. The new grant will help fund improved science,technology, engineering and math, or stem, programs. ...
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Pentagon Rattles Its Cyber-Saber
TechNewsWorld
Meanwhile, US armed forces' growing dependence on technology is making it increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. The DoD's been working on its cyberstrategy for some time, Robert Rodriguez, chairman and managing principal of SINET, told TechNewsWorld ...
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AGU journal highlights -– July 15, 2011
EurekAlert (press release)
The following highlights summarize research papers that have been recently published in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) and Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-Cubed). Anyone may read the scientific abstract for any already-published paper by ...
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Katharine Gammon, Life's Little Mysteries Contributor
LiveScience.com
We asked some of the leading traffic science experts, and here's what we found. Life's Little Mysteries: Why does traffic in LA suck so much? Mark Hallenbeck, director of the Washington State Transportation Center at the University of Washington: The ...
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National Crowdsourcing Project Designed to Better Predict World Events
PR Newswire (press release)
... economics, science and technology, and social affairs. "This kind of enhanced predictive analysis capability will help the intelligence community provide early warning and leading indicators of events," said Stone, who has published studies on the ...
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UNE Summer Intern Program Mixes Medicine, Research and Entrepreneurship
PR Web (press release)
Bilsky added, “The program is intended to address some of the key recommendations of the 2010 Maine Science and Technology Action Plan and is in line with the goals of the Maine Technology Asset Fund awards made to the university. ...
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What's Right With Our Schools: TCC website
WBIR-TV
... technology this fall to help teach sometimes difficult subjects including math andscience. Teachers from across Tennessee are spending part of the summer inMaryville working on a project which could change what your child studies this fall. ...
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See The Stars At Buehler Observatory
Patch.com
“We generally get 40 to 50 people at a viewing and have had as many as 100,” said Dr. Joseph Sivo, a science professor at BCC. In summer, starting time is 9 pm and observation is usually held outdoors, near the campus Technology Building, ...
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LIBYA, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen News, Jun 25, 2011

Arab Spring Seen From Tehran
NOW LEBANON
Nearly a century later, with the toppling of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia and the ongoing struggles in Yemen, Syria, Libya, andBahrain, all states in the region—or involved in the region—have been forced to reassess ...
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Cultural revolution: How artists have been inspired by the Arab Spring
The Independent
Now it's cool to be an Egyptian, totally awesome to be a Tunisian, Syrian, Libyan,Bahraini or Yemeni dissident and to be an artist from these places is, well, very heaven. Longstanding stereotypes of Arabs as stupidly rich, misogynist, violent, ...
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Latest developments in Arab world's unrest
The Associated Press
The decision gives Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's foes greater credibility and potentially frees up billions in frozen Gadhafi assets that could not be funneled to the rebels. ___ EGYPT Thousands of Egyptians, increasingly impatient with their interim ...
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Tunisian Forces Disperse Protesters
Voice of America
Tunisia's unrest sparked what is known as the Arab Spring, which led to citizens calling for reforms in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan and Libya. Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters. ...
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The 'Arab Spring' becomes the 'Arab Mobilization'
American Thinker (blog)
It was used in reference to the mobs gathering in Tunisia and Syria but not Egypt,Libya, Yemen, Jordan or Bahrain. Who is the leader of these forces being mobilized? The Moslem Brotherhood. In covering the demonstrations in Jordan they gave full ...
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Syrians Fill the Streets in Opposition, 32 Protesters Killed
San Francisco Chronicle
The uprising in Syria is part of a wave of unrest that has swept parts of the Arab world this year, toppling the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt, before spreading to other countries including Libya, Bahrain and Yemen. Syrian security forces have killed...
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What Will Libya Look Like After Qaddafi?
Business Insider
Those threats were heard in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and—rendered in black-comedy style—in Libya. But there is a strong belief across the region that the costs of removing autocracies, as high as they might be, are low compared to the ...
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Daybreak - Uprisings in the middle east
TriValley Central
Cores of loyal security forces in Yemen and Syria keep the regimes hanging on despite relentless protests. In Libya, Moammar Gadhafi could face a moment of truth as rebels press closer to the capital Tripoli and NATO warplanes hammer military sites, ...
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YOUNG ARAB JEWS OPEN LETTER TO ARAB PEERS | SHOAH
By admin
In a letter titled “Ruh Jedida: A New Spirit for 2011,” young Jewish descendants of the Arab and Islamic world living in Israel write to their peers in the Middle East and North Africa ... We identify with you and are extremely hopeful for the future of the revolutions that have already succeeded in Tunisia and Egypt. We are equally pained and worried at the great loss of life in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, and many other places in the region. ...
SHOAH
gerald4: In Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia ...
“In Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Libya the wealth producing, ... The new leader will probably create another new Elite Government ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../egypt-friday-last-warning-protest...
Syria, Libya and Middle East unrest - 15 July 2011 | World news...
Libya contact group to recognise Libyan rebels · • Activists claim 19 people killed in Syria protests · • Protests in Yemen, Egypt, Jordan and ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../syria-libya-middle-east-unrest-live
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‎#Bahrain video: The Son of the Martyr Majeed Ahmed http://bit.ly/j8hmb9 #USA # UK #UN #HRW #News #Syria #Egypt #libya #Feb14 #Yemen #Syria ...
www.bahrain-nation.net/vb/showthread.php?p=16382
BBC News - Arab Spring: Unfinished business for protesters
Ruler overthrown: Tunisia and Egypt; Uprising in progress: Libya, Syria andYemen; Major protests and clampdown: Bahrain; Stirrings of dissent: Jordan, ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14153583
Tear Gas, Gunfire Used to Break Up Tunisian Clashes ... - VOA News
Voice of America ®. A Trusted Source of News & Information since 1942 ... to citizens calling for reforms in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen Jordan and Libya. ...
www.voanews.com/.../Tunisian-Soldiers-Break-Up-Clashes-wit...
RSS Egypt | Egypt News | Tear Gas, Gunfire Used to Break Up ...
Posted on 14 July 2011 by VOA News. Tunisian soldiers fired in the air and lobbed... calling for reforms in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen Jordan and Libya. ...
rssmasr.com/.../tear-gas-gunfire-used-to-break-up-tunisian-clas...
Soldiers break up clashes in Southern Tunisia | Libya TV
The Tunisia state news agency said the army fired shots in the air to disperse ...saw revolution quickly spread to Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain and Syria. ...
english.libya.tv/.../soliders-break-up-clashes-in-southern-tunisi...
YouTube - Gaddafi / Syria Kill 24 / Afgan / Yemen / E-Coli ...
Hillary Clinton says Libya Gaddafi must go now, but at the same time she embraces the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt! Syria kills 24 more ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zFOAj45sA