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Apr 11, 2012

ABC World News, Apr 11, 2012

ABC hints at B-word in 2 new shows about women
The Associated Press
Founders of the feminist pop-culture magazine "were reacting to the idea of bitch as this go-to gendered insult in a world of very feasible and accessible gender-neutral ways of saying you don't like what someone is doing," Zeisler said. ABC is using ...
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B doesn't just stand for broadcasting at ABC: 2 new shows about women hint at ...
Washington Post
LOS ANGELES — No one could imagine seeing the N-word in the title of a network TV show, but the B-word is OK with ABC. The network uses the letter B as an abbreviation for “bitch” in the title of its new sitcom “Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23 ...
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ABC-Mart, Bic Camera, Coal India, San-A Co.: Asia Stocks Preview
BusinessWeek
ABC-Mart Inc. (2670) (2670 JT): The shoe retailer said net income fell 15 percent to 15.7 billion yen ($194 million) in the year ended Feb. 29, reflecting the previous year's gain from selling stakes in affiliates. The company expects an 11 percent ...
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Dueling women are old network news to Norville
New York Daily News
The “Inside Edition” anchor has issues with how ABC decided to have Katie Couric fill in for vacationing “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts last week — and with how the media portrayed the story. “Why is the press so quick to blame the chick?
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New York Daily News
'Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23' debuts on ABC
Philadelphia Inquirer
If only Aronsohn had waited a couple of weeks, he would have had even more to warn us about, as ABC's "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23" and HBO's "Girls" join the ranks of shows about young women who sometimes talk about their private parts.
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Unlikely roomies find home in bawdy ABC comedy
Boston Herald
B Perhaps the first network sitcom to wear the influence of the big-screen hit “Bridesmaids” like a tiara, ABC's “Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23” is a raunchy buddy comedy about two mismatched roomies. Think Betty and Veronica if they moved to ...
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ABC's Mirthless New Comedy
NOLA.com
In ABC's mirthless new comedy, "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23," a young woman named June (Dreama Walker) moves to the big city for a job at a big investment bank only to find the place in full-blown Madoff mayhem. Her first day turns out to be ...
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Last week's TV ratings show season-low audiences
Boston.com
ABC's "Missing" had a series low. All the originals on NBC's lineup -- "Community," "30 Rock," "Up All Night" and "Awake" -- had season lows. The NBC showing is particularly eye-opening, especially considering the network's former "must-see TV" status ...
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Shickshinny woman stars in new sitcom premiering tonight on ABC
Scranton Times-Tribune
By Kristen Gaydos (Staff writer) The Shickshinny native scooped up the starring role in "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23," which premieres tonight at 9 on ABC. It's just one of the projects she's got coming to a simmer since her turn in the 2010 ...
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Scranton Times-Tribune
ABC hints at B-word in 2 new shows about women
TheNewsTribune.com
Founders of the feminist pop-culture magazine "were reacting to the idea of bitch as this go-to gendered insult in aworld of very feasible and accessible gender-neutral ways of saying you don't like what someone is doing," Zeisler said. ABC is using ...
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Tanya Young Williams: ABC's Scandal Won't Fix Your Crisis But Judy Smith Can
Huffington Post
ABC's new hit series Scandal introduces the world to a career very few people ever knew existed: Crisis Management. Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington, is a crisis management guru who, throughout the episodes, will help politicians, celebrities, ...
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NBC's 'Voice' lower, still tops Monday in demo: 'Smash' stable, CBS solid in ...
Chicago Tribune
ABC dominated in total viewers with ''Dancing With the Stars.'' According to preliminary national estimates from Nielsen, NBC's ''The Voice'' averaged a 3.9 rating/11 share in adults 18-49 and 10.4 million viewers overall from 8 to 10 pm,...
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Facebook purchased Instagram for 1 billion dollars. (Joanna Stern/ABCNews)
ABC News
You can see a selection of the disapproving tweets on Buzzfeed and on ABC News' Facebook page. "My whole 6th grade class is on Instagram," Moorhead told ABC News. "I think they might change it to be more like Facebook. If Facebook owns it, ...
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ABC News
Women Boost Obama Over Romney in New ABC Poll
ABC News
An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Tuesday shows female voters play a significant role in President Barack Obama's current lead over Mitt Romney among 2012 voters. Tuesday's poll is the second major national poll in recent weeks pointing to a ...
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'ABC World News with Diane Sawyer' Cuts Demo Gap with 'NBC Nightly News' Week ...
TVbytheNumbers
For the week of April 2, 2012, “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer” averaged 6.84 million Total Viewers and a 1.5 rating/6 share/1.75 million in Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research. For the 2nd week in a row, “World News” narrowed its ...
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TVbytheNumbers
'The Ten Commandments' pulls off a ratings miracle for ABC
Washington Post (blog)
(PARAMOUNT - PARAMOUNT) “The Ten Commandments” pulled off another of its holiday ratings miracles over the weekend, delivering ABC's best non-sports Saturday since — the last time ABC aired “The Ten Commandments” about a year ago.
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A list of the top 20 prime-time programs in the Nielsen ratings for April 2-8
Washington Post
“Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 16.87 million. 4. “Dancing With the Stars Results,” ABC, 15.61 million. 5. “American Idol” (Thursday), Fox, 14.34 million. 6. “Person of Interest,” CBS, 13.69 million. 7. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 13.3 million. 8.
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'Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23' needs room for its edgiest character to grow
New York Daily News
ABC'S SECOND “bitch” show of the spring season is no dog. “Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23” has a reasonably fresh premise and an immediately memorable performance by Krysten Ritter as Chloe, the title character. In the show's opening scene, ...
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New York Daily News
'Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23': Don't watch her, either.
Washington Post
In ABC's mirthless new Wednesday night comedy, “Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23,” a young woman named June (Dreama Walker) moves to the big city for a job at a big investment bank only to find the place in full-blown Madoff mayhem.
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Week 29: ABC making 2nd place a habit
Radio & Television Business Report
By RBR-TVBR on Apr, 10 2012 with Comments 0 Overall: During the week of 4/2/12, ABC registered as the 2nd-most-watched network for the 4th week in a row to CBS, increasing its advantage over 3rd-place Fox to 17%. ABC claimed 3 of the Top 10 TV series...
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Radio & Television Business Report
ABC University Gets Radio Station
Liberian Daily Observer
Nimba County-based African Bible College-University (ABC-U) in Yekepa has a new radio station, LIFE FM 95.7. In a dispatch, the president of ABC-U, Dr. Del Chinchen informed our reporter that “as we celebrate new life in Christ during this Easter Month ...
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TV review: You can trust roomies of 'Apartment 23' to be funny
Los Angeles Times
(Adam Larkey, ABC / November 17, 2011) By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic Despite its rather tiresome and typographically unwieldy title,ABC's"Don't Trust the B— in Apartment 23" is among the least raunchy of this year's super-sized ...
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Los Angeles Times
James Van Der Beek spoofs himself in a new ABC comedy
TheDay.com
When ABC's new comedy "Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23" premieres Wednesday, Van Der Beek will be joining a growing list of actors - Matt LeBlanc, Larry David, Ricky Gervais - playing meta-versions of themselves. It's the 35-year-old actor's first ...
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Google the most beloved tech company among Americans
CNET
ABC News and the Washington Post recently joined forces with Langer Research Associates to poll over 1000 Americans between March 28 and April 1 on their attitudes towards some of the tech world's biggest companies. The researchers found that a ...
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Mike Hughes: 'Don't Trust the B' debuts on ABC
The Salinas Californian
"The Middle," 8 pm, ABC. Visiting a black friend's church, Frankie is impressed by the message about doing life's important business. Her family leaps into action, but she flounders. "Suburgatory," 8:30 pm, ABC. George worries about Dallas (Cheryl ...
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy Claims ABC Made Melissa Gilbert's Injury Seem Worse To ...
PerezHilton.com
Maksim Chmerkovskiy has a bone to pick with ABC! After it was announced at the end of last night's Dancing with the Stars that contestant Melissa Gilbert had been injured and rushed to a nearby hospital, her partner Maksim is claiming that ABC and ...
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Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » NBC, ABC Try And Scare The ...
By ZIP
On Monday, both NBC's Nightly News and ABC's World News hyped a finding by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that, in the panicked words of NBC environmental correspondent Anne Thompson, ”Extreme ...
Weasel Zippers
ABC, CNN Take Home SPJ Awards - TVNewser
By Chris Ariens
ABC's “World News with Diane Sawyer” wins the Breaking News award forABC's coverage of the Japan earthquake and tsunami. ABC's Brian Ross wins the Investigative Reporting award for his “Peace Corps: A trust betrayed.” Also...
TVNewser
Senators Keep Pushing to Arm Syrian Rebels - World News - ABC ...
By Jeanette Torres
Alessio Romenzi/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Two U.S. senators said Tuesday that the time has come to get tough with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who ignored a ceasefire plan in order to continue his onslaught against...
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Iran Claims Arrests of Israeli 'Terrorists' - World News - ABC News ...
By Carmen Cox
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The Iranian government claimed Tuesday that it had arrested members of an Israeli-backed "terror" network plotting assassinations and sabotage inside the country. Iran's intelligence ministry announced ...
World News - ABC News Radio
Instagram Users Alarmed by Facebook Purchase ... - ABC News Radio
By Wadzanai Mhute
Business and Economic News and Headlines From ABC News Radio. ...Moorhead might be young, but she wasn't the only one typing her disapproval and sharing it with the world. After the initial announcement on Monday of Facebook's ...
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Alzheimer's Disease: Dutch Village Doubles as ... - ABC News Radio
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ABC News Radio · Home. News. National · World · Business · Politics · Entertainment · Health · Sports · Music · Local · Live. Podcasts. World NewsPodcast · Nightline Podcast · This Week Podcast · Perspective Podcast. About. Management ...
Health News - ABC News Radio
Two-thirds in skewed WaPo/ABC poll want ObamaCare overturned ...
By Ed Morrissey
Last month's hearings on the constitutionality of health care reform didn't help its popularity: Public support for Barack Obama's signature domestic legislation has hit a new low in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, with criticism of the ...
Hot Air » Top Picks
Diane Sawyer And Matthew Modine To Be Honored By Healthcorps
... Emmy Award-winning host of the Emmy Award-winning “The Dr. Oz Show,” and his wife Lisa Oz, will co-host the Gala that celebrates the work of Sawyer,ABC “World News Tonight” Anchor and child advocate, and Modine, actor, producer, ...
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FDA Refuses to Ban BPA | Video - ABC News
ABC News Now. Playlist: World News: 4/06/12 · World News: 4/5/12 · WorldNews: 4/04/12 · World News: 4/3/12 · World News: 4/2/12 · Person of the Week ...
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Hulu - ABC World News with Diane Sawyer: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 ...
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Groovy Green Livin on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer ...
It started off as a normal work day: writing, tweeting, responding to emails and catching up after a few days out of town. I was also prepping for my guest ...
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My Appearance on ABC World News and the BPA Decision | Groovy ...
For those of you who missed the national news on Saturday night, as I did, here is the clip from ...
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ABC hints at B-word in 2 new shows about women
ABC also insists the B in the new prime-time soap "GCB" — based on the book ... insult in a world of very feasible and accessible gender-neutral ways of...
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ABC hints at B-word in 2 new shows about women
In this undated image released by ABC, from left, Miriam Shor, ... gendered insult in a world of very feasible and accessible gender-neutral ways of saying...
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ABC News Honored by Society of Professional Journalists with Three Awards
World News with Diane Sawyer” Wins “Breaking News” Award for “Disaster in the Pacific” ABC News Investigative Team Led by Brian Ross Recognized with...
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Could the Appetite For Chocolate Exceed the World's Supply? | ABC ...
From the blog Could the Appetite For Chocolate Exceed the World's Supply?:ABC News Blogs.
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ABC World News with Diane Sawyer - Texas Tornado Tosses ...
Deadly tornadoes snap power lines, force schools into lockdown mode. Add this to your queue Added: Wed Apr 04 03:09:15 UTC 2012 Air date: Tue Apr 03...
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ABC World News | Fellowship of the Minds
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Apr 11, 2012

What Counts as Legitimate Scientific Research on Prayer?
Huffington Post (blog)
These questions can roughly be grouped into six categories: scientificmethods, evidence, alternative explanations, other studies showing null results, theology and presuppositions. My book, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing, is the outcome of my ...
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Thomson Reuters Names Hottest Scientific Researchers and Papers of the Year
Reuters
Following were among some of the key findings in the annual HottestResearch report: Genetics is Hottest Field of Study: Genetics was the primary field of study among seven of the 15 Hottest Researchers of 2011, including a landmark paper, ...
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Trust pushes for open access to research
BBC News
By Matt McGrath Science reporter, BBC World Service One of the world's largest research charities, the Wellcome Trust, is to support efforts by scientists to make their work freely available for all. The Trust is to establish a free, online publication ...
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BBC News
Open access to science research debated
Space Daily
by Staff Writers One of the world's largest research charities, Britain's Wellcome Trust, says it will support efforts by scientists to make their work freely available for all. Officials at the trust said it would establish a free, onlineresearch ...
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Autism research may be about to bear fruit
LubbockOnline.com
Some in the field say they are seeing the beginning of a wave of scientificreports that should strengthen some theories, jettison others and perhaps even herald new drugs. "I do think over the next three to five years we'll be able to paint a much ...
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Government backs calls for research data to be made freely available
The Guardian
The government has welcomed calls from academics and one of the world's biggest research charities for results of public and charity-funded scientific research to be made available as widely as possible in the public domain.
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The Guardian
Fusion energy progress by Livermore scientists
San Francisco Chronicle
Last month a committee of experts preparing a report on the future of fusionresearch for the National Academy of Sciences expressed continued doubts. "The scientific and technological progress in inertial confinement fusion has been substantial during ...
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Robot Study of 'Cocktail Party Problem' Hints at Human Hearing Glitch
Wired News
A group of hearing scientists at NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Kanagawa, Japan, conducted the study. The researchers didn't head out to their local bar to investigate the cocktail party problem. Instead, they opted for a far more antisocial ...
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Study: Dental X-rays, brain tumors may be linked
WXIA-TV
NEW YORK / ATLANTA -- Dental X-rays could double the risk for the most common brain tumor, according to a study by scientistsand doctors at Yale, Harvard and other prestigious institutions that was published Tuesday in Cancer, a scientific journal of ...
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WXIA-TV
Bird Flu Studies Mired In Export Control Law Limbo
KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest
By NPR People: Nell Greenfieldboyce Scientists who created mutant forms of bird flu want to see their research published, and an influential advisory committee recently gave them the green light after a debate that lasted for months.
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Sun's 'Birthday Candle'-Like Gas Plumes Surprise Scientists
Space.com
Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, discovered the odd, newly identified features — which they call coronal cells — by studying the sun's ultraviolet emissions at temperatures around 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit ...
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Scientists Worldwide Step up to Define Skolkovo Tech Research Centers
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
MOSCOW--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--In its first of three rounds of requests for Research Center proposals, which ended March 13, 2012, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skolkovo Tech) in Skolkovo, Russia tallied 129 submissions from ...
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Mating Has Long-Term Benefits: Courtship Can Take Effort, but Now Scientists ...
Science Daily (press release)
The study, published in Genome Biology and Evolution, was supported by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council. "Throughout the animal kingdom, individuals have to go to a lot of effort ...
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Autism Science is moving 'stunningly fast'
WGRZ-TV
Autism brain science "has moved stunningly fast," says Kevin Pelphrey, an associate professor of child psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine's Child Study Center. "We've fundamentally moved around a corner where we will move much faster now.
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WGRZ-TV
Mars, Incorporated Answers Question: 'How Does Feeding People and Pets Nurture ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Scientific research shows that interacting with pets helps people enjoy happier and healthier lives, and strengthens the communities in which we live. Interactions between people and animals can have positive effects on the physical and psychological ...
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Changes in Monkeys' Social Status Affect Their Genes
Science Daily (press release)
... how her genes turn on and off, and those who rank higher tend to be healthier -- so long as their social status doesn't decline, according to a studyof rhesus macaques published in the April 9 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Ezose Sciences and SIGMA-TAU Advance Projects in Glycomics
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
PINE BROOK, NJ--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Ezose Sciences Inc. announced today a further agreement whereby Ezose's glycomics capabilities will be applied to biologics research and development projects at SIGMA-TAU Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite SpA ...
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Wellcome Trust backs campaign to open up scientific research
Channel 4 News
Scientific and medical research is to become more freely available to the public after a leading science funder threw its weight behind a campaign to promote open access to research. The Wellcome Trust is changing its policies to promote open access to ...
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Channel 4 News
Kaushik Basu to head Infosys' science prize jury
TwoCircles.net
Cornell University economics and international studies professor C. Marks will also be on the jury for the Social Sciences Prize in place of Harvard University philosophy professor Thomas W. Lamont, the foundation said in a statement Tuesday.
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Researchers find identical DNA codes in different plant species
R & D Magazine
Previous studies found long strings of identical code in different species of animals' DNA. But before this new MU research, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, computer programs had never been powerful enough to ...
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Titanic tragedy led to scientific understanding of deep ocean mysteries
Winnipeg Free Press
But as his submersible settled on the fore deck, he viewed the ship as ascientific treasure trove that could help explain mysteries of a part of the ocean so far down it had rarely been studied. "Titanic is a perfect time marker.
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A New Journal (With Bonus Elsevier-Bashing)
Corante
Take this news from the Wellcome Trust, one of the largest funding agencies in the world for medical research: Sir Mark Walport, the director of Wellcome Trust, said that his organisation is in the final stages of launching a high calibrescientific ...
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Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. Closes US$20M Financing from Capital Royalty L.P.
MarketWatch (press release)
BELLEVILLE, ON, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Bioniche LifeSciences Inc. (TOR:CA:BNC) (asx:BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has closed a US$20 million financing from ...
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A Wellcome move
Financial Times
Campaigners have long been agitating for more academic research to be made freely available. It is an idea supported both by those who fund scientific research and those who conduct it. This self-styled “academic spring” has now received a powerful ...
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Oyster Creek to be Included in Pilot Cancer Study
Patch.com
If the NRC chooses to move forward, the research council would conduct a pilot study with six nuclear power plants, including Oyster Creek, and one fuel cycle facility. “One of the recommendations from the National Academy ofSciences (NAS) in the ...
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War Crimes: Suppressing Scientific Study of Cannabis is a Shocking ...
By admin
There has been a virtual ban on scientific research on marijuana since the La Guardia Committee report came out in 1944. In this scientific study, commissioned by New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1939 to study the effects of marijuana, ...
The Beckley Foundation
What Counts as Legitimate Scientific Research ... - The Huffington Post
By Candy Gunther Brown, Ph.D.
These questions can roughly be grouped into six categories: scientificmethods, evidence, alternative explanations, other studies showing null results, theology and presuppositions. My book, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing, is the ...
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Study Questions Natural Gas's Environmental Benefits - Junk Science
By Editor
The study, co-written by scientists at several universities and the environmental group Environmental Defense Fund, wades into an increasingly murky area of energy research. In it, scientists said the production of natural gas results in ...
JunkScience.com
Guest Blog: I am STEM – the festival edition « UW SACNAS Student ...
By Amanda Bruner
Youth at the festival matching chapter member pictures to a description of theirresearch. “Hello. We are students who study science at the University of Washington and we're all part of a society called SACNAS. These are pictures of scientists ...
UW SACNAS Student Chapter Blog
Five "Science Reports" We're Tired Of Seeing | Gamma Squad
By Dan Seitz
Here's the problem with major news outlets covering science: they have to pick the stories that grab the attention of people essentially disinterested in science, and they often have non-scientists trying to explain to other non-scientists what that science actually means and its practical application. And to be fair, ... The entire problem, of course, is that these are rarely “studies” in any accepted sense, and when the studies are real, the research is often sensationalized or overgeneralized.
Gamma Squad
Kaushik Basu to head Infosys' science prize jury | TwoCircles.net
By admin4
Cornell University economics and international studies professor C. Marks will also be on the jury for the Social Sciences Prize in place of Harvard University philosophy professor Thomas W. Lamont, the foundation said in a statement Tuesday. " A Prize, once it ... Noting that the Infosys Prize had been able to drive attention to scientific research in the country, Basu said the role would give him an opportunity to assist the foundation and nurture new ideas and insights in social sciences.
TwoCircles.net
Faith-science tie called most neglected aspect of education | St ...
By josephkenny
Their stated aim is to explore "the possibility of being believers at the dawn of the Third Millennium without renouncing scientific progress." Together they have initiated study programs and research projects as well as highlighting their work ...
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* The Trouble with Psychology
It can never be more than a scientific study of an unscientific field. Therefore Requirement 2, "Research in the field must address the field's theories," must be part of the definition of a scientific field. Requirement 3: "If the field has practical ...
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Interview with Paula Stephan — Economics, Science, and Doing ...
By Kent Anderson
This interview with economist Paula Stephan of Georgia State University and the National Bureau of Economic Research accompanies my review of her new book entitled, “How Economics Shapes Science. ... There are other positives — one relates to the fact that it is virtually impossible to reward people in science for effort since it's virtually impossible to monitor scientists. ... Q: Journals are sometimes criticized because there's a propensity to publish so-called “positive” studies.
The Scholarly Kitchen
Long-term research reveals causes, consequences of ...
By SU News Services
As global temperatures rise, the most threatened ecosystems are those that depend on a season of snow and ice, scientists from the nation's Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network say.“The vulnerability of cool, wet areas to climate change is striking,” says Julia Jones, a lead author in a special issue of the journal BioScience released April 9 featuring results from more than 30 years of LTER, a program of the National Science Foundation (NSF). BioScience's retrospective ...
Inside SU
Chemists and Materials Scientists : Occupational Outlook Handbook ...
Chemists and materials scientists study the structures, compositions, reactions, and other ... An increasing number of scientific research projects involve multiple ...
www.bls.gov/ooh/Life.../Chemists-and-materials-scientists.htm
Scientific Journals Plan To Publish Contentious Bird Flu Research ...
Revised versions of manuscripts that describe two recent studies can be openly ... The decision could help end a debate that has raged within thescientific ...
www.npr.org/.../scientific-journals-plan-to-publish-contentious...
Scientists predict payoff from $1 billion worth of autism research; new drugs seen as possible
... of a wave of scientific reports that should strengthen some theories, ... who is leading a closely watched study into what sparks autism disorders.
www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQASht95S_story.html
Bees' Decline Linked to Pesticides, Studies Find - NYTimes.com
Get Science News From The New York Times » ... The other study, byscientists in Britain, suggests that they keep bumblebees from supplying ... “I personally would like to see them not being used until more research has been done,” said ...
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Proteome Sciences Completes 1000-Patient Validation Study of ...
Researchers from Proteome Sciences, the UK's National Institute for HealthResearch, and Millipore have completed a 1000-sample validation study of ...
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Cognitive Scientists Scramble To Study StarCraft - Tested
Why does it have to be the next bastion for scientific study? ... StarCraft doesn't mean the game automatically has profound implications on cognitiveresearch.
www.tested.com/.../43826-cognitive-scientists-scramble-to-stu...
Biosecurity Board Recommends Publication of ... - Scientific American
Scientific American Premium Cover ... Scientific American Magazine ...Decision comes one day after release of new guidelines for dual-useresearch. ... the board said that experimental details of the two studies should be redacted from any ...
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-biosecurity...
Sloppy Science. In the Pipeline:
Across the life sciences, handling corrections that have arisen from avoidable... before pursuing a particular line of research, scientists. . .in the haematology and ... In studies for which findings could be reproduced, authors had paid close ...
pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/03/.../sloppy_science.php
Research efficiency: Turn the scientific method on ourselves : Nature ...
By relentlessly testing them using randomized controlled trials, says Pierre Azoulay. ... Research efficiency: Turn the scientific method on ourselves ...
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/.../484031a.html
Vacancy No. 2012/035 - Research Scientist (P-3)
Promote, coordinate and evaluate coordinated research projects (CRPs) and conduct related complex studies. Provide scientific and technical support to...
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