SPACE, Astronomy News, Apr 30, 2011

Galaxy Geeks: Amp up Your Astronomy Cred
Consumer Electronics Net
Free software downloads from Google and Microsoft go beyond traditional desktop astronomyapplications. The downloads weave images together from ground- and space-based telescopes and allow you, in some cases, to package your own virtual space ...
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Why Simon's taking space to our schools
Express & Echo
While schools can't take pupils on field trips into space to teach them about astronomy, they can do the next best thing. Simon Ould visits schools, as well as community groups such as the Brownies, with his mobile planetarium, a Tardis-like dome that ...
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Yorktown pairs lessons in astronomy, art
Muncie Star Press
YORKTOWN -- Looking for more chances for students to do art, several teachers at Yorktown Community Schools found it in outer space. "It kills me that we only have art one time per month," Yorktown Elementary School teacher Amy Burgauer said of her ...
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Students get look at shuttle program
Times Daily
Mel Blake, the director of the planetarium and observatory on campus and an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, likes the word “epic” to describe the tile that's no larger than a paperback book and much less weighty. ...
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San Francisco space enthusiast invited to watch shuttle launch
San Francisco Examiner
Growing up, on rainy days, I'd sit on the floor and read his National Geographics, which usually had articles about space exploration and astronomy. What was the feeling of being chosen to watch the launch? I was shocked! I didn't think I'd get picked. ...
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San Francisco Examiner
Astronaut Yi to attend 'Hubble 3D' preview
Korea Times
Local aeronautics experts including the country's first astronaut Yi So-yeon, will attend a special preview of a 3D space movie in Seoul, Friday. The special screening at Wangsimni CGV's IMAX Theater has also invited university astronomy student ...
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Katikati space mission to Alabama
SunLive
Toby says she has, “a huge interest in the field of science and believes that the study of astronomyand space are very important to humanity”. The girls are joining about 150 other like-minded students from 23 different countries at the camp. ...
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Scientists hope to illuminate universe's dark side
Montreal Gazette
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, could reshape modern understandings of the universe, much the same way that the Hubble Space Telescope pioneered new frontiers in astronomy, including the startling discovery that the universe's rate of ...
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Shrinking funds pull plug on alien search devices
BusinessWeek
Astronomers at the SETI Institute said a steep drop in state and federal funds has forced the shutdown of the Allen Telescope Array, a powerful tool in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, an effort scientists refer to as SETI. ...
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FOR KIDS: The dark side of the universe
Science News
And when that understanding emerges, Gates says, “it's going to completely revolutionize the way we think about space, time and matter.” cosmology The study of the creation, structure and actions of the universe and its constituent parts. astronomy The ...
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Club holds Astronomy Day display
Journal Pioneer
Last year had been a successful year for them after they brought in an astrobiologist from the Canadian Space Agency to speak at the Harbourfront Theatre, said Affleck. "It'll be a general display and people that are amateur astronomers, ...
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Journal Pioneer
China Unveils Plans To Build Space Station By 2020
Huffington Post
As Popular Science reports, the space station will support a crew of three and will be composed of a core module and two laboratories where astronomy, microgravity, and biological experiments will be conducted, while a cargo spaceship will be built to ...
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SETI to mothball alien-seeking telescopes
TG Daily
The array, at the at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO), is managed and operated by UC Berkeley's radio astronomy lab. But NSF funding for HCRO operations has been cut to just one-tenth of its former level, and California budget shortfalls have...
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TG Daily
PolitiCal Roundup: Caffeinated beer; space aliens vs. the budget
Los Angeles Times
It wasn't long ago that such sewage-to-tap schemes were considered fringe. Now they're just another revenue source. -- Another victim of budget cuts: Researchers at the Hat Creek Rank AstronomyLaboratory near Redding are suspending their search for ...
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Up the tower and just mad about science
Portsmouth News
Mr Priory was happy to play up to the 'mad scientist' image in promoting a programme celebrating Portsmouth's role as a centre of excellence for cosmology, astronomy andspace technology. He said: 'There are plenty of examples on television and all ...
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Portsmouth News
Media Advisory/Photo Op - Special Live Programming for Space Shuttle Endeavour...
Canada NewsWire (press release)
Sara Poirier, Researcher/Programmer in Astronomy and Space sciences, will highlight the significance of the launch and the contributions Canadians have made to the shuttle program. She will also discuss and demonstrate the inner workings of shuttle and ...
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Lockheed Martin Opens Its Doors to Young Minds at Work
PR Newswire (press release)
... principles of astronomy while gazing at the night sky in a portable planetarium. – Huntsville, Ala. Using water balloons to study flight trajectories, and visiting the local airport for a primer on aviation. – Courtland, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space ...
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African Astronomical Society debuts in Cape Town
physicsworld.com
Oluseyi is at the Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology and has worked in Africa to promote astronomy. According to its constitution, the main vision of the society is "To be the voice of the astronomy profession in ...
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NASA Announces Maryland Winner of OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Video Contest
PR Newswire (press release)
... of technology -- even from as far afield as astronomy -- to make it possible. Dahlia has captured it all," said Zaven Arzoumanian of the Astrophysics Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "Her video truly connects the dots! ...
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Tour the solar system from the desert floor
East Valley Tribune
It's not exactly a seat aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, but you can take a guided tour of the sky — albeit from the desert floor — in Mesa. Tony and Carole La Conte, the husband-and-wifeastronomy educators behind Stargazing for Everyone, ...
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Joan As Policewoman and As Many Other Things.
Dallas Observer
... two albums leaned more heavily on piano ballads and dealt with the loss of first Buckley and then her mother, the songs on The Deep Field are more funked-up and sonically adventurous, reflecting the album title's reference to deep space astronomy. ...
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Oakley marks 10-year anniversary of Science Week
Inside Bay Area
The first 60 people who register will get to learn about astronomy for free. "I'm proud that we continue to offer all of the Oakley Science Week programs for free," Coelho said. For those brave enough, the Reptile Kingdom is sure to be a popular event ...
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July Release Schedule
New York Times
ANOTHER EARTH The discovery of a parallel Earth behind the Sun holds out the possibility of redemption for a guilt-ridden young astronomy student (Brit Marling). Mike Cahill directed; with William Mapother. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER Rejected ...
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Think on these things Dear President Sarkozy
Ceylon Daily News
There is much the Arabs and Muslims of other regions have done for Europe in the disciplines of Mathematics, Medicine, Astronomy, etc. but it will take too much ofspace. But let me state one object that you politicians cannot do without. ...
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Ceylon Daily News
Coming Up
The Suffolk Times
Suggested Donation $5 non-members; free for Custer, ASLI and other astronomy club members. 765-2626. Peconic Landing's May Mile & 5K, Saturday, May 7, begins 8:30 am with registration and stretching. Race/walk around campus begins 10 am followed by ...
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On This Day In Weather History April 28
Irish Weather Online
Shoemaker was one of the founders of the study of planetary science as a separate discipline from astronomy 1931 – USA: The temperature at Pahala, located on the main island of Hawaii, soared to 100F to establish a state record. ...
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Irish Weather Online
The Address Book by Tim Radford
Oxford Times
Looking out from his study, he reminds us that ultimately: “We are lost in space: we none of us know where we are.” This is not entirely a science book, although the author has won the Association of British Science Writers award for science writer of ...
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ENDERS
San Francisco Chronicle
SF Celebrating the Americas and major contributions in spirituality, astronomy, science and prophecy, with live music of the ancient Americas by Xochimochi, featuring Jim Berenholtz, Ernesto Hernandez Olmos and Mazatl Galindo as well as the closing ...
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Calendars
TriCities.com
HANDS ON MUSEUM: Johnson City, Tenn., 315 E. Main St., various May activities: Mother's Day and Teachers Cards; Las Flores; Children Just Like Me; Candy Core Samples celebrate AstronomyWeek; Blast Off Workshop; May 6, Free First Friday: Science in the ...
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Program in full bloom
Mississauga
They take place May 18 from 7-8:30 pm and June 12 from 10-11:30 am • Astronomy Series – an evening of star gazing on the lawn in front of Chappell House presented by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Mississauga Centre chapter. ...
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Astronomy Space Enthusiast.com
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Astronauts Share Experience with NASA Glenn Employees and Media ...
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Astronomers Find Densest Planet In The Universe (So Far)
International Business Times
MOST is a mission from the Canadian Space Agency, an orbiting telescope that measures tiny changes in a star's light. That allows it to see planets and measure stellar variability. At about 41 light years from Earth, 55 Cancri is much closer than the...
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International Business Times
Asteroids collide at 11000 miles per hour; scientists study debris
UC Los Angeles
11, 2010, astronomers noticed that an asteroid known as (596) Scheila had unexpectedly brightened and was sporting short-lived dust plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and HubbleSpace Telescope showed that these changes likely occurred after ...
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Space shuttle launch delayed until Monday at the earliest
Los Angeles Times
"I'm really disappointed," said his son, who wants to be an astronaut and already has aspace exploration badge and an astronomy badge from the Boy Scouts. It was the second time the two had bought plane tickets to see Endeavour launch. ...
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Los Angeles Times
Odisha CM flags off the exposure visit of YATS talents to ISRO
Orissadiary.com
With a view to popularize the excellent contributions of the legendary Pathani Samanta in the field of astronomy and to spot and encourage the young talents in the field ofastronomy and space science among the school going children, Tata Steel, ...
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US telescope array seeking alien life shut by cutbacks
Reuters
Astronomers there were anticipating a slew of possible new research targets from the dozens of potentially life-supporting planets newly detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope orbiting distant stars in the Milky Way galaxy. "It's a frustrating thing ...
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Portable planetarium could lead to permanent one in Austin
KVUE
Astronomy experts say all the city lights, or light pollution as it is called, has limited what we can see in the night sky. "A planetarium is not quite like being out at Big Bend under a starry sky, but it is a pretty good substitute," said Heath. ...
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A Nomad outdoor screening
Financial Times
Tenerife Nobel prize-winners, astronauts, astrophysicists – and a rock guitarist – will gather in the Canaries in June for a festival devoted to astronomy and space travel. The Starmus festival, marking the 50th anniversary this year of Yuri Gagarin's ...
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Financial Times
Around Your Town: 04/30/11
Sierra Vista Herald
The Patterson Observatory on the University of Arizona South campus will be celebrating AstronomyDay from 3 to 9 pm on May 7. View the Moon, Saturn, stars and distant galaxies and take a chance at winning a Celestron telescope by purchasing a $1 ...
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UBC Astronomers Help Unveil Densest Known Planet
UBC Faculty of Science
“You could set dates on this world by your wrist watch, not a calendar,” says UBC astronomerJaymie Matthews. NB: A "roadmap" to 55 Cancri and an image of the MOST space telescope are available here. The temperature on the planet's surface could be as ...
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'Exotic' planet is densest of its kind
CBC.ca
That paper was done by Rebekah Dawson, an astronomy PhD student at Harvard University, and Daniel Fabrycky, a Hubble Fellow at the University of California Santa Cruz. Dawson and Fabrycky's own analysis suggested the planet could be far more unusual ...
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Voyager set to enter interstellar space - Astronomy Magazine
Astronomy.com is for anyone who wants to learn more about astronomy events, cosmology, planets, galaxies, asteroids, astrophotography, the Big Bang, ...
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NASA Delays Last Launch of Shuttle Endeavour Due to Malfunction ...
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Florida Braces for Huge Crowds for Friday's Space Shuttle Launch ...
News: Space/Astronomy. SPACE.com - The Florida space coast is expecting near- record crowds to flock to Cape Canaveral to watch the space shuttle Endeavour ...
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Set to Launch Tomorrow - Space & Astronomy ...
Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to lift off for the final time tomorrow. Assuming that you are not one of the ... Free Space / Astronomy Newsletter! ...
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Astronomy Radar News: The very last launch of the Endeavour Space ...
Tomorrow April 29 of 2011 will be the last launch ever of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Mission STS-134. The event will be broadcasted LIVE by NASA here: ...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day. Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day. AstroSpaceNow -Astronomy & space exploration news as they happen | Developed by Devexel ...
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Apr 30, 2011

"Smart" meters safe research says, but many see need for more study
Inside Bay Area
"Cumulative or prolonged exposure to lower levels of radio frequency are not well understood," the California Council on Science and Technology report said. "Additional research and monitoring is needed" to understand how tiny but regular exposure to ...
See all stories on this topic »Honda Debuts ASIMO Humanoid Robot at FIRST Championship
TMC Net
... to consider studies in math and science. “Honda and FIRST share many of the same values, including inspiring students to pursue opportunities in science, technology and engineering,” said Erik Wedin, North American project leader at ASIMO, ...
See all stories on this topic »Coming Attractions: New Cosmetic Technologies
SkinInc.com
For example, the The Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University in Houston is a noted research center that studies this type of technology. The mass of molecules is measured in daltons, a unit that equates to ...
See all stories on this topic »THERE IS A CRISIS IN BOTH 'BLUE' AND 'GREEN' WATER - SHINJIRO KANAE, by ...
MaximsNewsNetwork
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 29 April 2011 -- In another interview with a Japanese scientist, we delve more into the Japan Science & Technology Agency CREST programme which is accelerating research into innovative water technologies. ...
See all stories on this topic »Sustaining vulnerable lives
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
“The already established collaboration on risk and safety research across the faculty of social sciences and the faculty of science and technology was also an important prerequisite. With our experience with safety research within the petroleum ...
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Rosser honored as influential woman in business
SF State Campus Headlines
She has pioneered opportunities for women and underrepresented minority groups inscience and engineering, and has been an advocate for interdisciplinary approaches to scholarly research. She is a member of the board of directors of the American ...
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SF State Campus Headlines
Mostashari's Health IT Vision
Healthcare Technology Online (press release)
In this Q&A, Healthcare Technology Online gets the newly appointed National Coordinator of Health IT's take on EHR effectiveness, troubling EHR research, and ensuring patient privacy in an electronic world. Within days of his appointment as the new ...
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Azerbaijan to take part in an international seminar on sciencedevelopment ...
Azerbaijan Business Center
Rasim Aliguliyev, director of the Institute of Information Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (AMEA), says that the seminar is expected to discuss prospects of science development of through the Internet and information ...
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Azerbaijan Business Center
Washington People: Eric Leuthardt
Washington University Record
In 2006, Leuthardt established and became director of the Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology. “To make a great impact, medical research needs to be about not just science and medicine but also law and industry and the FDA and all...
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Washington University Record
Benefit of PET in patients with head and neck tumors cannot be assessed
ScienceBlog.com (blog)
However, as the authors of the report explain, suitable studies for this purpose are lacking. Various types of cancer are summarized under the term “head and neck tumours”. Among others, these are malignant tumours of the oral cavity (lips, tongue etc. ...
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Kawambwa decries technological illiteracy
IPPmedia
He made the remarks in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday at the official opening of the 6th exhibition on Higher Education, Science and Technology. “Our country need not be among poor countries if our people can be rightly involved in research processes, ...
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IPPmedia
Carnegie Mellon Student Work Showcased at Undergraduate ResearchSymposium, May 4
TMC Net
Faculty members mentor and advise the students throughout their research experience. Projects focus on a variety of topics, including the following: Improving safety through technology * Computerscience major Dev Doshi and mechanical engineering major ...
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Texas A&M Math Prof Pisier Named To Indian National ScienceAcademy
Texas A&M University
... A&M Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award inResearch (1993) and the Salem Prize (1979). The INSA, which is headquartered in New Delhi, represents and promotes all branches of science and technology for its use in India. ...
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Texas A&M University
World Class Sales Research Offers Competitor Analysis
Benzinga
The studies have collected data from over 80000 business decision makers on over 7300 sales forces to gain a better understanding of what it takes to become a World Class Sales organization as requirements and demands change. The research is uniquely ...
See all stories on this topic »Pediatric Diabetes Clinical Trial Uses Psoriasis Drug
Woodruff Health Sciences Center
“I have been caring for children with Type 1 diabetes for almost 15 years and these studies are finally providing hope of finding a cure,” says Felner. The T1DAL trial is seeking 66 eligible participants at approximately 15 clinical research centers ...
See all stories on this topic »MorphoSys Reaches Second Clinical Milestone with OncoMed Pharmaceuticals
Reuters (press release)
MorphoSys is an independent biotechnology company that develops novel antibodies for therapeutic, diagnostic and research applications. The Company's HuCAL technology is one of the most powerful methods available for generating fully human antibodies. ...
See all stories on this topic »Researchers weight value of short-term missions
Dallas Baptist Standard
Horton and the four undergraduate student researchers presented their findings recently at the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies. Research was funded through Baylor's UndergraduateResearch and Scholarly Achievement program.
See all stories on this topic »U.Va. and Partner Schools Help Prepare Future Minority Scientists and Engineers
University of Virginia
April 28, 2011 — The University of Virginia recently hosted minority undergraduates from several colleges and universities in Virginia and North Carolina in a symposium that showcased the students'research projects in science, technology, ...
See all stories on this topic »Fat Grafting For Faces
KMGH Denver
The research team would ultimately like to know if adult stem cells, which are present in fat tissue, will prevent grafted fat from being reabsorbed by the body. Dr. Rubin's team has separated stem cells from other fat tissue in lab studies. ...
See all stories on this topic »UofL professor pushes for storm prevention to save lives
WAVE
David Simpson is director of the university's Center for Hazard Research. Simpson has been involved in several major studies involving natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina. He says with all thetechnology available, the loss of life in the ...
See all stories on this topic »Video Roulette Perceived as Riskier Than Real
Wired News (blog)
Previous research demonstrated that cooperation between people using audio and videotechnologies was comparable to face-to-face situations, though it took longer to achieve remotely than in person. Other studies have shown that the less “rich” a ...
See all stories on this topic »USC in the News 4/29/2011
USC News
Ross was recently visiting professor at Sydney University's US Studies Center, the story noted. The Orange County Register featured the upcoming 2011 Business Growth Conference, hosted by the USC Marshall School and the Harvard Business School ...
See all stories on this topic »Radiologists Need to Engage in Health Services Research
Medscape
"But the reason for radiologists to become involved with [health services research] is because we are often the ones who best understand the complexities of both the technologies in question and the diseases to which those technologies are applied. ...
See all stories on this topic »Humphrey Fellows study higher ed to help their countries' universities
Penn State Live
For instance, he said he'd like to see Ecuadorian graduate students engaging in more researchwork, with help from government and corporation funding. Educational funding is a problem in Ecuador, he said, because recently the government passed a law ...
See all stories on this topic »ISU grad student headed south to study tornado outbreak
Radio Iowa
“We have so much better technology. The warnings that were issued were as perfect as they could be,” Gallus says. “They were being issued as tornado emergencies lots of times in addition to just tornado warnings. The forecasters and broadcasters were ...
See all stories on this topic »Star Scientific Has Home Run Potential
Seeking Alpha
Today the study of inflammation is ascendant in medical research. Thousands of articles now reference this “first” response of the immune system, and the multitude of pathologies and human woes it can cause. Interrupting the negative cascade of the ...
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LIBYA, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen news, Apr 30, 2011

US Intervention in Syria
Bay Area Indymedia
The strategy is currently playing out violently in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain,
Libya and Syria, and may erupt anywhere in the region to solidify
Washington's aim for unchallengeable dominance from Morocco to Oman to
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Who will reshape the Arab world: its people, or the US?
The Guardian
On 11 February the national uprising in Egypt toppled the dictatorship of
Hosni Mubarak as mass rebellion erupted in Libya and the Yemen. In occupied
Iraq, demonstrators protested against the corruption of the Maliki regime
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'Blood … Baath' in Syria
Arab Times
“The state of Qatar is funding chaos in Yemen and in Egypt and Syria and
throughout the Arab world, “ he charged. “We reserve the right not to
sign if the representatives of Qatar are present” at the ceremony, Saleh
warned. The foreign ministers of the ...
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Al jazeera: One Organization, Two Messages
Morocco Board News Service
Aljazeera Arabic online tends to overreport events in Libya and Yemen,
countries unfriendly to Qatar, possibly as a means of burying more
politically sensitive news stories such as the Bahrain protests.
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US can't control all in Middle East
Sun-Sentinel
Wisely, America has refrained from interfering in Yemen, and allowed the
Saudis to restrain Bahrain's Shiites. We'd like to stay out of the Middle
East melee altogether — but events gallop on. Somehow we're in Libya,
bombing Moammar Gadhafi, ...
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Could uprisings spread from northern Africa to south of the Sahara?
The Guardian
Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain,
Syria and Yemen are important reminders that surface calm should not be
mistaken for social cohesion and that economic growth – by itself – is
often not enough and can even ...
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DISCOVERIES, Inventions News, Apr 30, 2011

Cape cave yields early abstract art treasures
Independent Online
In Europe, no equivalent discoveries have been made for sites dated older than 33 000 BCE. According to Professor John Parkington from UCT: “It is hard to find regularly marked objects any earlier in the archaeological record anywhere in the world. ...
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Independent Online
US, Europe Debate Embryonic Stem Cell Patents and Research
IPWatchdog.com
Further complicating the legal challenge to the patent eligibility of stem cells is the fact that in Europe patents cannot be obtained on inventions that are “contrary to 'ordre public' or morality…” But is it really moral not to perform research that ...
See all stories on this topic »Africans and poor reading culture
Nigeria Daily Independent
On inventions and discoveries, Africans are credited for phonetic writing, paper and ink. World history will be distorted and incomplete, if great names of Africans like Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Phillip Emegwali, ...
See all stories on this topic »Dado Banatao keynotes SIPA 39th Anniversary Benefit Dinner
Asianjournal.com
Now, he seeks to add to his inventions and innovations, by inspiring Filipino-Americans to give more. “ If you have the capacity to give more, there is a need to give back to our country, the Philippines, where there remains a large gap between the ...
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Arthur Lewin; The African Origins Of Math And Science…
ThyBlackMan
... Africans could not legally lay claim to their many inventions, like the cotton gin, which is falsely attributed to Eli Whitney. In the years afterwards, however, numerous African Americans have had their discoveries openly recorded and acknowledged ...
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ThyBlackMan
Top News from the European Commission 29 April â€" 2 June 2011
TMC Net
Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets such as literary, musical and artistic works (copyright); discoveries and inventions (patents) as well as words, phrases, symbols and designs ...
See all stories on this topic »Endeavour launch delayed at least 72 hours
NBC2 News
"So many inventions and discoveries have come from the NASA space program," said Green. "I just had a 20 minute conversation with an astronaut. I'm geeking out," said Burton. Wayne Brendum drove from St. Petersburg – and intends to return Monday. ...
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LAKIS SANTAS, Greek Hero, Dies, Apr 30, 2011

1 of 2 Greek youths who took down Nazi flag from Acropolis dies at 89
The Canadian Press
Apostolos "Lakis" Santas' family said Saturday the 89-year-old had died of respiratory failure. Santas was a 19-year-old law student when he and his close friend Manolis Glezos, also 19, climbed the steep Acropolis hill in the centre of Athens on the ...
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1 of 2 Greek youths who took down Nazi flag from Acropolis dies at 89
Apostolos "Lakis" Santas' family said Saturday the 89-year-old had died of respiratory failure. Santas was a 19-year-old law student when he and his close ...
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Resistance hero Apostolos Santas dies at 89
Apostolos, or 'Lakis', Santas will forever be remembered for his heroic act at the ... Apostolos Santas, one of the two men that famously pulled down the ...
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Lakis Santas, 89, WWII resistance figure, dies - Europe news
Apostolos "Lakis" Santas' family said Saturday the 89-year-old had died of respiratory failure. Santas was a 19-year-old law student when he and his close ...
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IMF News, Apr 30, 2011

Public Information Notice: IMF Executive Board Concludes ...

International Monetary Fund

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Jul 27, 2011 — Public Information Notice: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2011 Article IV Consultation with France ; Fund position (as of April 30, 2011).

Embrace user empowerment or fail

Gerd Leonhard, the well-known media futurist and CEO of The Futures Agency, took the time to talk to CI just before heading to Hong Kong for the CI World Congress.

At the world’s biggest consumer activists’ gathering, he will be speaking about “consumer empowerment in a networked society: opportunities, challenges and future scenarios,” and he gave us a taster:

“Basically, the entire world is becoming networked via mobile devices, social media, video, and location-based offerings. The 'other three billion' are coming online at a blinding pace, and with connectivity comes not just a rise in GDP, but also a drastic rise in empowerment. Connected people behave differently, communicate differently, buy differently, learn differently and 'vote with a click' on their device.

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CI World Congress Fringe events: consumer issues beyond the main programme

Jez Fredenburg of the CI Policy Unit talks about the Fringe programme at Consumers International World Congress in Hong Kong on 3 May 2011.
Want to get more involved at the CI World Congress this year? Head to a Fringe event on 3 May where this year’s Fringe events programme promises an exciting range of pertinent issues and topics all presented by those who are at the forefront of the consumer movement, plus high profile guests from the likes of UNCTAD and WHO.

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Noteworthy Tech News for Small Businesses

Several major items could have tremendous impacts for small businesses - at least for those that participate.
Stories range from search to local daily deals, and even a new productivity suite from Microsoft.
Microsoft/Nokia Deal Means More Potential Bing Searchers
Microsoft and Nokia have entered a partnership that will see Nokia producing devices with the Windows Phone Operating system. Along with this comes Bing as the default search engine across these devices, which are expected to start shipping sometime next year.
The point is that Bing is continuing to build up its share of the search market, which means you should be paying more attention to it if you're not already. Whether that means paid, organic search, or a combination to you, you can expect that market share to increase more as these devices come to market.

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