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Men might have found themselves an excuse not to listen to women. New research suggests that men have twice more difficulty reading emotions in women than in men. This may not sound surprising, but evidence that men have trouble understanding women is, at best, scarce.Being able to guess someone else’s thoughts, feelings and intentions is
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Schiffer B., Pawliczek C., Müller B.W., Gizewski E.R., Walter H. & Krueger F. (2013). Why Don't Men Understand Women? Altered Neural Networks for Reading the Language of Male and Female Eyes, PLoS ONE, 8 (4) e60278. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060278.g003
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Statutory change allows veterinarians to provide 'complete care,' AVMA says
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A team of researchers at Columbia Engineering has used miniaturized electronics to measure the activity of individual ion-channel proteins with temporal resolution as fine as one microsecond, producing the fastest recordings of single ion channels ever performed.
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What are digital stories and how do you tell them? At a recent exhibit at Brown University, that topic was examined in a few different ways. One of the stories shown was a large screen version of images and text selected out of the "From Earth to the Universe" (FETTU) collection. FETTU is a Chandra-led project of astronomical image exhibits that began in the International Year of Astronomy in 2009 but has remained as a legacy project of public science. The location types of the FETTU
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Ne xt month, the US and Europe would like to make some progress in tearing down trade barriers, an archaic notion left over from the Colonial period in history.(1)Special trade agreements with blocs, like The Hanseatic League of the 12th century, were always common, but restrictions enjoyed a popularity boom after the collapse of the East India Trade Company in 1799 became the poster child for the perils of free trade - 18th century globalization hysteria.
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The final session in the online discussion of the NASA Astrobiology Roadmap is today from 4-5 pm eastern. Go to Astrobiology Future to sign in to the live web chat. Questions and comments will be taken both from call-ins and from written questions. The online discussion will be moderated by Dr Francis McCubbin from UNM,…
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Sorry, animated movies. Drama is top dog. You probably have your own choice for Greatest Movie Of All Time. But what do the masses say? The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has a set of picks, rated by users, that you can peruse. And if you want to know a little more about what kind of movie makes it to the top, this awesome visualization designed by Martin Kruusimagi can show you. For the infographic, Kruusimagi color-coded the top 50 IMDB movies by genre: dramas are organized and counted with
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Bon Appetit, the Penthouse of food pornographers (same photo techniques), has compiled a slide show of the 15 most prominent examples of raw meat around the globe. “In this enlightened age of hygiene and actually knowing how people get sick, … Continue reading →
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Waterproof fabrics that whisk away sweat could be the latest application of microfluidic technology developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Davis.
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UC Davis researchers have found a convenient way to make layered iron-platinum alloys and tailor their properties, a promising material for a potential new generation of data storage media.
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Friday night parties took on a whole new meaning when Kailey Kluge, a pre-junior international area studies student, and Alex Sevit, biomedical engineering BS/MS ’15 and Goldwater Scholar, were filling out their respective scholarship applications. “We would snuggle up in PJs and bake cookies and review each other’s essays,” said Kluge, who also minors in … Continue reading »
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Among the more controversial aspects of young adult training, two things stick out as particularly offensive, and perhaps mutually reinforcing: overpriced schools and the scarcity of good jobs.
And now, at long last, we’ve got an institution of higher learning that seems to combine both of these things, pretty overtly. From the New York Times comes news of a school, of sorts, that offers really high-priced training that doesn’t seem to train one for anything:
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by Omar Ali The May 11th elections in Pakistan represented the first time that a civilian regime completed its term in office and held elections in which power will be transferred democratically to a new civilian regime. In a country...
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“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.” -Galileo Galilei Welcome back to another Messier Monday here on Starts With a Bang! With 110 deep-sky objects making it up, the Messier Catalogue is the first comprehensive, accurate catalogue of faint (but not too faint) fixtures in the night sky. Each object…
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Shawnee, Oklahoma tornado, May 19, 2013photo by Brett Wrightfrom http://www.tornadotitans.comThe forecast map posted for May 20, 2013on the tornado chaser's WWW site athttp://www.tornadotitans.comNOTE: Between the time I started this and posted it, the forecast for storms in the area has gone from "strong severe storms predicted for 5:00" to "isolated thunderstorms." Forecasts from the commercial sites, such as weather.com or wunderground.com vary considerably. Here's the National Weather
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At least 25 Minnesotans have been sickened with salmonellosis linked to eating a raw Mexican-style cheese, queso fresco, state health officials said. The outbreak illustrates the dangers of consuming unpasteurized dairy products. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), the Minnesota … Continue reading →
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When a town turns to a perpetual disaster area, it might be time to move it.
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(Click the pic for full-size. You know you want to.) Most cinder cones eruptions follow roughly the same story line: they start with a volatile-rich phase, tossing out bubbly, vesicular lava, with gasses acting as the propellant. A large heap of these cinders form around the vent. Since the slope is limited by the angle of repose- the steepest that a loose material of a given nature can be piled without collapsing- cinder cones tend to all look quite similar. The material they're made of is all […]
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A parasitic wasp on the prowl for fruit fly larva to inject with her eggs. By Carol ClarkParasitic wasps switch off the immune systems of fruit flies by draining calcium from the flies’ blood cells, a finding that offers new insight into how pathogens break through a host’s defenses.“We believe that we have discovered an important component of cellular immunity, one that parasites have learned to take advantage of,” says Emory University biologist Todd Schlenke, whose lab led the […]
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Astrobiology Future The NASA online discussion session on the Astrobiology Roadmap continues this week. This morning there was a web chat on “Early Evolution of Life and the Biosphere”, which is being followed up by an ongoing online discussion on the questions posed and soliciting ideas for priorities in research direction. The questions being discussed…
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By Andreas Merkl, President, Ocean Conservancy Smart fisheries management is a great place to start a conversation about putting the ocean at the center of the world’s biggest challenges. This is because the most profitable type of fishing is sustainable fishing – better management helps fishermen and the ocean at the same time. Sustainable fishing…
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A standard “wow” story about a psychic. The way it is told you are led to believe that she has these astounding powers. There is a test for this and you are obligated to give us actual evidence before you make such pronouncements that you can do these things. Mass. psychic has message for those who lost child. [Ruth] Larkin is a psychic medium who offers free readings to parents who have lost a child. Larkin also is in the process of starting a psychic network to help search for […]
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High-energy observations have strongly changed our view of isolated neutron stars, showing that these objects appear in a large variety of different classes and can exhibit substantial variability on time […]
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Words of the World - Auteur
How did the French word for ‘author’ became synonymous with film making and directing?
Renaud Olivier from the University of Nottingham explains.
This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.
Words of the World is a project by Brady Haran - website at http://www.wordsoftheworld.co.uk
via Words of the World.
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With deadly new viruses emerging these days in Saudi Arabia and China, it can be hard to imagine …
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It’s not often that scientists make people watch the first episode of 24 in the name of science. …
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Have you ever thought about how odd it is that stacks of money, or diamonds, or dollar signs, or gold bars, aren't the icons we associate with slot machines? These machines are designed to do one thing, and one thing only: keep us playing. To catch us in a loop, to make us want to win, to make us keep playing and playing hoping to see those symbols line up and spill out a jackpot. We know slot machines are about money, but the iconography we associate with these machines is not dollar signs or
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Vitamin supplements seem to prevent atrophy of brain regions such as the hippocampus, which waste away in people with Alzheimer's
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Energy profiles of diving seabirds reveal they sacrifice flying efficiency to swim better, edging towards flightlessness
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The birds evolved into diving hunters and the need for flight lessened.
