January 11, 2013
Mohenjo
Science
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A dive to the undersea cliff where a famous Roman shipwreck rests has turned up either evidence that the wreck is enormous — or a suggestion that, not one, but two sunken ships are resting off the Greek island of Antikythera.
“Either way, it’s an exciting result,” said study researcher Brendan Foley, an archaeologist at Woods Hold Oceanographic Institution who presented the findings here today (Jan. 4) at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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The Antikythera wreck is famed for the massive number of artifacts pulled from
the site overthe past century. Here divers explore the site.
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January 11, 2013
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Science
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New photos of Mars from NASA’s Curiosity rover have sparked a buzz of discussion over an odd formation that some have dubbed a “flower” embedded in a Martian rock. The rover has also found a snake-like rock formation winding across the Red Planet’s surface.
The so-called Mars “flower” photo was snapped on Dec. 19 by the microscope-like Mars Hand Lens Imager at the end of Curiosity’s robotic arm. At the lower left of the image is a strange, apparently transparent formation that some Internet forum users on the website claimed looked much like a flower, according to NBCNews.com’s photoblog.
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January 7, 2013
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Medical
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A former pub landlord from West Yorkshire has become the first person in the UK to have a hand transplant.
Mark Cahill, who is 51, had been unable to use his right hand after it was affected by gout.
Doctors say he is making good progress after an eight-hour operation at Leeds General Infirmary.
It is still very early to assess how much control of the hand will be gained – so far he can wiggle his fingers, but has no sense of touch.
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Mark Cahill, right, can wiggle the fingers on his new hand
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January 6, 2013
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Science
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The sun’s peak of solar activity this year will likely be the quietest seen in at least 100 years, say NASA scientists who watch Earth’s closest star daily.
Sunspot numbers are low, researchers said, even as the sun reaches the peak of its 11-year activity cycle. Also, radio waves that are known to indicate high solar activity have been very subdued.
“It’s likely to be the lowest solar maximum, as measured by sunspot ‘number,’ in more than a century,” wrote Joe Gurman, a project scientist for NASA’s sun-observing mission Stereo, or Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory. The current sun weather cycle is known as Solar Cycle 24.
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This image shows the Earth to scale with a colossal solar filament eruption from the sun on Aug. 31, 2012 as seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. Note: the Earth is not this close to the sun, this image is for scale purposes only.
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January 6, 2013
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Science
business, celebrities, climate, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, entertainment, huffingtonpost, literature, medicine, mental-health, my own experience with stroke, My Stroke of Insight, neuroscientist, Oprah's, politics, quotes, research, Science, Science News, Soul Series, technology, TedTalks, time, travel, vacation, Video
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Before 2008, everything I did had something to do with mental health. I’m a neuroscientist, and I was all about understanding how we create our perception of reality, and understanding what’s going on in the brains of people who experience hallucination and delusion.
But then I gave a TEDTalk about my own experience with stroke. Within weeks of delivering that talk in 2008, my life changed and the repercussions still resonate loudly in my world. My book, My Stroke of Insight, has been translated into 30 languages. Time and Oprah’s Soul Series came calling.
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January 6, 2013
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Science
Arrow Of Time, business, Cara Santa Maria, climate, Clocks, Eternity, force of nature, huffingtonpost, incomprehensible, Is time a force of nature?, Measuring Time, Physics, research, Science, Science News, Science Of Time, Sean Carroll, Talk Nerdy To Me, tangible entity, technology, theoretical physicist, time, Time Definition, travel, vacation, Video, What Is Time
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Have you ever stopped to ask yourself, “what is time?” We all understand its passage intuitively, experientially. But does time actually exist? Is it a force of nature? A tangible entity? Or is time a human construct–an attempt to comprehend the incomprehensible?
I spoke with theoretical physicist and perhaps the world’s premier expert on the science of time, Sean Carroll, to learn more.
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January 5, 2013
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Crime
", a city under siege, and robbery had grown fourteenfold, aviation, business, climate, Crime News, current-events, even the ADHD epidemic, gaming, lower IQs, mental-health, mother jones, murder had quintupled, New York City, occupy-wall-street, Pb is the hidden villain, Pb villain behind violent crime, politics, rape rates had nearly quadrupled, research, Rudy Giuliani, Science, Science News, technology, theory of crime called "broken windows, transportation, travel, vacation
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New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing.
When Rudy Giuliani ran for mayor of New York City in 1993, he campaigned on a platform of bringing down crime and making the city safe again. It was a comfortable position for a former federal prosecutor with a tough-guy image, but it was more than mere posturing. Since 1960, rape rates had nearly quadrupled, murder had quintupled, and robbery had grown fourteenfold. New Yorkers felt like they lived in a city under siege.
Throughout the campaign, Giuliani embraced a theory of crime fighting called “broken windows,” popularized a decade earlier by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in an influential article in The Atlantic. “If a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired,” they observed, “all the rest of the windows will soon be broken.”
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January 5, 2013
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Crime
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WASHINGTON — More than 200 adults have been arrested in an international investigation of child pornography, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday.
The agency’s director, John Morton, said 123 child victims were identified during the five-week investigation, which ended in early December. ICE and local authorities found 110 victims in 19 U.S. states, while the others were living in six countries elsewhere.
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FILE – This Oct. 10, 2012 file photo shows US Immigration
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January 5, 2013
Mohenjo
Crime
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PORTLAND, Maine — A smuggling ring brought narwhal tusks from the Canadian Artic into Maine in a trailer with a secret compartment and then illegally sold them to American buyers, officials said.
Andrew Zarauskas, of Union, N.J., and Jay Conrad, of Lakeland, Tenn., will be arraigned in Bangor, Maine, next week on 29 federal smuggling and money laundering charges each.
For nearly a decade, two Canadians smuggled the whale tusks into Maine and shipped them via FedEx to Zarauskas, Conrad and other unnamed American buyers, according to an indictment.
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January 3, 2013
Mohenjo
Human Interest
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BEIJING — The world’s tallest woman has died in eastern China. She was 39.
Chinese state media say Yao Defen died on Nov. 13 at her home in China’s eastern province of Anhui.
Guinness World Records in January 2010 had certified her as the world’s tallest living woman at 7 feet and 7 inches (233.3 centimeters).
The local Xin’an Evening News did not give the cause of death but said in a report that Yao suffered from gigantism, with a tumor on her pituitary gland disrupting her levels of growth hormone. A government official in her county who gave only his surname, Liu, confirmed Yao’s death on Wednesday.
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Yao Defen was 7-feet 7-inches tall.
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