Memory of student expands Yale financial aid (The Yale Herald)
tationed on the wall, at the top of the brand new, sealed and varnished wooden staircase leading to the Silliman dining hall, an inscription reads: ?In memory of Alexander MacBurney Byers Jr., who was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in the Class of 1894. This building was erected by his parents 1903.?...more...Medical journal criticizes UN (TVNZ)
A top medical journal has accused UN agencies of playing "fast and loose" with scientific data, and faulted UNICEF for what it called the hasty release of global child mortality figures....more... Bridge this gap, go beyond politics (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News)
The debate over the Sethusamudram project brought Lord Ram's existence into question. The ASI's answer ('no historical or scientific evidence') hurt the BJP and some sections of the public. No surprises here. Where belief is doubtless and widespread, any doubt becomes blasphemy. Martin Luther called reason 'the greatest whore that the Devil has', because it seduces people away from trust in God. ......more... Are you in charge? In your (lucid) dreams / Researchers look at sleepers' ability to control images (San Francisco Chronicle)
The kiss you share with the exquisite stranger is electric, deep and seemingly endless - that is until you open an eye and see drool on your pillow. If only you could have slept long enough to consummate the seduction. Then again, you had no idea you were... ...more... 'Lost Colony' search goes on centuries later (USA Today)
The search for the colonists who disappeared from Roanoke Island in the late 1500s has confounded experts and enthusiasts alike....more... From Virus To Vaccine (Seattle Times)
The back story of the new cervical-cancer vaccine includes, among its many twists: Warts, Italian nuns, a virus old as humanity, a German scientist......more... SPOTLIGHT: A fresh take on the evangelicals (Princeton Packet)
It turns out that D. Michael Lindsay is not the easiest fellow to reach, but that?s not because he?s being difficult ? it?s because he?s hopping all over the country to discuss ?Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite? (Oxford University Press)....more... Watching whales (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
SALTILLO - Belinda McKinion had a whale of a time this summer. The assistant principal at Saltillo Elementary School was awarded an Earthwatch educator fellowship to participate in a whale migration study in British Columbia, Canada....more... [AandE] In the bacterial colony (The Minnesota Daily)
Artist and college professor Steve Kurtz awoke one morning in May 2004 to find his wife, Hope Kurtz, dead of heart failure. He immediately called 911. Upon arrival, the paramedics noticed bacteria cultures, scientific equipment and an art flier decorated in Arabic writing strewn about his house......more... |