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Stanford Researchers Launch Short Attention Span Science Theater Website
Written by Stanford University   
Sunday, 12 October 2008

Stanford, California - Researchers at Stanford University have launched Short Attention Span Science Theater - an interactive website featuring short video segments, called "microdocs," that are designed to make science understandable.

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Genes Key to Success on Mussel Beach
Written by Terah U. DeJong   
Sunday, 12 October 2008

Los Angeles, California - It’s hard being a mussel: You have to worry about hungry starfish and even hungrier humans, not to mention an environment that can change your body temperature 50 degrees Fahrenheit in just a few hours.

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Database on Developing Economies to Change Economics
Written by University of Chicago   
Sunday, 12 October 2008

The most comprehensive set of data gathered on Thailand's developing economy is now available free online. The Townsend Thai Data, which economist Robert Townsend and his colleagues gathered, is available at:

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Debating the United States Energy Future - MIT
Written by David Chandler, MIT   
Sunday, 12 October 2008

Representatives from the two presidential campaigns, R. James Woolsey, center, for Senator John McCain, and Jason Grumet for Senator Barack Obama, face off in a debate on energy policy. Photo / Brian Hemond Cambridge, Massachusetts - In a spirited but friendly debate Monday night in a packed Kresge Auditorium at MIT, representatives of the John McCain and Barack Obama presidential campaigns detailed the differences between their candidates’ approaches to solving the nation’s energy problems.

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Circadian Clock Critical for Remembering What We Learn?
Written by Imperial Valley News   
Sunday, 12 October 2008

Stanford, California - The circadian rhythm that quietly pulses inside us all, guiding our daily cycle from sleep to wakefulness and back to sleep again, may be doing much more than just that simple metronomic task, according to Stanford researchers. Working with Siberian hamsters, biologist Norman Ruby has shown that having a functioning circadian system is critical to the hamsters’ ability to remember what they have learned. Without it, he said, “They can’t remember anything.”

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Pirates and Packers by Jackie Papandrew
Written by Jackie Papandrew   
Sunday, 05 October 2008

Jackie PapandrewI decided to take a break from worrying about whether the American economy is heading for a hot place in a hand basket, so I went to a football game. Not just any football game - an NFL (Not For Low-incomers) game. An NFL event is a reassuring example of the strength of our capitalist system. You get to invest extraordinary amounts of your personal capital in things like tickets, hot dogs and soft drinks while having the pleasure of watching hefty, well-paid men run around chasing a piece of pigskin.

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Charlatans in Suits by Jerry Maldonado
Written by Jerry Maldonado   
Sunday, 05 October 2008

Their numbers range in the thousands across this country with more joining the ranks everyday. They don’t need to be certified, just creative, suave, very hyper and poof! You have a motivational speaker. Of coarse there is some intelligence involved, but you get the picture.

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Sky's the Limit by Rob Bloom
Written by Rob Bloom   
Sunday, 05 October 2008

Show of hands, guys. How many times have you been sitting in your living room, beer in one hand, backup beer in the other, watching the game (the one where the next 2.7 seconds, give or take an hour, will single-handedly determine the fate of everything you hold most sacred), when out of the corner of your eye you notice that old bookcase of yours and suddenly realize what’s been bugging you for months, maybe even years,

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Top Ten Moments in FBI History
Written by Federal Bureau of Investigation   
Sunday, 05 October 2008

Founding Father: Attorney General Charles BonaparteWashington, DC - Over the course of a century - during which we’ve been involved in just about every major event in U.S. history and had countless innovations and famous cases - it’s hard to pick just ten. But here, in chronological order, are our choices for the top ten moments in FBI history…

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Understanding the Economic Crisis from Various Points of View
Written by University of Chicago   
Sunday, 05 October 2008

Chicago, Illinois - Luigi Zingales, the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, is scheduled to testify about the causes and effects of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Monday, October 6, at 9 a.m. CDT.

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