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Looking at Virginia Woolf's death with newly opened archive
Jacket CopyLetters from Virginia Woolf's set, being opened to the public for the first time, cast new light on the Bloomsbury group of, as one wrote, "dirty intellectuals." The newly opened archive, at Cambridge University, consists of two collections of letters,...... -
Are there victims of Amazon's killer reviews?
Jacket CopyLast week, a literary "whodunit" circling around extraordinarily nasty reviews on Amazon's British website came to a surprise conclusion. The anonymous reviews fit a pattern: The targets were some of the nation's leading academics, and all the reviews... -
Fanged, carnivorous plant pals up with swimming ants
It ain't exactly a match made in heaven, but it's a friendship forged in the steamy peat swamp forests of Borneo. That's where the fanged pitcher plant, or Nepenthes bicalcarata, teams up with a plucky, fluid-diving ant that makes its home nowhere...
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Jackson Lab Names Scientific Director For Farmington Location
The Hartford CourantA Harvard genetics expert has been named scientific director of the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine on the campus of the UConn Health Center, the company announced Monday. Charles Lee, who starts Aug. 1, is currently director of the molecular...Tags: Genetics, Science and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Colleges and Universities, University of Connecticut Health Center
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You may be smart if you 'like' Mozart and curly fries on Facebook
Los Angeles TimesWhat do Facebook users who “like” Mozart, Morgan Freeman’s voice, "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and curly fries have in common? They are likely to have high IQs, according to a new study. Meanwhile, those who like Facebook pages...Tags: ESPN2 (tv network), Science and Technology, Politics, Human Rights, Media Industry
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Jewish legacy inscribed on genes?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGregory Cochran has always been drawn to puzzles. This one had been gnawing at him for several years: Why are European Jews prone to so many deadly genetic diseases? Tay-Sachs disease. Canavan disease. More than a dozen more. It offended Cochran's sense...Tags: Book, Science and Technology, Gaucher's Disease, Colleges and Universities, National Institutes of Health
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Clinton's UCF speech highlights grad week in Central Florida
There's plenty to celebrate this week as thousands of students graduate from the University of Central Florida and area colleges. Former President Bill Clinton, who has praised UCF on national television, will speak Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at one of the...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Engineering, Colombia, England
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Honey may hold the sticky solution to bee colony collapse
This post has been corrected, as noted belowHoneybees that live off the same sweetener found in soft drinks could be more vulnerable to the microbial enemies and pesticides believed to be linked to catastrophic collapse of honeybee colonies worldwide, a new study suggests. Researchers...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Lifestyle and Leisure, Honey, Science and Technology, Viral Diseases and Infections
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News of the Weird: Chocolate Toothpaste and 'Holy Crap' Cereal!
The Precocious Tots of Finland: A University of Kansas professor and two co-authors, in research in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Finance, found that children age 10 and under substantially outperformed their parents in earnings from stock trading...
Tags: Finland, Science and Technology, Politics, National Government, Colleges and Universities
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Stephen Hawking talks about unified theory and his biggest 'blunder'
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Humans are on the cusp of discovering how the universe works on its biggest and smallest scales, Stephen Hawking said during a lecture Tuesday in Los Angeles. The renowned theoretical physicist made his name studying black holes, massive structures that...Tags: Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School, Biology, Hospitals and Clinics, Science
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Robert Edwards dies at 87; Nobel winner for first 'test-tube baby'
About 10% of married couples suffer from infertility – the inability to conceive a child naturally. Through the better part of the 20th century, physicians considered this a minor and perhaps irrelevant problem, one that contributed overall to...
Tags: Science and Technology, Research, Cambridge (England), Infertility, Colleges and Universities
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Three justices' concern over gay parenting surprises experts
WASHINGTON — During last week's Supreme Court arguments on gay marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia asserted that "there's considerable disagreement" among experts over whether "raising a child in a single-sex family is harmful or not." Two other...
Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Marriage, Gays and Lesbians, Research, Antonin Scalia
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