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Science in Society RSS FeedsThis Week in Science - Cage, Book, and Prism | Water-Assisted Proton Diffusion | Mechanisms in Methanol Catalysis | Radioactive Resonance | Keep Your Distance | Bring In the Inspectors | Ultimate Blockade | Accounting for Lac | The Hibernating Ribosome | An Aspirin a Day? | Suicidal B cells | Deep Breathing | Color and Movement | Distinguishing Epigenetic Marks...Feed Source: www.sciencemag.org Editors' Choice - Ecology: Different Dialects | Psychology: Evaluating Rituals | Cell Biology: Who Hid the Cyclin D2? | Development: Stressful for the Long Haul | Microbiology: Attack of the Killer Algae | Physics: Watching Excitons Condense | Ocean Science: Where Carbonate Comes From | Chemistry: Tuning the Mix | Immunology: Detecting Danger... Findings - Gamma Ray Bending Opens New Door for Optics... [Editorial] Preventing Mass Violence - Author: David Hamburg... [News of the Week] Around the World - In science news around the world this week, a Senate bill would preserve the U.S. helium supply for research, researchers have issued the first-ever international principles governing peer review of grant proposals, the European Parliament rebuked three regulatory agencies, Norway opened the world's largest carbon capture and storage test facility, and a new Twitter feed run by the Shanghai U.S. consulate is charting the city's air quality.... [News of the Week] Random Sample - An analysis of the DNA sequence from three species of Heliconius butterflies and several subspecies reveals that those with the same color patterns have the same versions of key genes, holdovers from extensive hybridization within the genus. A recent master's degree thesis at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany is generating waves?though not the "time waves" the student was looking for. And this week's numbers quantify deaths of children under 5 caused by preventable infectious diseases, U.S. adults who sleepwalk, and pages in the Encyclopedia of Life.... [News of the Week] Newsmakers - This week's Newsmaker is Arunava Majumdar, who will leave his post as head of the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy on 9 June.... [News & Analysis] Biomedicine: A Texas Wrangle Over Cancer Research Funds - Last week, Alfred Gilman announced he is stepping down as the chief scientific officer of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas this fall because he believes CPRIT's leaders are bypassing scientific review.Author: Jocelyn Kaiser... [News & Analysis] Neuropathology: Blast Injuries Linked to Neurodegeneration in Veterans - A study reported this week in Science Translational Medicine of autopsies of four veterans of recent conflicts has found features of the same neurodegenerative disease reported previously in athletes.Author: Greg Miller... [News & Analysis] Aids Research: FDA Panel Recommends Anti-HIV Drug for Prevention - On 10 May, the Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration debated whether an anti-HIV drug should receive approval as a preventive for uninfected people.Author: Jon Cohen... [News & Analysis] Newsmaker Interview: Stephen Pruitt: Coalition Begins Push for U.S. Schools to Adopt Voluntary Science Standards - Stephen Pruitt is trying to coax states to adopt a set of standards for teaching science in their elementary and secondary schools. He offers a tutorial on the new standards in an interview with Science.Author: Jeffrey Mervis... [News & Analysis] Public Health: China Takes Aim at Rampant Antibiotic Resistance - The Chinese government is leading a crusade to warn its people against the perils of frivolous antibiotic consumption in hopes of warding off calamitous outbreaks of drug-resistant strains.Author: Mara Hvistendahl... [News Focus] Archaeology: Near Eastern Archaeology Works to Dig Out of a Crisis - In the wake of the Arab Spring, archaeologists in the Near East are locked in a struggle for the survival of their field.Author: Andrew Lawler... [News Focus] Infectious Diseases: Can New Chemistry Make a Malaria Drug Plentiful and Cheap? - German chemist Peter Seeberger says he has developed a cheaper way to produce a key malaria drug. Now, he's trying to convince the rest of the world.Author: Kai Kupferschmidt... [Letter] Forced Retirement Goes Out of Style - Author: Roy Williams... [Letter] Replication Initiative: Dangerous Logic - Author: Olavo B. Amaral... [Letter] Replication Initiative: Prioritize Publication - Author: Simon Nicholas Williams... [Letter] Replication Initiative: Beware Misinterpretation - Author: Gregory Francis... [Book Review] Sociology: Violence Tamed - Examining patterns of violence in Europe, Muchembled finds that brutality and homicide have declined from the 13th century to the present and considers explanations for that change.Author: Michael Hechter... [Book Review] Sociology: Schooling Violence? - Challenging claims that education promotes tolerance and peace, Lange argues that it instead often?especially in settings with ethnic divisions, limited resources, and ineffective political institutions?contributes to violence.Author: Claire L. Adida... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 11 May 2012.... [Policy Forum] Social Psychology: Parochialism as a Central Challenge in Counterinsurgency - Current U.S. practice in Afghanistan may reify social divisions, which undermines institutions critical to postwar stability.Authors: Nicholas Sambanis, Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, Moses Shayo... [Perspective] Cell Biology: An Alternative Route for Nuclear mRNP Export by Membrane Budding - Nuclear export of mRNA, previously thought to happen exclusively through nuclear pore complexes, may also occur via a membrane-budding mechanism.Authors: Ben Montpetit, Karsten Weis... [Perspective] Chemistry: Active Site of an Industrial Catalyst - Surface steps caused by stacking faults or twin boundaries in copper nanoparticles are key to the activity of the methanol synthesis catalyst.Author: Jeffrey P. Greeley... [Perspective] Chemistry: NMR Tools for Determining the Structure of Plutonium Materials - The ability to observe plutonium-239 magnetic resonance signals should aid in environmental studies and the development of waste-storage materials.Author: Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt... [Perspective] Physics: Room for Just One Photon - Ensembles of cold atoms excited up to Rydberg states can be used to manipulate and control interactions between single photons.Author: Philippe Grangier... [Perspective] Cell Biology: Ancient Sensor for Ancient Drug - A common drug has an unexpected effect on a metabolic enzyme that stimulates fat utilization.Authors: Reuben J. Shaw, Lewis C. Cantley... [Perspective] Chemistry: Pinning Down the Water Hexamer - An experimental study resolves a long-standing controversy about isomeric forms of the water hexamer.Authors: Richard J. Saykally, David J. Wales... [Perspective] Retrospective: Robert R. Sokal (1926?2012) - An ecologist and evolutionary biologist brought a quantitative approach to classification through statistics and morphometric analysis.Author: Douglas J. Futuyma... [Introduction to Special Issue] Introduction: Human Conflict: Winning the Peace - Authors: Guy Riddihough, Gilbert Chin, Elizabeth Culotta, Barbara Jasny, Leslie Roberts, Sacha Vignieri... [Special Issue Multimedia] Human Conflict: Additional Online Features - Videos, blog postings, discussions, and more.... [Special Issue News] Parsing Terrorism - Author: Eliot Marshall... [Special Issue News] In Battle: Tribal Roots in South Sudan - Author: Eliot Marshall... [Special Issue News] Roots of Racism - Author: Elizabeth Culotta... [Special Issue News] In Battle: Preening the Troops - Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [Special Issue News] The Battle Over Violence - Author: Andrew Lawler... [Special Issue News] In Battle: Tweeting the London Riots - Author: John Bohannon... [Special Issue News] Civilization's Double-Edged Sword - Author: Andrew Lawler... [Special Issue News] The Ultimate Sacrifice - Author: Ann Gibbons... [Special Issue News] In Battle: Fighting Rituals - Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [Special Issue News] Gender and Violence - Author: Mara Hvistendahl... [Special Issue News] In Battle: From War to Peace - Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [Special Issue News] Drone Wars - Author: Greg Miller... [Special Issue Review] Ancestral Hierarchy and Conflict - Author: Christopher Boehm... [Special Issue Review] The Group Self - Author: Naomi Ellemers... [Special Issue Perspective] Adapting to a Multicultural Future - Authors: Richard J. Crisp, Rose Meleady... [Special Issue Perspective] Religious and Sacred Imperatives in Human Conflict - Authors: Scott Atran, Jeremy Ginges... [Special Issue Review] Ethnicity and Conflict: Theory and Facts - Authors: Joan Esteban, Laura Mayoral, Debraj Ray... [Special Issue Review] Modeling Armed Conflicts - Author: Moshe Kress... [Special Issue Perspective] Climate Change and Violent Conflict - Authors: Jürgen Scheffran, Michael Brzoska, Jasmin Kominek, P. Michael Link, Janpeter Schilling... [Special Issue Perspective] Are We Winning the War Against Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? - Author: Richard J. McNally... [Special Issue Perspective] The Antiquity of Empathy - Author: Frans B. M. de Waal... [Special Issue Perspective] Warriors, Levelers, and the Role of Conflict in Human Social Evolution - Author: Samuel Bowles... [Special Issue/Review] Life Without War - Author: Douglas P. Fry... [Brevia] Evolutionary Diversity of the Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter - Phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial calcium transporter shows that it was a feature of early eukaryotes.Authors: Alexander G. Bick, Sarah E. Calvo, Vamsi K. Mootha... [Report] Strongly Interacting Rydberg Excitations of a Cold Atomic Gas - Illumination of an ensemble of cold rubidium atoms ultimately leads to high-level excitation of just a single atom.Authors: Y. O. Dudin, A. Kuzmich... [Report] Water-Mediated Proton Hopping on an Iron Oxide Surface - The presence of adsorbed water enhances proton diffusion, likely through a hydronium ion transition state.Authors: Lindsay R. Merte, Guowen Peng, Ralf Bechstein, Felix Rieboldt, Carrie A. Farberow, Lars C. Grabow, Wilhelmine Kudernatsch, Stefan Wendt, Erik Lægsgaard, Manos Mavrikakis, Flemming Besenbacher... [Report] The Active Site of Methanol Synthesis over Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 Industrial Catalysts - Catalysis is favored by stepped copper nanoparticles decorated with zinc oxide, which promotes stronger intermediate binding.Authors: Malte Behrens, Felix Studt, Igor Kasatkin, Stefanie Kühl, Michael Hävecker, Frank Abild-Pedersen, Stefan Zander, Frank Girgsdies, Patrick Kurr, Benjamin-Louis Kniep, Michael Tovar, Richard W. Fischer, Jens K. Nørskov, Robert Schlögl... [Report] Structures of Cage, Prism, and Book Isomers of Water Hexamer from Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy - Observing three distinct water clusters in the same experiment resolves long-standing questions about their relative stabilities.Authors: Cristóbal Pérez, Matt T. Muckle, Daniel P. Zaleski, Nathan A. Seifert, Berhane Temelso, George C. Shields, Zbigniew Kisiel, Brooks H. Pate... [Report] Observation of 239Pu Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - The long-sought magnetic resonance signal of the plutonium nucleus has been detected in a sample of solid plutonium dioxide.Authors: H. Yasuoka, G. Koutroulakis, H. Chudo, S. Richmond, D. K. Veirs, A. I. Smith, E. D. Bauer, J. D. Thompson, G. D. Jarvinen, D. L. Clark... [Report] Conspecific Negative Density Dependence and Forest Diversity - Tree seedlings have a harder time establishing themselves in forests containing many adults of the same species.Authors: Daniel J. Johnson, Wesley T. Beaulieu, James D. Bever, Keith Clay... [Report] Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss - It may be feasible to achieve employee safety while keeping businesses viable.Authors: David I. Levine, Michael W. Toffel, Matthew S. Johnson... [Report] Cost-Benefit Tradeoffs in Engineered lac Operons - A close look at a paradigmatic system accounts for the costs due to protein activity versus expression and folding.Authors: Matt Eames, Tanja Kortemme... [Report] How Hibernation Factors RMF, HPF, and YfiA Turn Off Protein Synthesis - Three crystal structures show why bacteria stop making proteins when they enter the stationary phase.Authors: Yury S. Polikanov, Gregor M. Blaha, Thomas A. Steitz... [Report] The Ancient Drug Salicylate Directly Activates AMP-Activated Protein Kinase - A possible molecular mechanism of action for a metabolite of aspirin is described.Authors: Simon A. Hawley, Morgan D. Fullerton, Fiona A. Ross, Jonathan D. Schertzer, Cyrille Chevtzoff, Katherine J. Walker, Mark W. Peggie, Darya Zibrova, Kevin A. Green, Kirsty J. Mustard, Bruce E. Kemp, Kei Sakamoto, Gregory R. Steinberg, D. Grahame Hardie... [Report] Aerobic Microbial Respiration in 86-Million-Year-Old Deep-Sea Red Clay - Microbes in Pacific sediments grow very, very slowly.Authors: Hans Røy, Jens Kallmeyer, Rishi Ram Adhikari, Robert Pockalny, Bo Barker Jørgensen, Steven D?Hondt... [Report] Multiple Spectral Inputs Improve Motion Discrimination in the Drosophila Visual System - Fly photoreceptors that detect colors also contribute information to the processing of motion.Authors: Trevor J. Wardill, Olivier List, Xiaofeng Li, Sidhartha Dongre, Marie McCulloch, Chun-Yuan Ting, Cahir J. O?Kane, Shiming Tang, Chi-Hon Lee, Roger C. Hardie, Mikko Juusola... [Report] AID-Driven Deletion Causes Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Locus Suicide Recombination in B Cells - Recombination-induced deletion of the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene in activated B cells may influence B cell homeostasis.Authors: Sophie Péron, Brice Laffleur, Nicolas Denis-Lagache, Jeanne Cook-Moreau, Aurélien Tinguely, Laurent Delpy, Yves Denizot, Eric Pinaud, Michel Cogné... [Report] Quantitative Sequencing of 5-Methylcytosine and 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine at Single-Base Resolution - A sequencing method can discriminate epigenetically modified cytosine nucleotides within embryonic stem cell DNA.Authors: Michael J. Booth, Miguel R. Branco, Gabriella Ficz, David Oxley, Felix Krueger, Wolf Reik, Shankar Balasubramanian... New Products - A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.... [Podcast] Science Podcast - The show includes a special show exploring human conflict, including strife among our primate ancestors, the biological underpinnings of racism, and the fundamentals of "peace systems."... Comcast Skype on Xfinity $9.95/month - Lame or Cool? - Comcast today unveiled their Skype video calling service, Skype on Xfinity which directly integrates into your HDTV. The beauty of the system is you can make and receive Skype video and audio calls from your TV. Users can send instant messages via Skype, while watching TV at the same time.The only problem is Skype on Xfinity costs $9.95 a month extra. We saw what happened to the $599 Cisco Umi, which Rich Tehrani and I rightly predicted would fai... Plixer Scrutinizer Network Traffic Analyzer Preview - I've been testing Plixer Scrutinizer, a network traffic analyzer product for several weeks now. It's a great product that supports NetFlow used by popular routers and switches, including the popular Cisco ASA series of firewall/security routers, Checkpoint, Adtran, Riverbed, and more. It also supports Juniper Jflow and Juniper IPFIX, SonicWALL NetFlow and SonicWALL IPFIX and Citrix AppFlow. It also supports sFlow.Having insights into your network... Netflix Temporarily Offline? On Movie Night? Ahhhh! - Oh joy - was checking my Netflix DVD queue to see if any interesting movies to stream as well as which ones arrived in the mail and I got this lovely error message:
Watch as many TV episodes and movies as you want for one low price! One month FREE Trial.
We’re sorry, the Netflix website is temporarily unavailable.
Our shipping centers are continuing to send and receive DVDs, so your movies will be processed as usual... Telefonica Launches Skype Competitor Tu Me - Telefónica today launched a new mobile app called Tu Me, which essentially takes the approach if you can't beat Skype, join em'. Tu Me features texts, voice calls, messages, and location and photo sharing - all free of charge, with the caveat that it uses your data plan more, so it isn't technically "free" unless you are on an unlimited data plan or you use free Wi-Fi hotspots most of the time.The app is currently only available on iOS ho... Viber Announces BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta - Viber today announced the availability of Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta.Both Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Viber for Windows Phone 7 Beta initially offer Viber Messaging, allowing users to exchange text and high-quality photo messages and share locations with other Viber users. The beta does not yet include their HD VoIP calling. Some may call this a bit premature beta since Viber is a known as a mobile VoIP app not a st... Nokia City Lens Augmented Reality Launches on Lumia Phones - Nokia today released its City Lens app for Windows Phone, an app that is an augmented reality browser. Users open the app, and depending on the phone's angle (landscape [facing away from you], 45 degrees, or parallel to ground) it automatically changes modes - augmented reality, list of locations, and map mode respectively.The coolest mode is obviously augmented reality where you hold the phone up and scan the horizon with the camera and it... Ooma Telo Review - Back in 2007 I wrote an article "Ooma goes Booma" because Ooma's claim-to-fame feature was that it worked by 'sharing' your PSTN analog phone line with other Ooma users. I was right that this PSTN sharing feature and business model wouldn't work, so certainly that did go "Booma". However, 5 years later after dropping the PSTN sharing and moving to a VoIP-centric business model Ooma has redeemed themselves with some really cool features. Ooma is a... Skype Aware of IP Security Flaw Back in 2010 - Some more interesting information has come to light regarding the IP revealing security flaw in Skype. Researchers from Inria, a research institute in France, and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University discovered the flaw. Stevens Le Blond, one of the team's researchers who discovered the exploit told the Wall Street Journal that the team first discovered the flaw in November 2010. They were actually able to track the city-level locat... Skype Responds to IP Address Privacy Vulnerability - Yesterday it was reported that a simple script could expose any Skype user's IP address. A Microsoft representative saw my article and gave me this official response, which they also provided to other media outlets:
“We are investigating reports of a new tool that captures a Skype user’s last known IP address. This is an ongoing, industry-wide issue f... Does HTML5 Rock Your Mobile World? - We've heard the hype surrounding HTML5, but does it live up to its promise? If TMC's recently completed DevCon5 show in Santa Clara, California is any indication, HTML5 will soon rock your mobile world!At DevCon5, an international community of HTML5 developers and designers gathered to focus on Mobile Apps, Consistent UI Development, and more. Gaming was a huge draw featuring a large, enthusiastic group.With breakout sessions led by experts from ... New Skype for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch Sports Ability to Move Video Preview - Some new features in the latest release of Skype for Apple iOS, including the ability to move your own video preview, app auto-restart if it crashes, improved accessibility, improved stability, some UI improvements and more. See full release notes in screenshot.
In related news, today gHacks revealed that Skype reveals remote and local IP Address of all online Skype users using a script. Yikes! Privacy zealots have at em'!
Tags: apple, ipa... Ooma Telo installed - Ooo Look, Shiny Bright Blue LEDs! - I received the latest version of the Ooma Telo along with the Wi-Fi dongle for a product review. I'll have to ask Ooma for the Bluetooth dongle to test since that seems like a cool mobile integration feature. Ooma competes with magicJack and netTALK offering low-cost phone service leveraging VoIP.
I hooked up the Ooma Telo in front of my Cisco Wi-Fi router and in addition to having an eerily similar size, shape, and color they both sport bright b... Skype@Home Telephone Products Coming? - Today, Rich Tehrani wrote about Microsoft "working on Skype Everywhere Initiative" based on another Microsoft-careers.com job listing. Just a few days ago I wrote about a Microsoft job listing was pointing toward Microsoft and Skype building a HTML5 Web version of Skype.Rich believes there are some good syner... RingCentral Cloud Touch Platform - Configure Phone System from iPad, iPhone, or Android - Imagine being able to record prompts, configure IVR/auto-attendant, and remove a disgruntled employee's access to your phone system all while sitting on a beach - simply using your tablet or mobile device. That's exactly what RingCentral's Cloud Touch Platform does and they proudly claim this touch-enabled phone system configuration platform "Reimagines Business Phone Systems". They may just be right.Founded in 2003, RingCentral (>1000 employe... Google's Chrome Team Reveals WebRTC Roadmap - Google's Chrome team stated in their recent WebRTC roadmap that the main components of WebRTC are now stable and they will be releasing it to the 200M+ Chrome users later this year. However, they want developers to get a sneak preview of what will be in the first WebRTC release. I should mention that two days ago I discussed how Skype and Microsoft were working on a HTML5 web-version of Skype. I felt that HTML5 would be inadequate and any Skype w... Warren Jeffs? appeal is rejected by Texas state court - In August, 2011, a Texas jury convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls ?spiritual marriages.? Jeffs has appealed his conviction with 'revelations' in which Jesus Christ allegedly demands his release, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has turned down the appeal.... Police: Boy, 13, Tortured And Abused In Front Of Bible Study Group - A California pastor's assault on a 13-year-old boy took place during a Bible study session as a circle of men watched, newly released court records say. The pastor has other legal problems as well.... Religion News Briefing: Widow of first televangelist dies - In today's issue: The widow of Rex Humbard, the world's first televangelist, dies. An Agape Ministries cult member gets his ammunition back. A court orders gated communities in Puerto Rico to provide access to Jehovah's Witnesses. Plus a short, but though-provoking documentary on the Westboro Baptist Church -- a hate group that masquerades as a Christian church.... Faith-healing parents acquitted of murder charge - Gregory and Garnet JaLea Swezey have been found not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of their 17-year-old son. They had been accused of relying on faith healing instead of getting their son proper medical attention... Court affirms rejection of insanity defense in ?exorcism? murder - The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a jury's rejection of an insanity defense in the case of a woman who suffocated her 3-year-old son by forcing him to drink oil and vinegar because he was possessed by a demon. In June 2011 Latisha Lawson was sentenced to 62 years in prison.... Church sues ex-members for defamation over blog criticizing church?s practices - Pastor Charles O'Neal of Beaverton Grace Bible Church in Oregon is trying to silence critics by filing lawsuits against them -- even though the Bible teaches that Christians should not file lawsuits against other Christians. The family being sued says it was shunned after leaving the church a few years ago.... ?Holy Ghost? cult leader sentenced to six years to life in rape of daughter - A religious cult leader has been sentenced to six years to life for raping his daughter and allowing his friend to rape her as well. Terrill Dalton, who called himself the 'Holy Ghost,' promised the girl "great blessings" if she had sex with him.... ?This was not a faith healing death,? lawyer tells jury - Gregory and Garnet Swezey of Carlton, Washington are on trial on charges of second-degree murder in the death of their 17-year-old son. Their lawyer: if you ask the Swezeys what they would have done if they knew it was a ruptured appendix, and that their son was dying, ?They both say, they don?t know."... Conviction upheld in FLDS sexual assault case - In his appeal, Abram Harker Jeffs claimed that the state had insufficient evidence to prove that a sexual relationship had occurred between him and his wife, whom he married when she was 14 years old. He was one of 12 men indicted after a 2008 law enforcement raid on the sect's Texas-based ranch.... Faith Healing trial begins for Church of the First Born members - The second-degree murder trial of a faith healing couple whose teenage son died of a burst appendix is underway. 17-year-old Zachary Swezey died of a burst appendix while his parents and other members of the Church of the First Born prayed for his recovery, and failed to call a doctor or ambulance.... Copyright © 2012, JayKay's Link Exchange. All Rights Reserved. |