Men with brown eyes are perceived to be more dominant than their blue-eyed counterparts. However, a blue-eyed man looking to make himself appear more dominant would be wasting his time investing in brown-coloured contact lenses. A new study by Karel Kleisner and colleagues has found that brown ... — full article at bps-research-digest.blogspot.com

Can the interests of an individual nation be reconciled with humanity's greater good? Can a patriotic, nationally elected politician really give people in other countries equal consideration? Following his TEDTalk calling for a global ethic, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown fields questions from TED Curator Chris Anderson.

We're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic -- and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.

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Outlet: Lowell Sun - OnlineVictory a shot in the arm for GOP legislative hopefuls

The state Republican Party is hoping Scott Brown's victory in the U.S. Senate special election will improve GOP chances in legislative races. AP PHOTO

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In 1988, a mysterious invader washed upon the New Jersey shore. The Asian shore crab likely arrived in ballast from commercial ships, and it found its new home to be quite agreeable. More than two decades later, the crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus, has expanded its range along the Atlantic coast northward to Maine and southward to North Carolina. Its numbers continue to expand, and wildlife biologists have found them in greater densities along New England's cobbled shores.

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking." (Recorded at TEDGlobal, July 2009, Oxford, UK.Duration: 16:50)

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Last year, researchers made a game-changing realization: brown fat, the energy-burning stuff that keeps babies warm, isn't just for the youngest among us. Adults have it, too (if they are lucky, anyway), and it is beginning to look like the heat-generating tissue might hold considerable metabolic importance for familiar and irritating trends, like our tendency to put on extra weight as we age.

Last year, researchers made a game-changing realization: brown fat, the energy-burning stuff that keeps babies warm, isn't just for the youngest among us. Adults have it, too (if they are lucky, anyway), and it is beginning to look like the heat-generating tissue might hold considerable metabolic importance for familiar and irritating trends, like our tendency to put on extra weight as we age...

Last year, researchers made a game-changing realization: brown fat, the energy-burning stuff that keeps babies warm, isn't just for the youngest among us. Adults have it, too (if they are lucky, anyway), and it is beginning to look like the heat-generating tissue might hold considerable metabolic importance for familiar and irritating trends, like our tendency to put on extra weight as we age.

Last year, researchers made a game-changing realization: brown fat, the energy-burning stuff that keeps babies warm, isn't just for the youngest among us. Adults have it, too (if they are lucky, anyway), and it is beginning to look like the heat-generating tissue might hold considerable metabolic importance for familiar and irritating trends, like our tendency to put on extra weight as we age.

(Cell Press) Last year, researchers made a game-changing realization: brown fat, the energy-burning stuff that keeps babies warm, isn't just for the youngest among us. Adults have it, too (if they are lucky, anyway), and it is beginning to look like the heat-generating tissue might hold considerable metabolic importance for familiar and irritating trends, like our tendency to put on extra weight as we age.

New research challenges the notion that invasive species can't coexist with native animals.

Author(s): Niall Ó Murchadha, Roh-Suan Tung, Naqing Xie, and Edward MalecThe Thorne hoop conjecture is an attempt to make precise the notion that gravitational collapse occurs if enough energy is compressed into a small enough volume, with the “size” being defined by the circumference. We can make a precise statement of this form, in spherical symmetry, using the Bro...[Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 041101] Published Tue Jan 26, 2010

James Brown (University of New Mexico Professor and SFI External Faculty and Science Steering Committee Member) was recently elected Honorary Member, the highest honor conferred by the ASM (American Society of Mammalogists).

Reporting in Science, researchers write that little brown bats, or Myotis lucifugus, are likely to disappear from the Northeast over the next 16 years. Study author Winifred Frick discusses white-nose syndrome, which is associated with die-offs and caused by a fast-moving fungus.

Reporting in Science, researchers write that little brown bats, or Myotis lucifugus, are likely to disappear from the Northeast over the next 16 years. Study author Winifred Frick discusses white-nose syndrome, which is associated with die-offs and caused by a fast-moving fungus.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

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Outlet: MetroA day after his momentous victory propelling him to the U.S. Senate, Scott Brown pledged yesterday to make good on his campaign promises — to battle for Massachusetts when solving the nation’s problems and improve health care reform.

Given hi

Outlet: Boston Globe - OnlineBOSTON—For months, immigrant advocacy groups like the Chelsea Collaborative and Berkshire Immigrant Center have been gearing up to push lawmakers on state and federal immigration reforms.

They've held statewide forums, marched in Washington, D.C.,

Outlet: New England Cable News - Online(NECN: Alison King) - Scott Brown was among the 13 Republican Senators who voted in favor of a 15 billion dollar jobs bill today. Under the bill that's now headed to the House, businesses who hire unemployed workers would be exempt from the Social Se

Outlet: Boston GlobeThe US Senate campaign of Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley formally rejected for the first time yesterday an invitation to participate in a two-person televised debate with Republican state Senator Scott P. Brown

Coakley's campaign decli

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Does Craig Venter's creation of life in the laboratory finally squeeze God right out of the scientific universe? Craig Venter 's production of an entirely artificial bacterium marks another triumph of the only major scientific programme driven from the beginning by explicit atheism. Francis ... — full article at guardian.co.uk

A shade more than 200 million years ago, the Earth looked far different than it does today. Most land on the planet was consolidated into one continent called Pangea. There was no Atlantic Ocean, and the rulers of the animal world were crurotarsans – creatures closely related to modern crocodiles.
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