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Thursday, February 28, 2013
WePay Debuts iOS App To Allow Users To Accept Credit Cards And Send Invoices On The Go
Online payments startup WePay is expanding into new territory today with the launch of a new native app for iOS that allows small businesses to invoicing and charge credit cards on the go.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/hZDstg7O7mg/
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Post-Coup Investing
By Chris Mayer | 02/26/13 
?Always buy land after a coup,? said Aren Nunnink, an Aussie expat who moved to Fiji back in 1987 and is now the most knowledgeable real estate agent on the islands.
Aren ought to know about buying land after a coup. He has taken his own advice, and it?s made him a wealthy man.
Aren told a group of us his tale at the Capitalist Exploits private investor conference in Fiji. Chris Tell and Mark Wallace started Capitalist Exploits and write a free e-letter about their global hunt for investing ideas. They focus on private deals and have come to love Fiji, which they call their favorite place on Earth. I met them recently through an introduction from a mutual friend, and we hit it off immediately. They invited me to attend their Fiji conference and, not one to pass up an opportunity to check out a new market, I eagerly agreed.
I found Fiji a fascinating, if sleepy, market. It is a great place to hide out if you worry about Western civilization as a going concern. Way out in the South Pacific, Fiji is far away from just about everybody.
Of course, there are the coups. Fiji has had four in the last 25 years. The latest was in 2006. But these are opportunities, Aren maintains. He has the personal story to prove it.
I will skip over the details, but the bottom line is that Aren was able to buy 120 acres of prime beachfront property for about $88,000 Fijian dollars (about US$50,000) following the first coup in 1987. Since then, he?s sold about $3 million worth of property and still owns a third of it.
?It?s become my model for business success,? he said. ?I became quite successful and wealthy because of this. I came to the conclusion that you should always buy land after a coup. Fiji has blessed me by having four coups. After every coup, I?ve bought more land. I actually own lots and lots of land around the Savusavu area.?
Later, over cocktails, I asked Aren more about his experiences with post-coup investing. People learn, he told me. With each coup, the deals are not quite as good as before, because people have learned the values come back.
But the coup dynamics still work. After a coup, there is, as you can imagine, a tremendous loss of confidence. Lots of people want to sell, and prices fall off the cliff. Confidence, though, comes back very quickly. ?And because the product [in this case beachfront property] is rare, it very quickly shoots up again,? Aren says.
Fiji had its last coup in 2006. But business and life go on. The military promises elections in 2014. That could be a little value-unlocking event in itself.
Aren is a good storyteller. He told us how it was when he came to Fiji. There were no real estate agents. If you wanted to sell a piece of land, you had to tell the taxi drivers. Then when people arrived, the taxi drivers would tell them about the land. If they helped you sell the land, you paid them a commission.
In fact, there is still a legacy from when this was the case. One of Aren?s largest competitors is called Hussein Taxi & Land Tours. ?I trained him,? Aren said. Hussein once worked for Aren, and they sold quite a bit of land together. Hussein, apparently, decided to go into the business himself.
Anyway, Aren?s knowledge of Fijian history was impressive, and he took us through some of the highlights, including the history of freehold land. It?s a long story, but the short of it is that native Fijians own 93% of the land and are the only ones legally entitled to own that land. The remaining land, about 7% of the total land area, is freehold. That?s what foreigners can own.
Many of those foreigners are so-called ?haven buyers.? Aren said he recently sold 800 acres to a guy who ?doesn?t believe in chemicals? and wants to grow organic food and live ?a natural lifestyle.? He wants to get away from the over-industrialized world, as he sees it.
Haven buyers ?want to get away from something,? Aren says. ?They know Fiji is sustainable. There is plenty of food and water. You can survive here. Life will continue even in times of stress or apocalypse.?
Haven-buyers, take note.
Regards,
Chris Mayer
for The Daily Reckoning
Source: http://dailyreckoning.com/post-coup-investing/
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Kerry Says In America "You Have Right To Be Stupid If You Want To ...
Secretary of State John Kerry engages young German innovators and leaders at his first Youth Connect event with moderator/journalist Cherno Jobatey in Berlin, Germany on February 26, 2013. State Dept. photo.
By PanArmenian -- (February 26, 2013)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry offered a defense of freedom of speech, religion and thought in the United States on Tuesday, telling German students that in America ?you have a right to be stupid if you want to be.?
?As a country, as a society, we live and breathe the idea of religious freedom and religious tolerance, whatever the religion, and political freedom and political tolerance, whatever the point of view,? Kerry told the students in Berlin, the second stop on his inaugural trip as secretary of state, Reuters reported.
?People have sometimes wondered about why our Supreme Court allows one group or another to march in a parade even though it?s the most provocative thing in the world and they carry signs that are an insult to one group or another,? he added.
?The reason is, that?s freedom, freedom of speech. In America you have a right to be stupid ? if you want to be,? he said, prompting laughter. ?And you have a right to be disconnected to somebody else if you want to be.
?And we tolerate it. We somehow make it through that. Now, I think that?s a virtue. I think that?s something worth fighting for,? he added. ?The important thing is to have the tolerance to say, you know, you can have a different point of view.?
Kerry made the comments on his first foreign trip since becoming secretary of state on Feb 1. After one-night stops in London and Berlin, he visits Paris, Rome, Ankara, Cairo, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Doha before returning to Washington on March 6.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
PFT: 49ers don't have deal in place for Alex Smith
Florida defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd said last week at the NFL Scouting Combine that he?s ?been getting ready to put on a show here.?
He did just that this morning, running a pair of sub-5.0 second 40s at nearly 300 pounds. The question now becomes, would it qualify as a show he wants to watch?
While Floyd?s ability to rush the passer and his athletic talent will make him a high pick, he raised more than a few eyebrows during his media interviews, when he admitted he wasn?t much of a football fan.
Asked the fairly standard question of which player he modeled his game after, Floyd replied: ?I haven?t really watched the league in a long time. I first started watching it in 2007, but I did get to know Ndamukong Suh in 2010 so we have a good relationship and I?ve watched him play a couple of times.?
That?s right, a possible Top 10 pick in the NFL Draft only started watching football six years ago. And it?s not as if he?s one of the foreign-born players from a land where football wasn?t readily available around the clock. He grew up in Philadelphia, a place where there seems to be some degree of interest in the NFL.
Asked to elaborate on the fact he didn?t watch football until recently, Floyd said ?The first game I ever watched was the Super Bowl when the Colts won it in 2007.?
?It wasn?t that there was no interest, I just didn?t know nothing about it, so there was no reason to watch it,? he continued. ?Even when I started playing there was no?interest in watching it because I liked to play it instead of sitting down and being still and watching a game while all my friends were jumping around and getting excited for no reason.
?It just wasn?t a preference of mine, but now it is so I watch it and play it now.?
Asked what he was watching instead, Floyd talked about the Disney Channel and Cartoon Network.
Don?t get me wrong, as the parent of young children, there?s a good bit of Looney Toons on hand in my home as well. And away from work, I respect people who are well-rounded, and can talk about something other than football.
But a team is about to invest millions of dollars in a man who may or may not like the game he?s about to turn into a career.
We know he?s motivated now, having trained specifically for the Combine to put on the kind of show that would boost his draft stock and make him financially secure.
But how motivated will he be come the dog days of training camp, or a Wednesday practice in November when his team might be out of the playoff hunt?
Will he be watching film of his next opponent, or catching up on That?s So Raven re-runs?
It?s possible to be great at football without being absorbed by it, but it?s probably not the kind of thing you want to admit at a job interview, either.
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2013 Oscars Blog | People's Critic: Film Reviews - seattlepi.com
Live from my living room?.it?s the 2013 Oscars. My party consists of hummus, Gatorade, Twitter, and a space heater. Bring on the awards!
5:30PM ? The opening from Seth McFarlane is pretty lackluster. I would?ve never thought he?d be hosting a show like this. As I imagined the opening turned into a bit from Family Guy. Dance number, puppets, Captain Kirk. It feels like a bad opening for the MTV Awards
I can?t believe I?m missing The Walking Dead for this.
5:47 ? The first award goes to Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained. Leo is somewhere screaming ?That?s MY Oscar?. It?s Waltz second Oscar and well deserved. He?s a pretty film treasure. I hope we get to see more of him soon.
5:55 ? Paperman wins for Best Animated Short. I loved it. Simple, cute, and engaging. ?Best Animated feature goes to Brave.? The best part was the guy who accepted the award wore a kilt. See what Kanye West started.
6:05 ? The Avengers assemble, minus Thor, to hand out the award for cinematography. The Oscar goes to Life of Pi. So far the winners haven?t been a disappointment. Pi gets back-to-back awards winning for Visual Effects as well.
I love the Jaws music as the play off music for the speakers. Hilarious
6:17 ? Anna Kjoinnaoinfoe wins an award for Costume Design while Les Mis wins its first award for Make Up. How do they even decide those categories? Does the entire makeup team get an Oscar? If I clean the makeup kits, do I get an award too?
Halle Berry hasn?t aged in years. She leads off the Bond montage bridges into Shirley Bassey singing Goldfinger. It?s a reminder at how long the Bond themes have been around and how much they?re a part of Hollywood. Bassey sounds amazing. I hope Alicia Keys is watching this and taking notes.
This Scandal commercial just reminded me why I love Kerry Washington.
Why wasn?t Richard Parker nominated. He was one of my favorite supporting actors this year. I want him to win just for the awkward exchange between Anne Hathaway and a live tiger. That would be riveting?television.
6:32 ? Kerry Washington comes out to present as if I needed another reminder. It?s smart doing the Best Picture nominees in batches. What?s not smart is how these montages are giving away the entire movie. They should come with spoiler alerts.
Searching for Sugar Man wins for Best Documentary. It?s such a good film by a first time director. Seth McFarlane?s jokes have been hit and miss for most of the night.
Musical montages are kryptonite for people who hate musicals. Luckily it?s Catherine Zeta-Jones so you can?t be too mad. The Chicago, Dreamgirls, Les Mis musical performance gets a standing ovation. Hilarious seeing Russell Crowe pop up on stage. Critics have killed Les Mis for Crowe?s performance. ?I bet he threatened to go Gladiator on everyone if they didn?t include him. Surprisingly he didn?t sound like a drowning cat this time.
7:09 ? Captain Kirk and Uhura are giving out awards for tech. Everyone?s favorite foul mouth stuffed animal Ted makes some orgy jokes/Jewish jokes that I?m sure are going to get ABC some lovely letters from parents all over. ?I?m not sure when the ?edgy? Oscar jokes became a thing, but it looks like the jokes are here to stay.
I can?t believe they have a tie for the sound editing Oscar. Has this ever happened before? This is messing up Oscar pools everywhere. How do you tie for an Oscar when you can?t tie in Uno. Something doesn?t seem right.
I think guys with long hair are 5-0 tonight.
Best Supporting Actress goes to Anne Hathaway for getting her haircut and her tooth pulled out. I would love to see her win for The Dark Knight Rises. It even looks like she?s still wearing that necklace she stole from Bruce Wayne.
ABC finally nails it with a great promo for Nashville. We need more of those tonight. ?Who knew the girl for Heroes would become a country singer.
7:29 ? ARGO wins ARGO wins?for editing. Let?s hope it?s a sign of things to come later.
Jennifer Lawrence is amazing. That is all.
Adele?s Skyfall is in my Top 5 Bond songs. Of course, Adele?s performance is dope as always. She?s got such an amazing voice. ?I want her to sing Skyfall at my wedding and every major sporting event.
7:43 ? Kristen Stewart looks like she?s still transforming into a vampire or has been hanging out with Snoop backstage. They need to get her off screen pronto.
7:57- The In Memoriam part of the show is always sad. I wonder who gets the last shot. Composer Marvin Hamilsch gets the final photo followed by a sad Barbara Streisand song.
McFarlane nails a hilarious Rex Reed joke. So far he?s got in a few good zingers.
Adele wins again. That makes a Golden Globe, Grammy, and Oscar in one year. Not bad. Not bad at all. She?s running for President next.
My friend Maia just tweeted ?Adele could sing the ingredients from a Lean Cuisine box for all I care?. I couldn?t agree more.
How tall is Charlize Theron because Dustin Hoffman looks like TED standing next to her. Adapted Screenplay goes to Argo while Original Screenplay Tarantino for Django. That?s the first big surprise of the night.
I?m still campaigning for The Academy to make a category for Best Villain. Who wouldn?t want to see Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston, and Javier Bardem up there tonight? That?s a win-win.
8:43 ? Time for the big awards. Ang Lee snags the first one for Life of Pi. Two shockers in a row with Tarantino and Ang Lee winning. My Oscar pics are all messed up. I?m happy for Ang Lee and everyone involved in Life of Pie. It?s such a beautiful movie.
Best Actress is up next and I have big money on Jennifer Lawrence although I did love Jessica Chastain?s performance?..and she wins. 2012 was the Year of J.Law. Good for her until she fell on the stairs. I?m sure those internet memes of her falling will be popping off soon. Either way, Katniss won The Hunger Games and an Oscar. Great year for her.
Daniel Day Lewis wins in the only category that was a lock since Lincoln came out. In heaven, I fully expect Lincoln to be Daniel Day Lewis. Daniel Day also delivers the best speech of the night. That man can do no wrong. I need Zac Efron to play younger me in my biopic and Daniel Day Lewis to play the older me.
FLOTUS with the biggest surprise of the night ? she?s presenting for Best Picture. The Oscar goes to Argo. Ben did it! Who knew he?d be here after Gigli and Daredevil. I?m happy for Ben. His career has made a complete 180.? Not to mention he?s 3 for 3 directing movies.
Always a fun time at the Academy Awards. Till next year.
Source: http://blog.seattlepi.com/peoplescritic/2013/02/24/2013-oscars-blog/
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Nielsen compares mobile consumers across the globe, details the differences in how we connect
Right in-time with MWC, Nielsen's latest report provides some insight into how folks in different regions are using their mobile devices. On the whole, many of the findings aren't exactly shockers. Among many highlights, owners of smartphones and feature phones don't use their respective devices for the same tasks, while developed areas are more likely to have upwards of 4G connectivity with higher smartphone adoption rates. As you'd might imagine, people in regions with under-developed infrastructure tend to gravitate toward the likes of simpler, less costly feature phones. Diving deeper with some specifics, Nielsen points out that US-based users of smartphones gravitate toward map and video apps, contrasting that those in China are hungrier for info about weather and news. If you'd like to confirm any more of your suspicions about how mobile devices are being used across the globe, you'll find all the details your noggin desires at the source link below.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Softball Team Set To Open Season In Lyon College Invitational
Ozarks is set to play two games on Saturday and Sunday. The Lady Eagles will take on William Penn at noon and then Evangel at 2:00 pm on Saturday. The Lady Eagles will face William Penn at noon and Lyon College at 2:00 pm on Sunday.
Fans can follow Sunday?s games through Lyon College?s live stats: http://www.dakstats.com/WebSync/Pages/Tournament/TournamentPage.aspx?association=10&sg=WBA&tour=1033
LYON COLLEGE INVITATIONAL
(at Howard & Mary House Field)
Saturday, Feb. 23
William Penn vs. Evangel, 8 a.m.
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William Penn vs. U. of the Ozarks, 12-noon
Evangel vs. U. of the Ozarks, 2 p.m.
Lyon College vs. William Penn, 4 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 24
Lyon College vs. William Penn, 10 a.m.
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Lyon College vs. U. of the Ozarks, 2 p.m
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Snow, freezing rain to lash New England through Sunday
The Weather Channel's Kim Cunningham has the latest on a storm that's headed to New England and a second storm that's coming out of the Rockies.
By Craig Giammona, Writer, NBC News
Parts of New England braced for snow on Saturday, with Boston prepared for a mix of snow and freezing rain in the third storm to rake the area in three weekends. The mix will likely make a messy end for a powerful storm system that headed eastward after slamming much of the Midwest with snow earlier this week, meteorologists said.
As many as 1 to 3 inches of snow could fall in Boston, with the heaviest snowfall expected between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
?I?m not thrilled that we?ve got more snow coming this weekend. I?ve had enough of winter,? Boston area resident John Bonnanzio, 54, told Reuters.
But other residents were ready to make the most of the coming storm.
?I?m excited,? Jesse Beecher, 29, told Reuters. ?I went out skiing in the streets during the last one, and I?ll do the same thing again.?
A winter weather advisory was set to go into effect for much of the region starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
The storm system, which left much of the Midwest buried under snow, has the potential to cause flooding in the southeastern United States and was expected to bring precipitation to much of the east coast, including New York City and north into Massachusetts. The Weather Channel said parts of southern Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and northern and central Massachusetts could see up to 6 to 9 inches of snow over the weekend.
The massive storm system resulted in 570 flight cancellations on Friday, including 127 at Chicago?s O?Hare airport, Reuters said.
Meanwhile, a storm in the Pacific Northwest was expected to dump 2 to 3 feet of snow on the Cascade Mountains through the weekend, according to the National Weather Service. The weather service issued winter storm warnings for parts of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Utah on Friday.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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White House petition to legalize cell phone unlocking gets 100,000 signatures
(Recasts, adds witness and driver quotes, details) Feb 23 (Reuters) - A fiery pile-up at the Daytona speedway on Saturday injured at least 28 fans and a driver after the 10-car crash sent car debris, including a tire, flying into the crowd in the final lap of the Nationwide NASCAR race. Race officials said 14 fans were sent to nearby hospitals and another 14 were treated at the Florida track, which will host the prestigious Daytona 500 race on Sunday. "Stuff was flying everywhere," spectator Terry Huckaby, whose brother was sent to the hospital with a leg injury, told the ESPN sports network. ...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
PanAm for the issued by Environment Canada
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Drake's 'Started From The Bottom' Proves He's 'Not Normal,' Birdman Says
'He's setting his own tone and his own everything with music,' Birdman says of Drake's new music.
By Nadeska Alexis, with reporting by Rob Markman
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Disruption of circadian clock linked to obesity, diabetes and heart attacks
Feb. 21, 2013 ? Disruption in the body's circadian rhythm can lead not only to obesity, but can also increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
That is the conclusion of the first study to show definitively that insulin activity is controlled by the body's circadian biological clock. The study, which was published on Feb. 21 in the journal Current Biology, helps explain why not only what you eat, but when you eat, matters.
The research was conducted by a team of Vanderbilt scientists directed by Professor of Biological Sciences Carl Johnson and Professors of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Owen McGuinness and David Wasserman.
"Our study confirms that it is not only what you eat and how much you eat that is important for a healthy lifestyle, but when you eat is also very important," said postdoctoral fellow Shu-qun Shi, who performed the experiment with research assistant Tasneem Ansari in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center.
In recent years, a number of studies in both mice and men have found a variety of links between the operation of the body's biological clock and various aspects of its metabolism, the physical and chemical processes that provide energy and produce, maintain and destroy tissue. It was generally assumed that these variations were caused in response to insulin, which is one of the most potent metabolic hormones. However, no one had actually determined that insulin action follows a 24-hour cycle or what happens when the body's circadian clock is disrupted.
Because they are nocturnal, mice have a circadian rhythm that is the mirror image of that of humans: They are active during the night and sleep during the day. Otherwise, scientists have found that the internal timekeeping system of the two species operate in nearly the same way at the molecular level. Most types of cells contain their own molecular clocks, all of which are controlled by a master circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the brain.
"People have suspected that our cells' response to insulin had a circadian cycle, but we are the first to have actually measured it," said McGuinness. "The master clock in the central nervous system drives the cycle and insulin response follows."
Insulin, which is made in the pancreas, plays a key role in regulating the body's fat and carbohydrate metabolism. When we eat, our digestion breaks down the carbohydrates in our food into the simple sugar glucose, which is absorbed into the blood stream. Too much glucose in the blood is toxic, so one of insulin's roles is to stimulate transfer of glucose into our cells, thereby removing excess glucose from the blood. Specifically, insulin is required to move glucose into liver, muscle and fat cells. It also blocks the process of burning fat for energy.
Insulin action -- the hormone's ability to remove glucose from the blood -- can be reduced by a number of factors and is termed insulin resistance. The study found that normal "wild-type" mouse tissues are relatively resistant to insulin during the inactive/fasting phase whereas they become more sensitive to insulin (therefore better able to transfer glucose out of the blood) during the high activity/feeding phase of their 24-hour cycle. As a result, glucose is converted primarily into fat during the inactive phase and used for energy and to other tissue building during the high activity phase.
"That is why it is good to fast every day...not eat anything between dinner and breakfast," said Johnson.
The researchers also examined what happened to insulin action when the circadian clocks of individual mice are disrupted.
One approach that they used was to study special "knock-out" mice that had one of the genes necessary for proper biological clock function removed. They found these mice appeared to be locked in an insulin-resistant mode around the clock comparable to the inactive/fasting phase. After feeding on a high-fat diet, they tended to gain more weight and carry more fat than wild-type mice. However, supplying them with the protein produced by the missing gene re-established their circadian rhythm, reduced their insulin resistance and prevented them from gaining excess fat.
Another approach was to place normal "wild-type" mice in a constantly lit environment that disrupted their circadian cycle. In this case, they found the mice were locked in the inactive/fasting phase, developed a higher proportion of body fat and gained more weight on a high-fat diet than wild-type mice despite actually eating less food. Obesity and the insulin resistance that accompanies it, increases the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
According to the researchers, this helps explain the increased frequency of obesity and diabetes among night-shift workers and people suffering from disruption of their clocks and normal sleep patterns.
The researchers also found that high-fat diets disrupted the circadian clock of wild-type mice living in a normal day/night cycle. As a result, their insulin cycle defaulted to the inactive/fasting phase, which helps explain why high-fat diets lead to weight gain.
The study was supported by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases grants DK059637, DK020593 and DK076169-04, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute grant R21HL1029492-01A1 and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation's NARSAD Young Investigator Award #17623.
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- Shu-Qun Shi, Tasneem S. Ansari, Owen P. Mcguinness, David H. Wasserman, Carl Hirschie Johnson. Circadian Disruption Leads to Insulin Resistance and Obesity. Current Biology, 21 February 2013 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.01.048
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Problems with new Samsung chip in Galaxy S IV may lead to a huge win for Qualcom...
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Plume adds its own open-sourced DashClock Widget extension
Another day, another DashClock Widget extension, it seems. The latest is from Twitter app Plume. It's doing things a little bit different. Whereas Falcon Pro baked its DashClock extension directly into the app, Plume's is a separate download. That's an extra step, but Plume developer LevelUp Studio also released its extension code as open-source which in addition to being awesome is also in the spirit of DashClock Widget, which itself is open-sourced.
A reminder that you'll need Android 4.2.x to use DashClock Widget.
Hit the link above to download the extension. And hit the link below for the raw code.
More: Plume for DashClock on Github
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
News Is a Feature-Rich Google News Client for Android
Android: The succinctly-named News is a powerful app for staying on top of the latest developments in the world.
Upon launching the app, you'll be presented with a list of top headlines from Google News, and the Holo-themed top navigation will let you switch between different verticals. You can also create custom searches that will populate alongside the default topics. Turn your device sideways, and the interface will switch to a handy two-column layout, which tablet owners will surely appreciate.
Tapping on a story will present you with a full-width photo and a few sentences from the article. Unfortunately, to see the entire story you'll need to open it in a web browser, or send it to a read-it-later service. The app has an experimental full text feature powered by ViewText.org, but it didn't seem to work particularly well in my testing.
Luckily, News redeems itself with a fantastic home screen widget. Each widget you place will focus on a single vertical or custom search, and will cycle through the topic's top photos and headlines. Some of the photos appear low-res, but it's hardly noticeable if you don't increase the widget's default size.
Though it has a few limitations, News is a great interface for sifting through the thousands of articles indexed on Google News every day, and it's available for free on Google Play.
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Hundreds Reported Injured in Blast from Meteor Strike over Russia [Video]
A meteor fireball lit up the morning sky over Chelyabinsk in?central Russia, producing a shock wave that shattered windows and injured an estimated 500 people. Although much of the parent object likely burned up in the atmosphere, Russian authorities say that several meteorite fragments have already been recovered,?according to the Interfax news agency.
A preliminary analysis posted to the Web site of the Russian Academy of Sciences estimates that the object that struck Earth?s atmosphere?was a few meters in diameter, ?the weight of the order of ten tons [and] the energy of a few kilotons,? according to a Google translation. That ?would make the Chelyabinsk event a fairly common occurrence, although such strikes usually occur over less-populated regions, not cities of more than a million people. On average, a four-meter asteroid hits Earth every year, delivering five kilotons of energy,?Southwest Research Institute senior scientist Clark Chapman found in a 2004 analysis.
The Chelyabinsk?impact appears unrelated to the close passage of the 50-meter asteroid 2012 DA14, which is expected to zip past Earth at a distance of less than 30,000 kilometers around 2:30 P.M. Eastern time today?inside the orbit of some satellites. On Twitter, the European Space Agency stated that agency experts have confirmed that there is no link between the two events.
A dashboard camera captured some dramatic footage (below) of this morning?s event.
We will update this post as more information becomes available.
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Online Video Ads Are Soaring - Business Insider
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Online Video Ads Are Soaring, But Only 5 Percent Are Mobile?(Videology via paidContent)
New ad industry figures from Videology, a provider of ad tools to agencies and marketers, claim the number of online video ads shown in the last quarter of 2012 grew an eye-popping 52 percent compared to the previous three months. This stat shows that TV dollars may be shifting to the Web in force; this could also be good news to publishers who are counting on high-value video ads to prop up their bottom line. The other significant part of the report is that the vast majority of video ads are still served on the desktop. Videology said that mobile?s share of overall online video ads grew one percent in the previous quarter and that the overall growth in video means mobile is expanding rapidly.?Read >>
GMC's Mobile Advertising For SUV Shows Mobile Ads Drive Awareness (Tapjoy)
GMC delivered ads for the Terrain to millions of mobile consumers via our Cost-Per-Completed-View ad unit.
The result was outperformance of historical brand recall norms for both TV and online video.? Read >>
HP May Get Back Into Mobile With Android (readwrite mobile)
Sources also say that HP is currently exploring the launch of an Android-powered smartphone, but recent comments from CEO Meg Whitman indicate HP will not offer a mobile phone this year. HP declined to comment on its plans. HP has been toying with Android devices since 2010, and some might remember the mysterious TouchPads that shipped with Android installed instead of webOS. Most recently, HP has teamed up with Google and released its own Chromebook.? Read >>
Trulia Gets A Boost From Mobile (All Things Digital)
A lot of companies aspire to have a mobile strategy, and then there are companies, like Trulia, that already have the beginnings of one. Pete Flint, CEO of the San Francisco-based online real estate company, says traffic from mobile had increased 120 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 year-over-year. "Mobile is an enormous opportunity for us," he said. "At some point in the future, we expect it to generate a majority of our revenue." Read >>
Intel's TV Service To Head To Mobile (Android Community)
Intel plans on launching its own Internet-based TV service soon, and it will also be compatible with mobile devices. Intel Media?s general manager, Erik Huggers, confirmed that the company had plans of launching their TV service to mobile devices across a variety of operating systems. Hugger did say, however, that Intel?s TV service will initially only launch on a select amount of platforms, and that it may take some time before it becomes available for every device. Read >>
Verve Mobile Raises $14 Million For Mobile Advertising Platform (FinSMEs)
Verve Mobile, a mobile advertising company with offices in New York, DC, and San Diego, has raised $14 million in a Series C round led by Nokia Growth Partners, with participation from Qualcomm Ventures and BlueRun Ventures. The company powers location-aware, data-driven, and targeted marketing for brands looking to reach consumers on their mobile devices.?Read >>
There's No Plan B For Microsoft In Mobile (Reuters)
Microsoft has not made much of a dent in Apple's and Google's domination of mobile computing, but a top executive hinted on Wednesday that it will not stop trying and does not have an alternative strategy to the current one. "We're very focused on continuing the success we have with PCs and taking that to tablets and phones," Microsoft's Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein said at the annual Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference. Given Microsoft's lack of success so far, he was asked if there was an alternative strategy or "Plan B" in reserve. "It's less 'Plan B' than how you execute on the current plan," said Klein. "We aim to evolve this generation of Windows to make sure we have the right set of experiences at the right price points for all customers." Read >>
Nokia Rumored To Join Apple In Dumping Samsung (AppleInsider)
"Apple isn't the only one moving away from Samsung," a well connected hardware industry source tells AppleInsider. Among the companies evaluating their alternatives to Samsung as a supplier is Nokia, the world's second largest phone maker after Samsung. In January, Samsung said it will not reduce capital investments this year, despite concerns around losing Apple's business. The company also warned that "the furious growth spurt seen in the global smartphone market last year is expected to be pacified by intensifying price competition." Read >>
iOS 6 Users Generate 83 Percent Of All iOS Traffic (Chitika)
In order to provide some additional perspective as to iOS 6.1.1's impact on the iPhone ecosystem in North America, Chitika Insights has generated the below graph.
Using the same data set of millions of mobile ad impressions from the Chitika network, this graph represents the iOS version distribution amongst North American iPhone Web traffic, in particular.? Read >>
Exploring The Quality And Our Understanding Of Mobile Data Services (Citrix via Mobile Marketing Watch)
Citrix ByteMobile Mobile Analytics Report is providing insight into mobile subscriber behavior and related factors that determine quality of experience (QoE) for mobile data services today. Read >>
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Almanac Online : Real estate: The rebirth of the Eichler
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"I was driving down the street and came upon them. I felt like I landed on the moon! I was immediately in love," she said.
Initially it was just because they're so different.
"I had never seen anything like that before. People have that reaction to them: It's so out of this world; you don't see (them) anywhere else," she said.
"For me, it was sort of like when you meet a soul mate; you have an instant connection. It's not just the style; it's the spirit of them. It's like a euphoric feeling. It's hard to explain," she added.
Today, Lombardelli doesn't just want to live in or own an Eichler; she wants to build them for others. And not copies. The real thing, only better: energy efficient and made with sustainable materials.
The Eichlers that struck Lombardelli's fancy were mostly built in the mid-1950s by developer Joseph Eichler -- 11,000 homes in the Bay Area, including Palo Alto (2,700), Sunnyvale (1,100), Lucas Valley (900) and San Mateo (800), and a smattering in Sacramento and southern California.
Working with a series of architects (S. Robert Anshen and William Stephen Allen, Claude Oakland, Aaron Green, all of San Francisco, as well as A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons of Los Angeles), Eichler created a distinctive midcentury modern look that included post-and-beam construction, an open courtyard or atrium, large glass windows and sliding doors, radiant floor heating, an expandable kitchen counter and a laundry center in the bedroom wing.
While not at the lowest price point for post-World War II housing (homes in Palo Alto's Fairmeadow neighborhood went for under $16,000 in 1951, with Atherton's Lindenwood houses selling for $42,500 in the 1950s), the homes were accessible to the average person. Eichler's target homebuyer was a 32-year-old junior executive with two children who earned between $420 and $500 per month, according to a 1954 newspaper account.
The homes quickly garnered architectural kudos from the Housing Research Foundation, the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Sunset and Parents' magazines and the St. Louis University Home Building Institute. They were even named Life Magazine's House of the Year in 1953.
As a Realtor in Menlo Park for the past four years, Lombardelli, 34, has seen first-hand how seldom Eichlers turn over.
"Eichlers are so hard to find; the average days on market is nine," she said, noting that one can find seven homes on the market in a good month all over the Peninsula.
"Normally there are just two or three in Palo Alto," she added, noting that she has clients waiting four or five months for the right atrium model to come on the market.
The passion for Eichlers seems relatively new. "Before, Realtors were embarrassed to list an Eichler," she said, and seldom posted photos of the front of the home. Instead, they'd feature the living room or dining room.
"A lot of Realtors five or six years ago would not even show Eichlers. They didn't want to show (buyers) something that looked like a trailer," she added.
But in the last two years, sales have soared even as home prices in general have risen.
Nancy Goldcamp, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker, Palo Alto, acknowledges pent-up demand and multiple offers. She could only find about 30 Eichler sales in Palo Alto in 2012, along with another 50 or so "contemporary" homes. Her listing on Cork Oak Way drew three offers and went for above the asking price.
"It seems in the last five years there's a greater preference for things contemporary (with) cleaner lines. ... Renewable materials -- cork, bamboo, recycled glass -- lend themselves to simple execution," Goldcamp said.
"If you go back and look at Eichlers, they were very simple -- plain lines, easy living, not-complicated flooring, windows without moldings that didn't obstruct the view. There's a real desire for that look again.
"People are looking for more open spaces, less-defined eating areas. They like things more open, especially in the social areas of the house," she said.
Whether it's hitching onto the Mad Men craze or the desire for midcentury modern, Eichlers are making a comeback.
Lisa Knox, an agent with Midtown Realty, agreed.
"Everything comes in cycles. (Eichlers are) that retro, futuristic, optimistic sensibility that appeals to us in these troubling times," she said. "And they're beautiful -- quintessentially California."
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Today, Lombardelli specializes in selling only Eichlers through her Mid Century Modern Homes company in Menlo Park. But she's also recreating the Eichler Homes Development Corporation, complete with the original architectural plans (she's gathered about eight of the original 100 or so) and marketing materials.
Her goal is to work with local architects and contractors to individually build 2013 replicas of Eichlers, complete with atrium, radiant-heated floors, foam roofs and masses of double-paned glass. She's already contracted with Ned Eichler, Joseph Eichler's son, who provided her with original marketing materials.
She met him while she was researching a film, "People in Glass Houses: The Legacy of Joseph Eichler," which she made after interviewing clients and friends who had Eichlers. Her passion for Eichlers comes through in the trailer, which can be viewed at eichlermagazine.com.
Lombardelli was entranced with hearing how the original Eichler Homes Development Corporation came about. Ned Eichler, 82, who now lives in Tiburon, recalls working for his dad as a day laborer putting up homes in Sunnyvale while going to college. After the Korean War, Ned went into sales and later became marketing director.
"After World War II, there was enormous pent-up demand (for housing). ... Local governments were very receptive, and there was a big highway program and favorable financing.
"My father ... set out to prove that you could follow the tenets of (architect) Frank Lloyd Wright and make it work," Ned said.
Joseph Eichler was also renowned for his sense of social justice: He sold his homes race-blind, offering African Americans and Asian Americans an equal opportunity to buy at a time when restrictive deed covenants excluded them in other parts of town.
Ned said he advised his father against expanding geographically or building high rises.
"None of the things we were good at could be applied to high-rise building. Unfortunately, I was right," Ned said. The company filed for bankruptcy in 1967, although a few Eichler homes were built through the early 1970s. Joseph Eichler died in 1974.
Ned went on to become president of Levitt and Sons, another large home developer.
Forty years later, along came Lombardelli.
"She's devoted herself to making herself the Eichler expert. She has a tremendous amount of energy," he said.
While not a full partner, Ned "agreed to teach her what worked. I would inspect the plans to see if they stood up to aesthetic (standards) and inspect the construction. For that I will get a share of the profits," he said. He will be assisted by his son David, who's a photographer.
No one else had ever approached Ned about reviving the company.
"She's making it work. I'm not an investor or a partner, but I'm very pleased she's doing it and will help her as best I can," he said.
His son wholeheartedly concurs.
"I think it sounds like a great idea," he said. "Many of (the original Eichlers) are old at this time and require a lot of work to renovate. If you could have something ready to go that fits that aesthetic that's brand new, why not?
"I think it takes someone with real interest and passion for the homes. There are a lot of people selling homes and builders building contemporary-style homes, but I think it takes somebody who's really dedicated and enthusiastic (about Eichlers), in addition to seeing a simple business opportunity," he said.
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Lombardelli wasn't born or raised an Eichler aficionado. She grew up in a ranch-style home in Portland, Ore., then studied media broadcasting and went to work for MTV in New York.
"I learned a lot about film, got an agent in L.A., started working on films in L.A., but I always loved architecture," she said.
"I realized that not a lot of people knew what Eichlers were or didn't like the style or thought they were ugly. I wanted to do something that showed how beautiful they are," she said.
Serendipitously, she had the opportunity to rent part of the Bazett house in Hillsborough, the very Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home that inspired Joseph Eichler to produce his simple, indoor/outdoor homes for the masses.
"I basically experienced what he did; he lived there and came up with the idea to develop them. People say I'm weird and insane 'channeling Joseph Eichler,'" she said.
Joking around one day, a colleague said, "What are you, a reincarnation of Joseph Eichler? Are you going to start building them now?"
"And my response was, 'Why not?'" she said.
So far, Lombardelli's real-estate practice is fueling her entry into the building industry. And she's starting small, planning to build individual homes rather than tracts as Eichler did.
She's scouting for property and would even consider a teardown, as long as it isn't an Eichler, she said.
Finding the right lots is Lombardelli's greatest challenge right now. She's seeking land that's already been developed, with utilities in place and that is flat.
Knox, who lives in a Greenmeadow neighborhood Eichler, noted:"You can't just build them everywhere. You don't want to be surrounded by a two-story house when you're made of glass."
The next biggest issue is how to improve on the 1950s designs to make them more energy efficient and reliable. Being able to site the homes to take better advantage of sunlight is one advantage of not building in a tract.
"The (old) wiring is awful, more than half of the home is glass, and then you have the roof -- a huge issue of leaks. We have to do a foam roof ... with solar heating, solar panels," Lombardelli said, adding that she's aiming for certification by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program of the U.S. Green Building Council.
Lombardelli insists on including radiant heating, despite that system's history of problems in original Eichlers.
"It's part of the Eichler culture; these people grew up in them like this," she said. When selling an older Eichler that no longer has radiant heat, her clients just sigh, she added, pointing to "one of the joys of having an Eichler -- putting your feet on warm floors."
One thing she will replace is the glue that held the paneling in place; turns out it was highly flammable, she said.
But she insists on going back to the original palette, which Joseph Eichler took a very personal interest in. Those exterior colors included earthy tones of oak brown, Coast Guard gray, spruce blue, desert sand and aspen green, with accents in turquoise, sunflower, pumpkin or paprika.
She retold a story from Ned in which his father allegedly knocked on the door of someone who had painted his front door a color his dad didn't like. Joe told the man he painted the wrong color blue. The guy said, "This is my house, and I can paint it whatever color I want to," but Joe just told him it wasn't his house.
So far, Lombardelli's accumulated eight of the original plans, which were either designed by Claude Oakland or Anshen and Allen. Her sleuthing led her to visit the Palo Alto and Berkeley city planning departments to find out who the original architects were so she could contact the heirs and license use of the plans. Once she's paid the fee, she then can pass on the plans to an architect who can redraw them, reflecting changes in code relating to earthquakes, insulation and wiring, for example.
She's managed to track down the creators of three- and four-bedroom atrium models, a gallery model and several A-frames. She's still missing the source for a double A-frame. She's hoping an original owner may have the plans with the name of the architect.
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Today, Lombardelli's company is still in the design phase, gathering information and working on fine-tuning building costs, code requirements and product availability.
Costs won't be low because even Joseph Eichler used expensive materials at the time, said Mark Marcinek, a Palo Alto architect who has done extensive Eichler renovations. He's designed homes damaged by fire for which the insurance covered replacement costs plus code upgrades -- which is similar to what Lombardelli is attempting. He can replace the old cork tile flooring but would need to find a substitute material for the asbestos tiles, perhaps using slate. Marcinek said the old Thermador stoves were very high-end at the time.
But building homes one at a time is always more costly than erecting a tract. Eichler "got into mass production, had a block, poured all the slabs. He was building like Henry Ford. That's how he could offer a reasonable cost," Marcinek said.
Without those efficiencies of scale, each home will reflect today's building costs.
"If the money is there and the desire is there, you can make it work," he said. "With a cost-plus contract (where a contractor is paid for expenses up to a set limit plus additional payment to allow for a profit), she can't lose."
Knox agreed: "I think that sounds like a great idea -- as long as you could get it to a price point to where it would be comparable to a remodeled Eicher."
But will a true Eichler aficionado buy one?
Deborah Simon-Lurie, a second-generation Greendmeadow neighborhood homeowner, says she's not sure.
"Some might think it's better, and some might get stuck on it not being an authentic Eichler," she said.
She agreed with Knox that the cost difference in building a brand-new, energy-efficient version, compared to buying an older Eichler and redoing it, could be a deal killer.
Other longtime Greenmeadow Eichler owners were enthusiastic about Lombardelli's project -- especially since she's focusing on improving their energy efficiency.
"A new architect needs to pay attention to tightening up the Eichler. They're very hard to heat," said Laura Rankin, a Greenmeadow resident since 1964.
Nonetheless, she called the idea "marvelous."
Rankin had worked with her late husband, Carroll Rankin, to get the neighborhood listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
She pointed to the many Eichler imitations around. Developers who shared some of the aesthetic included Mackay, Brown & Kaufman, Coastwise and Stern & Price -- who mainly built one-story, flat-roofed, ranch-style homes in the 1950s.
"It doesn't take much creativity to duplicate it because it's very simple," she said. But what made Eichlers unique was their use of materials, such as redwood, which are now too expensive or no longer available.
Greenmeadow resident Walter Hays said he "can't see why anyone would have any objections (to the project). ... My own feeling is that Eichlers have a lot of nice aspects -- the indoor/outdoor feeling and light. The problem has been that there's no thought given to energy efficiency. Sounds like she's improving on that. That'll make it even more attractive."
Hays and his wife have already converted their windows to double-pane and added insulation, accessing a $10,000, interest-free loan from the city. His one regret is that they didn't change the tar-and-gravel roof to foam, he said.
Lombardelli hopes to eliminate the need for people to buy and renovate an old Eichler. And if she's successful in building individual homes, she's not averse to trying a modern-day planned community, possibly in southern California.
"My goal is to really stretch down there. I think there's a huge market down there in L.A.," she said.
"It's my job to put people together and make it happen."
In the meantime she's got her eye on an Atherton Eichler that she calls "her dream. I'm not going to say where it is, but it's my favorite so far. I told the owner to think of me when they want to sell."
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Animal kingdom lessons on love, lust
Zanna Clay
Juvenile female producing a copulation call while engaging with a high-ranking adult female. During sexual interactions, females embrace one another, touch genitals and swing their hips laterally. Often they remain in eye contact, as shown here.
By Wynne Parry
LiveScience
NEW YORK ? Sex. Many (but not all) animals do it. Partners come together to combine their genetic material in hopes of creating a healthy next generation for passing down their genes.
For humans, romance, love and sometimes Valentine's Day can be involved, although the formula varies greatly depending on culture. Meanwhile, other animals go about it in a dizzying variety of ways. Creatures may form pair bonds or mate promiscuously, like bonobos. Corals and fish spew their eggs and sperm out into the environment to unite there.
A panel discussion at the New York Academy of Sciences on Tuesday?explored how lust, and sometimes love, are manifested throughout the animal kingdom, past and present. Here are some of the top lessons science has taught about love and lust:
First, figure out who's who. "Sexing," the scientific term for figuring out whether an individual is male or female, has been a challenge for paleontologists studying dinosaurs. Looking for skeletal differences just didn't work, said panelist Brian Switek, who writes about dinosaurs and is the author of a forthcoming book, "My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs"?(Scientific American/FSG). In recent years, however, the task has become more feasible. For instance, paleontologists have begun looking in fossils for what is called medullary bones. Among birds, which experts consider to be living dinosaurs, females store calcium for egg-laying in this temporary bone tissue. [Top 10 Swingers of the Animal Kingdom]
Fatherhood can be complicated. "Thanks to molecular testing, we can now genetically trace, like Maury Povich, who's the daddy," said Danielle Lee, who studies animal behavior and behavioral ecology at Oklahoma State University. The results of testing: The female's social partner may not be the father of any of her young. Moderator Joshua Ginsberg of the Wildlife Conservation Society pointed out that the same phenomenon applies to humans. The man on the birth certificate is not always the biological father, although the rates at which this happens vary widely depending on the population. Marina Cords, a professor at Columbia University who has studied blue monkeys for 30 years, said that the female monkeys who live in harems "seem to get pretty tired of the one guy." She added, "They sneak around, too."
There's more than one way to get the girl. Not all males within a species are created equal. Among some animals, such as salmon and squid, some males invest more energy in acquiring the traits attractive to females. "Others are smaller: the wimpies, if you will," Lee said. These are the "sneaker males," which use their innocuous presence to their advantage to mate furtively with the females.
Don't believe in animal love at first sight. For humans, it's easy to interpret animal interactions as evidence of love. Cords, who studies monkeys, noted that she attempts not to attribute human characteristics to her study subjects, but "the question is, how do you know?"
Work in psychology that looks at the behavior of mothers and babies to assess their attachments has some applicability to non-human primates, she said. "I think that is a way of measuring what I would perhaps call akin to human love," Cords said. "I think it has to do with attachment and a certain feeling you have when you are with someone and you miss someone when you are not with them." In addition to behavior, primatologists can look at hormone levels, she said.
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A mating pair of the extinct turtle found at Messel Pit. Researchers suspect the turtles died as they were having sex and sinking to deeper layers of the lake where toxic gases were likley present.
Simulated sex can't trump a good specimen. Work with paleontologist Heinrich Mallison's digital model of Kentrosaurus, which resembled Stegosaurus with more spikes, has shown that the male dinosaur could not have been realistically expected to mount the female from behind, "doggy-style." Instead, the results suggest the female lay on her side, Switek said. He and Mallison are now working on a related paper. The science of dinosaur sex needs good fossil specimens, he said, citing the discovery of 50-million-year-old turtles preserved while mating. "It would be fantastic if someone found this in dinosaurs," he said.
Scientists' experiences and biases shape their questions. Lee, who works with rodents, has begun conducting experiments on the degree to which pairing a female with a male she prefers affects her success having offspring. This is the sort of question that would occur to a female ecologist like herself, but not necessarily to a man. Responding to a question about homosexuality in animals, she said it had not occurred to her to investigate whether adult females nesting together constituted any homosexual behavior. ?That is why we need more diverse scholars within those fields to ask those questions,? she said. [The Animal Sex Quiz]
Love is a turn-on for the human brain. When Stephanie Cacioppo, a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago, and colleagues showed people pictures of their beloved partners and recorded their brain activity, they saw increases in the release of dopamine, a chemical signal associated with rewarding experiences, and the release of oxytocin, a signal that is associated with pair bonding and empathy. For people who reported feeling madly in love, a part of the brain known as the angular gyrus became activated. This region is also associated with self-representation and language, she said.
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