Nine percent of the Western Hemisphere’s mammals—and up to 40 percent in some regions—may not be able to outpace climate change. “I think it’s important to point out that in the past when climates have changed—between glacial and interglacial periods when species ranges contracted and expanded—the landscape wasn’t covered with agricultural fields, four-lane highways and parking lots, so species could move much more freely across the landscape,” says Joshua Lawler, associate professor of environmental and forest sciences at University of…
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Mammals may not get to cool climates in time
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OMG! Texting ups truthfulness, new iPhone study suggests
ScienceDaily: Psychology News16 May 2012 | 9:02 amText messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study. -
NBA Fans Hurt Their Home Team's Free Throws
Sports Are 80 Percent Mental25 Apr 2012 | 8:25 pmAsk any NBA player or coach where they would prefer to play a high stakes game, home or away, and the vast majority will choose being in the friendly confines of their home arena. Overall, the win-loss records of most teams would support that, but they would do even better if they taught their home fans a lesson in performance psychology. When it comes to sports skills, research has shown that we’re better off to just do it rather than consciously thinking about the mechanics of each sub-component of the move. Waiting for a pitch, standing over a putt or stepping up to the free… -
the art of the animated gif
ze's page :: zefrank.com16 May 2012 | 11:02 amthese are stunning :: a great animated gif will have no beginning and no end :: by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg :: (via mymodernmet) :: -
Nvidia flaunts Kepler’s GPU power in video demos
KurzweilAI » News16 May 2012 | 5:11 amNvidia is flexing its graphics muscle at the 2012 GPU Technology Conference, and the videos below show off Kepler’s new visual tricks:real-time ray tracing, simulation of physical bodies, and cloud gaming powered by its new GeForce Grid system.
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Holy Kaw!
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Mammals may not get to cool climates in time
16 May 2012 | 12:09 pmNine percent of the Western Hemisphere’s mammals—and up to 40 percent in some regions—may not be able to outpace climate change. “I think it’s important to point out that in the past when climates have changed—between glacial and interglacial periods when species ranges contracted and expanded—the landscape wasn’t covered with agricultural fields, four-lane highways and parking lots, so species could move much more freely across the landscape,” says Joshua Lawler, associate professor of environmental and forest sciences at University of… -
Time of year matters for vitamin D risk
16 May 2012 | 12:08 pmWhen considering a patient’s blood vitamin D levels, it may be best to consider a lower threshold for concern, as well as the time of year. "In evaluating health risk," the University of Washington researchers conclude, "season-specific targets for Vitamin D blood concentration may be more appropriate than a static target when evaluating patients health risk." Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
The (not so correct) anatomy of sea life
16 May 2012 | 11:52 amMarine biology, scharine schiology. Pleated Jeans skips scientific facts for its series of sea life diagrams. Via Pleated Jeans. (H/T @laughingsquid) Laughing is good for you. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
The mechanics of eclipses [infographic]
16 May 2012 | 9:11 amWhen the moon passes in front of sun, as viewed from Earth, the eclipse that occurs is visible from a narrow path on Earth that corresponds to the location of the moon's shadow. During a total solar eclipse, this path is known as the path of totality. WARNING: Never look directly at the sun during an eclipse with a telescope or your unaided eye. Severe eye damage can result and scientists use special filters to safely view the sun. Via Space. The view from space. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
Clean air improves heart health, Olympics show
16 May 2012 | 8:39 amUsing the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a lab, researchers found evidence that even short-term reduction in air pollution exposure improves a person’s cardiovascular health. “Beijing is one of the most polluted cities in the world, and the Chinese government had proposed to reduce pollution levels to be comparable to other Olympic host cities,” says USC Professor Junfeng (Jim) Zhang. “We wanted to take advantage of such a huge intervention and look at what happens to people biologically.” Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Permalink |…
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OMG! Texting ups truthfulness, new iPhone study suggests
16 May 2012 | 9:02 amText messaging is a surprisingly good way to get candid responses to sensitive questions, according to a new study. -
Character traits determined genetically? Genes may hold the key to a life of success, study suggests
16 May 2012 | 8:59 amGenes play a greater role in forming character traits -- such as self-control, decision making or sociability -- than was previously thought, new research suggests. -
'Gaydar' automatic and more accurate for women's faces; Accurate even when faces were upside down, psychologists find
16 May 2012 | 8:58 amAfter seeing faces for less than a blink of an eye, college students have accuracy greater than mere chance in judging others' sexual orientation. Their "gaydar" persisted even when they saw the photos upside-down, and gay versus straight judgments were more accurate for women's faces than for men's. -
This is your brain on sugar: Study in rats shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory
15 May 2012 | 12:09 pmA new study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning -- and how omega-3 fatty acids can minimize the damage. -
Chronic child abuse strong indicator of negative adult experiences
15 May 2012 | 10:13 amChild abuse or neglect are strong predictors of major health and emotional problems, but little is known about how the chronicity of the maltreatment may increase future harm apart from other risk factors in a child’s life. Scientist have now taken a closer look at how chronic maltreatment has impacted the future health and behavior of children and adults.
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Sports Are 80 Percent Mental
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NBA Fans Hurt Their Home Team's Free Throws
25 Apr 2012 | 8:25 pmAsk any NBA player or coach where they would prefer to play a high stakes game, home or away, and the vast majority will choose being in the friendly confines of their home arena. Overall, the win-loss records of most teams would support that, but they would do even better if they taught their home fans a lesson in performance psychology. When it comes to sports skills, research has shown that we’re better off to just do it rather than consciously thinking about the mechanics of each sub-component of the move. Waiting for a pitch, standing over a putt or stepping up to the free… -
A Better Way To Evaluate NFL QB Draft Prospects?
7 Apr 2012 | 5:36 pmAndrew Luck - Robert Griffin III Your favorite NFL team breaks the huddle for the first time in 2012 and your shiny, new first-round draft pick quarterback comes to the line. As he peers out over the defense, everyone, from the general manager to the fans, is confident they chose the right player in the NFL draft because of his dead-on answer to this question, “A train travels 20 feet in one-fifth of a second. At this same speed, how many feet will it travel in 3 seconds?” Although he struggled with the next question, “What is the ninth month of the year?”, his overall… -
Daniel Wolpert On Why You Have A Brain
31 Mar 2012 | 6:35 pmDaniel Wolpert is absolutely certain about one thing. “We have a brain for one reason and one reason only, and that’s to produce adaptable and complex movements,” stated Wolpert, Director of the Computational and Biological Learning Lab at the University of Cambridge. “Movement is the only way you have of affecting the world around you.” After that assertive opening to his 2011 TED Talk, he reported that, despite this important purpose, we have a long way to go in understanding of how exactly the brain controls our movements. Daniel Wolpert The evidence for this is… -
Michel Bruyninckx Trains Soccer Brains
22 Jan 2012 | 4:22 pmMichel Bruyninckx When describing what’s wrong with today’s youth soccer coaching, Michel Bruyninckx points to his head. “We need to stop thinking football is only a matter of the body,” the 59-year old Belgian Uefa A license coach and Standard Liège academy director recently told the BBC. “Skillfulness will only grow if we better understand the mental part of developing a player. Cognitive readiness, improved perception, better mastering of time and space in combination with perfect motor functioning.” We’re not talking about dribbling around orange cones here. -
"Quiet Eye" Can Help A Surgeon's Patients And Golf Game
13 Dec 2011 | 12:33 pmSurgeons now have a really good excuse to be out on the golf course. Researchers have shown that the same training technique that will improve their putting can also improve their operating skills. Dr Samuel Vine and Dr Mark Wilson, from Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter, tested both elite golfers and surgical residents in two separate experiments using the gaze control technique known as the “Quiet Eye.” First, they divided 22 elite golfers, (handicaps less than 6), into two groups after their baseline putting performance was measured. The control…
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the art of the animated gif
16 May 2012 | 11:02 amthese are stunning :: a great animated gif will have no beginning and no end :: by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg :: (via mymodernmet) :: -
time-lapse european history
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underwater hotel
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surprisingly great cover of lmfao
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outtakes from colbert's interview with sendak
10 May 2012 | 11:06 amjust more of the wonderful :: nsfw (language) :: click below to watch
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KurzweilAI » News
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Nvidia flaunts Kepler’s GPU power in video demos
16 May 2012 | 5:11 amNvidia is flexing its graphics muscle at the 2012 GPU Technology Conference, and the videos below show off Kepler’s new visual tricks:real-time ray tracing, simulation of physical bodies, and cloud gaming powered by its new GeForce Grid system. -
Protein synthesis at synapses
16 May 2012 | 5:02 am(Credit: Iván J. Cajigas et al./Neuron)Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Brain Research researchers have used new-generation sequencing to directly identify a very large number (more than 2500) of mRNA molecules present in axons and dendrites. The finding my help explain how proteins establish long-term memories.During learning, information is stored at the synapses, the junctions connecting nerve cells. Synapses also require new proteins to show changes in their strength (synaptic plasticity). Historically, scientists have focused on the neuron cell body as the place where the required… -
Key genes for schizophrenia identified
16 May 2012 | 4:39 amTop candidate genes for schizophrenia. CFG, convergent functional genomics; GWAS, genome-wide association study; ISC, International Schizophrenia Consortium. (Credit: M Ayalew et al./Molecular Psychiatry)An Indiana University-led research team and collaborators have identified and prioritized a comprehensive group of genes most associated with schizophrenia and that can generate a score indicating whether an individual is at higher or lower risk of developing the disease.They used a convergent functional genomics approach that incorporates a variety of experimental techniques.The scientists… -
NASA trains astronauts for asteroid mission
16 May 2012 | 4:30 amArmageddon film (credit: Touchstone Pictures)NASA is training a team of astronauts to land on an asteroid to explore its surface, search for minerals, and even learn the skills they may need to destroy it should one pose a threat to the Earth.NASA hopes to launch an unmanned spacecraft that will use a robotic arm to collect samples from an asteroid by 2016 before sending a manned mission by the late 2020s.A manned mission will aim to rendezvous with an asteroid up to three million miles from the Earth, taking around a year to make the entire round trip. The astronauts could stay on the… -
Gene therapy for aging-associated decline tested
16 May 2012 | 4:27 amDirect GFP fluorescence in shaved back skin of mice treated with the indicated vectors (credit: Bruno Bernardes de Jesus et al./EMBO Molecular Medicine)Mouse lifespan was extended up to 24 percent with a single gene treatment in research at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), using gene therapy, a strategy never before employed to combat aging.Mice treated at the age of one lived longer by 24% on average, and those treated at the age of two, by 13%. The therapy, furthermore, produced an appreciable improvement in the animals’ health, delaying the onset of age-related…
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The Science of Sport
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The lifetime ban for doping: Debate continued
30 Apr 2012 | 10:11 amLifetime ban for doping: A debate continued So as expected, CAS today overturned the BOA policy of issuing a lifetime ban for any athlete who has served a doping ban longer than six months. This is hardly unexpected, and is a decision that probably owes much to the legal backdrop of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA's) policy which issues a two-year ban for a first time offence. That the BOA policy then issues an additional sanction was the root of the case heard at CAS, who ruled against the BOA. I wrote most of what I feel is relevant to this case in my previous post, where I… -
Olympic buzz: Around the rings
28 Apr 2012 | 4:21 amAround the rings: Life-time bans for dopers, Kenya's Marathon team and the Olympic mascots under the spotlight The British Olympic Association vs WADA on its lifetime ban policy: Decision expected Monday Next week should kick off with a Court of Arbitration verdict that will clear the way for some British athletes to compete in London, despite a British Olympic Association (BOA) policy that hands down lifetime bans for doping offenses. This in turn invites debate (and some heated emotional responses) on what exactly should be done to dopers - lifetime bans, or the current two year… -
London 2012: Kipsang & Keitany conquer London
22 Apr 2012 | 12:45 pmWilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany conquer the world's most competitive marathon The London Marathon today wrapped up a spring marathon season that leaves the world's elite nicely poised for the next big Marathon, the London Olympic Games. If I had to throw out one word that sums the last eight days of city marathons have shown, it's "patience". 2011 was the year that the Kenyans changed the marathon. They made it look like a track race, destroying fields and racing their way to an astonishing collection of victories and records in every Major city marathon. Rotterdam and… -
Olympic Games: 100 days to go
18 Apr 2012 | 12:49 amThe Olympic Games: 100 days to go One of the best things about the rapidly approaching Olympic Games is the discussion it provokes about the giants of their sports, who have often been quiet for a long time, but emerge for the Games. Bekele seems back, and how does that affect Mo Farah and Galen Rupp's chances? The suspense builds. Usain Bolt blitzed an anchor leg in a 4 x 100m relay last weekend, and then watched Yohan Blake run an impressive 9.90s season opener - the suspense builds. Paula Radcliffe wasn't as impressive, running 72:03 in a Vienna Half Marathon, the… -
Boston strikes back: The Boston 2012 meltdown
16 Apr 2012 | 12:35 pmBoston strikes back, as Kenya claim a double on a brutal day Wesley Korir and Sharon Cherop have won the 2012 Boston Marathon for Kenya. Surprise names, perhaps (particularly Korir), but you might, at first glance, call it "just another Kenyan victory". It was anything but. Today was a reminder of the difficulty of the marathon, because Mother Nature, so kind to Boston one year ago, decided to strike back and show the other extreme of marathon running. The winning times - 2:12:40 for Korir and 2:31:50 for Cherop, are a staggering 9:38 and 9:14 slower than last year's…
