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Yap gives Albay P48M for besting national FIELDS
evaluation

post from Home on 05 November 2009 09:40:21 PM. © Home

LEGAZPI CITY?For topping all provinces in the 2009 national performance evaluation of FIELDS, Department of Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap announced a new P48-million funding for the irrigation priorities of Albay. ?FIELDS stands for Fields,[...]

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Reviews of several space-themed books for young
children

post from Planetary Society Weblog on 05 November 2009 07:32:40 PM. © Planetary Society Weblog

While I was on maternity leave I suddenly decided to see what books were out there that could help me teach my daughters (one's three years, and the other six months old) about the science and the thrill of space exploration. I bought a pile of them, finding a few that I really enjoyed. I reviewed two of them (Faces of the Moon and Cars on Mars) for the most recent issue of The Planetary Report (we always run a bunch of book reviews in our ....

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Malaysian Researcher Wins Japanese Award

post from Nerdy Science Blog on 05 November 2009 05:49:24 PM. © Nerdy Science Blog

A young researcher Dr Kevin Ng from Sabah, Malaysia has won the Japan International Award 2009 for Young Agricultural Researchers at University of Tokyo, Japan. The award was presented by Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery (MAFF).Dr Kevin Ng joined Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) as a researcher in August 1999 after graduating from [...]

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Hormone that affects finger length key to social
behavior

post from Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought on 05 November 2009 05:16:24 PM. © Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought

The hormones, called androgens, are important in the development of masculine characteristics such as aggression and strength. It is also thought that prenatal androgens affect finger length during development in the womb. High levels of androgens, such as testosterone, increase the length of the fourth finger in comparison to the second finger. Scientists used finger ratios as an indicator of the levels of exposure to the hormone and compared this data with social behaviour in primate groups.

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Caption This for 11/06/09

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 05 November 2009 04:45:00 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

This week's image: Be sure to vote for your favorite! A special thanks to English Rose for submitting this image.

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Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down
The Large Hadron Collider (Really)

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 05 November 2009 04:44:49 PM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Popular Science: The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine to add additional safe

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Weekly Dose of Cute: Bongo, baby!

post from Observations of a Nerd on 05 November 2009 04:25:09 PM. © Observations of a Nerd

No, not the small little drums. I'm talking about Bongos, the vibrant antelopes:

c/o the Houston Zoo and ZooBorns

Bongos are a kind of large antelope native to the lowlands and some mountains of Africa. They're at least two different subspecies: Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus (the lowland bongo) and Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci (the eastern or mountain bongo). Both subspecies are facing constant threats; the lowland bongo is listed as near-threatened by the IUCN and the mountain bongo is endangered, with more specimens in captivity than in the wild (~400 in Zoos in North America). The eastern bongo is one of the most threatened large mammals in Africa, with the most recent estimates numbering less than 140 animals, far below a minimum sustainable viable population. Captive breeding is this subspecies last shot at survival.

On a completely side note, this reminds me of a Manu Chao song... I'm the king of bongo, baby, I'm the king of bongo-bong. King of the bongo, king of the bongo...

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The Epidemic That Wasn't (Part 2)

"The virus that caused the greatest world epidemic of influenza in modern history – the pandemic of 1918-1919 – may have returned." Those words, written by Harold Schmeck, appeared in pages of the New York Times not in the fall of 2009, but during the winter of 1976. A month later,

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Keeping hearts pumping with 'LifeFlow'

post from Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought on 05 November 2009 04:00:57 PM. © Machines Like Us - Science at the speed of thought

When paramedics rush to the scene of a multi-car pileup or a terror attack, their first task is to assess who needs immediate care. But blood hemorrhaging can obscure damage, and the gruesome mess means paramedics can't always determine who should be treated first.

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Ares and the carnivals

If you’re jonesing for some spacey stuff and maybe some critical thinking too, then check out these three links:1) Starts with a Bang has a diary of the Ares I-X launch a couple of weeks ago.2) The 127th Carnival of Space is lying in wait at Next[...]

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