News tagged with madness
Feds: 'Meterological March madness' mostly random
(AP) -- Freak chance was mostly to blame for the record warm March weather that gripped two-thirds of the country, with man-made global warming providing only a tiny assist, a quick federal analysis shows.
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Review: Sea of rights limits March Madness digital
(AP) -- Madness is one way to describe my experience with March Madness Live, a service for watching the annual college basketball tournament on computers and mobile devices.
Mar 29, 2012 |
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3Qs: An inside look at the 'Madness'
March Madness is in full swing, offering college basketball fans an onslaught of games that feature epic matchups and dramatic finishes. Alan Zaremba — associate professor of communication studies and ...
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Mar 26, 2012 |
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The ranchland near Pincher Creek, Alberta, is a hot zone for grizzly bear encounters
The ranchland near the southwestern Alberta town of Pincher Creek is a hot zone for grizzly bear encounters according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Alberta.
Mar 22, 2012 |
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March Madness or March badness: Policies can help employees know limits on tracking scores online or with phone
It's NCAA Tournament time and that means finding a game or score online during the workday can be just a click away.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 14, 2012 |
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Ozone treated water v. lethal microbial material
A University of Alberta research team has discovered that technology commonly used to decontaminate food industry equipment can also rid meat processing plants of lethal microbial material responsible for the human version ...
Mar 02, 2012 |
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March Madness games no longer free online for all
(AP) -- Some fans will no longer be able to watch every NCAA men's basketball tournament game online for free.
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Prion proteins play powerful role in survival, evolution of wild yeast strains
Prions, the much-maligned proteins most commonly known for causing "mad cow" disease, are commonly used in yeast to produce beneficial traits in the wild. Moreover, such traits can be passed on to subsequent generations and ...
Feb 15, 2012 |
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New method for making human-based gelatin
Scientists are reporting development of a new approach for producing large quantities of human-derived gelatin that could become a substitute for some of the 300,000 tons of animal-based gelatin produced annually for gelatin-type ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Sheep with scrapie found in Japan
A dead sheep infected with scrapie -- a degenerative disease of the nervous system similar to mad cow disease -- has been found in western Japan, an official said on Thursday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 14, 2011 |
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Cancer is a p53 protein aggregation disease
Protein aggregation, generally associated with Alzheimer's and mad cow disease, turns out to play a significant role in cancer. In a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology, Frederic Rousseau and Joost Schymkowitz of VIB ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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New trash-to-treasure process turns landfill nuisance into plastic
With billions of pounds of meat and bone meal going to waste in landfills after a government ban on its use in cattle feed, scientists today described development of a process for using that so-called meat and bone meal to ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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March Madness odds tough for top seeds
Bracket fanatics beware: University at Buffalo researcher Alex Nikolaev, an expert in statistical analysis, has found the odds do not favor NCAA basketball teams seeded No. 1 in the big tournament -- at least not taken as ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Universal law of basketball: Duke professor's theory unites physics, engineering, and March Madness
Many of the top-ranked teams competing in the 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship tournament look familiar.
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Real March Madness is relying on seedings to determine Final 4
Think picking all the top-seeded teams as the Final Four in your March Madness bracket is your best bet for winning the office pool? Think again.
Mar 08, 2011 |
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