When Tara Crawford saw a fishing net wrapped around a young California sea lion’s neck, cutting into its flesh and causing an infection, it reinforced her motivation to help these animals through her research.
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May 22, 2012
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The Bodleian Library is asking the public for help in cataloguing one of its collections. As part of a new project, members of the public are being asked to help describe 4,000 music pieces from the Bodleian Libraries' collections.
Internet
May 4, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new surveillance camera by Hitachi Kokusai Electric can look at footage that contains an image of someone, either still or video, and then search other video or still images on file for other instances ...
Predicting how large numbers of visitors to major events will behave is difficult. To prevent disasters, however, the police, rescue services and event organizers have to be able to identify dangerous bottlenecks, hidden ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 1, 2012
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By means of cloud computing, enterprises can access scalable computing power and storage capacity. A people cloud, by contrast, supplies a scalable number of workers via the internet. It is used when non-automated tasks are ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 29, 2012
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There are critics and readers who say American historian Richard White should not have made fun of rich people in his new book, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America.
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Jan 16, 2012
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If you're trying to drum up a crowd to go out for a drink after work, you're more likely to succeed if you're popular. Otherwise, you'll probably be going to the pub on your own.
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2011
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Do you know what the price of gas will be in six months? How about the extent of the expected U.S. troop drawdown in Afghanistan by year’s end? As an individual, predicting such things with any degree of confidence may ...
Social Sciences
Sep 21, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research published today on crowd wisdom — the statistical phenomenon by which varied individual guesses produce uncannily accurate average answers — has shed light on why we have a bias to ...
Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At a watershed moment in the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. called to a roaring crowd: "I have a dream!"
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Aug 26, 2011
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