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With “Top Kill” a Failure, BP Goes Back to the Containment Dome Plan
Posted by Andrew Moseman.
At this point the question “now what?” has reached a sort of repetitive absurdity in the Gulf of Mexico. With BP having failed to stop its oil leak with robots and failed with containment domes and failed with the “top kill” maneuver, the company has decided it’s going to try the dome approach again. On Monday, [...]
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Unseen Beasts, Then and Now | The Loom
Posted by Discover Main Feed.
In tomorrow’s New York Times I have an essay about the art of seeing Nature’s unseen–from the bestiaries of the Middle Ages to today’s images of feathered dinosaurs and upright apes. Check it out, and also check out the accompanying slide show about Conrad Gessner, a Renaissance naturalist who assembled the greatest zoological encyclopedia of [...]
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NCBI ROFL: The ideal elf: identity exploration in World of Warcraft. | Discoblog
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“In this study, we examine the identity exploration possibilities presented by online multiplayer games in which players use graphics tools and character-creation software to construct an avatar, or character. We predicted World of Warcraft players would create their main character more similar to their ideal self than the players themselves were. Our results support this [...]
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Top 10 science papers
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation • Review articleCell, Volume 144, Issue 5, March 2011, Pages 646-674 | Hanahan, D.; Weinberg, Robert A. […]
- Neural network applications in business: A review and analysis of the literature (1988-95) • ArticleDecision Support Systems, Volume 19, Issue 4, April 1997, Pages 301-320 | Wong, B.K.; Bodnovich, T.A.; Selvi, Y. […]
- TiO"2 photocatalysis and related surface phenomena • Review articleSurface Science Reports, Volume 63, Issue 12, December 2008, Pages 515-582 | Fujishima, A.; Zhang, X.; Tryk, D.A. […]
- Biodiesel production: a review • ArticleBioresource Technology, Volume 70, Issue 1, October 1999, Pages 1-15 | Ma, F.; Hanna, M.A. […]
- Hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials for ethanol production: a review • ArticleBioresource Technology, Volume 83, Issue 1, May 2002, Pages 1-11 | Sun, Y.; Cheng, J. […]
