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...course this will tell us a lot about normal brains, but in the not too distant future we would like to apply it to diseased brains as well,” said lead investigator Dr. R. Clay Reid in an HMS press release. Reid did not respond to multiple requests for comment over the last week...
...this the future of American agriculture? This 2,500-acre centennial family farm in Geneseo Township, Iowa, is a hotbed of previously unmeshed technologies that have agricultural experts buzzing and farmers considering what might be. "Clay Mitchell is probably the most progressive farmer I've ever met," says Tony Grift, assistant professor in the agricultural and biological engineering department at the University of Illinois. While researchers have been studying for years how technologies such as wireless networks and the global-positioning system (GPS) could be suited to farm work, Grift says Mitchell, 31, is one of the first independent farmers...
Unfortunately, for many farmers, such technologies are still out of reach financially. Typical costs for GPS and wireless network systems can run into the tens of thousands. As the seasons pass, however, the results may more than make up for the initial costs. "When Clay first started with the autopilot, the economics didn't seem feasible," says Doug Hefty, a farmer neighbor of the Mitchells'. "But as time went on, I had the opportunity to see what the yield did on his corn hybrids. He surpassed me by leaps and bounds--it's embarrassing. He's using less fertilizer...
...Michael Chabon's new mystery novel, The Final Solution (Fourth Estate; 131 pages)--hang on, let's back up. This is Pulitzer prizewinning Michael Chabon? Wonder Boys and Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon? Byronic hair Michael Chabon? Why would an esteemed, respectable literary novelist like Chabon want to sully his fancy-pants reputation with a mystery novel...
...brand-new class is taught by Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology Noreen Tuross. The students spent their sojourn in the forest integrating field and lab work to investigate the accuracy of using phosphates to measure the intensity of land usage...