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...estimates that the perfect graduate student - essentially, a human computer that never eats, sleeps or takes a bathroom break - spending 24 hours a day, seven days a week analyzing Galaxy Zoo's data would have needed three to five years to match what Galaxy Zoo's volunteers collectively accomplished in the project's first sixth months...
...media landscape is changing by the day in London. Murdoch's News Corp. announced Friday, March 26, that it will start charging consumers ?1 ($1.50) a day or ?2 a week to access the websites of the Times of London and the Sunday Times. James Harding, editor of the Times of London, said the move was a "big risk but less of a risk than throwing our journalism away." Murdoch's Wall Street Journal has done relatively well charging for its online edition, with 407,000 paying subscribers in the six months ending Sept...
...boost, and boost to readership, but it doesn't address any of the fundamental problems for newspapers. Print advertising is in decline, because advertisers increasingly believe it is less effective than digital," says George Brock, a professor of journalism at London's City University. Even the 50-pence-a-day model fails to convince Brock, who argues that a price cut works only as part of a long-term strategic plan. When the Times of London cut its prices in the early 1990s to undercut its rivals, the move made sense only as part of a "seven or eight"-year...
Evaluation Day: Wednesday
...anti-gay ardor has cooled since May 1993 when Senators ventured to Norfolk Navy Base to explore the cramped sleeping quarters aboard a nuclear attack submarine and assess the impact of gays serving openly. Fifteen of 17 military personnel who testified at a hearing on the base that day strongly opposed lifting the ban. While opposition today isn't as high - and the public supports doing away with the ban - it remains a sensitive political issue, as Bill Clinton painfully discovered. He simply wanted to let gays serve by changing the regulation barring them from doing so. But Congress...