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...recent years, several new insects, spiders and beetles have been discovered in Britain, a trend many attribute to the ability of these species to survive winters warmed by climate change. In 2005, Edinburgh Zoo issued a public notice after several panicked Scots reported a non-venomous spider called a "false black widow" that had a disconcerting behavior of rushing towards people who approached it. The spider turned out to be quite common - in the Canary Islands...
...rough-hewn setting for Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel Trainspotting, the decayed dockside district of Leith, Edinburgh, provided a wonderfully seedy backdrop for a grim tale of nihilistic, drug-addled youth. But today, just 15 years later, Welsh's characters would struggle to recognize the Scottish capital's old port area. That's because over the past decade Leith - lying two miles (3.2 km) northeast of the city center - has experienced a rapid renaissance thanks to the closure of the docks and the cleaning up of once polluted waterways. The addicts have been replaced by white-collar workers, who live...
...Leith's focal point is the Shore: a café-studded quayside leading past a series of tranquil canals fed by the Firth of Forth. Overlooking this estuary is Leith's hippest address, the Malmaison Hotel, www.malmaison-edinburgh.com. It offers 100 individually designed rooms and a brasserie packed with Edinburgh's fashionable crowd...
...graduate of Edinburgh University and Tulane Law School, said she became interested in the death penalty in the United States after studying a case in college. After coming to the United States, Maw worked on death penalty cases for five years before getting involved with the Innocence Project...
Many great minds - Democritus, Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein - took giant steps toward bringing the universe's lost unity out of hiding. In 1964, Peter Higgs, a shy scientist in Edinburgh, added his name to that list by coming up with an ingenious theory that gave scientists the tools to explain how two classes of particles, which now appear to be different, were once one and the same. His theory proposes the existence of a single particle responsible for imparting mass to all things - a speck so precious it has come to be known as the "God particle...