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Yale astronomy graduate student Carolin Cardamone, who has published research on green pea galaxies, says astronomers were alerted to their existence by Galaxy Zoo volunteers who posted hundreds of images to the site's busy discussion forum. She says the project is an enormous boon to her field. "This is all hard, rigorous science," she says. "We're not giving [the volunteers] busywork to do. We're not doing this so they can have fun with science, but so they can participate in real science...
...Facebook event organizer, the social network was a natural forum to utilize for social activism...
...this afternoon, the majority of the material posted on the channel consisted of informational videos and recordings of public lectures and events. Overscheduled Harvard students can now watch John F. Kennedy Forum events as a means of procrastination...
...when the four were arrested in 2009) that the trial was retribution for a soured deal with Chinalco, China's huge state-owned aluminum producer, he wasn't showing it. He wasn't even in Shanghai but in Beijing, making an extremely conciliatory speech at the China Development Forum - a Davos-like conference for dozens of corporate chieftains. Premier Wen Jiabao attended, and global CEOs lined up obligingly for the handshake. (Read "Searching Questions: Internet Searches in China...
...same time, Wen has also said that "no one wants a trade or currency war." Even as the China Development Forum was taking place, Wen noted that a Chinese envoy was en route to Washington to discuss trade issues, and pointed with hope to a May session of the biannual Strategic and Economic Dialogue, at which high-ranking delegations from both sides will sit down in Washington. "You got a sense," says an American participant, "that he wants calmer heads to prevail...