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MAHMOOD SHIVJI, professor of marine biology at Nova Southeastern University, referring to a hammerhead shark mysteriously born in a females-only tank at the Henry Doorly Zoo, in Omaha, Neb. The incident prompted a team of scientists, including Shivji, to do research and find that some sharks can reproduce asexually...
...cheating--in an undergraduate survey conducted this academic year at a dozen colleges by Rutgers professor Donald McCabe, 67% of the 13,248 respondents admitted to having cheated at least once on a paper or test--some students are getting administrators to rethink their use of gotcha tools. Nova Scotia's Mount St. Vincent University went as far as banning Turnitin after the student-union president complained that it created "a culture of mistrust, a culture of guilt...
...super-duper nova, dubbed SN 2006gy, was set apart from the more common variety by what happened in the center of the star as it was dying. Typically, a massive star exhausts the elemental fuel in its core and begins to collapse inward. The outer layers blow off in a huge flare we recognize as a supernova while the core becomes more and more compressed, eventually forming the infinitely dense node that is a black hole. In SN 2006gy, the sheer mass of the star produced so much core heat and gamma-ray radiation that it created matter and antimatter...
...first in English, that got the interest of the hipster crowd on American shores, which continued with 2004's Nolita, named after her Manhattan neighborhood and imbued with her time spent there. In addition to her own albums, she has written for others, including octogenarian jazz and bass nova icon Henri Salvador, and a side project with Icelandic musician Bardi Johannson called Lady & Bird...
...Shavers and Hill were from very different backgrounds: he a native New Orleanian, she a North Carolina transplant who had lived in Nova Scotia. But their murders broke with the depressingly familiar trend of drug-related violence. And both victims were the type of involved, idealistic people that many feel are key to the city's recovery: Hill and Gailiunas, who has indicated that he will return to Canada, were part of the Food Not Bombs collective that provides meals to the poor, and Shavers successfully fought to establish a music program in one of New Orleans' notoriously underfunded public...