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...inroads off-line. A Cheezburger-inspired book spent 13 weeks on the New York Times paperback best-seller list last winter, and three follow-up titles are on their way this fall. FAIL Blog ink stampers and Lolcats magnetic poetry sell like hotcakes. Contributors to the LOLCat Bible Translation Project, which launched in 2007, are almost through translating the entire Good Book into kitty pidgin. (It opens, "Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs.") I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL! is scheduled to debut Aug. 14 at the New York International Fringe Festival...
...took over LBNL in 2004 and immediately refocused the lab on researching commercially viable solutions to big energy problems. He set up two bioenergy institutes - one funded by a controversial $500 million grant he secured from British Petroleum - and spearheaded a major project to investigate solar energy. "Steve is a visionary, and he really galvanized the lab with his vision," says Paul Alivisatos, who was Chu's deputy there. But some scientists bristled at Chu's demand for dramatic scientific breakthroughs - brand-new ways to store energy, sequester carbon or fuel cars - as opposed to incremental engineering improvements. "Chu likes...
...critics quickly responded, was flawed. "Race is a sociological concept, not a biological category," says Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study. "But this study brings race into medicine as a biological categorization." According to the Human Genome Project, people are indeed well over 99% identical; at the molecular level race is imperceptible. But even while Albain's and other similar studies don't do much to shift the prevailing medical opinion - that disparities in health are fueled mainly by socioeconomics and access to care - they remind us that...
...fact, Baio already has ideas for future chiptunes experiments: Delta blues, Motown, or maybe Joni Mitchell's Blue. He just doesn't want to be the one to produce them. "The Kind of Blue musicians came together for one album and then broke up. It was a onetime project and this one is the same way," he says. "I don't want it to be gimmicky...
...applications can be approved or denied. Similarly, student issues do not disappear from one year to the next, nor do they lack import during the first weeks of the year. While the UC president and vice president have a history of remaining on campus throughout the summer to maintain project momentum—often with great success—functionally dissolving the UC in May leaves them alone to represent an entire student body until elections in October. No matter the prowess of the president and vice president, no two individuals can possibly hear and effectively address the multitude...