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...three days in February examining the Liang Bua bones in Jakarta on the invitation of Teuku Jacob, Indonesia's most senior anthropologist, who gained possession of the bones for a brief period before handing them back to the Australian-Indonesian team that made the discovery. Thorne and another Australian scientist subsequently wrote a paper flatly rejecting the idea that a new species had been discovered. Jacob, who is among the fiercest critics of the H. floresiensis theory and has been accused by Brown of damaging the bones while they were in his possession (a charge he denies), led an expedition...
...business problem overnight and all members of your team are in different time zones? Start a wiki. In Silicon Valley, at least, wiki culture has already taken root. "A lot of corporations are using wikis without top management even knowing it," says John Seely Brown, the legendary former chief scientist at Xerox PARC. "It's a bottom-up phenomenon. The CIO may not get it, but the people actually doing the work see the need for them...
...recognition of the risks of rampant inactivity, this year the federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which have been issued every five years since 1980, included its most explicit recommendations to date on exercise. The scientists who wrote the guidelines struggled to boil down a complex array of research findings. The results, alas, were somewhat baffling. Americans were advised to get 30 min. per day of moderate-intensity physical activity "on most days of the week," 60 min. per day if they were trying to control their weight and up to 90 min. per day to maintain weight loss. Even...
...What works well is placing a student in a high quality laboratory under the direction of a well respected scientist, preferably someone known to a member of the department,” Biochemical Sciences head tutor Richard M. Losick wrote in an e-mail...
South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk revealed to the world last week that he had improved upon existing methodology to create embryonic stem cell lines tailored to individual patients, bringing the goal of individual stem cell therapy one step closer to fruition...