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When Ammar Alkassar, 30, a young computer scientist in Aachen in western Germany, wanted to join a political party several years ago, he scanned the list of options that, in the past, have attracted voters like him (he was born in Germany to parents who migrated from Syria), but found the Greens and the old-line Social Democrats wanting. Germany's Christian Democratic Union (cdu) is on the right of the political spectrum and has not historically been associated with the ethnic minority vote. It[an error occurred while processing this directive] opposed full Turkish membership...
...cells. Europe has become an increasingly important base for that cutting-edge research, particularly as American and Asian efforts endure setbacks. The Bush Administration's limit on the use of federal money for human embryonic stem-cell research in the U.S. since 2001 has reduced funding and deterred some scientists from undertaking the controversial work. A report in Nature Biotechnology in April found a widening gap in the rate at which U.S. and non-U.S. research teams have published articles about human embryonic stem-cell research in scientific journals since 2002, and concluded that the U.S. was "falling behind...
...often that a new bird is discovered--worldwide, it happens maybe once a year. Bugun Liocichla, a breed of babbler that scientist types will come to know as Liocichla bugunorum, last week officially became the first bird discovered in India in more than a half-century. Ramana Athreya, a professional astronomer and amateur ornithologist in the northeastern part of the country, captured two of the birds--which take their name from the local Bugun tribe--in May, but the find had to be vetted by the scientific community before it became official. Since the species is so rare, Athreya...
...advertising watchdog group, says if neuromarketing boosts advertising's effectiveness even marginally, that's potentially dangerous. "We already have an epidemic of marketing-related diseases," ranging from obesity to Type 2 diabetes to pathological gambling," he says. An even more intrusive technology may be looming. Cambridge University computer scientist Peter Robinson led a team of people, including colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that developed software enabling computers to read minds. A video camera focuses on 24 facial features from which the software can often decipher a person's mental state, including comprehension, boredom and excitement. Robinson says...
...Open Letter to Scientists, Aspiring Scientist Types, Might-be Scientists but Not-quite-sure-what-it-means Types:Maybe you’re an aspiring doctor, or an aspiring pre-med, or you aspire to be an aspiring premed, but don’t really want to deal with all the perspiration. Or, maybe just maybe, you just happened to like AP chemistry.Take a look at the chemistry department.Dear Students-who-forget-what-a-“mole”-is: there’s always room in economics. Artsy-types-looking-for-interesting-ways-to-fulfill-a-Core: Stay...