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...Talent Google puts deals in one of two baskets - small talent buys and big strategic buys. In Picnik they got two for the price of one. Among Picnik's 22-person staff are three former Microsoft employees - "three of the best guys ever to step off the Redmond campus on one team," boasts Picnik adviser Burgess - along with other respected Web talents. Marcelo Calbucci, an entrepreneur who founded Seattle 2.0, a service for Seattle start-ups, estimates on his blog that Google paid at least $46 million for Picnik, possibly twice that much. Picnik and Google have both refused...
...antibiotics, cleaner water and improved sanitation and hygiene in general, which influences the type and amount of microbes that reside in the intestines. In the current study, scientists found that in TLR5-deficient animals, the total percentage of 150 species of bacteria in the gut was three to four times higher than in normal mice, while 125 other types of bacteria were less common. "We don't have a sense of which is more important yet - that some of those species are missing, or that some are in greater abundance," he says. The net effect, however, is that...
Using a number of different analytical techniques, the team sorted 14 seemingly disparate beak shapes into three broader categories...
...team found that finches within the genus Geospiza all have beaks differentiated only by scaling transformations, with only a single gene controlling each of the three dimensions. But for Galápagos finches outside of Geospiza, higher order mathematical transformations were necessary to account for the physical differences in the beaks, Campàs-Rigau said...
South African President Jacob Zuma received a less than cordial welcome when he stepped off the plane in London for a three-day state visit to Britain this week. The British media, renowned for their sometimes witty, often outlandish headlines and a tone that can swing between cheeky and downright rude, have vilified Zuma for having five wives, calling him everything from a "sex-obsessed bigot" to a "vile buffoon...