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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:48 pm    Post subject: On the Record Reply with quote

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Nature 440, 262 (16 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440262a

On the Record

"How can we lose... when we have a NASA engineer on our team?"
-A contestant on the television show Survivor Panama is despondent after former astronaut Dan Barry fails in a team challenge. Barry was later evicted from the show by his team.

"It was the most rewarding poster I've ever done."
-Geologist Alison Rust muses on her experiments that compared lava flows to fudge.

Sources: CollectSpace.com, New York Times
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Genes and architecture

Singapore has hatched a plan to build a major bridge in the shape of the DNA double helix.

Roboshark

US Navy researchers are developing a shark-tracking tag they can implant in the creature's brain, which might someday control its swimming.

Weather forecasting

There is a new kind of betting on the US national collegiate basketball tournament this month. Correctly predicting the weather on competing campuses on the day of a game could net you a week-long tornado chase.


Number Crunch

Ever heard something dodgy on the evening news? A survey of local news broadcasts in 50 US cities backs up the notion that television isn't always a reliable place to get your health and medical advice.

1,799 health stories were broadcast during 2,795 top-rated news shows during October 2002.

33 seconds was the median length of those segments.

27% included an interview with a health professional.

23 reports described how duct tape could be used to remove warts.

Source: Pribble, J. M. et al. Am. J. Manag. Care 12, 170–176 (2006).
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