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 Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject: On the Record |
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| Nature.com wrote: | News
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
Scorecard
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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