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Healthiest Pregnant Women Feel a Strong Sense of Community

By Guest PostAugust 4, 20101 commentHealthlower socioeconomic status, pregnant women, sense of community, women of color

ANN ARBOR, Mich. It takes a village to keep a pregnant woman at her healthiest, a new University of Michigan study shows.

The study compared African American and European American women and women of lower and higher socioeconomic status to see what effects communalism, or a strong sense of community, had on African American women and women of lower socioeconomic status. (more…)

Amazon.com Announces “Your Kindle Commercial Contest”

By Guest PostAugust 3, 2010TechnologyAmazon, commercial, gift card, grand prize, kindle, rich williams, united states

*Amazon invites customers to submit their own Kindle advertisement, with opportunity to win a $15,000 Amazon.com Gift Card as Grand Prize*

SEATTLE, Aug 03, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the “Your Kindle Commercial Contest” and invited customers in the United States to compete in a contest to create the best 30-second or less Kindle advertisement for the chance to win $15,000 in Amazon.com Gift Cards.

Kindle is the #1 bestselling item on Amazon.com for two years running.

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Rebuilding Missouri Flood Plains, Agriculture, Economy

By Guest PostAugust 3, 2010Economy, Environmentagroforestry, biomass, cottonwoods, flood, gene garrett, hank stelzer, john dwyer, mead-westvaco corporation, missouri farmers, missouri river, mizzou, mo, mu flood lab, new franklin

*Using a flood simulator, MU researchers reveal cottonwood trees as a profitable crop in devastated flood areas*

COLUMBIA, Mo. –When the Missouri River flooded in 1993 and 1995, it left a deep layer of sandy silt that covered thousands of acres of rich farmland. Now, MU forestry researchers may have found a crop that can survive a flood and act as a sustainable source of biomass.

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Ice Core Drilling Effort Involving CU-Boulder Should Help Assess Abrupt Climate Change Risks

By Guest PostAugust 3, 20102 commentsEnvironment, Sciencebedrock, climate change, cu-boulder, dorthe dahl-jensen, eemian, eemian ice drilling project, Germany, greenland, ice cores, ice sheet, interglacial period, j p steffensen, jim white, neem, north greenland, tyler jones, vasilii petrenko

Ice Core Drilling Effort Involving CU-Boulder Should Help Assess Abrupt Climate Change Risks An international science team involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that is working on the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project hit bedrock July 27 after two summers of work, drilling down more than 1.5 miles in an effort to help assess the risks of abrupt future climate change on Earth.

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IBM Closes Acquisition of Coremetrics

By Guest PostAugust 2, 20102 commentsTechnologyca, coremetrics, craig hayman, industry solutions, joe davis, real-time intelligence, san mateo, web analytics software, web sphere portal

ARMONK, N.Y. – 02 Aug 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the closing of its acquisition of Coremetrics, a leader in Web analytics software. Coremetrics, based in San Mateo, CA, will expand IBM’s business analytics capabilities by enabling organizations to use cloud computing services to develop faster, more targeted marketing campaigns.

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IBM and University of Aberdeen Collaborate to Identify Molecules from the Deep Sea

By Guest PostAugust 2, 20105 commentsScience, Technologyafm, dermacoccus abyssi, ibm, leo gross, marcel jaspars, mariana trench, marine biodiscovery centre, noncontact atomic force microscopy, pacific ocean, sea level, taiwanese orchid, university of aberdeen

–For the first time, atomic force microscopy helps scientists reveal the exact chemical structure of a natural compound

–Using this fast and accurate technique could open new possibilities in drug discovery and treatments

–Compound was extracted from a mud sample taken from the Mariana Trench, 10,916 meters (35,814 feet) below sea level

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Office for Mac 2011 Hitting Store Shelves This October

By Guest PostAugust 2, 20101 commentTechnologyeric wilfrid, mac, microsoft macintosh, microsoft office, office 2011

REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 2, 2010 — Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, the next version of the leading productivity suite for the Mac, will be available in more than 100 countries around the world at the end of October.

The suite will come in two editions to purchase at retail — Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011.

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A Cellular Housekeeper, and Potential Target of Obesity Drugs, Caught in Action

By Guest PostAugust 2, 2010Scienceberkeley lab, bing jap, cancer, crystal chuang, enzyme, eukaryotic cells, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, molecular breaks down, obesity, peter walian, proteins, roy kaltschmidt, tripeptidyl peptidase II

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have obtained the closest look yet of how a gargantuan molecular machine breaks down unwanted proteins in cells, a critical housekeeping chore that helps prevent diseases such as cancer.

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