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How Do You Feel About Science?

By Guest PostJuly 19, 2010Culture, Scienceberkeley lab, davinci, eurobarometer, euroScience, euroscience session, Iceland, italy, london school of economics, martin bauer, nigerians, open forum, pascal, Technology, torino

You’re standing at the edge of watery abyss. What comes to your mind first? The beauty? The amount of electricity? How unimportant you are? How much money you could make with a visitor center?

How you answer says a lot about how you think, and as pollsters are beginning to wonder, how you might feel about science.

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Whether Glaciers Float May Affect Sea-Level Rise

By Guest PostJuly 19, 2010Environment, Sciencealaska, american geophysical union, calif, calving, columbia glacier, fabian walter, glaciers, glaciologist, icebergs, la jolla, scripps institution of oceanography, seafloor, seismometer, shad o'neel, tad pfeffer, usgs

WASHINGTON — Glaciers that detach from the seafloor and begin floating create larger icebergs than glaciers that stay on the sea floor, researchers have found. Floating glaciers also produce icebergs more erratically.

These new observations may help researchers better understand and predict iceberg production from glaciers and ice sheets, improving estimates of sea-level rise due to climate change.

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Photo Proof: Super Stars of the Universe Have Humble Beginnings

By Guest PostJuly 18, 20101 commentScience4.6 billion years, 85-meter telescope, Chile, department of astronomy, eso, european southern observatory, high-mass stars, NASA, nasa spitzer space telescope, southern sky, stefan kraus, stellar collisions, super massive star, universe, university of michigan, very large telescope interferometer

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The first close-up picture of a nascent super massive star and its surroundings has shown that the highest mass stars in the universe form just like their smaller counterparts. They are born from swirling disks of gas and dust, rather than from violent stellar collisions.

“How these high mass stars form has been a debate for 20 years,” said Stefan Kraus, a research fellow in the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy who is first author of a paper on the findings published July 15 in Nature.

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Report Names IBM No.1 in Global Middleware Software Market

By Guest PostJuly 17, 2010Technologyapplication server software platforms, ibm, idc, integration, international data corporation, it market, lombardi software, middleware, middleware software market, process automation, process automation middleware

ARMONK, N.Y.: IBM announced, on July 16, that industry analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has ranked it the worldwide leader in the middleware software market.

According to IDC, IBM was the leading worldwide application deployment software vendor with 31.9 percent market share based on revenue, nearly double that of its closest competitor.

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IBM Expands Cloud Computing Capabilities With New Cloud Competence Center in Ehningen, Germany

By Guest PostJuly 16, 20103 commentsTechnologycloud computing, dublin, ehningen, Europe, Germany, global technology services, ibm, ibm Raleigh, ireland, michael diemer, suse linux

*New Facility Delivers Commercial Development and Test and Desktop Cloud for European Clients*

EHNINGEN, Germany & ARMONK, N.Y.: IBM announced, on July 15, a new IBM Cloud Computing Competence Center in Ehningen, Germany, which will provide a broad range of cloud solutions and services to clients locally and internationally.

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Staggering tree loss from 2005 Amazon storm

By Guest PostJuly 16, 2010Environmentamazon forest, amazon storm, amazon tree loss, tree loss, vertical winds

WASHINGTON — A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, a new study shows. (more…)

Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans

By Guest PostJuly 16, 20101 commentCultureamericans, brooding, daniel katz dissertation fellowship, dostoyevsky, ethan kross, ethnographers, igor grossmann, isr, psychological science, psychology, russians, social research, tolstoy, ukraine, university of michigan, westerners

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy portrayed Russians as a brooding, complicated people, and ethnographers have confirmed that Russians tend to focus on dark feelings and memories more than Westerners do.

But a new University of Michigan study finds that even though Russians tend to brood, they are less likely than Americans to feel as depressed as a result.

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comScore Launches Video Metrix 2.0 to Measure Evolving Web Video Landscape

By Guest PostJuly 15, 2010Technologyabc.com, brightroll video network, cbs.com, Comscore, gross rating point, grp, hulu, internet audience, june 2010, nbc.com, scanscout network, tania yuki, top 10 video ad properties, top 10 video content properties, unique viewers, video ad, video metrix 2.0, YouTube

*Next Generation Online Video Measurement Service Features Video Ad Reporting*

*New Metrics Enable Cross-Media Comparability and Help Improve Monetization of the Online Video Medium*

RESTON, VA, July 15, 2010 – comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the introduction of Video Metrix 2.0, the next generation of comScore’s industry leading online video measurement service.

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