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Panelists explore the NSA and the ‘knotty’ question of the public’s right to know

By Guest PostDecember 9, 2013Politicsact, alaina pritchard, american journalism, american public, boston bombing, cia, congress, david a schulz, edward snowden, fisa, foreign intelligence surveillance, gabriel schoenfeld, guardian editor, hudson institute, james bamford, james risen, journalism, klamp, legal protections, massive surveillance program, national security, national security agency, new york, new york times, nsa, poynter fellowship, president harry truman, spencer ackerman, the puzzle palace, times square bombing, underwear bomber, us justice department

Without any sort of legal protections in place, journalists reporting on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) massive surveillance program are facing a huge challenge, said Spencer Ackerman, the Guardian’s U.S. national security editor, during a panel discussion at the Law School on Dec. 5.

Ackerman took part in a discussion titled “Investigative Reporting, Espionage and NSA Leaks” with James Bamford, who is widely regarded as the chief chronicler of the NSA, and Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. The discussion, sponsored by KLAMP and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, was moderated by David A. Schulz, the Floyd Abrams Clinical Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and partner at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz LLP in New York. (more…)

IBM Research and Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Convert Recycled Plastics into Disease Fighting Nanofibers

By Guest PostDecember 9, 2013Health, Technologyaids, almaden, antibiotic treatment, biocompatible materials, body, breakthrough with ibm, c albicans, cancer, disease fighting nanofibers, drug discovery, fungal blood infections, fungal membrane, hiv, hydrogen bonding process, ibm research, ibn, immune system, jackie y ying, james hedrick, medicine, mic, minimum inhibitory concentration, mrsa, nanotechnology convert, nature comm, organic catalytic process, pet bottles, polyethylene terephthalate, polymer like form, recycled plastics, targeted diseased sites, yi yan yang

Opens new applications for the nearly 5.5 billion pounds of PET bottles and jars available annually for recycling

SAN JOSE, Calif – 09 Dec 2013: Researchers from IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have made a nanomedicine breakthrough in which they converted common plastic materials like polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into non-toxic and biocompatible materials designed to specifically target and attack fungal infections. This research was published today in the peer-reviewed journal, Nature Comm. (more…)

Japanische Steuerzahler kommen für unrentablen Walfang auf

By Guest PostDecember 9, 2013Nature, Politicsantarktis, fangschiff, Greenpeace, greenpeace deutschland, greenpeace japan, hafen shimonoseki, igh, internationalen gerichtshof, Japan, japanische regierung, japanischer walfang, junichi sato, kate davison, marie zender, nordpazifik im sommer, see, subventionen, thilo maack, walfang, walfang programm, walfangflotte, yushin maru

Es ist makaber: Japans Walfangflotte erhält Subventionen aus den Hilfstöpfen für die Tsunamiopfer – und fängt Wale, die keiner essen will. Die Nachfrage nach dem Fleisch der sanften Riesen auf dem japanischen Markt ist nämlich zu gering, um die Kosten des blutigen Fangbetriebes zu decken.

“Eine Prüfungskommission kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die Gelder an die Walfangflotte aus den Wiederaufbaufonds inakzeptabel sei”, sagte Junichi Sato, Geschäftsführer von Greenpeace Japan. „Wir verlangen von Japans “Forschungs”-Walfängern, die gesamte Summe von 2.28 Milliarden Yen (etwa 16 Millionen Euro zurückzuzahlen.”

Greenpeace appelliert an die japanische Regierung, ihren unprofitablen Walfang einzustellen. Japans Walfangflotte stach am 7. Dezember Hafen Shimonoseki in See mit Kurs auf die Antarktis. (more…)

Ancient Minerals: Which Gave Rise to Life?

By Guest PostDecember 9, 2013Scienceancient minerals, exotic minerals, hadean earth, hadean eon, hadean mineralogy, metabolic energy

Washington, D.C.— Life originated as a result of natural processes that exploited early Earth’s raw materials. Scientific models of life’s origins almost always look to minerals for such essential tasks as the synthesis of life’s molecular building blocks or the supply of metabolic energy. But this assumes that the mineral species found on Earth today are much the same as they were during Earth’s first 550 million years—the Hadean Eon—when life emerged. A new analysis of Hadean mineralogy challenges that assumption. It is published in American Journal of Science. (more…)

Teens ‘Eat More, Cheat More’ After Playing Violent Video Games

By Guest PostDecember 9, 2013Health, Technologyaggression, alessandro gabbiadini, brad bushman, cheat more, chiara volpato, consumption of candy, eat more, ethical standards, italy, luca andrighetto, milano bicocca, minigolf 3d, moral disengagement scale, paolo riva, pinball 3d, playing, teens, university, university of genova, violent video games

Research finds effects go beyond increase in aggression

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Playing violent video games not only increases aggression, it also leads to less self-control and more cheating, a new study finds.

Researchers found that teens who played violent video games ate more chocolate and were more likely to steal raffle tickets in a lab experiment than were teens who played nonviolent games. (more…)

A Superconductor-Surrogate Earns Its Stripes

By Guest PostDecember 9, 2013Sciencecohesive theory, femtosecond, optical techniques, stripe phase, superconductivity, superconductivity mechanism, superconductors

Berkeley Lab Study Reveals Origins of an Exotic Phase of Matter

Understanding superconductivity – whereby certain materials can conduct electricity without any loss of energy – has proved to be one of the most persistent problems in modern physics. Scientists have struggled for decades to develop a cohesive theory of superconductivity, largely spurred by the game-changing prospect of creating a superconductor that works at room temperature, but it has proved to be a tremendous tangle of complex physics. (more…)

Konzerne tun alles, um Arbeitsplätze abzuschaffen

By Guest PostDecember 8, 2013Economyarbeitsplatz, europas, gas, klartext, konzern, nzz, oel, rohstoffe, steuer, strom, urs p gasche, zinsen

Steuergeschenke und Tiefstzinsen sollen Unternehmen zum Investieren bringen. Das schaffe Arbeitsplätze. Unsinn.

Die Bevölkerung soll schlucken, dass Unternehmen nur wenig Steuern zahlen und diese im nationalen und internationalen «Steuerwettbewerb» erst noch optimieren, beziehungsweise vermeiden können. Und die Bevölkerung soll schlucken, dass sie auf ihrem Gesparten keine Zinsen mehr bekommt, selbst wenn sie es brav und sicher auf Sparkonten anlegt.

Denn tiefe Steuern und tiefe Zinsen sollen es den Unternehmen ermöglichen, grosse Gewinne zu machen und mit diesen viel zu investieren, also neue Maschinen zu kaufen, neue Produktionsstätten zu eröffnen oder Dienstleistungsbetriebe auszubauen. Dank solcher Investitionen entstünden viele neue Arbeitsplätze. Das Schaffen von Arbeitsplätzen ist das angebliche Ziel der Steuergeschenke und Tiefstzinsen. (more…)

Nobels explained

By Guest PostDecember 8, 2013Scienceliterature prize, nobel committee, nobel laureates, nobel peace prize, nobel prize, prize winners

UD faculty members discuss 2013 prize-winners at annual symposium

Today’s chemists might work at a computer as often as in a laboratory, medical researchers studying conditions such as diabetes rely on understanding how cells carry and deposit materials within the body, and average investors in the market increasingly buy index funds to average out the short-term ups and downs of individual stocks. (more…)

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