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Yahoo Debuts New Fall Comedy Lineup and Launches Mobile and Desktop Video Experiences

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2013Entertainment, Technologyburning love, cheryl hines, comedy central, erin mcpherson, fall comedy lineup, ghost ghirls, jack black, john stamos, mtv shows, rachael harris, tiny commando, viacom, Yahoo, yahoo screen website

New Partnership with Viacom Brings Clips from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, South Park and More to Yahoo

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)— Today, Yahoo debuted its Fall Comedy Lineup including all episodes of eight original web series, the entire Saturday Night Live clip archive and clips from Viacom’s Comedy Central and MTV shows, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, and more. More than 1,000 hours of comedy content and 5,000 clips are available today on mobile with a brand new Yahoo Screen app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch (download here) and online on the refreshed Yahoo Screen desktop experience (https://screen.yahoo.com).

First announced at Yahoo’s 2013 Digital Content NewFront, the new comedy web shows feature top comedic talent including Jack Black in Ghost Ghirls, John Stamos in Losing It With John Stamos, Ed Helms and Zachary Levi in Tiny Commando, Cheryl Hines and Rachael Harris in We Need Help and many others in a variety of comedy genres. Adding to Yahoo’s comedy lineup is the entire 38-season archive of Saturday Night Live clips, along with clips from the current season. The Saturday Night Live clips and several of the new original shows will be available on Yahoo sites around the world. (more…)

Winning poster

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2013Education, Sciencebehavior issues, canr doctoral student, carissa wickens, denmark, equine welfare issues, inga wolframm, ises conference, jessica weir, new bolton center, student poster competition, theory for horses, university of delaware, university of pennsylvania, winning poster

CANR doctoral student Weir wins first place at 2013 ISES conference

Before coming to the University of Delaware, Jessica Weir had never heard of the International Society for Equitation Science (ISES) conference.

Now, after a year spent helping Carissa Wickens, assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences (ANFS), set up the organization’s ninth annual conference — hosted collaboratively by UD and the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center from July 18-20 — Weir is both fully versed in the event and plans to attend the 2014 ISES session in Denmark. (more…)

Facebook Use by Organizations During Crises Helps Public Image, MU Study Finds

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2013Technologybokyung kim, crisis management, facebook posts, facebook use, organization, popular website, public relations, seoyeon hong, social networking site, tool, university of missouri

PR professionals can improve public attitudes by communicating through Facebook during times of crisis

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Social networking sites have become incredibly popular in recent years, with Facebook now ranking as the third most popular website in the U.S. With so many people spending so much time on Facebook, public relations professionals are using the site more and more to communicate to the public. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri School of Journalism have found that posting public relations information on Facebook during a time of crisis can improve the overall image of the organization that is experiencing the crisis.

Seoyeon Hong, a doctoral candidate in the MU School of Journalism, along with co-author Bokyung Kim, a professor at Rowan University and former doctoral student at MU, created two fictional universities and gave participants news stories about organizational crises each university was experiencing. After the participants read the news stories, she measured their attitudes about each university and how severe they thought the crisis was. She then showed the participants Facebook posts from the universities’ main Facebook accounts which gave additional information and messages directly from the universities. Hong then measured the participants’ attitudes a second time and found that following the Facebook posts, attitudes toward the universities were significantly more positive than before participants read the posts. She also found that participants felt the crises were less severe following the Facebook posts. Hong believes these findings show the positive impact Facebook can make in crisis management efforts. (more…)

From Mentee to Mentor, Berkeley Lab’s Education Programs Inspire Scientists

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2013Education, Scienceadvanced light source, austin, bacteriaphage virology, bay area, berkeley lab, bioprospecting project, csee program, cxro, earth sciences division, education programs, environmental sample, fusion research division, georgia, mary singer, mentee, mentor, microbiology, seno rekawa, sri lanka, tamas torok, university of texas, university of wisconsin

Question: “What did you do this summer?” Answer: “I built the Advanced Light Source.”

It’s the rare undergraduate who can say they spent their vacation building a third-generation synchrotron, but that’s exactly what Seno Rekawa did in the summer of 1991 as an intern at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It was an auspicious start to his career. Less than five years later, he was working as a full-time engineer at Berkeley Lab and now is a regular mentor to budding high school and college engineers.

Berkeley Lab’s Center for Science and Engineering Education (CSEE), with its range of internship offerings, helps to fulfill one of the Lab’s mandates, which is to inspire and prepare this country’s next generation of scientists, engineers and technicians. This year more than 70 current and recent college students and almost 20 high school and college instructors participated in a CSEE program, working with Berkeley Lab researchers on science projects spanning from cancer research to cosmology to biofuels. (more…)

Rettung des Regenwaldes in Paraguay – Schutz vor Abholzung wird verlängert

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2013Environment, Natureargentinien, atlantischen regenwald, brasilien, martina fleckenstein, null abholzung, oekosysteme, paraguay, regenwald, rettung des regenwaldes, wwf, wwf deutschland, zero deforestation law

Es ist ein Riesenerfolg für den WWF: Paraguay hat sein “Zero Deforestation Law” verlängert – ein Gesetz, das den Regenwald vor der Abholzung schützen soll. Es war Rettung in letzter Minute, beinahe wäre das Abholzungsverbot Ende 2013 ausgelaufen. Dabei handelt es sich hier um einen der am meisten bedrohten Regenwälder der Welt.

Bis 2004 hatte Paraguay die höchste Abholzungsrate in Amerika und die zweithöchste der ganzen Welt. Fast sieben Millionen Hektar Regenwald wurden vernichtet, bis die Regierung das “Zero Deforestation Law” einführte. “Null Abholzung” ist der umgangssprachliche Name für das Gesetz, und der Name ist – beinahe – Programm: Seit der Einführung ist die Vernichtung des Atlantischen Regenwalds in Paraguay um 90 Prozent zurückgegangen. Der WWF hat entscheidend dazu beigetragen, dass der wertvolle Schutz des Regenwaldes in Paraguay verlängert worden ist. (more…)

Experts Team Up on Tsunami Resilience in California

By Guest PostSeptember 8, 2013Environmentalaskan peninsula, cabrillo marine aquarium, california, california coast, crescent city harbor, environmental impact, great earthquake, knowledge, lucy jones, nuclear power plants, pan pacific tsunami, property in california, safrr tsunami scenario, tohoku oki tsunami, tsunami resilience, U.S. Geological Survey

While scientists can’t predict when a great earthquake producing a pan-Pacific tsunami will occur, thanks to new tools being developed by federal and state officials, scientists can now offer more accurate insight into the likely impacts when tsunamis occur. This knowledge can lead officials and the public to reduce the risk of the future tsunamis that will impact California.

What are the potential economic impacts? Which marinas could be destroyed? Who needs to be prepared for evacuations? A newly published report looks at these factors and more. (more…)

Nice genes! What makes you genetically compatible with your partner?

By Guest PostSeptember 8, 2013Scienceankylosing spondylitis, anthony nolan trust, australia, auto immune disease, bbc breakfast, compatibility gene, DNA, eastern europe, Europe, genetic make up, hiv, human genes, India, penguin, problems in pregnancy, professor daniel davis, second world war, swiss zoologist, uk charity, wife katie

Professor Daniel Davis and his wife Katie’s experience is documented in The Compatibility Gene, published by Penguin, which discusses how our crucial compatibility genes may influence finding a life partner as well as our health and individuality.

Professor Davis said: “We each possess a similar set of around 25,000 human genes. Some of our genes vary from person to person, like those that give us a particular eye or hair colour. But my book is about the few genes – our compatibility genes – that vary the most between each of us. First and foremost these are immune system genes; they control how we combat disease. But recent research shows that they may be even more important than we once thought – there is evidence that they can influence how our brains are wired, how attractive we are, even how likely we are to reproduce.’’ (more…)

Spacecraft measures changes in direction of solar system’s interstellar winds

By Guest PostSeptember 8, 2013Scienceinterstellar boundary, interstellar cloud, interstellar medium, interstellar wind, interstellar wind direction

Data from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft reveal that neutral interstellar atoms are flowing into the solar system from a different direction than previously observed. (more…)

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