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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

How Not to Pass an Immigration Bill | Reduction

How Not to Pass an Immigration Bill

Tami's First Webpage by josh.ev9
License (according to Flickr): Attribution-ShareAlike License

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Understanding Climate Change, With Help From Thoreau | Reduction

Understanding Climate Change, With Help From Thoreau

Tributes left at the grave of Henry David Thoreau by Muffet
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

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Researchers in Massachusetts and Wisconsin are comparing modern flower blooming data with notes made by Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold. They're seeing many plants, including irises in the Boston area, blooming consistently earlier than in the writers' times. Modern scientists trying to understand climate change are engaged in an unlikely collaboration — with two beloved but long-dead nature writers: Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold. The authors of Walden and A Sand County Almanac and last spring's bizarrely warm weather have helped today's scientists understand that the first flowers of spring can continue to bloom earlier, as temperatures rise to unprecedented levels.

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Primack

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0.125568	"If you take the old historical records of Thoreau and Aldo Leopold and use those to sort predict when plants will be flowering in an astonishingly warm year like we had in 2012, the flowering time of plants is exactly what you would predict using this historical data," says Boston University Biology Professor Richard Primack.
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-0.0697468	"Nina lived to be 93 years old, and was out walking the land observing things up until just a few weeks before she died," says Temple.
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Nina Leopold Bradley

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Terry Root

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Richard Primack

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-0.0227274	"So this was a plant species which has shifted its flowering time by five or six weeks since the time of Thoreau. So this is really quite unbelievable," Primack says. ...
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Nina

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Charles Davis

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Organization: Aldo Leopold Foundation and University of Wisconsin

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Embryo survival gene may fight range of diseases | Synopsis

Embryo survival gene may fight range of diseases

Get Set for Winter Illness by The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
License (according to Flickr): United States Government Work

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A gene that keeps embryos alive appears to control the immune system and determine how it fights chronic diseases like hepatitis and HIV, and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, scientists said on Monday. Although the experts have only conducted studies on the gene Arih2 using mice, they hope it can be used as a target for drugs eventually to fight a spectrum of incurable diseases. Lead author Marc Pellegrini at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia said the gene appears to act like a switch, flipping the immune system on and off. "If the gene is on, it dampens... the immune response. And if you switch it off, it greatly enhances immune responses," Pellegrini said in a telephone interview.

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0.106913	"If the gene is on, it dampens ... the immune response. And if you switch it off, it greatly enhances immune responses," Pellegrini said ...
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Walter

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