07/27/2008
Third World dementia underestimated
Previous estimates of levels of dementia in the developing world may have substantially underestimated the problem, according to research published today. The findings suggest that policymakers in low-income and middle-income countries may need to re-exam...
~ published: 07/27 at 22:42 ~ source: Science Blog - Think. It's not illegal yet. ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Hawks in U.S. News
I'm featured in an article in U.S. News and World Report, by Nancy Shute. It was a great interview, and she's put together our work on recent acceleration with some questions about where human evolution is headed. She also cites work by Simon Baron-Cohen,...
~ published: 07/27 at 16:26 ~ source: John Hawks Anthropology Weblog ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Tate’s proof of the functional equation
The Riemann zeta function , defined for by the formula (1)where are the natural numbers, and extended meromorphically to other values of s by analytic continuation, obeys the remarkable functional equation (2)where (3)is the Riemann Xi function, (4)is t...
~ published: 07/27 at 16:24 ~ source: What's New (Terrence Tao's Blog) ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops
Critical food shortages and growing demand for bio-fuels and hydro-electricity due to high fossil fuel prices rank among the greatest threats today to the preservation of precious wetlands worldwide as farmers and developers look for new areas for agricul...
~ published: 07/27 at 10:24 ~ source: Science Blog - Think. It's not illegal yet. ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Scientists spy an electron dance
A team of scientists led by researchers from Princeton University has discovered a new way that electrons behave in materials. The discovery could lead to new kinds of electronic devices.read more...
~ published: 07/27 at 10:09 ~ source: Science Blog - Think. It's not illegal yet. ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Loránd Eötvös: 160th birthday
Baron Loránd von Eötvös was born in Buda into an aristocratic family connected with Vásárosnamény, Hungary - a town near Ukraine - 160 years ago, on July 27th, 1848. Fortunately, Lóránd wrote both in Hungarian and German which is why most of the w...
~ published: 07/27 at 00:00 ~ source: The Reference Frame ~ permalink ~ points: 0