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New species 'live without oxygen... from www.telegraph.co.uk

New species 'live without oxygen'
The first animals that do not depend on oxygen to breathe and
reproduce have been discovered by scientists on the bed of the
Mediterranean Sea.

By Nick Collins
Published: 10:34AM BST 09 Apr 2010

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New species 'live without oxygen'
One of the species has been named Spinoloricus Cinzia, after Dr Danovaro's wife

Three species of creature, which are only a millimetre long and
resemble jellyfish encased in shells, were found 2.2 miles (3.5km)
underwater on the ocean floor, 124 miles (200km) off the coast of
Crete, in an area with almost no oxygen.

The animals, named Loriciferans due to their protective layer, or
lorica, were discovered by a team led by Roberto Danovaro from Marche
Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy.

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One of the species has been named Spinoloricus Cinzia, after Dr
Danovaro's wife, while the other two, known as Rugiloricus and
Pliciloricus, have yet to be formally named.

They were found during three expeditions to find life in the sediment
of L'Atlante basin in the Mediterranean, which took place over the
course of a decade.

Professor Danovaro told BBC News bodies of multicellular animals had
been found in sediment from a similarly oxygen-starved area of the
Black Sea, but they were thought to have been carried there from
adjacent oxygenated water.

The species found in the latest expedition were alive, two of them
containing eggs, and though they died on extraction the eggs were
successfully incubated on the ship, and hatched in an oxygen-starved
environment.

The professor said: "It is a real mystery how these creatures are able
to live without oxygen because until now we thought only bacteria
could do this."

Lisa Levin, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, wrote in the
journal BMC Biology that further research into animals that can live
without oxygen could help scientists examining the possibility of
alien life existing on other planets.

Cosmic Collisions: Universe SMASH!... from National Geographic!

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/breakingorbit/2010/03/cosmic-collisions-universe-sma.html

Critics of science shows on TV often complain about what seems like a
gratuitous number of crashes and explosions that are tangential to the
science.

Luckily for those of us covering astronomy, the universe is a breeding
ground for violent impacts.

—Image copyright BASE Productions/Sauce

After all, the whole thing started with a bang. Since then, supernovae
(some caused by stellar smashes) have seeded the universe with
building-block elements. Asteroid impacts have altered planetary
geography. Galactic mergers have created whole new galaxies.

Really, it's tough to find a corner of space that hasn't been touched
by an epic collision.

So if you like your science TV full of actual science and lots of cool
crashes, I direct your attention to "Cosmic Collisions," the first in
a new series called Known Universe premiering tomorrow at 10 p.m. on
the National Geographic Channel. (Full disclosure: NGC is part-owned
by the National Geographic Society, which fully owns this blog.)

I got a sneak peek at the script for tomorrow's show, and IMHO the
Channel has its accuracy bases covered.

Among the luminaries that loan "Cosmic Collisions" their expertise:
planet hunters Geoff Marcy and Mike Brown, asteroid-strike expert Don
Yeomans, former Apollo astronaut Rusty Scheickart—even fellow space
blogger Phil Plait, author of the collision-filled book Death From the
Skies!

The hour-long show highlights notable collisions in the distant past,
near present, and far future, most of which have some impact (har) on
Earth.

For example, we most likely have a moon because a protoplanet about
the size of Mars careened into early Earth, breaking off a glob of
material that coalesced in orbit around us.

We also most likely have dominion over the planet because another huge
object crashed the dinosaur's party about 65 million years ago,
triggering the mass extinction that allowed mammals to flourish.

The seeds of dino doom.
—Image copyright BASE Productions/Sauce

Considering that it's happened before, astronomers are anticipating
that catastrophic collisions with Earth might happen again, and there
are people who have dedicated their lives to understanding the risks
and thinking up solutions.

"The scary thing about a lot of these is we don't see them until after
they've already passed us," Plait says in the show.

"So that's when we say, "Oh, yesterday a hundred-yard-wide asteroid
missed us by 50,000 miles [about 80,000 kilometers]. Yeah, you don't
want to hear that."

For example, a "surprise" 65-foot-wide (20-meter-wide) asteroid buzzed
Earth last March, passing just 41,010 miles (66,000 kilometers) from
the surface.

Some of the biggies, like the infamous Apophis, we can see coming: We
know we'll have a close call with the massive space rock in April
2029, ironically, on Friday the 13th. But there are complications that
could lead to disaster—which you'll have to watch to find out ...

But wait, there's more! Earth is also menaced by radiation from gamma
ray bursts, the products of stellar collisions, and from any leftover
roaming black holes.

Even further down the line, our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is slated
for a smashup with the Andromeda galaxy, and the show's scientists
offer a few ideas on what that might mean for Earth.

Personally, I can't wait to see some of these spacey smashups brought
to life in my living room—and I can't wait to hear what the
blogosphere has to say about this addition to the world of explosive
science programing.

PS: Be sure to go play on the Known Universe Web site, where you can
build your own universe and visit a virtual lab full of alien life.

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The last to know... from www.inquirer.net

Youngblood
The last to know

By Nina R.T. Landicho
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:55:00 10/22/2009

Filed Under: Education, Family, Employment

I am pregnant at 18. What could be worse than that? Being pregnant at
15 or 14? No. Being the last to know.

One fine Saturday morning recently, I was awakened by my mother's
call. My phone said I had missed four earlier calls from her. She
asked me how I was doing in school, and I mentioned happy events that
had transpired, leaving the not-so-happy ones for last. She then asked
me if school pressure and my recent conversion to vegetarianism were
making me lose weight.

Now, my mother is the type who gives her daughter the freedom to learn
things on her own. So her questions about school were too unusual for
me to comprehend. Something must have pushed her to call me. Her last
question about my losing weight was a prelude to breaking the biggest
news of my life: I was pregnant. Without a boyfriend, that is.

I wondered if I was one of the first humans to have mutated on account
of too much pollution and ultraviolet rays. But if that were the case,
surely being able to reproduce asexually couldn't be one of its
effects, I thought.

Since I had gained weight during the summer vacation and took to
wearing loose shirts and half-an-inch-above-the-knee shorts when going
to market, people in our place assumed that I was pregnant. And to
help confirm their worst suspicion, I was rarely seen strutting my
stuff around town.

The news about my "pregnancy" tore my heart. I was afraid it would put
my future in peril. I castigated myself for acting so carelessly and
letting my whims take over my better judgment, and thus getting
pregnant at such a bad time.

To be pregnant at this time would mean that I have to stop school for
a while. That would probably take the life out of me since I love
going to school. School is where I see my dreams beginning to come
true. Listening to lectures from professors who've been there and done
that, wrote this and got that, makes me want all the more to be in
their place some day, empowering young minds and fueling young
ambitions.

Not going to school because of pregnancy would rob me of my only
chance to secure a better life for myself and my family. I know it's
hard to find a job; not getting a degree would make it even harder. I
cannot throw away everything my parents did to send me to a good
university and all the part-time jobs I took to fund extra expenses. I
know that the best thing for me to do is to earn my degree and not
think about things that might distract me from achieving that goal.

Being pregnant at 18 without a job is not something I look forward to.
Just thinking about the high cost of medical care if I want to have a
healthy child is enough to deter me from doing something I deem
irresponsible. If I intend to become a good mother, I will be doing
myself and my future baby a favor by entering into that interesting
stage only when I am ready and able to provide for my child.

But that is me carefully weighing the stakes involved in getting
pregnant. Some people apparently think I am capable of acting
foolishly.

Gossip like this one about me being pregnant shouldn't be taken
seriously, I know. But I can't help but be affected not only because
it concerns me but it is also reflective of a serious problem we have
as a country and as a people.

One doesn't have to check official statistics to know that jobs are
difficult to come by. One can feel it. Since few jobs are available,
people have more time to do other things, like gossip. If people were
engaged in productive pursuits, they would have little time to spread
unverified rumors. And then surely I would not have been worrying
about this nasty "news" being circulated in my barrio.

Maybe if their stomachs weren't making funny noises on account of
hunger, people wouldn't have fabricated such gossip. Hunger does a lot
of funny things to some people. Sometimes it makes them jump to wrong
conclusions based on the flimsiest reasons, like a couple of pounds
gained from sitting on the couch all day watching DVDs and eating so
much nilupak. I suspect that people who feel miserable find comfort in
seeing they are not alone in their misery. Maybe other people's fall,
even if imagined, is a great equalizer. Maybe this is why we love
gossip so much.

Perhaps lack of education makes people prone to gossip. Education
shapes people's mind. A good education makes a good mind, but not
necessarily a good person. However, a good education widens the range
of inferences one can make from certain situations. Had some people
asked me what was really going on, the gossip would have died
instantly, for I would have answered honestly.

A place at the end of the road. That's how a foreigner described our
place many decades ago. Some things have changed since then, but most
have remained. Our barrio no longer is the last place where the bus
stops. However it remains underdeveloped. The people's main sources of
income are cash crops like coconuts, corn, bananas and cacao. Some
households grow their food on their backyard.

To survive in such place is quite easy. If that were the only
consideration, I might decide to raise my child there. We could live
on vegetables and corn. But what if my baby gets sick? The closest the
barrio gets to modern medicine is a trained health care personnel. Our
health center sits pathetically at the heart of the barrio. The
benches are the same benches I sat on when I learned to write my name.
The structure looks like a wooden matchbox, with hints of cement
holding tired boulders together.

When I was in grade school, it seemed to me that our barrio was the
last place in this country to receive books. I had to share my
dog-eared mathematics textbook with a partner and we took turns
bringing it home. I do not know if the situation is still the same
today.

Even though I love the place where I grew up, I cannot blindly praise
everything in it. Going to a university away from my hometown opened
my eyes to the fact that the kind of education being handed down to my
place is not enough. It's not enough to develop citizens who can
reason well and weigh facts carefully and objectively. Aside from
gossip, I believe that lack of education has other heavier
consequences like the quality of participation in matters affecting
the nation.

Since I cannot change the way people see things in our place, I have
resolved to lose weight. This reminds me of what Sallie Tisdale wrote
in an article entitled "A Weight that Women Carry": "If I tell someone
my weight, I change in their eyes: I become bigger or smaller, better
or worse, depending on what that number, my weight, means to them."
Considering how my barrio mates think, if I go back there during the
semestral break sporting a much leaner physique, they could very well
say that I have been sniffing weeds or I have had my imaginary baby
aborted.

How's that for a comeback?

(Nina Rachelle T. Landicho, 19, is a BA Communication Research student
at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.)

Plagiarism... from www.inquirer.net

Plagiarism

The case of tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan, who was recently involved in
a plagiarism controversy, points up the risk one takes when he enlists
the help of a ghostwriter or an assistant in writing a speech. Unless
his assistant is a very trustworthy person, he cannot be sure that the
former will not commit plagiarism.

To Pangilinan's credit, although the plagiarism was committed by two
Ateneo students who helped him write the speech, he took full and sole
responsibility for the act, and offered to retire as chair of Ateneo
de Manila University's board of trustees.

Pangilinan is not the first to be involved in a plagiarism
controversy, nor will he be the last. William Shakespeare is thought
to have liberally sprinkled his work with ideas borrowed from fellow
playwrights. But one critic said, "If this is plagiarism, perhaps we
need more of it."

T.S. Eliot is thought to have borrowed a big amount of the content of
his poem "The Waste Land" from a lesser known poet, Madison Cawein.

Short story writer Jack London was accused of using other authors'
works as a basis for his own, particularly "The Call of the Wild."

More recently, Alex Haley settled out of court for $650,000 after he
was accused of plagiarizing more than 80 passages of Harold
Courlander's "The African " for his own Pulitzer Prize-winning work,
"Roots."

Authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh accused Dan Brown of using
"the whole architecture" of their "Holy Blood and The Holy Grail"
book.

Plagiarism is the act of passing off as one's own the ideas or
writings of another. The Modern Language Association of the United
States defines plagiarism thus: "To use another's ideas or expressions
in your writings is to plagiarize. Plagiarism, then, constitutes
intellectual theft. …[I]t is a moral and ethical offense rather than a
legal one, since most instances of plagiarism fall outside the scope
of copyright infringement."

Wilson Mizner, a colorful American playwright and raconteur, made this
famous statement: "If you steal from one it's plagiarism; if you steal
from many, it's research."

To avoid the charge of plagiarism, academicians have adopted three
conventions: (1) If you use someone else's ideas, you should cite the
source; (2) If the way you're using the source is unclear, make it
clear; and (3) If you received help from someone in writing the paper
(or report or speech), acknowledge it. Even if one is paraphrasing,
one is still using someone else's ideas and arguments, and must cite
the original work.

A mild form of plagiarism goes on all the time in journalism. News
organizations and reporters save clippings of news stories and
articles and later use them in their stories without acknowledging the
source or sources. Some editors say this is no big deal when the
material being lifted is from one's own paper but it is more serious
when the words and ideas are lifted from other writers and other
papers without credit.

One columnist who was caught plagiarizing some other people's writings
three times said his problem was that he had a photographic memory and
sometimes forgot that he was using other writers' material. The
columnist was asked to stop writing his column after the third
offense.

Government officials, politicians and celebrities are among the people
who frequently use the services of ghostwriters and assistants in
writing articles and speeches and thus run the risk of mouthing
plagiarized passages. They generally want to make their speeches read
and sound well. Some may know how to write good speeches but want to
save time. But they should choose their ghostwriters and assistants
well to avoid the embarrassment of being accused of plagiarism.

In the case of Pangilinan, the fault was that of his assistants, but
he gallantly took full and sole responsibility for the "borrowed"
parts of his speech. Taken as a whole, as he said, the body and
substance of his speech represented his own story and his thoughts.
Even if we excise the plagiarized portions, it is still a good and
inspiring speech for new university graduates.

Be A Sponge And Absorb God’s Blessings! from Bo Sanchez

Be A Sponge And
Absorb God's Blessings!

"Bo, I feel God plays favorites."
"Why do you say that?" I asked my friend.
"Because He doesn't bless me as much as He blesses you!"
That's when I shared to her Matthew 5:45. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.
God doesn't play favorites.
I believe God's blessings are everywhere.
Like rain, blessings are poured into your life.
Do you need love? It's out there.
Do you need wisdom? It's out there.
Do you need healing? It's out there.
Do you need miracles? It's out there.
Do you need increase? It's out there.
But why don't we receive them?
Let me tell you why…

(If you want to continue reading Bo's inspiring message, click here.)

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