Useless unit ! BBC Nature - New species of genuflecting plant buries its own seeds 23 September 2011Last updated at 11:42 By Alejandra Martins Reporter, BBC Latin America service Spigelia genuflexa bends over to release its seeds to the ground A new plant that "bends down" to deposit its seeds has been discovered in the Atlantic forest in the state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil. The new species has been named Spigelia genuflexa after its unusual adaptation. After fruits are formed, the fruiting branches bend down, depositing the capsules of seeds on the ground and sometimes burying them in the soft cover of moss The discovery is reported in the journal PhytoKeys. S. genuflexa was described by Alex Popovkin, an amateur botanist who has catalogued and photographed over 800 species in his property in Bahia. A friend of Mr Popovkin's noticed the unusual plant, and brought it to his attention. In his efforts to identify it, Popovkin contacted experts in several countries. 'Short-lived' Continue reading the main story “Start Quote End QuoteLena Struwe Rutgers University
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Is Android really free software? | Technology To what extent does Android respect the freedom of its users? For a computer user that values freedom, that is the most important question to ask about any software system. In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't. By contrast, the idea of "open source" focuses on how to develop code; it is a different current of thought whose principal value is code quality rather than freedom.Thus, the concern here is not whether Android is "open", but whether it allows users to be free. Android is an operating system primarily for mobile phones, which consists of Linux (Torvalds's kernel), some libraries, a Java platform and some applications. The version of Linux included in Android is not entirely free software, since it contains non-free "binary blobs" (just like Torvalds' version of Linux), some of which are really used in some Android devices. The phone network firmware comes pre-installed.
La Gazette Du 'Mauvais' Gout Scientists Disarm AIDS Virus’ Attack on Immune System | Health Scientists say they have found a way to disarm the AIDS virus in research that could lead to a vaccine. Researchers have discovered that if they eliminate a cholesterol membrane surrounding the virus, HIV cannot disrupt communication among disease-fighting cells and the immune system returns to normal. Scientists have discovered that HIV needs cholesterol, which it picks up from the first immune cells it infects, to keep the virus' outer membrane fluid. That allows it to communicate with - and disrupt - the body's immune system. The long-term effect of this disrupted communication is to destroy the body’s normal defense against the AIDS virus, which is responsible for 1.8 million deaths each year. But researchers say they can prevent HIV from damaging the immune system, if they remove the cholesterol from the virus’ outer membrane. David Graham is a molecular biologist at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. “These cells are just saying, 'No way.
Eyeball-Licking Fetish Causes Eye Patch Epidemic Among Kids? A disturbing trend among younger Japanese school children has become one of the most popular recent threads on internet compilation site Naver Matome. The post below, which has already been retweeted over 10,000 times, gathered information from the Japanese internet about eyeball-licking in an grade 6 elementary school class (usually aged around 12 years old), suggesting that for the students of the school it is apparently part of normal dating practice among their peers. But netizens were truly shocked by the post, suggesting that the trend should be taken with a pinch of salt, and many are unable to understand why on earth eyeball licking might have become so popular… From Naver Matome: “Eye Patch Now” (Indie Music Information) Reference: bandup.in “From the beginning of this year, styes were practically epidemic in my class. Reference: Eyeball-Licking Hentai Play Massively Popular Among Elementary School Students (News and Entertainment Information “Yomeru mo”) Mr. Comments from Twitter: 翔:
Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists MSNBC's Thomas Roberts talks with University of Washington Center for Game Science director Seth Cooper and researcher Firas Khatib about a video game that helped unravel a protein structure in an AIDS-like virus. By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Last updated 12:45 p.m. ET Sept. 20: Video-game players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years, and those scientists say the accomplishment could point the way to crowdsourced cures for AIDS and other diseases. "This is one small piece of the puzzle in being able to help with AIDS," Firas Khatib, a biochemist at the University of Washington, told me. The feat, which was accomplished using a collaborative online game called Foldit, is also one giant leap for citizen science — a burgeoning field that enlists Internet users to look for alien planets, decipher ancient texts and do other scientific tasks that sheer computer power can't accomplish as easily. That's where Foldit plays a role. They could.
La Corée du Nord affirme avoir trouvé une ancienne tanière de licorne INSOLITE - Si la Corée du Nord peut faire peur, par exemple quand elle annonce un nouveau lancement de fusée , elle peut aussi faire sourire. Dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi 30 novembre, la KCNA, l'agence de presse gouvernementale, a annoncé avoir trouvé une ancienne tanière... de licorne . Et pas n'importe laquelle: celle qu'aurait chevauché l'ancien roi Tongmyŏng. Et ce n'est pas une blague (en tout cas pour les coréens): l'agence cite ainsi des archéologues de l'Institut d'histoire de la Corée du Nord, qui expliquent avoir trouvé cet ancien repaire de licorne à 200 mètres du temple Yongmyong, au centre de l'actuelle capitale Pyongyang. Jo Hui Sung, directeur de l'Institut, explique très sérieusement: "Les livres d'histoire de la Corée parlent d'une licorne qui aurait été montée par le roi TongMyong, et de sa tanière." Vous n'y croyez pas? Il semblerait donc que la découverte de cette tanière de licorne ne soit qu'une nouvelle opération de propagande. » Souriez !