Two days after Occupy Wall Street lost its tent compound at Zuccotti Park, protesters held a national ‘day of action.’ A mostly peaceful day followed a failed morning effort to delay NYSE trading.
Thousands of Occupy protesters took to the streets of cities across the United States Thursday, and hundreds were arrested after scuffles with police.
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The national “day of action” marked two months since the creation of the movement and took place two days after New York City police evicted Occupy Wall Street from its longtime Manhattan base, a tent compound in Zuccotti Park.
More than half the day?s arrests were made in New York where, after failing to delay trading on the New York Stock Exchange in the morning and demonstrating throughout the damp day, a swelling crowd of thousands of Occupy Wall Street sympathizers marched on a cold windy evening to the Brooklyn Bridge.
Bridges were targeted in other US cities as well, including Boston, Detroit, and Miami, Reuters reported, with protesters issuing a specific demand from the government that is a rarity for Occupy movement events: increased infrastructure spending to create jobs. Other cities that saw significant protests included Los Angeles, Washington, Las Vegas, and Portland, Ore.
In New York, following the morning clashes around Wall Street that featured some violence and most of the day?s arrests, the afternoon saw more of a traditional rally, in which students were using their imagination to try to communicate.
In Union Square, which is relatively close to several universities, five women from New York University held long thin mirrors with statements on them such as ?I am you,? reflecting their belief they represent 99 percent of Americans.
A student wearing a mask held up a sign: ?Arrest one of us; two more appear. You can?t arrest an idea.? And, students chanted in unison, ?Shut the city down.?
Police in the afternoon maintained a relatively low-key presence compared with the morning, when they pushed and shoved protesters off the streets. At an afternoon press conference held before the march on the Brooklyn Bridge, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said 177 people had been arrested at that point, mostly for resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2011) ? A new study suggests that sex during adolescence can have lasting negative effects on the body and mood well into adulthood, most likely because the activity occurs when the nervous system is still developing.
While the research used laboratory animals, the findings provide information that may be applicable to understanding human sexual development.
Researchers paired adult female hamsters with male hamsters when the males were 40 days old, the equivalent of a human’s mid-adolescence. They found that these male animals with an early-life sexual experience later showed more signs of depressive-like behaviors as well as lower body mass, smaller reproductive tissues and changes to cells in the brain than did hamsters that were first exposed to sex later in life or to no sex at all.
Among the cell changes observed in the animals that had sex during adolescence were higher levels of expression of a gene associated with inflammation in their brain tissue and less complex cellular structures in key signaling areas of the brain.
They also showed signs of a stronger immune response to a sensitivity test, suggesting their immune systems were in a heightened state of readiness even without the presence of infection — a potential sign of an autoimmune problem.
The combination of physiologic responses in adulthood don’t necessarily cause harm, but do suggest that sexual activity during the nervous system’s development might be interpreted by the body as a stressor, researchers say.
“Having a sexual experience during this time point, early in life, is not without consequence,” said John Morris, a co-author of the study and a doctoral student in psychology at Ohio State University. “It could be affecting males’ susceptibility to symptoms of depression, and could also expose males to some increase in inflammation in adulthood.”
Morris presented the research on November 15 at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington, D.C. He conducted the study with Zachary Weil, research assistant professor, and Randy Nelson, professor and chair, both from Ohio State’s Department of Neuroscience.
Previous research has most often examined the effects of adolescent sex on young women, and for ethical reasons must be done in humans as retrospective explorations of behavior. The Ohio State scientists used hamsters, which have physiologic similarities to humans, to learn specifically how the body responds to sexual activity early in life.
“There is a time in nervous system development when things are changing very rapidly, and part of those changes are preparations for adult reproductive behaviors and physiology,” Weil said. “There is a possibility that environmental experiences and signals could have amplified effects if they occur before the nervous system has settled down into adulthood.”
The scientists worked with five groups of male hamsters: two groups that had sex at age 40 days and were assessed at 40 days and 80 days after exposure to sex, two groups that had adult sex at age 80 days and were assessed at the same time intervals, and hamsters that had no sexual experience. Male hamsters reach puberty at age 21 days.
The researchers placed the adolescent and adult males in environments with in-heat female hamsters for six hours and recorded their encounters to ensure that sexual activity occurred.
The animals were subjected to a variety of tests when they all had reached adulthood. They were placed in mazes with options to explore open areas or hide in isolation; those that chose not to explore were showing signs of anxiety. Animals placed in water showed signs of depressive-like behavior if they stopped swimming vigorously.
“Both groups of sexually active hamsters showed an increase in anxiety-like behavior compared to the control group, but the increase in a depressive-like response was specific to the adolescent sexually paired group,” Morris said.
A test of immune system sensitivity suggested that the hamsters with adolescent sexual experiences were at risk for excess inflammation as part of an enhanced immune response. In addition, these same hamsters had higher levels of a pro-inflammatory cytokine called interleukin-1, or IL-1, in their brain tissue than did the other hamsters. IL-1 is one of several chemical messengers that cause inflammation, most often to fight infection or repair injury; when it circulates without an infection to fight, the body experiences excess inflammation.
This elevated gene expression was seen in areas of the brain known not to reach maturity until well into adulthood — including the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and striatum. In some of these same areas of the brain, animals with adolescent sexual experience also showed less complexity in the dendrites, the branching segments from nerve cells that house the synapses, which carry signals to the brain from the rest of the body.
Without further research, the scientists don’t know exactly what these brain differences mean. But because they are seen most prominently in the animals that were exposed to sex in adolescence, the scientists say, there is a clear association with that activity. “Sex is doing something physiological that these cells are interpreting and responding to with shorter dendrites,” Weil said.
Finally, the hamsters that had adolescent sex had a smaller total body mass as well as a decrease in accessory reproductive tissue, including the seminal vesicles, vas deferens and epididymis, as adults.
“This suggests to us that maybe this process is causing the animals to have a maladaptive response reproductively, as well,” Morris said.
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More than 80 million years ago, a giant reptile called a mosasaur likely glided gracefully through the water with the help of tiny scales covering its tough skin, and a powerful tail to boot, suggests the soft-tissue remains of one such aquatic beast.
The fossilized pieces of mosasaur skin, discovered in Kansas in the 1950s but not analyzed thoroughly until now, give researchers a view of ancient lizard skin, inside and out. The marine animal’s skin was pulled taut around the upper end of its body, which would have restricted its swimming motion to the lower half, they found.
“We previously had thought that they swam like snakes, that they used most of their body to make these undulating waves,” study researcher Johan Lindgren, of Lund University in Sweden, told LiveScience “What we see is they are gradually pushing the part being used in swimming to the back.” [T-Rex of the Seas: A Mosasaur Gallery]
Moving mosasaurs
Mosasaurs include a group of swimming reptiles thought to have evolved from an ancient relative of the monitor lizard, which left the land and returned to the sea during the early Cretaceous Period. Then more than 90 million years ago, mosasaurs quickly evolved to life in the water and soon became a top predator throughout the world’s seas. They died out with the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.
In the fossilized skin samples, the researchers can see not only the animal’s scales, but also imprints of the protein fibers that made up its skin. They saw that these fibers often crisscrossed, suggesting that at least this front half of the mosasaur’s body was stiff.
Rather than slithering through the water like today’s water snakes, by moving their vertebrae from side to side, this tough, taut skin indicates that the mosasaur used its tail to propel itself forward. As such, the animal would’ve moved more like modern sharks and whales than snakes.
“They [the mosasaurs] have, for 200 years, been reconstructed as these serpentine creatures,” Lindgren said. “An emergence of evidence, including the stuff we found, indicates that they underwent the same kind of evolution as whales, and they became streamlined.”
Fossilized skin
As a group, the mosasaurs varied from a little over 3 feet (1 meter) to almost 50 feet (15 meters) long. The fossilized skin and skeleton unearthed in Kansas in 1953 belonged to a mosasaur ? Ectenosaurus clidastoindes ?stretching some 16 feet (5 meters) in length, though only the front half of its body was discovered. It is a relatively primitive specimen and is estimated to be about 85 million years old.
The fossils suggest the mosasaur’s scales were less than a tenth of an inch long (only a few millimeters). These scales were oval-shaped and had a ridge along the middle to help them lock together, channel water, and also to provide an area for the skin to attach underneath.
“You could see the scales from both the outside and the inside. That’s a first. On the inside they have special supportive structures that ? anchor to the soft tissue, and they provide a more efficient cover,” Lindgren said. “The scales have a ridge on each scale that helps channel the water and provides a thin layer, you see the same thing in sharks today.”
The study was published today (Nov. 16) in the journal PLoS ONE.
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“Certain bats can deform the shapes of their ears in a way that changes the animal’s ultrasonic hearing pattern. Within just one tenth of a second, these bats are able to change their outer ear shapes from one extreme configuration to another,” said Rolf Mller, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech.
Mller and his students wrote a paper on their work that is appearing this week in Physical Review Letters, a prestigious peer-reviewed journal of the American Physical Society. The students are: Li Gao of Shandong, China, a Ph.D. student with Mller, and Sreenath Balakrishnan of Thrissur, Kerala, India, a master’s candidate with Virginia Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as Weikai He and Zhen Yan, of the School of Physics at Shandong University.
Mller explained the significance of their work, saying, “In about 100 milliseconds, this type of bat can alter his ear shape significantly in ways that would suit different acoustic sensing tasks.”
By comparison, “a human blink of an eye takes two to three times as long. As a result of these shape changes, the shape of the animals’ spatial hearing sensitivity also undergoes a qualitative change,” Mller added.
Bats are flying mammals most well known for their abilities to navigate and pursue their prey in complete darkness. By emitting ultrasonic pulses and listing to the returning echoes, the animals are able to obtain detailed information on their surroundings. Horseshoe bats, in particular, can use their sonar systems to maneuver swiftly through dense vegetation and identify insect prey under difficult conditions.
Acting as biosonar receiving antennas, the ears of bats perform a critical function in bringing about these ultrasonic sensing capabilities.
Using a combination of methods that included high-speed stereo vision and high-resolution tomography, the researchers from Virginia Tech and Shandong University have been able to reconstruct the three-dimensional geometries of the outer ears from live horseshoe bats as they deform in these short time intervals.
Using computer analysis of the deforming shapes, the researchers found that the ultrasonic hearing spotlights associated with the different ear configurations could suit different hearing tasks performed by the animals. Hence, the ear deformation in horseshoe bats could be a substrate for adapting the spatial hearing of the animals on a very short time scale.
The research piggybacks earlier work led by Mller and reported this spring in the Institute of Physics’ journal Bioinspiration and Biometrics. That study provided key insights into the various shapes of bat ears among the different species, and illustrated how the differences could affect how their navigation systems worked.
The National Natural Science Foundation of China, Shandong University, the Shandong Taishan Fund, and the China Scholarship Council supported the most recent work.
The collaboration between Shandong University and Virginia Tech started with Mller’s opening of a new international laboratory based at the Chinese facility in 2010. The new laboratory focuses on bio-inspired research. In the past, the lab was used by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the University of Utah, North Carolina State University, and University of California Los Angeles to conduct experiments on the extraordinary capabilities of bats to generate high-powered ultrasonic pulses.
Mller’s aspiration in teaching is to bridge the gap between disciplines, especially between biology and engineering.
Mller’s research is focused on the understanding of how the most capable biological sensory systems can achieve their best performances. His recent achievements include: providing the first physical explanation for the role of a prominent flap seen in mammalian ears in 2004; discovery of a novel helical scan in the ear directivity of a bat in 2006; discovery of frequency-selective beam-forming by virtue of resonances in noseleaf furrows of a bat, an entirely new bioacoustic paradigm in 2006; establishing the first immediate and quantitative characterization of the spatial information created by a mammal’s outer ear in 2007; and now uncovering the acoustic effect of non-rigid ear deformations in bats.
Mller received the Friendship Award of the People’s Republic of China, considered China’s highest honor for “foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country’s economic and social progress.” Also, he received a Top Ten Scholars Award from Shandong University in 2006, Tuebingen University’s 1999 Dissertation Award, and held a NATO Post-Doctoral Fellowship from 1998 until 2000.
He holds a patent on a method for frequency-driven generation of a multi-resolution decomposition of the input to wave-based sensing arrays.
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“Certain bats can deform the shapes of their ears in a way that changes the animal’s ultrasonic hearing pattern. Within just one tenth of a second, these bats are able to change their outer ear shapes from one extreme configuration to another,” said Rolf Mller, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech.
Mller and his students wrote a paper on their work that is appearing this week in Physical Review Letters, a prestigious peer-reviewed journal of the American Physical Society. The students are: Li Gao of Shandong, China, a Ph.D. student with Mller, and Sreenath Balakrishnan of Thrissur, Kerala, India, a master’s candidate with Virginia Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as Weikai He and Zhen Yan, of the School of Physics at Shandong University.
Mller explained the significance of their work, saying, “In about 100 milliseconds, this type of bat can alter his ear shape significantly in ways that would suit different acoustic sensing tasks.”
By comparison, “a human blink of an eye takes two to three times as long. As a result of these shape changes, the shape of the animals’ spatial hearing sensitivity also undergoes a qualitative change,” Mller added.
Bats are flying mammals most well known for their abilities to navigate and pursue their prey in complete darkness. By emitting ultrasonic pulses and listing to the returning echoes, the animals are able to obtain detailed information on their surroundings. Horseshoe bats, in particular, can use their sonar systems to maneuver swiftly through dense vegetation and identify insect prey under difficult conditions.
Acting as biosonar receiving antennas, the ears of bats perform a critical function in bringing about these ultrasonic sensing capabilities.
Using a combination of methods that included high-speed stereo vision and high-resolution tomography, the researchers from Virginia Tech and Shandong University have been able to reconstruct the three-dimensional geometries of the outer ears from live horseshoe bats as they deform in these short time intervals.
Using computer analysis of the deforming shapes, the researchers found that the ultrasonic hearing spotlights associated with the different ear configurations could suit different hearing tasks performed by the animals. Hence, the ear deformation in horseshoe bats could be a substrate for adapting the spatial hearing of the animals on a very short time scale.
The research piggybacks earlier work led by Mller and reported this spring in the Institute of Physics’ journal Bioinspiration and Biometrics. That study provided key insights into the various shapes of bat ears among the different species, and illustrated how the differences could affect how their navigation systems worked.
The National Natural Science Foundation of China, Shandong University, the Shandong Taishan Fund, and the China Scholarship Council supported the most recent work.
The collaboration between Shandong University and Virginia Tech started with Mller’s opening of a new international laboratory based at the Chinese facility in 2010. The new laboratory focuses on bio-inspired research. In the past, the lab was used by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the University of Utah, North Carolina State University, and University of California Los Angeles to conduct experiments on the extraordinary capabilities of bats to generate high-powered ultrasonic pulses.
Mller’s aspiration in teaching is to bridge the gap between disciplines, especially between biology and engineering.
Mller’s research is focused on the understanding of how the most capable biological sensory systems can achieve their best performances. His recent achievements include: providing the first physical explanation for the role of a prominent flap seen in mammalian ears in 2004; discovery of a novel helical scan in the ear directivity of a bat in 2006; discovery of frequency-selective beam-forming by virtue of resonances in noseleaf furrows of a bat, an entirely new bioacoustic paradigm in 2006; establishing the first immediate and quantitative characterization of the spatial information created by a mammal’s outer ear in 2007; and now uncovering the acoustic effect of non-rigid ear deformations in bats.
Mller received the Friendship Award of the People’s Republic of China, considered China’s highest honor for “foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country’s economic and social progress.” Also, he received a Top Ten Scholars Award from Shandong University in 2006, Tuebingen University’s 1999 Dissertation Award, and held a NATO Post-Doctoral Fellowship from 1998 until 2000.
He holds a patent on a method for frequency-driven generation of a multi-resolution decomposition of the input to wave-based sensing arrays.
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‘He needs a hug, but if you hug him, he’ll try to stab you,’ Reedus tells MTV News of his character. By Josh Wigler
Norman Reedus Photo: MTV News
Given its comic book basis, some “Walking Dead” characters seem safer than others. Main hero Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), for instance, isn’t likely to go anywhere anytime soon. But then there are folks like Rick’s former partner Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal) who are already long gone in the comics at this point in the TV series, proving the AMC survival horror show’s willingness to veer off the paneled path that’s come before.
Another example of a man who could exit the scene early is Daryl Dixon, “Boondock Saints” actor Norman Reedus’ hillbilly hunter who does not appear in the comics at all. In fact, for a while there, it looked like Daryl was about to meet his maker in this past Sunday’s episode, titled “Chupacabra,” after sustaining injuries from a fall and nearly becoming fresh meat for two very hungry walkers. But thanks to an unexpected visit (or hallucinated appearance, rather) from his hateful brother Merle — Michael Rooker’s one-handed character who’s been missing for several episodes now — Daryl was able to channel his inner Dixon, kill the two walkers through some very rudimentary means, and return himself to Hershel’s farm in one piece. (Well, almost — thanks for that almost-lethal head shot, Andrea!)
Daryl Dixon has quickly become a fan-favorite character on “Walking Dead,” not just for the folks at home, but even for creator Robert Kirkman. It should come as no surprise that Reedus himself is a huge Daryl fan. The actor has had a lot to explore over the course of one and a half seasons of “Dead,” and given the character’s continued journey toward redemption and harmony with his fellow survivors, it seems safe to say that Daryl will hang around for a bit longer — even if he doesn’t need to, in Reedus’ point of view.
“Daryl’s interesting,” the actor told MTV News about his character. “While the rest of the group is fighting zombies to survive and make this world work, Daryl can handle himself. He can hunt, he can track, he can protect himself. His turmoil is emotional: how to deal with other people. There are these moments when these other characters you wouldn’t expect keep telling him, ‘You’re worth a damn. You’re better than you think you are.’ There are certain things that happen when you realize how hard his upbringing is. He needs a hug, but if you hug him, he’ll try to stab you.
“I’m trying to play him like a wet cat in an alley,” Reedus continued. “You try to take care of it, but it hisses at you and rips your hands up. But he wants you to take him home. That’s what this group represents to Daryl, I think.”
Tell us what you thought of this week’s “Walking Dead” in the comments!
Where do great ideas come from?and how do we recognize their significance when they appear?
Danny Hillis, Applied Minds co-founder and a Scientific American adviser, and I were discussing these questions recently as we prepared for a talk in late October at the Compass Summit (compass-summit.com). ?Ideas are a product of society,? an emergent phenomenon, Hillis told me, ?which are almost inevitable.? That?s why, he said, our admiration for individuals who have come up with such ideas is ?almost giving too much credit.? The idea itself is not enough. A lot of people in a society will have a given notion, he explained. Maybe only 1,000 will try to sketch it out. ?Then 100 will try to make something, and 10 of those might actually make something practical. One or two of those might be on the level of an Edison or Tesla.?
In many ways, Hillis and I share a mission of identifying those ideas that just might work. His company, of course, is involved in developing them. As for the magazine and our Web site?s role? ?The interesting thing about Scientific American is it lets you understand those ideas,? he added.
We have both watched with interest recent sweeping trends in the idea machine: how interdisciplinary research is a growing area of focus and the rising force of ?big data? and increasing computing power. Those topics would be part of our on-stage Compass Summit conversation, and they also underpin this issue?s special look at innovation, the third annual ?World Changing Ideas.? The section features 10 out-of-the-lab concepts with the possibility to scale in a practical way.
I?m particularly taken by ?The Machine That Would Predict the Future,? by David Weinberger.. The story covers the work of Dirk Helbing, a physicist and chair of sociology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Helbing has proposed a large-scale computing program that would attempt to model global-scale systems and so ?would effectively serve as the world?s crystal ball.?
Perhaps you, like me, will feel forcefully reminded of Isaac Asimov?s Hari Seldon, the ?psychohistorian? whose pattern-predicting math drove the famous Foundation science-fiction series. Asimov, a long-time Scientific American subscriber himself, read the magazine to keep up with science. Increasingly, it feels as if the reverse is also true.
MILAN – UEFA President Michel Platini criticized soccer clubs for still having debt and said Monday he remains firmly behind financial fair-play rules.
“Financial fair play is very important in this period of economic crisis,” said Platini, who was in Milan to receive an award Monday. “I don’t understand why, while the economy is suffering, football squads should have so much debt.
“Clubs shouldn’t spend more than they earn. Every year professional football produces ($1.9 billion) of debt in Europe. I was the annoying one who said it’s time to stop that.”
Platini devised the new financial fair-play system, which calls for clubs to be barred from the Champions League and Europa League if they cannot break even on soccer-related business.
The former France player also devised the five-official system to help keep video technology out of the game. The system puts two extra officials behind the byline to give referees extra help to rule on goal-line judgments, diving and shirt-pulling at set pieces.
It’s being tested in Champions League and Europa League competitions until 2012. However, Platini does not think it will be approved by FIFA’s rules-making panel and president Sepp Blatter.
“I don’t know if it will be approved,” he added. “I don’t think Blatter likes it because it’s not his idea. I’m against technology in sport, but referees need to be helped more because their errors are seen by everyone on TV.
“A referee on his own is not enough, he needs to be helped by two assistants behind the goals. After the European Championship we’ll see what FIFA’s international board says.”
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Ilya Zhitomirskiy an up and coming entrepreneur committed suicide this week. The tech community is devastated and addresses the pressures of trying to break through into the business. Ilya Zhitomirskiy is not a name that probably sounds familiar, but in a few years he could have been the next Mark Zuckerberg. He and a few of his techie friends were working hard on a project called, Diaspora. And to them it was about more than making money. In September of last year, Zhitomiriskiy told New York Magazine that Diaspora was a project of pure passion. “There’s something deeper than making money off stuff. Being a part of creating stuff for the universe is awesome.” So what cause this seemingly ambitious and brilliant techie to take his own life? ?Burnout is one thing but serious depression is another altogether,” writes Bill Patrianakos on Hacker News, a sort of digital water-cooler for the tech industry. “The pressure of starting a small local business is enough to drive a person mad. Just think about the guys being covered… the widely known ones, the ‘stars’ of the tech startup world.” Though not a celebrity infused post, this story hits home for me. I work [...]
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