Quick info, July 14
Friday, July 14, 2006 1:00:00 PM
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MUTOSCOPE A device for creating a moving picture from a series of still photographs.
Here is a list of the various names for “movement photography:” Phantoscope, criterioscope, vitascope, cinematograph, biograph, kinematograph, wonderscope, animatoscope, vitagraph, panoramograph, cosmoscope, anarithmoscope, katoptikum, magniscope, zoeoptrotrope, variscope, phantasmagoria, projectoscope, cinograph, hypnoscope, centograph, X-ograph, electroscope, cinegraphoscope, craboscope, vitaletiscope, cinematoscope, mutoscope, cinoscope, animaloscope, theatograph, chronophotographoscope, cinnomonograph, motograph, kinetograph, rayoscope, motorscope, kinetiphone, thromotrope, phenakistoscope, venetrope, vitrescope, zinematograph, vitopticon, stinnetiscope, vivrescope, diaramiscope, lobsterscope, corminograph, kineoptoscope or any other old scope.
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Mongolians honour Genghis Khan Tuesday, 11 July 2006
But the highlight is the three-day Nadaam festival, which features the traditional "three manly sports" of horse-racing, wrestling and archery.
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'Lab-made sperm' fertility hope Monday, 10 July 2006
In the future, men with fertility problems might be able to have their own stem cells harvested using a simple testicular biopsy, matured in the lab and then transplanted back.
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Down's syndrome gene identified Wednesday, 5 July 2006
To investigate he looked at mouse models, and discovered that mice with three copies of a gene called the amyloid precursor protein gene, or App, situated on chromosome 21, had larger neurons than mice with two copies of the gene.
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Kangaroo meat rebranding launched Saturday, 19 November 2005
Organisers want to find a name less offensive to diners sensitive about eating a national symbol.
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Flashback to Kosovo's war Monday, 10 July 2006
While Serbs latterly only made up about 10% of the population, [...] Serbs consider Kosovo the cradle of their culture, religion and national identity.
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Two given life for honour killing Friday, 14 July 2006
The 25-year-old recruitment consultant was killed after she asked to marry an Afghan man - instead of marrying someone in the Pakistani family circle.
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Bosnian Serbs face genocide trial Friday, 14 July 2006
Five of the seven standing trial at The Hague face genocide charges, as well as crimes against humanity.
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Diamond facility starts to shine Friday, 14 July 2006
At its heart is a synchrotron - a particle accelerator that uses electrons to generate powerful "synchrotron" light that enables scientists to look inside matter at the molecular and atomic scale.
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the light produced by the Diamond synchrotron is 100 billion times brighter than light produced from a conventional X-ray tube. -
Autism 'more common than thought' Thursday, 13 July 2006
Autism impairs social interaction, communication, and imagination.
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In total, autistic disorders affected 116 per 10,000 children. -
Meerkat pups go to eating school Thursday, 13 July 2006
The only other clear demonstration of teaching behaviour in species other than Homo sapiens is, they say, the finding reported earlier this year that ants can help their fellows locate food.
Words
lo and behold
e·bul·lient (ĭ-bʊl'yənt, ĭ-bŭl'-) -adj.- Zestfully enthusiastic.
ad·duce (ə-dūs', ə-dyūs') -tr.v.- To cite as an example or means of proof in an argument.
gloss (glôs, glŏs) -n.- An extensive commentary, often accompanying a text or publication.
fi·at (fē'ət, -ăt', -ät', fī'ăt', -ət) -n.- An arbitrary order or decree.
stand pat -Idiom- Refuse to change one's position or opinion
dys·pep·tic (dĭs-pĕp'tĭk) -adj.- suffering from indigestion
ve·neer (və-nîr') -n.- A deceptive, superficial show; a façade
ac·u·men (ăk'yə-mən, ə-kyū'-) -n.- Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
lam·baste (lăm-bāst') -tr.v.- To give a thrashing to; beat.
Counterfactual conditional A counterfactual conditional, or subjunctive conditional, is a conditional (or "if-then") statement indicating what would be the case if its antecedent were true. This is to be contrasted with an indicative conditional, which indicates what is (in fact) the case if its antecedent is (in fact) true.
Comics
- P - Hey, what if we're all just brains in a vat ?! Sitting in a lab somewhere hooked up to wires and electrodes 'n' [expletive]! Our entire lives just a hallucination of electrical pulses...
(brain) C - Gosh I hope not.
(brain) P - Yeah. Freaky.






