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Here Comes the Boom 2012 [ full movie online ]
Click here: FreeCarnival.com and watch full movie online for free Here Comes the Boom 2012 [ full movie online ] A high school biology teacher looks to become a successful mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to prevent extra-curricular activities from being axed at his cash-strapped school.From:LillieKnausViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:31More inFilm Animation

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Lessons Circassian Kabardian dialect Biology
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Karl Niklas, Plant Physics
In a book talk at Cornell University #39;s Mann Library in October 2012, Karl J. Niklas, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, discusses his new book "Plant Physics." Emerging from long-term collaboration between plant evolutionary biologist Niklas and physicist Hanns-Christof Spatz, the book explains how plants cannot be fully understood without examining how physical forces and processes influence growth, development, reproduction, evolution, and the environment. As a unique contribution in the field of biomechanics, the book provides a valuable reference for researchers interested in how plants work from a physical perspective. For more Chats in the Stacks podcasts from Mann Library, visit mannlib.cornell.eduFrom:mannlibraryViews:5 0ratingsTime:46:09More inEducation

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Biology Laboratory Safety Rules Procedures Agreement (Parody)
This is a parody of a laboratory and safety rules agreement. This is just a joke and not to be taken seriously.From:INFLAMES750Views:4 1ratingsTime:06:52More inComedy

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Is There Enough Time For Humans to have Evolved from Apes? Dr. Ann Gauger Answers
Ann Gauger is Senior Research Scientist at Biologic Institute. She received her Ph.D. in developmental biology from the University of Washington and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. Science Human Origins (www.discoveryinstitutepress.com the provocative new book from Discovery Institute Press, boldly addresses some of the most popular evolutionary arguments pertaining to controversial claims that humans and apes are related through common ancestry. In Science Human Origins three scientists challenge the claim that undirected natural selection is capable of building a human being. The authors critically assess fossil and genetic evidence that human beings share a common ancestor with apes, and debunk recent claims that the human race could not have started from an original couple.From:DiscoveryInstituteViews:2 0ratingsTime:02:45More inScience Technology

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VCU Sturgeon Research Study
There it was, gently coasting along the shallow waters of the James River just below the urban backdrop of the Richmond City skyline -- a giant prehistoric fish that had once swam with the dinosaurs. The rare sighting of an Atlantic sturgeon, one of the oldest species of fish in the world, just under the 14th Street Bridge in downtown Richmond last month generated a lot of excitement. Even more compelling during that same week was the discovery of the first fall spawning female -- there were eggs in the water everywhere. Coincidentally, folks down on the Roanoke River came across a very similar scene. No one could be happier about the find than Matt Balazik, a doctoral candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University. He made the initial discovery of the spawning female and eggs in the James. Balazik is part of a research team at the VCU Center for Environmental Studies and VCU Inger and Walter Rice Center studying the Atlantic sturgeon to learn more about its life history and biology in an effort to protect and restore it to the coastal rivers of Virginia. "We now have proof that there is fall spawning sturgeon in the James," said Greg Garman, Ph.D., who has been instrumental in leading the sturgeon restoration efforts at VCU, and director of the VCU Center for Environmental Studies. "... within the sturgeon world, this kind of news is a big deal ... It #39;s an aspect of the biology and life history that is brand new, and one that could have big impact on the recovery plans ...From:VCUViews:12 0ratingsTime:03:06More inEducation

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The Brain of Homo Digitalis: Mohammed El Majdoubi PHD at TEDx Marin 2012
The impact of digital technologies on the Human Brain. Dr. Mohammed El Majdoubi is a Professor of Neuroscience at Dominican University of California, expert in brain development and plasticity, and father of 3 digital natives. He holds a BS in Physiology (1991), a MS (1992) and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience Pharmacology (1996) with a focus on neuroplasticity from the University of Bordeaux, France. Dr. Majdoubi came to the United States in 1997 to work as a Research Associate studying the neurobiology of puberty at the University of Pittsburgh Primate Center, before joining the University of California San Francisco in 2000 as an Assistant Research Scientist and Director of the Morphology Core Facility. He joined the faculty of Dominican University of California in 2005, where he serves as an Associate Professor of Neurobiology. His current research is focused on the neuronal differentiation of stem cells. Dr. Majdoubi has published 18 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has given 25 presentations at international meetings. He teaches a broad array of courses, including, among others, Neuroscience, Stem Cell Biology, Ethics, Research Methodology, Human Physiology and Cell Imaging Technology in the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. He also teaches courses for the Honors Program and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Dr. Majdoubi was honored by his students with the Dominican Teacher of the Year Award in 2009. In thespirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx ...From:TEDxTalksViews:62 4ratingsTime:15:28More inScience Technology

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My work experience in health-food store.
I #39;m doing work experience in a health food store (this is my 2nd day) for my college course, Applied biology -food, health and nutrition. Sorry about the whispering, (and for not looking the best.lol.)..I have a bit of a soar throat, as was at a haunted house the night before doing a lot of screaming. lol I #39;m finding work experience very interesting and enjoyable, I could live happily in this health food store!From:themollykennedyshowViews:2 1ratingsTime:01:06More inEducation

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Dr. Robert Sapolsky - Biology and Human Behavior - Lecture 6
When are we responsible for our own actions, and when are we in the grip of biological forces beyond our control? This intriguing question is the scientific province of behavioral biology, a field that explores interactions among the brain, mind, body, and environment that have a surprising influence on how we behave mdash;from the people we fall in love with, to the intensity of our spiritual lives, to the degree of our aggressive impulses. In short, it is the study of how our brains make us the individuals that we are. Biology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition, is an interdisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject. In 24 lectures, you will investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors, some of them abnormal. You will see that little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work.From:heretichickViews:0 0ratingsTime:30:32More inEducation

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Elephant learns to speak Korean
Elephant learns to speak Korean Meet Koshik, the Asian elephant who learnt to speak Korean after five years at Everland Zoo in South Korea. An Asian elephant named Koshik can imitate human speech by placing his trunk in his mouth. In this video, Koshik can be heard saying "choah" which means "good" in Korean. The word can be readily understood by those who know the language. Reasearchers for Current Biology have found that Koshik #39;s vocabulary consists of exactly five words. He can also say "annyong" ("hello"), "anja" ("sit down"), "nuo" ("lie down") and "aniya" ("no"). Scientists hope that Koshik #39;s language skills may provide important insights into the biology and evolution of human speech and music. There have been some earlier reports of vocal mimicry in both African and Asian elephants. African elephants have been known to imitate the sound of truck engines, and a male Asian elephant living in a zoo in Kazakhstan was said to produce utterances in both Russian and Kazakh, but that case was never scientifically investigated.From:CMA2012ShowViews:0 0ratingsTime:00:26More inPets Animals

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Muskogee High School biology teacher Harland Warrior encourages certain social networking in his class.

There's no Tweeting or Facebook. Instead, he links with students through the academic social network My Big Campus. The online network enables students to communicate with the teacher and other students, as well as access teacher notes and subject-related videos at any time.

Warrior said it presents science and other subjects in a way students find familiar.

"We're playing their game now," Warrior said. "It's technology."

Warrior said he has used the My Big Campus network for about four weeks. He calls it his "communications hub."

"I have all my notes on Word or PowerPoint, so if you want to take my biology class at home, you can take it at home," he said.

Sophomore Bailee Hendrickson said she keeps up with class announcements on the network.

"It's so we can see what we're doing in class," Bailee said. "We can talk to each other through the network."

She said the teacher posts notes on the network's "wall."

"We'll go back and look at them and study," she said. "If you miss a day of school, you can look on it (the class wall)."

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The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences has elected 70 new members including Lynda Chin, Stephen Quake, and Daniel Kastner. Chin is currently a professor and chair of genomic medicine and scientific director of the Institute for Applied Cancer Science at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Quake is a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Kastner is the scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, where, among other duties, he leads the inflammatory disease section of the medical genetics branch.

Caprotec Bioanalytics has appointed Jonathan Turner to be CEO and managing director. Turner will take over the CEO spot from company founder Hubert Koester, who will continue to work with the company as acting chief scientific officer and chairman of the scientific advisory board. Turner formerly was senior VP at XL Techgroup, a technology developer and equity firm, and he held senior management posts at Boehringer Ingelheim, Astrazeneca, and Schering.

Bill Bowen has been appointed by Sequenom SVP and general counsel. He will report directly to Chairman and CEO Harry Hixson and will be responsible for the company's legal and patent issues. Bowen was previously with Gen-Probe, where he was SVP and general counsel. Before that he was a business litigation partner at Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps.

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New research, published in PLOS Computational Biology, offers insight into the neural underpinnings of musical timbre. Mounya Elhilali, of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues have used mathematical models based on experiments in both animals and humans to accurately predict sound source recognition and perceptual timbre judgments by human listeners.

A major contributor to our ability to analyze music and recognize instruments is the concept known as 'timbre'. Timbre is a hard-to-quantify concept loosely defined as everything in music that isn't duration, loudness or pitch. For instance, timbre comes into play when we are able to instantly decide whether a sound is coming from a violin or a piano.

The researchers at The John Hopkins University set out to develop a mathematical model that would simulate how the brain works when it receives auditory signals, how it looks for specific features and whether something is there that allows the brain to discern these different qualities.

The authors devised a computer model to accurately mimic how specific brain regions transform sounds into the nerve impulses that allow us to recognize the type of sounds we are listening to. The model was able to correctly identify which instrument was playing (out of a total of 13 instruments) to an accuracy rate of 98.7 percent.

The model mirrored how human listeners make judgment calls regarding timbre. The researchers asked 20 people to listen to two sounds played by different musical instruments. The listeners were then asked to rate how similar the sounds seemed. A violin and a cello are perceived as closer to each other than a violin and a flute. The researchers also found that wind and percussive instruments tend to overall be the most different from each other, followed by strings and percussions, then strings and winds. These subtle judgments of timbre quality were also reproduced by the computer model.

"There is much to be learned from how the human brain processes complex information such as musical timbre and translating this knowledge into improved computer systems and hearing technologies", Elhilali said.

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FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: This work was partly supported by grants from NSF CAREER IIS-0846112, AFOSR FA9550-09-1-0234, NIH 1R01AG036424-01 and ONR N000141010278. S. Shamma was partly supported by a Blaise-Pascal Chair, Region Ile de France, and by the program Research in Paris, Mairie de Paris. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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