# rmx-s-gst: inner dances: to get a sense ...

<< To get a sense for supercoiled DNA,  imagine twisting a piece of string. Let the string go, and it unwinds. Twist it enough, and it folds back on itself. The degree of twist puts stress on the string, which governs the shape it takes >>

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-strange-twists-in-dna-orchestrate-life/

Rossitza N. Irobalieva, Jonathan M. Fogg, et al. Structural diversity of supercoiled DNA. Nature Communications 6, Article number: 8440 doi:10.1038/ncomms9440

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151012/ncomms9440/full/ncomms9440.html

# rmx-s-behav: a bizarre paddle game (about safety waves ...)

<< Males of a newly discovered species of jumping spider [Jotus remus] spend hours waving special paddle-shaped legs at prospective mates, in an effort to copulate without being attacked – or even eaten.

Mating can potentially cost you your life if you are a male spider. To avoid becoming lunch, Jotus remus plays a game first to tire out hungry females >>

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28756-male-spiders-lure-aggressive-females-with-peek-a-boo-paddle-game/

Jürgen  C.  Otto, David  E.  Hill. Males  of  a  new  species  of  Jotus  from  Australia  wave  a  paddle-shaped lure  to  solicit  nearby  females  (Araneae:  Salticidae:  Euophryini). PECKHAMIA 133.1, 7 January 2016,  1―39 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:12A6DBBE-11EC-4DEB-9387-83F1AD727E6F    (registered  6  JAN  2016) 1 ISSN  2161―8526 (print) ISSN  1944―8120 (online)

http://peckhamia.com/peckhamia/PECKHAMIA_133.1.pdf

# e-sec: "soft" vulnerabilities (2015)

<< CVSS Score Distribution For Top 50 Vendors By Total Number Of "Distinct" Vulnerabilities >>

http://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-vendor-cvssscore-distribution.php

CVSS - Common Vulnerability Scoring System -  National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

https://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm

# n-ger: instabile Henriette, sull'onda che risuona d'echi lontani ...

<< Tra i consigli che andranno a formare il "codice di condotta" c'è anche quello di tenersi lontane dagli sconosciuti "a una distanza equivalente a un braccio" >>

Laura Eduati. Il consiglio anti-stupro della sindaca di Colonia è roba da Medioevo. 7 gennaio 2016.

http://m.huffpost.com/it/entry/8921784

<< La verità di cui dobbiamo discutere è proprio questa: il rapporto dell'Islam con le donne è un tema devastante, intriso di violenza e di politica, e non è tale solo nelle forme più estreme, nelle terre più bruciate del Medio Oriente, nelle esperienze più allucinate e militanti delle guerre dell'Isis o del terrorismo >>

Lucia Annunziata. Cirinnà sì, Colonia no? Quante madamine in Parlamento. 9 gennaio 2015

http://www.huffingtonpost.it/lucia-annunziata/cirinna-si-colonia-no-quante-madamine-in-parlamento_b_8938396.html?utm_hp_ref=italy

# s-gst-music: basic structural patterns

<< Lévy motion model captures basic structural patterns in classical as well as in folk music >>

http://m.phys.org/news/2016-01-musical-melodies-laws-foraging-animals.html

Gunnar A. Niklasson and Maria H. Niklasson. Non-Gaussian distributions of melodic intervals in music: The Lévy-stable approximation. EPLA, 2015, EPL (Europhysics Letters), Volume 112, Number 4. dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/112/40003

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/112/40003

# s-acad: about reproducibility

https://twitter.com/NatureNews/status/685469795085598721

Matt Landry & Aldrin V. Gomes. Antibodies: Half of samples fail protein-blot tests. Nature 529, 25 (07 January 2016) doi:10.1038/529025c

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7584/full/529025c.html

# s-brain: whether for good or nefarious ...

<< A team of researchers working at Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan and led by Yamazaki Toshimasa, has according to Japanese newspaper Nishinippon, found a way to read certain brain waves and to match them to a database, allowing for recognition of the words before a person speaks them >>

<< Over the past half-century, scientists have tried many approaches to read the mind, whether for good or nefarious purposes—thus far, none has led to success, though some have claimed some progress has been made >>

http://m.techxplore.com/news/2016-01-decipher-words-mind-spoken.html

http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/national/article/216215