<< 62 super-ricchi possiedono la stessa ricchezza di metà della popolazione più povera >>
http://www.oxfamitalia.org/eventi/sfida-lingiustizia-di-basta-ai-paradisi-fiscali
http://www.oxfamitalia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Rapporto-Oxfam-Gennaio-2016_-Un-Economia-per-lunopercento.pdf
<< Alexander Clark and Thao Tran evaluated sound patterns of texts, with the goal of comparing the sonnets of Shakespeare and Wordsworth. Clark and Tran used the soundex algorithm, a method of converting words into 5 digit "codes." >>
http://www.math.union.edu/~framem/AprilWorkshop/DataIFS/Texts/Clark/Clark.html
<< however close you look, the complexity stays >>
Dilip D'Souza. Fri, Jan 15 2016. 12 40 AM IST
http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/78slqi9jU44QuvhxPAsJNL/All-your-lifes-a-fractal.html
<< Ants are hard workers, but they’re not multitaskers: They have to stop to think >>
<< While exploring, a Temnothorax albipennis worker ant (..) alternates between moving and pausing. An ant processes incoming chemical information only while stalled >>
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ants-dont-make-decisions-move
Edmund R. Hunt, Roland J. Baddeley, et al. Ants determine their next move at rest: motor planning and causality in complex systems. Royal Society Open Science. Published online January 13, 2016. doi: 10.1098/rsos.15034.
<< Men and women react differently to stress. Animal studies suggest the root of the difference is messaging within the brain >>
<< But until recently, studies of people’s responses to such stress have focused primarily on men >>
Susan Gaidos. Scientists puzzle over why men and women react differently to pressure. 2:30PM, JANUARY 11, 2016
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/his-stress-not-her-stress
<< Flirting is a full-scale production for torrent frogs >>
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/torrent-frog-flirting-complicated
Fábio P. de Sá, Juliana Zina, Célio F. B. Haddad. Sophisticated Communication in the Brazilian Torrent Frog Hylodes japi. PLoS ONE 11(1): e0145444. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145444
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0145444
<< A highly efficient homogeneous catalyst system for the production of CH3OH from CO2 using pentaethylenehexamine and Ru-Macho-BH (1) at 125–165 °C in an ethereal solvent has been developed (initial turnover frequency = 70 h–1 at 145 °C) >>
<< Various sources of CO2 can be used for this reaction including air, despite its low CO2 concentration (400 ppm) >>
Jotheeswari Kothandaraman, Alain Goeppert, et al. Conversion of CO2 from Air into Methanol Using a Polyamine and a Homogeneous Ruthenium Catalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. December 29, 2015. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b12354
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5b12354
Andy Extance. Carbon dioxide-to-methanol catalyst ignites ‘fuel from air’ debate. 14 January 2016
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/01/fuel-air-carbon-dioxide-capture-methanol-renewable-energy
https://twitter.com/ChemistryWorld/status/687852980238860288
<< for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a neural population in the human auditory cortex that responds selectively to sounds that people typically categorize as music, but not to speech or other environmental sounds >>
http://bioengineer.org/music-in-the-brain/
Sam Norman-Haignere, Nancy G. Kanwisher, Josh H. McDermott. Distinct Cortical Pathways for Music and Speech Revealed by Hypothesis-Free Voxel Decomposition. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.11.035 |
