NASA and IBM win grant for a national data infrastructure
NASA awards IBM eighty two million dollars to build a system for retrieving images and data from spacecraft. The project aims to accelerate a national information infrastructure giving wider public access to scientific data including Earth atmosphere graphs and Kelvin temperature scales.
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The Look of Love in Human Courtship
Ethologists compare human flirting to animal behavior using nonverbal cues. Researchers like David Givens describe signals of notice and harmlessness, such as palm rests and shoulder shrugs, seen across barroom encounters and first conversations. The study traces a universal, species-shared vocabulary of courtship from wolves to humans.
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The Courtship Code: Nonverbal Signals In Humans
The piece surveys flirtation as a dance of courtship with nonverbal cues. It cites anthropologists and psychologists, noting coyness signals commitment tests and sexual interest. It covers evolutionary aims, signaling strategies, and the role of attraction in initiating relationships.
Men misinterpret flirtation says Buss study
Buss and colleagues report that college age men often read a woman's smile as a sexual invitation while women see it as a signal to get to know him. The study in The Journal of Sex Research with 208 participants finds men fare better with indirect romantic strategies rather than direct sexual approaches.
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Jane Lancaster
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque
Lancaster
Monica Moore
Webster University
St. Louis
Moore
Buss
Journal of Sex Research
First land-dwelling arthropod tracks found in 440 million-year-old mud
British Geological Survey scientists report tiny footprints in Ordovician mud near England and Scotland. The tracks, likely from centipede-like arthropods, push back multicellular land invasion by about 50 million years. Fossil evidence remains elusive, but trackways imply coastal pond dwellers who crawled onto drying land.
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England
Scotland
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New York Times News Service
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