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		<title>Obama adviser met with Yale ‘Bonesmen’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yale University's "Skull and Bones Society," an elite secret club, has all sorts of conspiracy theories that swirl around it. Sen. John Kerry and former President George W. Bush are members, or "Bonesmen," as they're called. President Barack Obama is not a member but Austan Goolsbee , his former top economic adviser, is and he met with a group of Bonesmen last year. What was the meeting about? It's not public information and it doesn't look like we'll be finding out. Goolsbee won't talk about it and neither will the members who attended the meeting. From BuzzFeed : The secret society doesn't release the names of its members, referred to as "Bonesmen," but the Ivy League gossip blog IvyGate regularly has the roster leaked to them. Cross-checking their list with the White House visitor log on March 4 reveals that at least eight members of the 2010-2011 class were present at the Goolsbee meeting. According the White House records, the students met with Goolsbee in room 234 of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at around 4:00 p.m., proceeded to a tour of the White House, and then returned their I.D. badges by 5:00 p.m. BuzzFeed e-mailed Goolsbee, who left the White House last June and returned to the University of Chicago, to find out. He responded with this parenthetical reference to the society's tradition of requiring that its members walk away from any conversation in which it's invoked. "(sound of people leaving the room)," Goolsbee emailed. ]]></description>
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		<title>Big-Time Sports Have Become the Public Face of American Universities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the other big topics of discussion when Professor Greg Joseph and I meet for lunch. USC's the worst (or at least we think so), although some of the other universities mentioned here are right up there. At New York Times , " How Big-Time Sports Ate College Life ": IT was a great day to be a Buckeye. Josh Samuels, a junior from Cincinnati, dates his decision to attend Ohio State to Nov. 10, 2007, and the chill he felt when the band took the field during a football game against Illinois. “I looked over at my brother and I said, ‘I’m going here. There is nowhere else I’d rather be.’ ” (Even though Illinois won, 28-21.) Tim Collins, a junior who is president of Block O, the 2,500-member student fan organization, understands the rush. “It’s not something I usually admit to, that I applied to Ohio State 60 percent for the sports. But the more I do tell that to people, they’ll say it’s a big reason why they came, too.” Ohio State boasts 17 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, three Nobel laureates, eight Pulitzer Prize winners, 35 Guggenheim Fellows and a MacArthur winner. But sports rule. “It’s not, ‘Oh, yeah, Ohio State, that wonderful physics department.’ It’s football,” said Gordon Aubrecht, an Ohio State physics professor. Last month, Ohio State hired Urban Meyer to coach football for $4 million a year plus bonuses (playing in the B.C.S. National Championship game nets him an extra $250,000; a graduation rate over 80 percent would be worth $150,000). He has personal use of a private jet. Dr. Aubrecht says he doesn’t have enough money in his own budget to cover attendance at conferences. “From a business perspective,” he can see why Coach Meyer was hired, but he calls the package just more evidence that the “tail is wagging the dog.” Dr. Aubrecht is not just another cranky tenured professor. Hand-wringing seems to be universal these days over big-time sports, specifically football and men’s basketball. Sounding much like his colleague, James J. Duderstadt, former president of the University of Michigan and author of “Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University,” said this: “Nine of 10 people don’t understand what you are saying when you talk about research universities. But you say ‘Michigan’ and they understand those striped helmets running under the banner.” For good or ill, big-time sports has become the public face of the university, the brand that admissions offices sell, a public-relations machine thanks to ESPN exposure. At the same time, it has not been a good year for college athletics. Child abuse charges against a former Penn State assistant football coach brought down the program’s legendary head coach and the university’s president. Not long after, allegations of abuse came to light against an assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University. Combine that with the scandals over boosters showering players with cash and perks at Ohio State and, allegedly, the University of Miami and a glaring power gap becomes apparent between the programs and the institutions that house them. “There is certainly a national conversation going on now that I can’t ever recall taking place,” said William E. Kirwan, chancellor of the University of Maryland system and co-director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. “We’ve reached a point where big-time intercollegiate athletics is undermining the integrity of our institutions, diverting presidents and institutions from their main purpose.” RTWT. ]]></description>
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		<title>‘Supergiant’ Crustacean 20 Times Larger Than Usual Surprise Scientists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amphipods, a type of crustacean whose body is divided into 13 segments, are generally less than 10 millimeters -- 0.39 inch -- in length. Now, imagine the surprise scientists had when they  found some 20 times that size. Scientists at the University of Aberdeen have announced finding amphipods so big that drawing the analogy between humans and the Incredible Hulk isn't even a big enough comparison. They're so giant, they are being called "supergiant". [caption id="attachment_236241" align="aligncenter" width="592" caption=""Supergiant" Amphipod (Photo: University of Aberdeen Oceanlab)"] [/caption] OurAmazingPlanet reports that the "insects of the sea" were found in a deep sea trench off the coast of New Zealand: "We pulled up the trap, and lying among the fish were these absolutely massive amphipods, and there was no inkling whatsoever that these things should be there," said Alan Jamieson, a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and leader of the expedition that turned up the fantastical creatures in November 2011. "They actually don't feel real," Jamieson told OurAmazingPlanet. "They feel like plastic toys. They have a waxy texture to them." OurAmazingPlanet notes that the largest of the amphipods found was nearly a foot long. [caption id="attachment_236244" align="aligncenter" width="592" caption="(Photo: University of Aberdeen Oceanlab)"] [/caption] This isn't the first time amphipods of this size had been found though. OurAmazingPlanet reports that supergiant amphipods were found in the 1980s off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands but little was seen of them since then. When Jamieson's team returned to the same spot in New Zealand a week later, the crustaceans were gone. On the University of Aberdeen's Oceanlab website, Jamieson also notes that they had searched the trench twice before without ever seeing the animals. The team is now trying to figure out if the supergiants they caught are the same as those seen near Hawaii in the 1980s. They will also try to see if there was a selective advantage that caused them to grow so large. [H/T Gizmodo ]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Silence From Researchers Drilling Into 20-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With only three days left before the team of researchers drilling into a 20-million-year-old lake under 13,000 feet of Antarctic ice, radio communication has gone silent on their end. [caption id="attachment_236304" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Lake Vostok in Antarctica is buried under 13,000 feet of ice and is about the size of Lake Ontario."] [/caption] BBC reported last week that the crew -- set to come home on Feb. 6 while the weather is still good enough for a plane to land -- was  only 50 meters away from reaching their desired depth to access Lake Vostok after drilling nonstop for weeks in -66 degree Celsius weather Now, the Daily Mail reports, that colleagues in the United States lost contact with the Russian team. The scientists are digging to the long-untouched water to help provide clues to what earlier conditions on Earth were like. [caption id="attachment_236305" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Satellite image of Lake Vostok. (Image via Daily Mail)"] [/caption] The Daily Mail has more on the situation: A support team in the U.S. has been unable to make radio contact with the crew on the ice for the past five days. The drilling operation is highly intricate -- and dangerous.There is a risk of explosion from oxygen and nitrogen trapped in the lake. The Daily Mail reports that machinery will not drill directly into the lake, as researchers don't want it to touch the water, but there are concerns that too much water could forcibly come shooting up the hole. Up to a quarter of the water of the lake, which is similar in size to Lake Ontario, could shoot out in the worst case scenario, according to the scientists. [caption id="attachment_236306" align="aligncenter" width="592" caption="Supplies traveling to the Vostok Antarctic research station. (Image via Daily Mail)"] [/caption] Fox News reports John Priscu, professor of ecology at Montana State University who is heading up a similar Antarctic exploration program, as saying the temperature will only get colder now that winter is setting in: The team's disappearance could not come at a worse time: They are about 40 feet from their goal of reaching the body of water, Priscu explained, a goal that the team was unable to meet as they raced the coming winter exactly one year ago. When the winter arrives in the next few weeks, the temperature can get twice as cold. Vostok Station boasts the lowest recorded temperature on Earth: -89.4 degrees Celsius (-129 degrees Fahrenheit). "Ice isn't like rock, it's capable of movement," Dr. Priscu told FoxNews.com. "So in order to keep the hole from squeezing shut, they put a fluid in the drill called kerosene. Kerosene also grows bacteria, and there's about 65 tons of kerosene in that hole. It would be a disaster if that kerosene contaminated this pristine lake." But the scientists came up with a clever way to make sure this debacle would not occur. They agreed to drill until a sensor warned them of free water. At that point they will take out the right amount of kerosene and adjust the pressure so that none of the liquids fall into the lake, but rather lake water would rise through the hole. Fox reports Priscu as saying he has some concern for his colleagues but with the drama of how the water would be extracted and now lack of communication, notes that it makes for an interesting plot for a Hollywood movie. Fox states that it contacted the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute but did not receive a response. In the mean time, scientists wait with bated breath for both the Russian team and news of the samples from pristine, 20-million-year-old water they could bring back.]]></description>
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		<title>Birth Control for Men? Zap Testicles With a Dose of Ultrasound Heat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has the answer to a quick, painless, reversible male contraceptive been in doctors' offices and commercially available for decades? One study says yes. Therapeutic ultrasounds machines, which are currently used to relieve injured joints with heat, according to the study by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill researchers, could someday be a viable form of contraceptives for men. According to the press release, the researchers were able to reduce sperm counts for a long period of time -- two and a half months -- in rats by giving the rodents' testicles just two 15 minute doses of the ultrasound heat. [caption id="attachment_233579" align="aligncenter" width="394" caption="The seminiferous tubule on the left is from a testis that was not treated with ultrasound while the tubule on the right is from a testis that was treated with ultrasound. Note that the tubule from the control testis has many darkly stained germ cell nuclei. In contrast, the ultrasound-treated tubule is completely lacking testicular sperm and has lost almost all immature germ cells. (Photo: James Tsuruta/ Paul Dayton)"] [/caption] Here's how the treatment works: The best results came from undergoing two sessions, each consisting of 15 minutes of ultrasound, two days apart. During the sessions, the testes were placed in a cup of saline to provide conduction between the ultrasound transducer and skin. The researchers were not able to continue their study for long enough to see when, or whether, fertility would return. But they knew it was effective: microscopic examination showed dramatic changes after just two weeks. Normally, testes are full of many layers of cells developing into sperm, but now the tubes of the testis were almost empty. "Sperm production is very robust; this ensures the survival of a species. It's really difficult to find a way to turn off the production of sperm, but ultrasound seems to do the trick," Dr. [James] Tsuruta [said]. "There is something special about heating with ultrasound — it caused 10-times lower sperm counts than just applying heat." [caption id="attachment_233599" align="alignright" width="269" caption="This ultrasound unit was used in the rat study. (Image: NewMaleContraction.org)"] [/caption] A different set of researchers showed that this technique also worked in primates -- and was reversible. Dr. Catherine VandeVoort from the University of California-Davis who led the primate study spoke about the slightly awkward research they had to conduct to see if it would work in the monkeys: "The monkeys didn't seem to mind the treatment a bit, but we were having a rough time of it. Thirty minutes of treatment three times a week is a lot of monkey testicular massage. We felt pretty silly, and it didn't help when the techs would come around and wonder what kind of research we were doing! We were relieved when we finally saw an effect." A third set of researchers in Italy tested the technique on dogs in the hopes of permanent sterilization to reduce the stray dog population. The press release states that using five doses of the therapy on the dogs did achieve permanent sterility, leading researchers to consider this as an alternative to surgical vasectomies. It also leads some to be cautious about using ultrasound as a temporary form of birth control: there is a risk for permanent sterilization; couples have no definite way knowing when sperm counts would come back up again; and there could be potential effects on sperm structure that could lead to a damaged embryo: "This is an interesting development in a challenging indication," says regulatory consultant Gary Gamerman of Seraphim Life Sciences. Though much remains to be done, there's nothing inherent to the method that would make ultrasound dead in the water from a regulatory standpoint. "The only concern is proof of safety and durability of response. As long as it prevents fertile sperm, is overall safe and doesn't cause secondary safety or adverse sexual effects, there wouldn't necessarily be anything that would hold it back. You just have to do the studies." Clearly, more studies would need to be done before this is considered as a permanent or temporary form of contraceptive for men. But as New Male Contraception's website states, "there is nothing preventing men from buying a $1,300 ultrasound machine online and trying it." [H/T Popular Science ]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Warmists Seek to Flush Out ‘Denier’ Meteorologists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ **Written by Doug Powers The ultimate goal is to clone Al Gore to serve as a weatherman at every local television station so he can offer the patented Hypocrite-Cast]]></description>
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		<title>This Is a ‘Who Is Tim Tebow Dating?’ Story That You Will Really Like</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tebow-mania subsided substantially since Tom Brady and the New England Patriots crushed the Denver Broncos' hopes for a fairytale trip to the Super Bowl. But that isn't stopping Tim watchers. Now they're turning their collective attention to the next-best obsession: A storybook ending in the quarterback's personal life. As in...does he have a girlfriend? Tebow says no . The outspoken Christian and acknowledged virgin says he's "too busy with football and life...I am blessed to have a close-knit [group] around me. I love meeting and talking with people, socializing and hanging out. But people can read it the wrong way." Tebow notes that "leading girls on" is definitely not in his playbook. "I always want to be very careful about that,'' he says. "That is one thing that's a little frustrating." So with the gossip mill linking him ad nauseum with newly single icons such as Olympic champion skier Lindsey Vonn and pop superstar Katy Perry , it's refreshing to learn of Tebow's real-life friendship with brain-tumor survivor Kelly Faughn. [caption id="attachment_231258" align="aligncenter" width="490" caption=""We are God-friends," Kelly says of Tebow."] [/caption] ”I just think he’s great, a really nice guy,” said Kelly, 22, of Clifton, Va., who still deals with hearing loss suffered at birth and a tremor that began when she was 12. “It’s just his faith. We are God-friends.” It all started in 2009 after Kelly's surgery to remove a benign brain tumor and a much-needed trip to Disney World in Orlando with her family. The bonus was that Tebow, then with the University of Florida, was scheduled to attend ESPN's College Football Awards at Disney. Since Kelly was a big Tim fan, she and her dad, Jim, hatched their plan. They grabbed a spot in the ESPN Zone restaurant the day before the awards, Kelly wearing her "I Love Timmy" button and hoping to catch a glimpse of Tebow as he walked by — and she did. “ Well , I thought, that’s it ,” Jim said. “We got a wave from Timmy and I thought that was the end of it. Then, somebody came to our table and asked if we wanted to meet Timmy.” Silly question. Kelly was whisked into a private banquet room where Kelly was seated at Tebow’s side, chatting with him during the entire dinner. Then Tebow had another surprise in store, Kelly remembered. “He said, ‘What are you doing tomorrow night? Why don’t you come to the awards dinner as my date?’” Kelly said. “I was shocked. I said yes. I felt like Cinderella.” Without much more than T-shirts, shorts, and flip-flops in her suitcase, Kelly spent the next day “power shopping” and getting her hair done. “I felt like I was in heaven,” Kelly said. Kelly and Tebow have stayed in touch since their whirlwind date, exchanging messages and gifts. Kelly sent him a box of nutrition bars, and Tebow sent her an engraved Bible for Christmas. The family has also attended two games, including one in Denver last month arranged by the Tim Tebow Foundation . [caption id="attachment_231248" align="aligncenter" width="490" caption="Kelly chats with Tebow before last December&#39;s game."] [/caption] “He’s a really nice guy, but it’s his faith,” Kelly said. “He really believes in God.” (h/t: Centreville Patch ) ]]></description>
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		<title>College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan 
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Riker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AP - Fuzzy math, Illinois State University's president called it. "Political theater of the worst sort," said the University of Washington's head. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama &#8216;putting colleges on notice&#8217; on high tuition 
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AP - President Barack Obama fired a warning at the nation's colleges and universities on Friday, threatening to strip their federal aid if they "jack up tuition" every year and to give the money instead to schools showing restraint and value. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama pushes colleges to keep tuition under control 
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters - President Barack Obama, appearing before thousands of cheering students at the University of Michigan, touted his plan on Friday to reward colleges that keep their tuition under control with more federal aid as he makes school affordability a top election-year priority.]]></description>
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