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You're the new guy at a big nameless corporation, and if you want to get anywhere in your career, you need to work your way to the top.

About two-fifths of marathon runners "hit the wall" on the big day. That means they completely deplete their body's stash of readily available energy, which makes them feel wiped out and severely limits their running pace; it sometimes forces people out of the run completely. Marathoner and biomedical engineer Benjamin Rapoport has been physically and mentally struggling with this phenomenon for years, and had the bright idea to turn it into a research project. He published a mathematical theor

Maria Sharapova and her boyfriend of one year, L.A. Lakers guard Sasha Vujacic are engaged. The world's top 2 players, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, will square off in successive charity exhibitions December 21st and 22nd in Switzerland and Spain. Federer played his 900th career ATP match against Taylor Dent at the Stockholm Open. Elena Dementieva and Jelena Jankovic may not be in good enough health to play in Doha joining Venus and Serena Williams.

This photograph, taken in Masoala National Park, Madagascar, shows a Malagasi worker illegally felling a rosewood tree in UNESCO protected forest. Despite the risky work, dangerous conditions, and tremendous price of rosewood overseas, each worker is paid the equivalent of about four dollars per day. The wood is extracted deep from within the national parks and is financed by powerful local traders. The ancient and densely grained Malagasy rosewood trees are sought after for musical instrument

"Return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikely." That's the understated conclusion from this year's Arctic Report Card, which found that air temperatures will continue rising and ice will continue melting in the Arctic as global warming continues to take its toll on the region. The annual report was prepared by 69 researchers in eight countries, and was issued by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. What goes on in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. The researchers n

In this episode of Rant Cast – recorded before Wayne Rooney signed his new contract today – regulars Ed & Paul talk about the ongoing saga: is it a case of player greed gone mad or the Glazers' poor investment in the first team squad? What are the morals of demanding £250,000 a week to play with a pig's bladder?
We also review the West Bromwich Albion and Bursaspor matches this week, and look forward to this weekend's tough fixture against Stoke City at the Britannia.

What are the morals of demanding £250,000 a week to play with a pig's bladder?

What are the morals of demanding £250,000 a week to play with a pig's bladder?

Nick Lane's book Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution has just won the Royal Society's science book prize. The book chronicles the history of life on Earth through ten of evolution's greatest achievements, from the origins of life itself to sex, eyes, and DNA. The judges said that the ease with which Lane communicates these complex scientific ideas is what makes the book shine. "Life Ascending is a beautifully written and elegantly structured book that was a favourite with all

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The other day NPR's Planet Money quipped that the gold bubble was going to burst soon, as they'd decided to buy gold. Well, perhaps Facebook is nearing its bursting point...I created a Gene Expression fan page. I don't have a good sense of the great utility of this sort of thing...you can after all find the two GNXP weblogs on the world wide web pretty easily. And I feed the blog posts to two twitter accounts. I can see the value-add of Facebook's selective semi-permeability when it comes to the

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the oldest treatment in psychiatry that's still in use today. ECT uses a brief electrical current to induce a generalized seizure. No-one knows why, but in many cases this rapidly alleviates depression - amongst other things.The problem with ECT is that it may cause memory loss. It's hotly debated how serious of a problem this is, and most psychiatrists agree that the risk is justified if the alternative is untreatable illness, but it's fair to say that whether

A new approach to electrophoresis is giving researchers more control over how they play with small particles. Electrophoresis is the movement of particles in solution under a current--a phenomenon that can be exploited for use in everything from ePaper to DNA separating gels. Instead of using a normal fluid to conduct current, researchers led by Oleg Lavrentovich tried using liquid crystals as their conductive fluid. Liquid crystals, like those seen in the first three pictures above (which m

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