SCIENCE
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Story: Learning
During Sleep? Researchers Investigate Communication Between Memory Areas -
[Science Daily] Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in
Heidelberg have been investigating how memories might be consolidated. Their new
study offers the hitherto strongest proof that new information is transferred
between the hippocampus, the short term memory area, and the cerebral cortex during
sleep.
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TECHNOLOGY
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Story: The Seoul
of a New Machine - [Wired] The Robot Intelligence Technology, or RIT, lab
is famous as the home of the Federation of International Robot-soccer Association,
FIRA, the robotic soccer league. But beyond the easy crowd appeal of robotic sport,
the researchers here are far more enthusiastic about a different creation -- one
that lives in the wires and silicon woven throughout the walls of this building:
a "software robot" they call Rity. Rity is the ghost in the machine:
an autonomous agent that can transfer itself into desktop computers, PDAs, servers
and robotic avatars, and adapt and evolve like a genetic organism.
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BUSINESS
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Story: Smashing
The Clock - [Business Week] At most companies, going AWOL during daylight
hours would be grounds for a pink slip. Not at Best Buy. The nation's leading
electronics retailer has embarked on a radical -- if risky -- experiment to transform
a culture once known for killer hours and herd-riding bosses. The endeavor, called
ROWE, for "results-only work environment," seeks to demolish decades-old
business dogma that equates physical presence with productivity. The goal at Best
Buy is to judge performance on output instead of hours.
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SOCIETY
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Story: Gen
Y Makes a Mark and their Imprint is Entrepreneurship - [USA Today] They've
got the smarts and the confidence to get a job, but increasing numbers of the
millennial generation -- those in their mid-20s and younger -- are deciding corporate
America just doesn't fit their needs. So armed with a hefty dose of optimism,
moxie and self-esteem, they are becoming entrepreneurs.
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GLOBAL POLITICS
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Story: Cisco
Says India to be Base of Globalisation Drive - [AFP] Global networking giant
Cisco Systems has announced plans to make India a base for its globalisation drive
as it forecast the country could account for half its future workforce growth.
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ENVIRONMENT
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Story: New
Crops Needed to Avoid Famines - [BBC] The global network of agricultural research
centres warns that famines lie ahead unless new crop strains adapted to a warmer
future are developed. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
says yields of existing varieties will fall. New forecasts say warming will shrink
South Asia's wheat area by half. CGIAR is announcing plans to accelerate efforts
aimed at developing new strains of staple crops including maize, wheat, rice and
sorghum.
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THE FUTURE
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Story: Move to New
Planet, Says Hawking - [BBC] The human race must move to a planet beyond our
Solar System to protect the future of the species, physicist Professor Stephen
Hawking has warned.
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