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10 January 2014 16:01
Philip Roe, the Leicestershire truck driver at the centre of a drug smuggling case involving the Kasawaki World Superbike team has been sentenced to 18 years in jail.
The case came to a head when the team's truck was found to contain drugs, a gun and ammunition while returning to the UK from the Assen round in 2011.
The lorry was searched at Dover in May 2011, with customs officers finding six kilos of cocaine, 68 kilos of cannabis resin, 35 kilos of herbal cannabis and 30 kilos of ecstasy tablets concealed in a number of bags and boxes hidden in a seating area.
A number of MDMA tablets, a .22 Walther handgun and 35 rounds of ammunition were also found in the truck, which wasn't being driven at the time by Roe, who was driving a second lorry. Three other team members were also arrested at the time,
Forensic examination of the drugs recovered Roe's fingerprints, and emails and messages recovered from his laptop included incriminating evidence, including references to a "payday" when he got back to the UK.
He was charged with six counts of attempting to import class A drugs, class B drugs, firearms and ammunition, but the other three team members also arrested were released without charge.
Following a two week trial at Canterbury Crown Court Roe was found guilty on all charges. On Thursday 12 December the judge sentenced him to 18 years in prison.
Malcolm Bragg, from the National Crime Agency's Border Policing Command, said: "This was a brazen attempt to smuggle a large quantity of illegal drugs plus a gun and ammunition into the UK. These drugs would have been worth around £2.5 million had they made it on to the streets.
"Right from the start of our investigation Roe denied any knowledge of this importation and was happy to blame his colleagues and team.
"However, thanks to the close co-operation between NCA investigators and Border Force he has been brought to justice and is behind bars where he belongs."
Paul Morgan, Director Border Force South East & Europe, added: "Drug trafficking is a serious offence and those convicted face long prison sentences. Our message to those who would consider it is that it's just not worth it.
"Border Force officers, alongside our NCA colleagues, continue to work diligently to keep our border secure and to make life as tough as possible for those who seek to profit from this evil trade."
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9 years minimum, not maximum. He'll likely serve around 12 years.
Fully deserved imo. Not for the drugs, which I couldn't care less about, but for the gun. Which makes him a massive ****.
14 January 2014 12:19
The name of the drug gang running the Afghan heroin trade is "NATO".
14 January 2014 02:18
Can we please focus on the positive?
With this kingpin incarcerated, we've finally won the war on drugs, and are safe to enjoy the totally harm-free substances alcohol and nicotene without consequences.
13 January 2014 07:50
"Drug trafficking is a serious offence and those convicted face long prison sentences."
Exactly. Well, unless you happen to be moving several tons of heroin out of Afghanistan in the pay of certain unnamed Western intelligence agencies. Then you have nothing to worry about.
13 January 2014 01:58
Not sure...
...exactly what Coulon's sentence was, but it definitely wasn't a decade in prison. And I'm not trying to throw him under the bus (sorry, couldn't resist that one), but it does seem like quite a disparity in sentencing between the 2 cases. But what do I know? I am no student of the law; I prefer common sense. However, I do know the article has its facts wrong...I've just noticed the picture of the handgun, and it's clearly not a 22.
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First off, we have to consider the competition. When Andrew Wiggins takes it to the basket and random Joe Schmo is defending the rim, we're probably going to see a Wiggins dunk. Then, we'll go crazy as if Wiggins is the second-coming of LeBron James (wait, we've already done this). Now, let's put a quality perimeter defender on Wiggins and let's put Serge Ibaka in the paint. My guess…a forced shot or a turnover because Wiggins isn't used to that level of play.
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Such a short distance between the airport and city suggests the drones may have a shorter flying range than previously thought, said George Kaplan, founder of the Open-Source Geointelligence blog. David Axe, Wired reporter, suggested that the limitations of the drone's direct communications with ground stations may limit the drone's useful range to just 40 miles.
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Common Core is a progressive program that will dumb down our kids by chipping away at academic excellence in the name of fairness, diversity and social justice. It is nothing more than a federal takeover of school curriculum and standards across the country. Common Core's standards undermine local control of education by forcing us to use their progressive curricular materials and forces untested, mediocre and incoherent theories on America's schoolchildren. Governor McCrory, please take a long hard look and this program and get North Carolina out of it.
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This should have never been allowed in our state to begin with. Pay back the bribe you were given and get rid of Common Core now!
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An image of Pikachu, one of the characters in the video game and TV anime series Pokemon. One TV episode triggered seizures in hundreds of Japanese viewers during a 1997 incident.
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When the TV anime show Pokemon caused seizures in more than 600 Japanese children during a particularly dazzling 1997 episode, the U.S. Army saw a chance to harness such power for a new nonlethal weapon.
The Army wanted to create a weapon that could trigger a seizure in "100 percent of the population" at distances of possibly hundreds of miles, according to Wired's Danger Room. A document obtained by Wired specifically mentioned the Pokemon seizure incident that took place on Dec. 16, 1997 when flashing lights caused symptoms of epilepsy in hundreds of the Japanese viewers.
Wired acquired the document on nonlethal weapon concepts from an unnamed person who used a Freedom of Information Act request.
The Army apparently considered the idea of using an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to disrupt the electrochemical pathways in the human brain and force brain cells to fire off wildly in a pattern similar to an epileptic seizure. But when Wired asked the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate about whether the idea had ever gone anywhere, it received a straight "No" for an answer.
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Tiago Natel de Moura <tiago4orion () gmail com
Hi list, this is just a script that I created to exploit the CVE-2010-0738
of JBoss.
description = [[
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is prone to multiple vulnerabilities,
including an information-disclosure issue and multiple
issues. An attacker can exploit these issues to bypass certain security
restrictions to obtain sensitive information or gain unauthorized access
to the application.
this script will attempt to exploit one of these vulnerabilities and get a
reverse shell on the target machine.
This exploit is a rewrite to NSE of the Kingcope's perl exploit (
More information:
Here is a sample output:
80/tcp open http Apache Tomcat/Coyote JSP engine 1.1 (Tomcat 5.5)
| jboss-vuln-cve2010-0738:
| JBoss Application Server Remote Exploit
| State: VULNERABLE (Exploitable)
| IDs: CVE:CVE-2010-0738
| Description:
| JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is prone to multiple
| vulnerabilities, including an information-disclosure issue
| and multiple authentication-bypass issues. An attacker can
| exploit these issues to bypass certain security restrictions
| to obtain sensitive information or gain unauthorized access
| to the application.
| Disclosure date: 2010-04-26
| Extra information:
| EXPLOIT SUCCESSFULL, REVERSE SHELL AT <reverse_host>:<reverse_port>
| References:
| http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16274/
| http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0738
|_ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39710
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Hi Tiago,
This seems to be a very useful script! Thanks for taking the time to write
We do have an existing, more generic, script that checks whether a resource
could be retrieved using different HTTP methods.
It defaults to the jmx-console and first tries a GET and then a HEAD. The
script also provides the possibility to change the path to something else
to test other servers than jboss for the same vulnerability. The name of
the script is http-method-tamper.
I'm not sure what to do here but I suggest the following, but would like
comments from others before we decide how to procede.
- We keep the http-method-tamper as a generic way for testing method
- We extend the http-method-tamper script with spidering capabilities and
remove the connection it has to jboss.
- We add code to this new script that allows to do the check in a less
intrusive manner, in the same way as the http-method-tamper does.
- The check is default unless the reverse_host and revers_port arguments
are given, at which point the script does exploitation
Now for some comments on the script;
I would recommend not doing the product checks in the portrule. The reason
being that those fields are only populated if a version scan has been run.
My guess is that they are fetched from the http headers and it would
therefore be better to perform this check within the action method. This
way the script would always run, regardless if a version scan was selected
or not and you would be able to bail if you detect it not to be the product
you expect in the action method. Also, I think it might be worth continuing
when the product cannot be determined as this http header could simply have
been removed on valid targets.
This also applies for the OS check and determining of the appropriate shell
to use. Is there another way of doing it, that doesn't require the version
scan to be run? Ideally it would be determined from a http request to the
server. An alternative would be allowing the user to specify the shell in
an argument or in some way automatically try both. I guess
the Runtime.getRuntime().exec section of the Java code could be put in a
loop first trying cmd.exe and then /bin/sh and testing whether an instance
was properly created?
I think it would be a good idea to explain either in the comments of the
script, or as part of the result, that there is new code deployed to the
server and where. My reasoning behind this is that if you're doing a
pentest you would most likely want to inform you client of the change to
the app server to give them a chance to clean it up.
In general, you should declare parameters when they're used in favor of
putting them all on top initialized with nil.
Out of curiosity, what purpose does the sleep(5) call have, except for
waiting 5 seconds?
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Actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar and actress Juhi Chawla were honoured here by the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy at an awards ceremony here.
At the 145th edition of the awards, held at Bhaidas Hall in Juhu, Farhan and Juhi were honoured for their outstanding performances in their respective films "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag" and "Gulaab Gang".
They were happy.
Sharing his excitement, Farhan said: "I am feeling very happy that this film and my work has been appreciated here at Dadasaheb Phalke (Academy) Awards."
"It feels very nice to get such a prestigious award in the name of Dadasaheb Phalke, who was the father of Indian cinema."
Juhi, who got the best actress honour, said: "I am very happy to receive the award. I feel very honoured as it is in the name of Dadasaheb Phalke."
"I feel very privileged," she added.
Singer Sunidhi Chauhan also received the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award for one of her popular songs "Kamli" from the film "Dhoom 3".
She feels lucky to have been chosen for the prestigious award this year and thanked her fans.
"I am feeling like I am on seventh heaven. Thank you so much all of you. Dadasaheb Phalke Award is a very prestigious award and it is a great thing that these awards recognise talent," the singer said.
"I am highly obliged to the Academy that it provided me an opportunity to feel it. I feel very lucky that I was chosen for this award this year," she added.
Yesteryears' actor Jeetendra received Dadasaheb Phalke Ratna Award for his contribution to the Indian film industry.
Besides them, TV actor Gautam Rode, who plays Saras in the popular TV show "Saraswatichandra" and Hina Khan of TV show "Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai" also won awards.
Popular stand-up comedian Kapil Sharma, who has touched new heights of success with his hit comedy show "Comedy Nights with Kapil", was also feted.
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"Ode; Intimations of Immortality"
Full Title: "Ode; Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
The speaker begins by declaring that there was a time when nature seemed mystical to him, like a dream, "Apparelled in celestial light." But now all of that is gone. No matter what he does, "The things which I have seen I now can see no more."
In the second stanza the speaker says that even though he can still see the rainbow, the rose, the moon, and the sun, and even though they are still beautiful, something is different...something has been lost: "But yet I know, where'er I go, / That there hath past away a glory from the earth." The speaker is saddened by the birds singing and the lambs jumping in the third stanza. Soon, however, he resolves not to be depressed, because it will only put a damper on the beauty of the season. He declares that all of the earth is happy, and exhorts the shepherd boy to shout.
In the fourth stanza the speaker continues to be a part of the joy of the season, saying that it would be wrong to be "sullen / While Earth herself in adorning, / And the Children are culling / On every side, / In a thousand valleys far and wide." However, when he sees a tree, a field, and later a pansy at his feet, they again give him a strong feeling that something is amiss. He asks, "Whither is fled the visionary gleam? / Where is it now, the glory and the dream?"
The fifth stanza contains arguably the most famous line of the poem: "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." He goes on to say that as infants we have some memory of heaven, but as we grow we lose that connection: "Heaven lies about us in our infancy!" As children this connection with heaven causes us to experience nature's glory more clearly. Once we are grown, the connection is lost. In the sixth stanza, the speaker says that as soon as we get to earth, everything conspires to help us forget the place we came from: heaven. "Forget the glories he hath known, and that imperial palace whence he came."
In the seventh stanza the speaker sees (or imagines) a six-year-old boy, and foresees the rest of his life. He says that the child will learn from his experiences, but that he will spend most of his effort on imitation: "And with new joy and pride / The little Actor cons another part." It seems to the speaker that his whole life will essentially be "endless imitation." In the eighth stanza the speaker speaks directly to the child, calling him a philosopher. The speaker cannot understand why the child, who is so close to heaven in his youth, would rush to grow into an adult. He asks him, "Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke / The years to bring the inevitable yoke, / Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?" In the ninth stanza (which is the longest at 38 lines) the speaker experiences a flood of joy when he realizes that through memory he will always be able to connect to his childhood, and through his childhood to nature.
Hence is a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither,
Can in a moment travel thither,
And see the Children sport upon the shore,
And hear the might water rolling evermore.
In the tenth stanza the speaker harkens back to the beginning of the poem, asking the same creatures that earlier made him sad with their sounds to sing out: "Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!" Even though he admits that he has lost some of the glory of nature as he has grown out of childhood, he is comforted by the knowledge that he can rely on his memory. In the final stanza the speaker says that nature is still the stem of everything is his life, bringing him insight, fueling his memories and his belief that his soul is immortal: "To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."
"Ode; Intimations of Immortality" is a long and rather complicated poem about Wordsworth's connection to nature and his struggle to understand humanity's failure to recognize the value of the natural world. The poem is elegiac in that it is about the regret of loss. Wordsworth is saddened by the fact that time has stripped away much of nature's glory, depriving him of the wild spontaneity he exhibited as a child.
As seen in "The world is too much with us," Wordsworth believes that the loss stems from being too caught up in material possessions. As we grow up, we spend more and more time trying to figure out how to attain wealth, all the while becoming more and more distanced from nature. The poem is characterized by a strange sense of duality. Even though the world around the speaker is beautiful, peaceful, and serene, he is sad and angry because of what he (and humanity) has lost. Because nature is a kind of religion to Wordsworth, he knows that it is wrong to be depressed in nature's midst and pulls himself out of his depression for as long as he can.
In the seventh stanza especially, Wordsworth examines the transitory state of childhood. He is pained to see a child's close proximity to nature being replaced by a foolish acting game in which the child pretends to be an adult before he actually is. Instead, Wordsworth wants the child to hold onto the glory of nature that only a person in the flush of youth can appreciate.
In the ninth, tenth and eleventh stanzas Wordsworth manages to reconcile the emotions and questions he has explored throughout the poem. He realizes that even though he has lost his awareness of the glory of nature, he had it once, and can still remember it. The memory of nature's glory will have to be enough to sustain him, and he ultimately decides that it is. Anything that we have, for however short a time, can never be taken away completely, because it will forever be held in our memory.
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Q:Hello. Since you're the only science tumblr I follow I thought I would ask you this question. If an interracial couple were to marry, and have children, and their interracial children had interracial children, and so on, how many generations would it take before either the maternal or paternal ethnicity would be completely eliminated? (i.e. if it was a black and white couple and their mixed child married an asian, and their mixed child married an hispanic, and so on.)
Hi there! Thanks for your question. Unforch, this question isn't really answerable.
Ethnicity and race are social constructs, not useful genetic traits that we can (or should) use to differentiate people. Ethnicity and race can't "dilute" out (in a genetic sense), because you can't point to a genome and say "that's the Hispanic gene" or "There's the sequence that makes you Asian." Yeah, we can point to genes that influence skin color or facial features, but that's not race. It's biology.
That doesn't mean that we can't track genetic differences based on geography and its associated populations, though. We can, and we do. For instance, if we compared the genome sequences of indigenous North, Central and South American populations to, say, Asian and European genome sequences, we would see that the original Americans are more closely related to Asian populations. This matches up to geological studies that suggest that there once existed a Siberian land bridge, and allows us to make hypotheses about human migration patterns across the Earth (not all of those migrations have been voluntary, mind you).
We can, and have, done the same analysis by comparing modern and ancient samples from place X with modern and ancient African DNA, which is how we know that we the first members of our species left Eastern Africa about 70,000 years ago to settle the four corners of the Earth (which has no actual corners, of course).
However, like quick-drying cement, this analysis gets really hard, really fast (insert your own dirtier joke there if you like). Genetic fingerprints get jumbled thanks to the huge amount of genetic crossover that happens as part of our meotic sexytime, and because humans have interbred … a lot. Not in a gross (and genetically dangerous) "banjo player in Deliverance" way, but in a "we're all related" way. We only have to go back 2,000-4,000 years before we find a person who is a common ancestor for every single human alive on Earth, and, for Europeans at least, anyone who was alive and had children 1,000 years ago is the ancestor of every person of European descent alive today.
So it only takes a few dozen generations before analysis of our crossed-over, interbred nuclear genomes gets so messy that we're tracing complex statistics instead of neat and tidy family trees. So to make it easier, instead of nuclear genomes, we often compare the tiny, circular genomes that persist within our mitochondria.
You'll recall from biology class (you were paying attention, right?!) that our mitochondria used to be free-living bacteria, complete with circular, prokaryotic genomes. While most of that ancient genome has disappeared (or migrated to our own nuclear genome), our cellular energy factories still hold a circle of DNA that gets passed down to baby mitochondria when a cell divides and when a mommy and daddy lie down (or stand up, or whatever page of the Kama Sutra they're on) and do Grown Up Stuff™. What's weird is that (probably because eggs are big and sperm are small) every one of your mitochondria came from your mom, not your dad.
By comparing mitochondrial genomes from the past with mitochondrial genomes from around the world today, we are fairly certain that one single female of the Homo sapiens crew, living in Africa about 100,000-200,000 years ago, is the ancestor of every living human being today. We call her Mitochondrial Eve. She wasn't the only human female alive then, and she wasn't the only human with mitochondria. She's just the one whose kids ended up covering the Earth.
Yeah, people whose recent ancestors come from South Asia look different from people whose recent ancestors come from Sweden. But that's just human genetic variation, the same way that I have blonde hair and my friends Jamie and Eric are orange-haired gingers.
People have grouped together (and often excluded other groups) throughout history for a variety of reasons, some of them good, and many of them unthinkably horrible. Because of this, our ancestors often bred with those close to them in geography as well as culture, reinforcing bits of human genetic variation in traits like skin color and facial features. We invented "race". Evolution just made different kinds of people.
All of this is a long way of saying that while your original question doesn't have an answer, studying genetic differences based on geography and culture is still important to science. Not because it shows us how we are different, but because it highlights our human connections, and reminds us of our shared experience and common origin in a world that could always use a bit more of that kind of thinking.
Race: A scientific idea ready for retirement
I was reading through this year's responses to the annual Edge question, What scientific idea is ready for retirement? and came across a gem of a response from Penn State's Nina Jablonski regarding race.
It's just so perfect, I've gratuitously excerpted practically all of it here:
The mid-twentieth century witnessed the continued proliferation of scientific treatises on race. By the 1960s, however, two factors contributed to the demise of the concept of biological races. One of these was the increased rate of study of the physical and genetic diversity human groups all over the world by large numbers of scientists. The second factor was the increasing influence of the civil rights movement in the United States and elsewhere. Before long, influential scientists denounced studies of race and races because races themselves could not be scientifically defined. Where scientists looked for sharp boundaries between groups, none could be found.
Despite major shifts in scientific thinking, the sibling concepts of human races and a color-based hierarchy of races remained firmly established in mainstream culture through the mid-twentieth century. The resulting racial stereotypes were potent and persistent, especially in the United States and South Africa, where subjugation and exploitation of dark-skinned labor had been the cornerstone of economic growth.
After its "scientific" demise, race remained as a name and concept, but gradually came to stand for something quite different. Today many people identify with the concept of being a member of one or another racial group, regardless of what science may say about the nature of race. The shared experiences of race create powerful social bonds. For many people, including many scholars, races cease to be biological categories and have become social groupings. The concept of race became a more confusing mélange as social categories of class and ethnicity. So race isn't "just" a social construction, it is the real product of shared experience, and people choose to identify themselves by race.
Clinicians continue to map observed patterns of health and disease onto old racial concepts such as "White", "Black" or "African American", "Asian," etc. Even after it has been shown that many diseases (adult-onset diabetes, alcoholism, high blood pressure, to name a few) show apparent racial patterns because people share similar environmental conditions, grouping by race are maintained. The use of racial self-categorization in epidemiological studies is defended and even encouraged. In most cases, race in medical studies is confounded with health disparities due to class, ethnic differences in social practices, and attitudes, all of which become meaningless when sufficient variables are taken into account.
Race's latest makeover arises from genomics and mostly within biomedical contexts. The sanctified position of medical science in the popular consciousness gives the race concept renewed esteem. Racial realists marshal genomic evidence to support the hard biological reality of racial difference, while racial skeptics see no racial patterns. What is clear is that people are seeing what they want to see. They are constructing studies to provide the outcomes they expect. In 2012, Catherine Bliss argued cogently that race today is best considered a belief system that "produces consistencies in perception and practice at a particular social and historical moment".
Race has a hold on history, but it no longer has a place in science. The sheer instability and potential for misinterpretation render race useless as a scientific concept. Inventing new vocabularies of human diversity and inequity won't be easy, but is necessary.
Well put, I think. Read the rest here.
Bill Nye's Appearance On 'Dancing With The Stars' Is Bad For Science . . . (Or Is It?)
Bill Nye's appearance on Dancing With The Stars is bad for science because it reinforces stereotypes against women and minorities …
That's the thesis of Jennifer Welsh's piece at Business Insider. I encourage you to read the whole thing before making a knee-jerk reaction to that statement, because she includes a lot of important data in her article that I agree with. It's just that I don't agree with her framing. Bill Nye is not the enemy here.
What do we mean when we say someone or something is a "negative stereotype"? The real danger there is not always the stereotype itself, but rather the stereotype threat, that a member of a group will self-reinforce the image implied by a stereotype. We know that this happens, and Welsh includes several good examples in her article. For instance, young girls do worse in math class when female teachers exhibit anxiety about the subject. Take away the "anxious math girl" image, and they perform equally with (or better than) boys. In essence, the risk is believing that because others view you as inadequate, you are in fact inadequate.
Yes, Bill Nye's dance sequence on DWTS was nerdy. He played a bumbling, over-the-top character in a lab coat, equal parts comical and charming. In other words, he played Bill Nye, the same way that Bill Nye the person has always played "Bill Nye" the character. Why, when it worked so well as a teaching vehicle on The Bill Nye Show, does "Bill Nye" the character all of a sudden become a stereotype threat when he's dancing in prime time?
Maybe it's because he's being played as the butt of a joke, like Welsh explains. Sure, he played into an old trope of "dork gets sexy person to like them and suddenly doesn't look dorky anymore" (also seen in such films as She's All That. She took off her glasses! She's cool now!). But is that really the threat it's made out to be? I think there's a better case to be made that Bill Nye being on DWTS creates an image of a scientist as popular, likable and socially accepted, the very arc his dance routine followed. If we want to point fingers at media that uses awkward white nerds as the eternal butt of a joke in the supposed name of geek culture, look no further than The Big Bang Theory.
Bill Nye is an effective science teacher, one that I think genuinely made an impact for males, females, whites, POC, and others, because he spoke to his "students" as peers. That's even in the mission statement for his show. His show was accessible to so many groups, I think thereby breaking down stereotype threats, not only because it spoke to its audience inclusively, but because it was truly accessible, as in you can watch this in every classroom in America with access to a TV. But maybe I can't see past the good parts of Bill Nye the white guy scientist because I'm Joe Hanson the white guy scientist, and that's a possibility I accept.
I think Welsh calls attention to an important issue, but sloppily. How we can change the public image of a scientist to affect the inclusion of women, POC and LGBTQ groups into the science sphere is some Serious Business™. See, yanking a dancing Bill Nye out of our hat shines the spotlight where it doesn't need to be, obscuring the systemic problems that are truly at play here: How often-ill-prepared teachers interact with and encourage their students (or don't), increasing access to quality science education across socioeconomic classes, removing social hurdles such as gender and race bias in faculty and entry-level hiring, providing same-sex benefits to university employees (like grad students and faculty) and erasing a woman's seemingly-binary choice of starting a family or committing to a career in science, to name a few.
Maybe I'm just inclined to focus on the positive, to be optimistic about how a dancing Bill Nye can make a difference,or how Neil deGrasse Tyson will change the world in prime time next year. I think the problems that Welsh identifies are real, I just don't think Nye's the demon we're looking for. Thoughts?
Trayvon Martin's Psychological Killer: Why We See Guns That Aren't There
Melanie Tannenbaum writes over at SciAm about the psychology behind split-second decisions
like the one George Zimmerman made when he shot Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman did not make a split-second decision, that was the wrong wording, and a bad lede into the study, which is about split-second reactions.
A 2002 study put college students in a similar situation and measured their ability to make snap judgements of whether to shoot:
Groups of college students were told that a series of people would come on the screen in front of them and would either be holding a gun or a neutral object, like a wallet, aluminum can, or cell phone. If the participants correctly shot an armed target, they would receive 10 points; if they correctly did not shoot an unarmed target, they would receive 5 points. Shooting an unarmed target deducted 20 points, and not shooting an armed target – the most potentially dangerous outcome for a real police officer on the streets – would result in the harshest penalty of all, a 40-point deduction.
As each target appeared on screen, participants had to decide as quickly as possible if the target was holding a gun or a harmless object, and subsequently whether to shoot or not shoot by pushing a "shoot" or "don't shoot" button. Unbeknownst to participants, the researchers had manipulated one critical feature of the targets – some of the targets were White and some were Black.
You can probably guess what the results were, but the psychology might surprise you. It turns out that a person does not have to carry overt racist feelings to make a mistake in this situation. The results showed that merely being aware of racial prejudice spawned shooter bias, no matter if the shooter's perspective on the prejudice was positive or negative.
By all indications, George Zimmerman is an overtly racist man, and that lies at the heart of this tragedy. But this study raises an important point: One does not have to be overtly racist to make the same mistake. Check out Melanie's full post and see what you think.
Edit: Like I anticipated, some people aren't getting the point of this article. George Zimmerman is a racist who murdered an unarmed black boy. This is a psychological study that says that the same thing can happen, in a simulation, without overt racism. This is not a defense of Zimmerman, because he is indefensible.
And They're OFF!
As part of the World Cell Race at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting last week, teams from around the world raced cells in a petri dish to claim the title of "fastest cells in the world".
I'm sure there's some wonderful insights into cell motility here, but you probably just want to know who won … it was a bone marrow cell from Singapore, and it clocked in at 0.000000312 kilometers per hour.
Sperm cells were obviously disqualified.
(via Nature)
Black Researchers Getting Fewer Grants From NIH
The grant gap was quite substantial. Getting a grant is never easy, but in round numbers, white researchers succeeded about 25 percent of the time, and blacks succeeded about 15 percent of the time. An obvious question is whether this is the result of overt racism.
"We can't rule it out, but that's not what we think is happening," [Raynard] Kington says. "I think the more compelling case is that it is unconscious in various ways."
… "If indeed we are biased in the way that we review some of our applications, that means that the American people's money may not be going to the strongest scientific ideas," he says.
Doctoral Scientists and Engineers in the U.S. By Race via Culture of Science
Compare that to a graph of raw U.S. demographics (corrected for Hispanic ethnicity overlap) that I made based on 2010 census data:
Draw your own conclusions … what do you think?
Source: cultureofscience.com
This is not gonna raise any eyebrows, not at all. Certainly not a sensitive subject or anything. ;)
"Some may say it as a joke, others might find it offensive, but it turns out there's some truth to the idea that people of other races "all look alike." A new study demonstrates that people have more trouble recognizing faces of people of other races.
(via Why People of Other Races "All Look Alike" to You | Discoblog | Discover Magazine)
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Wadman, M., deProphetis Driscoll, W. & Kurzawa, E. (2009). Creating communicative scientists. A collaboration between a science center, college, and science industry. Journal of Museum Education, 34(4), 41–54.
In this paper, the authors describe the process and results of an innovative three-partner project that involved students, scientists, and ISE educators in developing resources for a young audience.
Hampp, C., & Schwan, S. (2014). The role of authentic objects in museums of the history of science and technology: Findings from a visitor study. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement. doi:10.1080/21548455.2013.875238
Objects define museums: The collection, maintenance, and display of objects are the central functions of museum practice. But does it matter whether the objects on display are authentic? Investigators Hampp and Schwan's findings suggest that visitors learn as much from non-authentic objects as from authentic ones, but that aspects of authenticity shape visitors' emotional experiences of museum objects.
Watermeyer, R. (2010). Social network science: pedagogy, dialogue, deliberation. Journal of Science Communication, 9(1), 1–9.
ISE professionals can use this study as a guide to help them in understanding the uses of social networking sites (SNS). The author maintains that SNS provide a space that allows the public to become better acquainted with the work of scientists, stimulating transparency and accountability, and that encourages the public to become active contributors to scientific research and debate.
Tsybulskaya, D., & Camhi, J. (2009). Accessing and incorporating visitors' entrance narratives in guided museum tours. Curator: The Museum Journal, 51(1), 81–100.
ISE educators who provide guided tours at museums and similar institutions will be interested in this paper as it addresses how informal educators can assess a visitor's "entrance narrative," or collection of experiences, memories, and knowledge related to the subject matter of the museum, and respond to it in ways that enhance and increase visitors engagement with the subject matter during the tour. Visitors that experienced the entrance narrative mapping technique described here believed it helped them more deeply engage in the subject matter of the tour.
Dewitt, J., & Hohenstein, J. (2010). School trips and classroom lessons: An investigation into teacher student talk in two settings. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 47(4), 454-473.
In teacher-student interactions during pre-visit, in-museum, and post–field trip interactions, open-ended styles of questions tended to happen more often during the in-museum part of the field trip, although closed-ended questions were still more frequent overall.
Evans, E. M., Spiegel, A. N., Gram, W., Frazier, B. N., Tare, M., Thompson, S., et al. (2010). A conceptual guide to natural history museum visitors' understanding of evolution. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 47(3), 326–353.
This study is an examination of the patterns of explanation in adult museum visitors about evolution and creationism, and the coherence of their reasoning patterns, including the persistence of intuitive childhood beliefs. The responses of all the visitors were a mix of novice naturalistic (intuitive), informed naturalistic (evolutionary), and creationist reasoning patterns. This paper can be of help to science educators to recognize different patterns of visitors' reasoning about evolution to support the development of a more informed understanding of natural selection, the micro- and macro- processes of evolution, and the evolutionary ideas of Darwin.
Karnezou, M., Avgitidou, S., & Kariotoglou, P. (2013). Links between teachers' beliefs and their practices in a science and technology museum visit. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 3(3), 246–266. doi:10.1080/21548455.2013.773467
This study examined the ways in which teachers' beliefs influence their practice when taking students to visit a science and technology museum. The researchers interviewed 14 primary and secondary school teachers before and after their museum visit, which was also observed. They found a clear relationship between teachers' beliefs about the value of informal, museum-based learning and their goals and actions before, during, and after the visit.
Van Schijndel, T. J. P., Franse, R. K., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2010). The Exploratory Behavior Scale: Assessing young visitors' hands-on behavior in science museums. Science Education, 94, 794–809.
The authors of this paper were interested in knowing how parents can support exploratory behaviors of their preschool-aged children at museum exhibits. They developed a quantitative instrument based on psychological literature on exploration and play in order to describe and quantify young children's increasing levels of exploration of their environment. They then tested the measurement tool with parents and their preschool-aged children to investigate what types of adult coaching would achieve high-level exploratory behavior at various exhibits.
Achiam, M. F. (2013). A content-oriented model for science exhibit engineering. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 3(3), 214–232. doi:10.1080/21548455.2012.698445
Achiam presents a template for improving the exhibit design process to ensure that the visitor experience matches the designer's intended learning outcomes. The template is based on praxeology—a model of human activity that, in the case of museum engagement, addresses the ways in which visitors know what to do with an exhibit and then come to understand the scientific phenomena the exhibit was designed to demonstrate
Pekarik, A. J. (2010). From knowing to not knowing: moving beyond "outcomes." Curator: The Museum Journal, 53(1) 105–115.
In this paper, Pekarik challenges the conventional approaches that institutions use to monitor success. He argues that outcome-based evaluations simply record impact in a set of predetermined categories and do not document the many and varied effects that participants may experience. This paper may be of interest to informal educators seeking new ways of thinking about program evaluation.


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3 More Valentine's Day Cocktails
It shouldn't surprise you to find that all of us at Birchbox are a bit cocktail-obsessed. While the lady eds were chatting up Emma Emerson, co-founder of the cocktail, food, and design website Gastronomista, about rose-colored tipples in honor of Valentine's Day, the editors at Birchbox Man were plying the very same Ms. Emerson for handcrafted holiday libations. Clearly, great minds think alike—a mere few desks away. Check out our post on non-girly, non-cliché pink cocktails, then scoot over to The Guide for 3 more recipes. Happy drinking!
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Sheee's BAAAACK!!
I feel like dancing…
Just lying down and kicking my feet like an excited kid….
Our yearned-for follow-up rain has arrived. Mother Nature remembered us… FINALLY!
I have been loathe to get TOO excited by the delicious 74mm that fell two weeks ago. Because we were so desperately dry, that EVERY single drop of that rain soaked right into the ground. Nothing 'ran' – you know, when drops become trickles and trickles become rivulets tracing tracks of least-resistance down through paddocks, cattle pads, and roads. That didn't happen then.
And everyone who knows ANYTHING about managing grassland country said "We'll be right if we get some follow-up before winter".
Which meant "That was nice for the first inch or two of grass growth, but you are still stuffed for fodder if you hit cold weather before some more rain lifts that sub-soil moisture."
We would have been in what some call a 'green drought'. Where the grass is green but there is just not enough of it.
So we welcomed the strange April humidity, heard about rain falling in nearby shires, and watched each and every cloud and storm, as it looked us over and skimmed off into the distance…
Like these awesome clouds, coming in from the west (where much of our storm activity arrives from)…
It rained out there…
But not at our house… NOT. ONE. DROP.
I got all superstitious once more.
I refused to look at forecasts again, and ALMOST stopped taking pics (hence the sad lack of posting here!).
I said 'almost'…
I admit, sometimes Mother Nature teased so much with her cloud formations, I gave in and picked up the Nikon…
See what I mean…
And then, today, as we prepared to muster in some bulls, it happened. Sprinkles of rain arrived.
And as we drove the truck to our bull paddock, we noticed ant nest erupting from the road. (Ones that were not there two days ago!).
And then the drizzle continued as we mustered (and got very wet jeans)… you'll have to believe me – I was on a new horse and the bulls were frolicky. It was no time for a camera too, in the rain!
As we drove home … water running down the road (almost as entertaining as the frisky cows and calves!).
And after early feeds for our horses and dogs, fresh pikelets and brewed coffees (and hot milos for the kids)… we relaxed.
And looked site out at our driveway, which seems just a bit more lush and magical tonight.
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On Saturday evening, April 14th, the Connecticut Ballet held Dancer's Choice, a benefit at the Long Ridge School. It was a program of duets, solos and special performances by the company repertoire. Guests enjoyed a lovely dinner, performances and dessert with the dancers!
On Sunday, April 14th, the Connecticut Ballet took audiences on a journey as they told childhood stories, The Jungle Tales and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Capturing the audience from the very beginning, dancers used nontraditional technique to tell author Rudyard Kipling's story of a young boy named Mowgli. Lost by his parents, Mowgli is raised by wolves in the jungle. Although he stands out amongst his brother wolves, he befriends Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the bear. The ballet culminates with the tiger, Shere Khan, who wants Mowgli to leave the jungle. The two engage in a ravenous fight. Although Mowgli is the victor, he eventually accepts his humanity, and leaves the jungle to create a new home in the human village. Allowing their bodies to truly move to the music, the dancers gave up classical ballet methods. They turned their feet in and adjusted their posture to better suit their characters. Anton Kandaurov, who performed the role of Mowgli and Oksana Maslova, who played the lead wolf, were in touch with their animal instincts as they danced powerfully to the rhythmic beat of the drums.
The second act of the ballet told The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a tale about a mischievous boy and his friend Huckleberry Finn. Set in the 1840s on the Mississippi River, the two boys are introduced as notorious pranksters. Caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, Tom and Huck are playing games in a cemetery and witness the murder of a townsman. When the wrong man is accused of the crime, Tom is forced to do the right thing and explain to his community what really happened. Just as in The Jungle Tales, the dancers provided audiences with an invigorating performance that appealed to children and adults of all ages by bringing the characters to life. The movements of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were alive with excitement. Energy leapt from the dancers' bodies as they exchanged arabesques for grand jetes. The choreography even involved comedic story telling, evoking laughter from the audience as Tom and Huck engaged in their usual shenanigans.
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Par Lune
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This my 4th piece from this line and will be my last. I love their design but way overpriced and too light. I kept only one of all 4. I got the marquis grenat. I like this shape and this gemm. The pendant is big. But it has no punch. The red necklace that comes with it is much to bright for the gems and does not look appropriate. It looks like it was made for a little girl. Nothing special.
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Nice! but not super special...
Par BARBARA
de CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH
I bought the Spinel.The gems are nice but the silver work is pretty plain. I wouldn't pay full price for this but at the sale price it's OK. Still a little overpriced, perhaps, but I wanted a black pendant.I did like the potay beads with it.
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Bought these in everything but the labradorite and green onyx for gifts at the show stopper price. Must say I was not impressed with the shimmering potay necklace idea, anticipating that they would be difficult to wear often, but that being said, they are well made and nice to have for special occasions. The pendants themselves are not very unique in terms of the silverwork or gemstones we have come to expect of HM and don't possess the "drama" anticipated by the video, epecially considering the original price point - hence the four stars. They just don't take your breath away like some other HM's pendants. Otherwise, they are worth buying if they are ever offered at a drastically reduced price, as many devoted HM shoppers would probably find the show stopper price still somewhat high in light of the above and other comments made by other reviewers.
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The oval moonstone pendant is gorgeous and it's the perfect size for me. What's great is that I can wear another chain with it as well. Whatever outfit I wear, the moonstone picks up the colour. I really like the sparkling beaded potay necklace - WOW! It is so beautiful and it can be worn alone or with other pendants that have a bigger bale. The length of the potay necklace is 19.5" which is just perfect. I am very pleased with my purchase. Thanks Himalayan Gems and TSC.
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Par cowpatti
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I ordered the marquise spinel and really like it. I don't agree that it is cheaply made, I always find the quality excellent with this line. The only thing I would say is that I wish the potay was 20", much better length for me.
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Ordered the black spinel marquise. The stones sparkle in the light and so does the bead necklace. To the reviewer who complained about sizing, it is true to described size, sorry, you needed a longer one, fit me fine and I am not a child. The necklace focuses on the stones not the silver, consequently I am very happy with it.
I didn't know which one to pick!!
Par psychic
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...so I chose the Black Spinel !! Not only does it go with everything, but the sparkle factor, even in a darkened room is incredible. Fascinating gem. The necklace has a silky feeling, it's lightweight, easy to fasten, secure and adds another degree of fascination to the pendant. I love the reverse of the pendant where you can see a good amount of soft non-catchy silver, yet not too weighty. There's the slightest bit of an arc to the pendant so that the underside of each gem does not poke into my skin. There are at least 20 individual prongs to each Spinel, so they definitely won't be falling off. Thank you also for adding the braiding to the silver around the frame and around each bezel. Lovely piece!
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I wrote a comment when I first received the black spinal. Not sure why it never posted....... The workmanship is good, but..... just didn't feel the silver weight was enough to justify the showstopper pricing. The regular price is way to high. Needless to say because of this I have returned the necklace. Just not worth the price. Other then that if you have the money to spend on this... it is a pretty piece.
bought oval spinel love it
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I ordered both marquise and oval shape pendants. The stones are beautiful. The oxidizing failed the pendants, made them look cheap. I personally like the oval shape. They were Christmas gifts arrived on the 28th after my guests left. I do not keep them.


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Tiger Claw wears bandoliers full of replacement bullets and carries several weapons, among which include a fierarm able to shoot nets, a freeze ray, and another high-powered firearm with the ability to fire red lasers. Tiger Claw also has a jetpack for evasion and/or escape.
He has the strength,speed and agility of a tiger as well as razor sharp claws and fangs. His sense of smell is even greater that of Rahzar as seen in The Legend of the Kuro Kabuto. He showed his strength that he was able to hold his own battle against the Turtles in The Wrath of Tiger Claw. He can also leap high enough to jump on the window.
He is a very skilled fighter as he was able to defeat all the Turtles and has even proven to be a formidable opponent for Splinter.
- He is Shredder's third "hench-mutant", though Shredder promoted to him to the highest-ranking Mutant within the army.
- Tiger Claw is a master of all weapons and collects them from most of the warriors that he defeats in mortal combat.
- Tiger Claw's bullet bandoliers have an "X" buckle that resembles a sideways NES controller D-pad.
- "Tiger Claw" in Japanese spells the words Tora No Tsume, which is also a popular type of Katana sword.
- It is unknown what the cause is of him wearing an eyepatch.
- He is a master in many forms of ninjistu including Kayakujutsu.
- Xever teases Rahzar because Tiger Claw is a cat and Rahzar is a dog.
- Fishface mentions how he was mutated back in the country he grew up in, this may indicate that the Kraang have multiple bases in other countries as well as New-York City.
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Yonny Hernandez is confirms himself.
Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi faced a challenging kick-off to the weekend.
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