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Good Morning,
Did you see that one couple is suing Google for Street View
privacy invasion. I wonder if Google is going to have more
of these lawsuits coming their way as the program gets bigger.
Here is a link to more on the lawsuit.
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Until Tomorrow,
Erin
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Possible new family of fish discovered
A U.S. ichthyologist said an anglerfish specimen found in
Indonesia off Ambon Island might represent a new family of fishes.
University of Washington Professor Ted Pietsch said the fish has
tan and peach-colored zebra striping and folds of skin pliable
enough to enable it to move through narrow coral reef crevices.
Buck and Fitrie Randolph, owners of Maluku Divers in Ambon City --
with one of their divers, Toby Fadirsyair -- spotted the fish, but
could find no similar fishes listed in reference books so they
turned to Pietsch for help. "As soon as I saw the photo I knew
it had to be an anglerfish because of the leglike pectoral fins
on its sides," Pietsch said, noting the fish's eyes appear to be
directed forward, possibly enabling it to have binocular vision,
such as humans have. That, said Pietsch, is something he's never
seen in his 40 years as an ichthyologist, Whether the fish
represents a new family will entail DNA testing, but Pietsch
said that during the past 50 years scientists have described
only five new families of fishes and none of them were even
remotely related to anglerfishes.
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Nanotechnology may help spinal cord injury
U.S. researchers say they have created a nano-engineered gel
that can enable severed spinal cord fibers to regenerate and
grow. Spinal cord injuries often lead to permanent paralysis
and loss of sensation because the damaged nerve fibers can't
regenerate, Northwestern University scientists said. Although
nerve fibers or axons have the capacity to re-grow, they don't
because they're blocked by scar tissue that develops around the
injury. The nanogel developed at the university's Feinberg
School of Medicine inhibits formation of scar tissue and enables
the severed spinal cord fibers to regenerate and grow, the
scientists said. The gel is injected as a liquid into the spinal
cord and self-assembles into a scaffold that supports new nerve
fibers. When the gel was injected into mice with a spinal cord
injury, after six weeks the animals had a greatly enhanced
ability to use their hind legs and walk. "It's important to
understand that something that works in mice will not necessarily
work in human beings," said study leader Dr. John Kessler, who
noted that if the gel is eventually approved for humans, a
clinical trial could begin within several years. The research
is reported in the Journal of Neuroscience.
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CO2 maps depict greenhouse gas sources
Researchers said they've created new, high-resolution,
interactive maps of U.S. carbon dioxide emission sources that
contain some surprises. The Purdue University scientists said
they've discovered CO2 emissions aren't all where they were
thought to be located. "For example, we've been attributing
too many emissions to the northeastern United States, and it's
looking like the southeastern U.S. is a much larger source than
we had estimated previously," said Assistant Professor Kevin
Gurney, who led the research. The maps and system, called
"Vulcan," show CO2 emissions at more than 100 times more detail
than previously available. Until now, carbon dioxide emissions
data were reported, in the best cases, monthly at the level of
an entire state. The Vulcan model examines CO2 emissions at
local levels and on an hourly basis. The three-year project,
funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
and the U.S. Department of Energy, involved researchers from
Purdue University, Colorado State University and the Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory. Vulcan is expected to complement
NASA's planned December launch of the Orbital Carbon Observatory
satellite, which will measure the concentration of CO2 in the
Earth's atmosphere.
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