Google, NOAA Dive Deep To Map U.S. Marine Sanctuary | Techsonia

Google, NOAA Dive Deep To Map U.S. Marine Sanctuary | Techsonia: "Google and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dive deep onto the Florida coast to map the reefs and shipwrecks off the coast for the first time.

Scientists with NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries are taking a “fisheye” camera under water in order to capture views of reefs in the Florida Keys."



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Anger Flares Again in Ferguson After Revelations in Michael Brown Shooting - NBC News.com

Anger Flares Again in Ferguson After Revelations in Michael Brown Shooting - NBC News.com: "Public anger flared again in the St. Louis suburbs on Friday after police sought to clarify what happened in the moments before an officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager last weekend.

After days of refusing to release the name of the officer, the police chief identified him as Darren Wilson, a four-year veteran of the force in Ferguson, Missouri, and said that he was devastated.

The police also revealed that the teenager, Michael Brown, was suspected of stealing a box of cigars from a convenience store and assaulting a clerk minutes before he was shot to death."



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Is there a link between genius and mental illness? | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Is there a link between genius and mental illness? | Detroit Free Press | freep.com: "But is there a proven link between creativity and mental illness (which, strictly speaking, is not the same as being mad)? This is still a matter of hot debate.

A leading researcher in this field is Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (who herself has bipolar disorder) whose studies seem to back up the popular idea of the “tortured genius.” When, for example, she examined nearly 50 writers and artists in Britain, she found that more than 38% had been treated for a mood disorder."



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Research - Policy Research Report: Localizing Development: Does Participation Work?

Research - Policy Research Report: Localizing Development: Does Participation Work?: "Policy Research Report: Localizing Development: Does Participation Work?






November 14, 2012 - Localizing Development: Does Participation Work?, a new Policy Research Report analyzing community development and decentralization projects, shows that such projects often fail to be sensitive to complex contexts – including social, political, historical and geographical realities – and fall short in terms of monitoring and evaluation systems, which hampers learning.

Citing numerous examples, including projects and programs supported by the World Bank, the authors demonstrate that participatory projects are not a substitute for weak states, but instead require strong central support to be effective.



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Vulnerability and Poverty: Why do we pretend there is 'Community'? Problems of Community Based-Adaptation (CBA) and Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR)

Vulnerability and Poverty: Why do we pretend there is 'Community'? Problems of Community Based-Adaptation (CBA) and Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR): "The ability of people to adapt rather than merely cope (and suffer) is determined largely by access to, control of or ownership of assets that are almost always affected by power relations. Poor people cope (and deplete assets, e.g. by selling land / livestock, taking loans at high interest). Better-off people MAY have resources that enable them to engage in adaptation to current climate change or prepare to adapt for future climate change. There is a very significant literature on coping and its different types, and it is usually situated in the problems of power relations, access to assets, and notions of asset-depleting coping (that may for example lead to distress migration). What is crucial is to make clear distinctions between different economic and social groups and not pretend that they do not exist or are not significant factors in what we are trying to achieve."



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BBC News - First female winner for Fields maths medal

BBC News - First female winner for Fields maths medal: "An Iranian-born mathematician has become the first ever female winner of the celebrated Fields Medal.

In a landmark hailed as "long overdue", Prof Maryam Mirzakhani was recognised for her work on complex geometry."



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World Health Body Endorses Use of Experimental Drugs Against Ebola Virus - NYTimes.com

World Health Body Endorses Use of Experimental Drugs Against Ebola Virus - NYTimes.com: "So far, experimental medication has been made available to only a handful of patients, all of them foreign aid workers evacuated from West Africa, prompting ethical concerns about disparities in the availability of treatment between white outsiders and the Africans who form the overwhelming majority of the victims."



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