LIBRARY Readers ALERT: A Semi-monthly Service for Students
no. 168 (15 February 2012)
MAGAZINE STORIES
1. Garber, Ken. “Explaining exercise,”
Science vol. 335, no. 6066 (January 20, 2012): p. 281.
Exercise has many benefits, but the mechanisms behind them remain unclear. Cellular “self-eating,” which helps cells meet their energy demands, may account for some of the benefits of exercise.
Science is available electronically at
http://catalog.ust.hk/catalog/bib/b676895
2. Castelvecchi, Davide. “The compass within,”
Scientific American vol. 306, no. 1 (January 2012): p. 48-53.
Dozens of animal species, from ants to whales, have well-documented abilities to detect Earth’s geomagnetic field and use it for orientation and navigation. After some false starts, researchers may have now located the organs for this magnetic sense, and they are finally understanding the physics that underpins it.
Scientific American is available electronically at
http://catalog.ust.hk/catalog/bib/b872254
FEATURED BOOK
The People’s Republic of China today : internal and external challenges / Zhiqun Zhu, editor
(DS779.4 .P467 2011)
Contributed by scholars and experts in political science, international relations, economics, public administration, history, mass communication, psychology, and diplomacy, this book focuses on the key challenges China faces today as it strives to become a global power.
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
Galileo in Rome to face the Inquisition
On 13 February 1633, Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican theory, which holds that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Galileo officially faced the Roman Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. Put under house arrest indefinitely by Pope Urban VIII, Galileo spent the rest of his days at his villa in Arcetri, near Florence, before dying on 8 January 1642.
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