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MAGAZINE STORIES1. Rousseau, Steve. “Red river: NASA’s Mars rover discovers direct evidence of flowing water,” NASA’s Curiosity Rover made its first major discovery, sending back pictures of tiny rounded pebbles, the iron proof that a stream once flowed through the planet’s surface. The pebbles not only suggest liquid water was on the Red Planet, but that they were part of a stream that had been flowing for quite some time.
LIBRARY Readers ALERT: A Semi-monthly Service for Students MAGAZINE STORIES1. “Still in second gear; Chinese carmakers,” Some of China’s leading carmakers including SAIC, Geely, Chery, JAC and Great Wall are beginning to establish their brands overseas. Last November, models from SAIC and Geely won high marks in crash tests by a European safety agency. Styling, however, is their weakest point. The Chinese government’s dream of dominating the world car market still seems distant. The Economist is available electronically at LIBRARY Readers ALERT: A Semi-monthly Service for Students MAGAZINE STORIES1. Brown, Harriet. “The boom and bust ECO,” Jennifer Crocker, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, found that college students value boosts to their self-esteem such as receiving a good grade or a compliment more than any other pleasant activity they were asked about. Psychology Today is available electronically at LIBRARY Readers ALERT: A Semi-monthly Service for Students MAGAZINE STORIES1. Guglielmo, Connie. “Google’s new shopping list,” In 2010 Google did 48 deals. In 2011 the company announced a record 79 purchases and investments, shelling out about $2 billion, not counting the still-pending deal to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. But here we are one-quarter of the way through 2012, and there have been no deals at all. Has Google’s once-hearty appetite for acquisitions been sated? Forbes is available electronically at LIBRARY Readers ALERT: A Semi-monthly Service for Students MAGAZINE STORIES1. Sides, Hampton. “Unseen Titanic,” At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most complete and most intimate images of the famous wreck. National Geographic is available electronically at LIBRARY Readers ALERT: A Semi-monthly Service for Students MAGAZINE STORIES1. Freedman, David H. “Good news, Spock–we’re getting closer to a universal translator,” The gap between machine translators and their human counterparts may never be closed. In French, for example, the expression for “There’s no more” is “Il n’y en a plus,” but Google translates it as “There are more.” Yet the rapid advancement of Google-style, statistical translation shows promises to narrow the gap. LIBRARY Readers ALERT: A Semi-monthly Service for Students MAGAZINE STORIES1. Phillips, Gervase. “War horses: black beauties of the Western front,” With the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI approaching in 2014, Steven Spielberg’s latest film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse is a timely reminder of the service of horses and mules during the War and a call to historians to do justice to the true story of equine sacrifice. LIBRARY Readers ALERT: A Semi-monthly Service for Students MAGAZINE STORIES1. Garber, Ken. “Explaining exercise,” 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 LIBRARY Readers ALERT: A Semi-monthly Service for Students MAGAZINE STORIES1. Cyranoski, David. “Research ethics: zero tolerance,” The president of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, wants to reform attitudes towards research ethics at his University and across the country. Nature is available electronically at LIBRARY READERS ALERT: A Semi-monthly Service for Students MAGAZINE STORIES1. Wong, K.F. and Yung, L. “Do dragons have better fate?” This article uses 1991 and 1996 Hong Kong census data sets to examine whether dragons earn better or attain better education. |
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