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The sea level has been rising and falling over the last 2,500 years
26 January 2010
"Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that what seems an irregular phenomenon today is in fact nothing new," explains Dr. Dorit Sivan, who supervised the research.
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Handful of iron beads offer clues to solve mystery
28 December 2009
When archaeologist Ruth Iren Øien noticed a cluster of tiny iron beads in the ground, she knew she was onto something. She did not know, however, that her team had stumbled upon Scandinavia’s oldest and most complex group of iron forges.
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Avatar’s Moon Pandora Could Be Real
28 December 2009
In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction.
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Television Has Less Effect on Education about Climate Change than Other Forms of Media
27 December 2009
Worried about climate change and want to learn more? You probably aren't watching television then. A new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Xiaoquan Zhao suggests that watching television has no significant impact on viewers' knowledge about the issue of climate change.
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Digital technology changes the business relations of the newspaper industry
27 December 2009
The newspaper industry is undergoing a digital transformation. This transition does not only involve the introduction of a new technique but also a radical change of the business relations of the newspaper. This is revealed in a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Do computers understand art?
27 December 2009
A team of researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute in Germany has shown that some mathematical algorithms provide clues about the artistic style of a painting. The composition of colours or certain aesthetic measurements can already be quantified by a computer, but machines are still far from being able to interpret art in the way that people do.
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Practices for the Living and the Dead: Medieval and Post-Reformation Burials in Scandinavia
27 December 2009
The function and placement of graves in a burial ground reflected the social role and status a person had in society during the Middle Ages. Factors such as gender, age, and health affected this evaluation and categorization of people. This is shown in a dissertation by Kristina Jonsson that was recently submitted at Stockholm University.
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American scriptwriters increasingly incorporating Spanish in their dialogues
27 December 2009
Nieves Jiménez Carra, a researcher and lecturer at the Pablo de Olavide (UPO) University in Seville has studied how scripts swap from one language to another in American television series and cinema. One of her conclusions is that English-Spanish bilingualisms are increasingly common in scripts.
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