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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:34:08 GMT

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The PENN STATE BLUE BAND is recognized as one of the nation's finest college marching bands and performs to capacity crowds in 107,232 seat Beaver Stadium — home of Penn State Nittany Lion football. The Blue Band has performed at every major bowl game in the U.S., including the Rose Bowl and the Tournament of Roses Parade. The 2008–2009 season is the 109th year of the Blue Band's proud, tradition-filled history.

Honey for Coughs

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:20:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ifood.tv

A new study from Penn State College of Medicine found that honey might make an effective and safe alternative for over-the-counter children's cough medicines. The randomized, partially double-blinded study found that when children received a small amount of buckwheat honey before bedtime, it provided better relief of nighttime cough and sleep difficulty than no treatment or the common over-the-counter cough suppressant dextromethorphan (DM). The results are published in December’s Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (“Effect of Honey, Dextromethorphan, and No Treatment on Nocturnal Cough and Sleep Quality for Coughing Children and Their Parents,” Ian M. Paul, MD, MSc; Jessica Beiler, MPH; Amyee McMonagle, RN; Michele L. Shaffer, PhD; Laura Duda, MD; Cheston M. Berlin Jr, MD, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 2007;161(12):1140-1146.

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The Cat - Finding Sources Research

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:14:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How to look for information for your research project

Clip Source: cat.libraries.psu.edu

The CAT

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Big Brown horsies and steroids

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:55:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

“These are training drugs — you don’t need them in your body for competition; the effect has already taken place,” he said. “It’s really immaterial that he is not doing it now.”

However, Charles E. Yesalis, a professor of sports science at Penn State, said that the steroids previously injected into Big Brown had already affected his training, and that the athletic machine had already been built.

Trainers have found that steroids provide a boost for horses who are not eating well or are listless, and also aid in muscle recovery after rigorous workouts.

Scientists Develop New Computational Method To Investigate Origin Of Life

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:33:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Retroelements are an ancient and highly diverse class of proteins; therefore, they provide a rigorous benchmark for us to test our approach. We are happy with the results we derived, even though our method is in an early stage," said Patterson. The team plans to make the algorithms that they used in their method available to others as open-source software that is freely available on the Web.
Scientists map out the evolutionary histories of organisms by comparing their genetic and/or protein sequences. Those organisms that are closely related and share a recent common ancestor have greater degrees of similarity among their sequences.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Scientists at Penn State have developed a new computational method that they say will help them to understand how life began on Earth. The team's method has the potential to trace the evolutionary histories of proteins all the way back to either cells or viruses, thus settling the debate once and for all over which of these life forms came first.

"We have just begun to tap the potential power of this method," said Randen Patterson, a Penn State assistant professor of biology and one of the project's leaders. "We believe, if it is possible at all, that it is within our grasp to determine whether viruses evolved from cells or vice-versa."

The team is focusing on an ancient group of proteins, called retroelements, which comprise approximately 50 percent of the human genome by weight and are a crucial component in a number of diseases, including AIDS.

Tags: life, computers, science

The American Center for the Study of Distance Education: Research Reports and Bibliographies

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:09:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These ten summaries cover a variety of topics in distance education practice, from cost-benefit analysis to relative effectiveness of technologies. They were developed as part of a collaborative project between the Penn State World Campus and Lucent Technologies, and are presented here with permission of Lucent Technologies for use and distribution for educational purposes only.

Clip Source: www.ed.psu.edu

These ten summaries cover a variety of topics in distance education practice, from cost-benefit analysis to relative effectiveness of technologies. They were developed as part of a collaborative project between the Penn State World Campus and Lucent Technologies, and are presented here with permission of Lucent Technologies for use and distribution for educational purposes only.

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Msu Football 2008

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:18:16 GMT

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08/30/08	at California	Berkeley, Calif.	8:00 p.m. ET
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09/13/08	vs. Florida Atlantic	East Lansing, Mich.	12:00 p.m. ET
09/20/08	vs. Notre Dame	East Lansing, Mich.	3:30 p.m. ET
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11/01/08	vs. Wisconsin *	East Lansing, Mich.	TBA
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Health News: Testosterone is the primary cause for disease transmission in men

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:17:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: AUGUST 11. WASHINGTON – It is believed that men are more prone to infections and generally, transmit diseases.

Clip Source: www.healthtip.info

Health News: Testosterone is the primary cause for disease transmission in men

AUGUST 11. WASHINGTON – It is believed that men are more prone to infections and generally, transmit diseases.

An American biologist believes that the reason behind disease transmissions is testosterone, the male sex hormone.

Penn State doctoral student, Daniel Grear, concluded after an experiment on mice that increase of testosterone is the prime reason for the transmission of diseases in men.

Tags: disease, health facts, health news, health tip, health tips, healthy living, testosterone

Barbadians slam snake 'discovery' as old news

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:07:57 GMT

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Clip Source: edition.cnn.com

Residents of the wealthy Caribbean nation have been heating up blogs and clogging radio airwaves to vent their anger at a U.S. scientist, who earlier this week announced his "discovery" of the world's smallest snake and named it "Leptotyphlops carlae," after his wife Carla.

"If he needs to blow his own trumpet ... well, fine," said 43-year-old Barbadian Charles Atkins. "But my mother, who was a simple housewife, she showed me the snake when I was a child."

One writer to the Barbados Free Press blog took an even tougher tone, questioning how someone could "discover" a snake long known to locals, who called it the thread snake.

"How dare this man come in here and name a snake after his wife?" said the writer who identified themselves as Margaret Knight.

The man she refers to is Penn State University evolutionary biologist S. Blair Hedges, whose research teams also have discovered the world's tiniest lizard in the Dominican Republic and the smallest frog in Cuba.

Penn School District Proposes Taser Policy

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:13:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Parents vocal in their opposition. Can you think of a better example of moving toward a police state than having such devices on campus for use in keeping students in line?

Clip Source: www.pittsburghlive.com

The Uniontown Area School Board, as well as concerned citizens and parents, had an opportunity Wednesday to learn about Tasers that will be proposed in the school district and share their opinions on the subject.

Even before Don Homer, the director of security for the school district, could show the proposed Tasers to be used and explain how they operate, those attending a special meeting voiced opposition.

Map Makers Can Avoid Confusing The Color Blind

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:23:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This would be really helpful - more study should be done.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily (Apr. 28, 2000) — For 8 percent of men, color blindness is not just a fashion inconvenience, but an impairment that makes reading maps and other visual data difficult if not impossible. Now, a Penn State geographer has developed color schemes that allow most color-blind people to interpret the images.

Tags: color blind, maps

smallest ever snake found

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:23:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Like other members of the "small" club, L. carlae only produces one offspring at a time, in this case a single slender egg (some other snakes give birth to live young). In addition, its young are giants relatively speaking. In general, the hatchlings of the smallest snakes are one-half the length of an adult, while the largest snakes have hatchlings that are only one-tenth the length of an adult.

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

The new snake named Leptotyphlops carlae has a unique color pattern, which consists of continuous stripes from the eyes to tail-tip, with and additional pair of narrow lines along the mid-section. Credit: Blair Hedges, Penn State.

As slim as a spaghetti noodle and able to fit snugly on a U.S. quarter, a new species of snake has been found hiding out in a forest on Barbados. The reptilian runt is now the world's smallest snake.

Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State, discovered the snake, which just under four inches (10 cm) in length as an adult, in a fragment of forest on the eastern side of Barbados.

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Using blogs in a college philosophy class

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:25:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A Penn State professor gives a short overview of his use of blogging in introductory undergraduate classes.

Clip Source: ets.tlt.psu.edu

Faculty Success Story: Christopher Long

Christopher Long in the College of the Liberal Arts teaches “Tragedy, Comedy, Politics” and “20th Century Philosophy” courses. To help students develop their critical thinking and writing skills, he asks each student to create a blog on which they post assignments. The blogs allow students to write for a broader audience than their instructor alone and encourage them to develop a unique voice. Long’s ability to provide regular, dynamic feedback helps students grow as writers and thinkers.

Long said, “I intentionally chose a decentralized model, where each student would have his or her own blog, because I wanted them to have a sense of owning their work. My main goal for using blogs is to get students actively involved in their own education.” The student blogs, as well as blogs Long set up for each course, were created using the Blogs at Penn State.

Students are often asked to relate current events to course readings.

Tags: education, teaching, pedagogy, social, 2.0, blogging, blog, academe

World's Smallest Snake

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:39:57 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

In this photo taken in 2006 and released on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008, by U.S. scientist S. Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State University, the globe's tiniest snake is shown curled up on a U.S. quarter. Hedges said Sunday he has discovered the globe's tiniest species of snake in the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, with full-grown adults typically less than four inches (10 centimeters) long. He named the diminutive snake 'Leptotyphlops carlae' after his herpetologist wife, Carla Ann Hass.

World's smallest snake found in Barbados

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:45:06 GMT

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Clip Source: www.physorg.com

The world's smallest species of snake, with adults averaging just under four inches in length, has been identified on the Caribbean island of Barbados.

The species -- which is as thin as a spaghetti noodle and small enough to rest comfortably on a U.S. quarter --was discovered by Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at Penn State. Hedges and his colleagues also are the discoverers of the world's smallest frog and lizard species, which too were found on Caribbean islands.

Hedges determined that the Barbados species is new to science on the basis of its genetic differences from other snake species and its unique color pattern and scales.

Hedges determined that this species, which he named Leptotyphlops carlae, is the smallest of the more than 3,100 known snake species.

Hedges thinks the Barbados snake may be at or near the minimum possible size for snakes, though he cannot say for sure that no smaller species exists -- several other snake species are nearly as small.

Tags: animal life, biology, snakes


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