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Today's News: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Exhibit provides food for thought
How much food does your family eat in a week? That's the basis of a fascinating new exhibit at the Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota, which shows how dinner varies throughout the world in quantity, substance and cost.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/taste/66930017.html
Where's The Campaigning For Minneapolis Mayor?
Next week, mayoral elections will be held in both Minneapolis and St. Paul... "Mayor Rybak's last two elections were high profile and quite contentious with well-named opponents," said Professor Larry Jacobs of the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute.
WCCO - TV
To view: http://wcco.com/politics/minneapolis.mayoral.race.2.1277141.html
U.S. government faces no-win fight with flu
First came the jibes about the U.S. government rushing out an untested swine flu vaccine... "The one thing they have to stop saying is there is a dose for everybody," said Mike Osterholm, a former Minnesota public health official and expert on pandemic preparedness at the University of Minnesota.
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59J58H20091028
Fracture Critical
At rush hour on August 1, 2007, the 1,907-foot-long I-35W Bridge near downtown Minneapolis fell into the Mississippi River, killing 13 people, injuring 145 more, severing a key link in the Interstate system, and costing over $300 million in damages and for construction of a new bridge... Thomas Fisher is dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota.
Design Observer
http://places.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=11477
U of M project wins energy grant
They've been called long shots... innovative energy initiatives ... extreme research... And a University of Minnesota project is among the 37 winners nationwide, scoring $2.2 million for deploying bacteria to produce a flow of hydrocarbon fuel directly from sunlight and CO2... The university team is led by Prof. Larry Wackett of the College of Biological Sciences.
Minn Post
http://www.minnpost.com/scientificagenda/2009/10/28/12951/u_of_m_project_wins_energy_grant
Fixit: Bedbugs, not spiders, are nighttime biters
Q: My wife and I are waking up with spider bites on our legs... Spiders are shy and seldom bite unless provoked, according to University of Minnesota extension entomologist Jeff Hahn.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/homegarden/65795277.html
If Bridges Could Talk
New monitoring systems should make smart bridges that let on when they're feeling fatigued... Catherine French, for example, a University of Minnesota professor and the principal investigator charged with monitoring the new bridge, readily admits there are limits to what health monitoring can do.
Miller-McCune
http://miller-mccune.com/science_environment/if-bridges-could-talk-1548
Follow principles to increase dairy business success
What will your dairy farm look like in the year 2020?.. For a more detailed version of this article, visit University of Minnesota Extension‚ dairy website at www.extension.umn.edu/dairy and look for the article titled "Farming in the future."
Hutchinson Leader
http://www.hutchinsonleader.com/follow-principles-increase-dairy-business-success-110
Education Ministry calls for proper strategies to educate people with learning disability
The UAE Education Ministry has called for developing appropriate strategies to educate and provide better services to the people with learning disabilities... Dr. Susan Rose, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Special Education Programs, University of Minnesota, USA, spoke about Early Identification and Intervention with Students who are labeled "LD."
AMEInfo
http://www.ameinfo.com/214148.html
The "Value Factor" in Minnesota Pork
Pork may be selling at ridiculously low prices in your local grocery store, but the value of pork production in the state of Minnesota is incredible... University of Minnesota research shows significant economic and environmental benefits from using swine manure as a fertilizer.
St. James Plain-Dealer
http://www.stjamesnews.com/news/x1914249486/The-Value-Factor-in-Minnesota-Pork
Minnesota students pay it forward
A group of Minnesota high school students visited Indianola last week as part of a community service tour... Students Today Leaders Forever started in 2003 as a project by University of Minnesota students, and has since spread to other areas of the Midwest, said Marie Renckens, a sophomore at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Des Moines Register
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20091029/INDIANOLA04/91028036/-1/BUSINESS04
Help with farm financial management
The Center for Farm Financial Management at the University of Minnesota has created a new online workshop series to help ag producers understand and use common financial statements and measures.
Drovers
http://www.drovers.com/news_editorial.asp?pgID=677&ed_id=6345
After net neutrality, will we need "Google neutrality?"
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mounted a recent push to turn network neutrality "principles" into official regulations, and in doing so has stirred up the net neutrality hornet's nest once again... Odlyzko himself is an internationally recognized expert on network economics who is based at the University of Minnesota and repeatedly puts the kibosh on the idea that networks are about to drown beneath some "exaflood" of data, or that network upgrades are truly expensive.
Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/after-net-neutrality-will-we-need-google-neutrality.ars
The Anthropology of Wall Street
In his latest Newsweek column, Daniel Gross writes: President Obama graduated from Harvard Law School, where [Elizabeth] Warren is on the faculty... The author, Karen Ho, is currently an anthropology professor at the University of Minnesota, but previously worked at an investment bank.
New York Times Economix Blog
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/the-anthropology-of-wall-street/
Expert Alert: Why do we love horror movies?
U of M art history professor Rob Silberman breaks down why horror movies allow us to experience fear in a controlled environment.
To view: http://www1.umn.edu/urelate/newsservice/expertalert/index.html
U of M hosts program to help farmers impacted by competition from imports complete new business plans
http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2009/UR_CONTENT_144440.html