Scientists said the animal, which they named Kiwa hirsuta, was so distinct from other species that they created a new family and genus for it. The animal is white and just shy of 6 inches long — about the size of a salad plate.

In what (the French Institute for Sea Exploration's Michel) Segonzac described as a "surprising characteristic," the animal's pincers are covered with sinuous, hair-like strands.

It is also blind. The researchers found it had only "the vestige of a membrane" in place of eyes, Segonzac said.

With 31 quarto pages (a few pages are photocopies) extensively hand-corrected by Leary and his editor throughout, who have both made substantial revisions. The typescripts are mainly for the biographical sketches that Leary wrote about his various heroes, including Hermann Hesse, Albert Hofmann, James Joyce, John Lily, Thomas Pynchon, and Gurdjieff, among others. These profiles appeared at the beginning of each chapter throughout the book. Included are other fragments featuring various observations and recollections by Leary. Also present is the text for the dust jacket flaps, a page of "Notes for T. L. to Do," a page of "Character Tracking," several photocopied pages of the photos used in the book, and a couple of photograph release forms including one signed by Lawrence Schiller. Photocopies and additional paper material inside a manila folder; everything housed inside a three-ring binder.

Together with the typescript of a 4-page letter by Leary to his publisher titled: "Notes on Michael Kennedy Affair." A scathing letter in which Leary talks at great length about his grievances with Michael Kennedy, his former lawyer, who, according to Leary, was guilty of much wrongdoing. Leary goes into great, and previously undisclosed, detail about his escape from prison with the aid of the Weather Underground, with references to Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, Richard Alpert, Nicky Sands, and others. Leary eventually recognized the explosive nature of this letter and never allowed it to be published

I wanted to let you know that we're hosting the first monthly CC Salon tomorrow night in San Francisco (at Shine -- the bar with the Flickr photo booth that y'all blogged about in January).

In the spirit of Remix Reading, Dorkbot, and Copynight, CC Salon will be a casual affair focused on conversation and community-building open to anyone interested in art, technology, education, and copyright.

We've got three presenters onboard for the inaugural salon: Wagner James Au will speak about free culture activities within Second Life, Josh Kinberg will talk about FireAnt and video content on the Web, and Eddie Codel will discuss Geek Entertainment TV. There will also be music provided by the awesome Minus Kelvin (a ccMixter.org contributors who currently provides tracks for "America's Next Top Model").

The idea behind San Francisco's CC Salon is to provide a template for other people to pick up and run with in other parts of the world. To that end, we've set up a wiki where you can contribute ideas, submit proposals, even set up their own CC Salons.

Dear Recipient of Promotional CD,

Just a note to beg (if you were even thinking about it in the first place) you not to post our CD to the "internet" in any way...I know it's offensive even to bring it up, but we have our many babies to consider, and the landlord wants to reposess Donnybrook farm and the album cover art is important. Thanks for your consideration.

SiteShuffle is a project from some old, good friends of mine, two of whom -- John Henson and Grad Conn -- were my business partners back in the days of OpenCola, a P2P software company we founded together. SiteShuffle is their latest effort, and it captures a super-simple, do-one-thing-well aesthetic that I love -- it takes about ten seconds to grok and thirty seconds to master. Link (Disclosure: I am a proud member of SiteShuffle's Advisory Board)

Disneyland was chock full of clever transportational devices. Monorails, trains, People Movers, tram cars, boats, buggies, and yes, even a few moving sidewalks. Walt was big into this transportation thing: from an entertainment point of view, convenient transportation was the key to getting tired guests off their feet and keeping them happy. But perhaps more importantly, these vehicles were all part of Walt's vast laboratory – Disneyland was his place to tinker, evolve and perfect some of the hardware required for his much larger vision: a city.

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Another video of a supposed full screen iPod Video, this one shows the user interface popping up when the guys thumb touches the screen.

And pictures.

They could be fake, they could be real... It's hard to tell.

The list, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, namechecks places that do not typically feature on lists of the world's most threatened habitats. Greenland, the Siberian tundra, the highlands of eastern India and the Patagonian coast are all places where mammals, from polar bears to musk oxen, face an uncertain future.

The work could help to inform future decisions on where to allocate conservation resources, particularly in helping the Convention on Biological Diversity to meet its target of reducing the rate of world biodiversity loss by 2010. "Biodiversity loss is now recognized as a global-scale phenomenon," (Marcel) Cardillo and his colleagues write.

At present, the homes of currently threatened or rare animals are considered to need conservation funds. "This approach is necessarily a remedial one," Cardillo and his team write. "We present a more proactive extension to this approach."

Power workers says the dirt created an arc across the insulators. It acts like a groundwire and shorted out the power. The power crews rerouted the power, but Tuesday morning, they'll have to fix the insulators.

What is the mystery dirt? Utah Power officials say it's salt from the Great Salt Lake. It blew in with the storm. Salt is a conductor...

We called the Department of Environmental Quality, the Health Department, various Police and Sheriff dispatch offices in surrounding counties, the Weather Service, even State Offices in Boise, everybody knows what we're talking about, but nobody knows what it is.

DEQ says it's most likely a natural occurrence, perhaps dust in the air that came down with the rain.

While evidence is soaring for exercise's brain benefits, physical fitness in the United States is plummeting. According to a report issued recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost one-fifth of people 18 and over exercise for less than 10 minutes a week. Only 46 percent of adults performed the recommended 30 minutes or more of brisk walking or other moderate exercise 5 days a week.

Whereas public health experts worry about the effects of a sedentary lifestyle on rates of heart disease, diabetes, and other health problems, (UCLA neurobiologist Fernando) Gómez-Pinilla is concerned that a lack of physical exercise could also foretell a wave of decreasing brain health for the United States.

"Locomotion played a very important role in evolution. Animals had to move to find food and run away from predators. Exercise had a direct action on brain regions related to cognition," he says. "Normally, when two functions evolve in this way, you can't separate them." Link

(UCLA neuroscientist Greg M. Cole) says that both fish oil and curcumin may eventually become widely used in preventing neurodegenerative diseases, while causing few side effects. On the other hand, recently created drugs for treating neurodegenerative diseases are expensive and often have troubling side effects.

Cole notes that people have been eating fish and curries safely for centuries. "We're interested in these approaches that have cost-effectiveness and safety built into them," he says...

Since taking in calories generates damaging free radicals, some researchers have hypothesized that simply eating less may protect the brain from harm. Recent studies support this hypothesis. For example, teams led by neuroscientist Mark Mattson of the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore have shown that cutting back calories in lab animals can reduce the symptoms seen in Huntington's- and Parkinson's-like diseases. Link

They just paid a hefty chunk of their credit card balance [$6,522]. And they learned how frighteningly wide the net of suspicion has been cast.

After sending in the check, they checked online to see if their account had been duly credited. They learned that the check had arrived, but the amount available for credit on their account hadn't changed.

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They were told, as they moved up the managerial ladder at the call center, that the amount they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment. And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified. And the money doesn't move until the threat alert is lifted.

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"The more I'm on, the scarier it gets," he said. "It's scary how easily someone in Homeland Security can get permission to spy."

Whenever Ali Farka Touré was asked to state his profession, his preferred response was that he was a farmer. He owned and cultivated extensive lands in Mali in the semi-desert region of Niafunké, where in later years he was also the mayor. But he also happened to be arguably the finest guitarist Africa has ever produced.

Under the law signed by South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds, doctors could get up to five years in prison and a $5,000 (£2,800) fine for performing an illegal abortion. (...) The organisation Planned Parenthood, which runs South Dakota's only abortion clinic, immediately said it would challenge the new law.

The abortion ban would take effect on 1 July but it is likely that a federal judge would suspend it during any legal challenge.

The law would therefore not take effect unless South Dakota state gets the case to the US Supreme Court and wins.

The idea of creating the BTL collection stemmed from the conclusions of a joint survey conducted by the ministry of health and the WHO country office in Guinea to define the continuing education needs for health workers based in the health districts. The survey found that these workers needed to broaden their skills. Therefore, the WHO library was asked to compile a collection of appropriate books to suit the different education needs of health district workers at various professional levels. The WHO library in Geneva started the BTL project in 1998. Guinea was the first country to benefit from this prototype [3], which was then extended to other African countries before being taken up in developing countries in other parts of the world. There are English and French versions of the BTL.

The BTL is "a ready-to-use documentation module" [4] of about 150 WHO and non-WHO books and manuals fitted into a blue metal trunk (Figure 1). The materials are arranged and filed in such a way that users can easily identify the ones that they need. Fourteen topics have been chosen using a basic classification code, e.g., General Medicine and Nursing (100), Community Health (110), and these codes are written on each filing box.

"Obesity is the terror within,'' Richard Carmona said during a lecture at the University of South Carolina. "Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9-11 or any other terrorist attempt.''...

"Where will our soldiers and sailors and airmen come from?'' he said. "Where will our policemen and firemen come from if the youngsters today are on a trajectory that says they will be obese, laden with cardiovascular disease, increased cancers and a host of other diseases when they reach adulthood?''