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Artist Protest Mo #39;s Recieving the Prize
Follow us on TWITTER: twitter.com Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com Nobel Prize Award Ceremony was held on December 10 at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Nine Nobel Laureates, including Chinese author Mo Yan received the award certificates and prizes from the hands of the King of Sweden. At the same time, many young Chinese students were organized by the Chinese Consulate to come to celebrate. But Meng Huang, a Chinese artist living in Germany went streaking to protest. Nobel Prize Award Ceremony kicked off with the Swedish national anthem- Song of the King, and Stowe, Chairman of the Nobel Committee gave a speech. Then, the Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Economics were awarded in order. A member of the Swedish Academy, Wästberg gave a speech before the prize for literature was awarded. In his introduction of Mo Yan, he said, "Mo Yan is a poet who tears down stereotypical propaganda posters, elevating the individual from an anonymous human mass." Subsequently, Mo Yan took over Nobel certificate, a medal and a $ 1.2 million check from the hands of the Swedish King Gustav. Zhu Xinxin, the editor of original Hebei People #39;s Radio said, Mo Yan #39;s works had no faith, no compassion for the fate of mankind, and is a great distance away from world class masters. Zhu Xinxin said, Mo Yan #39;s being capable of winning the Prize, could be related to Liu Xiaobo #39;s winning Nobel Peace Prize, which caused contradictions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the ...From:ChinaForbiddenNewsViews:0 0ratingsTime:04:06More inNews Politics

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— Are you what you eat Mr Gorilla?

It reminds me a little of a certain TV ‘Dr’ obsessed with poo, but US scientists have been busy analysing the faeces of mountain gorillas. So have the gorilla’s been following a healthy diet, are they what they eat and why oh why would you be rummaging around in gorilla poo for your day job?

Well it turns out that tracking and understanding the diets of wild animals can be tricky. You can observe them eating, or rummage around in their poo for what remains, but that will only give you a snap shot: larger trends can be difficult to spot. Scott Blumenthal at the University of New York and his colleagues used isotope ratios to track how the diet of mountain gorilla’s shifts with the seasons. Using the change in ¹³C values the group showed that while gorilla’s usually eat foliage, when fruit is available gorilla’s prefer it and so change their diet. By increasing the amount of fruit they eat the gorillas also increase the amount of ¹³C they ingest because of the fruit’s position in the canopy of the forest. Plants down towards the ground tend to rely on carbon that has been taken up from the soil and has already been metabolised and so lost much of its ¹³C.

So, it turns out that Ugandan mountain gorillas are seasonal eaters, very trendy. And, perhaps, not that surprising. However, methods of analysing diet that don’t require around the clock observation are sure to be useful, even if it does require a strong stomach for sample collection.

Laura Howes

                  

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And we’re off again. Day 7 sees your daily delivery of chemistry trivia.

Why do chemists have reason to fear Bartosz Grzybowski’s ‘Chematica’?

RSC president Lesley Yellowlees said in May that the UK would take almost 50 years to catch up with the US in terms of what? The statistic two out of 44 was also central to this discussion.

On to the answers from yesterday’s quiz questions.

Chemists were unimpressed with the BBC over its inability to get simple chemical formulae correct in its programme Things you need to know, which was looking at chemistry.

Curiosity’s ChemCam has a laser-induced breakdown spectrometer and a remote imaging telescope. You can read all about the rover, its mission on Mars and its suite of instruments in our feature, Curiosity to take off.

We’ll be back tomorrow with more chemistry-themed quiz questions.

                  

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http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/2012/12/11/chemistry-world-christmas-quiz-day-7/

Mod-03 Lec-14 Generalized correlations(cont)Residual Properties
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