Monday, February 27, 2012

How it works

How it works


How You're Breaking the Law Every Day (and What You Can Do About It) [Know Your Rights]

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 08:20 AM PST

# knowyourrights You share music, rip DVDs, make Hitler whine about your first world problems , and much more in the course of your regular online activities—and more often than not, you do these things without giving a thought to the fact that you're actually breaking the law. Here's a look at how you're inevitably circumventing copyright law and what you can do to protect yourself. More »

How digital literacy works in today’s media

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 07:02 AM PST

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Just how certain is the 'uncertainty principle'?

Posted: 26 Feb 2012 10:10 AM PST

One of the most often quoted, yet least understood, tenets of physics is the uncertainty principle. A recent experiment shed new light on the maxim and led to a novel formula describing how the uncertainty principle really works.

Westminster Dog Show begins: How it works | Video

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 07:12 AM PST

The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is the most famous event of its kind in the country, held in New York City since 1877. How does a dog get its day there? Here are answers to some commonly asked questions.

Analysis of mTOR shows how the protein works, how new generation of drugs may defeat it

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 10:06 AM PST

Uncovering the network of genes regulated by a crucial molecule involved in cancer called mTOR, which controls protein production inside cells, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered how a protein "master regulator" goes awry, leading to metastasis, the fatal step of cancer.

Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville

Posted: 26 Feb 2012 10:10 AM PST

Kate Grenville draws on her ancestors' stories "I loved how neat it was, the way she told it, then and now stitched up tight." To her young narrator, the daughter of English settlers in 19th-century Australia, Kate Grenville has given a novelist's fascination with the past and how it pushes its way into the present. Sarah Thornhill was the last child born to William and Sal Thornhill, the couple ...

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