Markets Will Look For Hints In Bernanke’s Words

When the Federal Reserve chairman speaks at an annual gathering on Friday, markets will be searching anything that indicates whether more stimulus is on the way.

Markets Will Look for Hints in Bernanke’s Words

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States Look for Winning Formulas to Spur Lottery Sales

As states face budget crises, they look to raise more money for programs financed by lotteries.

States Look for Winning Formulas to Spur Lottery Sales

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Look Up!

Did anybody catch Mercury for the first time last night? I had just enough hazy cloud on my western horizon last night that Mercury was lost in the much. If you missed it, keep trying. And if you still can't find it, don't fret: your assignment for tonight is much, much easier.

Look Up!

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The Media Equation: To Beat ‘Today,’ Look to Tomorrow

At the CBS “Early Show,” the entire team got fired. Better to stop playing a well-nigh unwinnable game.

The Media Equation: To Beat ‘Today,’ Look to Tomorrow

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Treehoppers: bugs that look like Dali designed them

Ecologist and author Jerry A. Coyne writes about the amazing, bizarre treehoppers, which really, really do look like this (they were recently featured in a Nature article on Alfred Keller, who sculpted the model shown here):

The second thing one asks is, "What the bloody hell is all that ornamentation on the thorax?" (Note that the "balls" on the antenna-like structure aren't eyes, but simply spheres of chitin.) A first guess is that it's a sexually-selected trait, but those are often limited to males, and these creatures (and the ones below) show the ornaments in both sexes. Kemp hypothesizes--and this seems quite reasonable--that "the hollow globes, like the remarkable excrescences exhibited by other treehoppers, probably deter predators." It would be hard to grab, much less chow down on, a beast with all those spines and excrescences.

The surreal treehoppers (via Geisha Asobi)

 

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Treehoppers: bugs that look like Dali designed them

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