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• From rhetoric to reality: unpacking the numbers and practices of global higher ed

  
  GlobalHigherEd — Authority: 411
  Numbers, partnerships, linkages, and collaboration: some key terms that seem to be bubbling up all over the place right now. On the numbers front, the ever active Cliff Adelman released, via the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), a new report titled The Spaces Between Numbers: Getting International ...
  4 days ago

• Religion and medicine: Sometimes a healing prescription

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  Do pediatric oncologists feel that religion is a bridge or a barrier to their work? Or do they feel it can be either, depending on whether their patients are recovering or deteriorating?
  4 days ago

• Love of the Land: Gold vs. Goldstone: a test case for free speech

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 162
  Gold vs. Goldstone: a test case for free speech FresnoZionism.com 31 October 09 Richard Goldstone, author of the infamous Goldstone Commission report, which accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza, will debate Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, at Brandeis University on ...
  6 days ago

• Seeing and Believing

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 759
  Are representations of the Prophet Muhammad permitted in Islam? To make or not to make images of the Prophet: that is the question I will try to answer. It is an unexpectedly burning question, as the newspapers regularly demonstrate. But both the answer to the question and the reasons for raising it require a broader ...
  1 week ago

• Brandeis Pledges Not to Sell Art Donated by Overseers

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 793
  A Massachusetts judge denied a motion by Brandeis to dismiss a lawsuit brought by three overseers of the schools Rose Art Museum who are seeking to stop the university from closing the museum and selling its works.
  3 weeks ago

• Comfort food: Chocolate, water reduce pain response to heat

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  People often eat food to feel better, but researchers have found that eating chocolate or drinking water can blunt pain, reducing a rats response to a hot stimulus. This natural form of pain relief may help animals in the wild avoid distraction while eating scarce food, but in modern humans with readily available ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scientists stumble on world’s first vegetarian spider

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Oct 13 (IANS) Some 40,000 existing spider species are thought to be strict predators that feed on insects or other animals. Now, scientists have stumbled on what may be the world’s first vegetarian spider that feeds on plants.The research, led by Christopher Meehan of Villanova University and Eric Olson ...
  3 weeks ago

• First spider that dines mainly on vegetarian fare discovered

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, October 13 (ANI): Scientists have discovered the first spider that dines primarily on vegetarian fare.There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all of which have been thought to be strict predators that feed on insects or other animals. Now, in a new research, scientists have found ...
  3 weeks ago

• First mainly vegetarian spider described

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  The 40,000 or so spiders that have been described are generally known as strict predators, trapping their prey in elaborate webs or hunting them down directly.
  4 weeks ago

• Herbivory discovered in a spider

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 612
  There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all of which have been thought to be strict predators that feed on insects or other animals. Now, scientists have found that a small Central American jumping spider has a uniquely different diet: the species Bagheera kiplingi feeds predominantly on plant ...
  4 weeks ago

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