“The winner is announced at the annual Hay Festival in May and is presented with jeroboam of Champagne Bollinger Special Cuvée, 52 volumes of the Everyman Wodehouse edition, and a Gloucester Old Spot pig is named after the winning novel.”
—Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 2011
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“Specialised teaching for individuals with dyscalculia, the mathematical equivalent of dyslexia, should be made widely available in mainstream education, according to a review of current research published in the journal Science.”
—Students struggling with math may have a neurocognitive disorder called dyscalculia: Disorder affects roughly as many people as dyslexia
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A new California lawsuit accuses Apple, Google, Adobe Systems, Intel, and other tech companies of violating antitrust laws by allegedly conspiring to fix employee pay, as well as working out “no solicitation” deals with one another.
The suit, which seeks class action status, was filed today with the California Superior Court in Alameda County and alleges that because senior executives from Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm, and Pixar “entered into an interconnected web of express agreements to eliminate competition among them for skilled labor,” affected employees from those companies are entitled to compensation.
” —Lawsuit accuses Apple, others of fixing worker pay | Politics and Law - CNET News
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“Only 2–4% of the fibroblasts became neurons — lower than the roughly 8% efficiency his team achieved with the mouse tail cells. And most of the resulting neurons communicated using a chemical called glutamate, limiting their use for understanding or treating diseases such as Parkinson’s, which is characterized by problems in neurons that communicate with this chemical.”
—How to make a human neuron : Nature News
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