- Jill Abramson to be first female executive editor at the New York Times.
- Jill Abramson, the Washington bureau chief for the New York Times, will be replacing Bill Keller as the executive editor, making her the first woman ever in this position.
- Libraries are Part of the Safety Net — No Wonder Governments Hate Them
- What does a library really face in its fight to bring information equity to its community, and how does it work as part of the safety net?
…the most important thing that we were doing at my library in Clifton, Arizona, in the ’70s, was our literacy classes. …we were the only place where our Latino population could come in and learn English. Women especially, women whose husbands were very clear that their wives didn’t need to be literate.
…[Libraries] empower their community with equitable access to knowledge. And libraries can’t do that without librarians — someone who knows their collection, who knows their patrons, who has the right training …
- New ‘Double Slit’ Experiment Skirts Uncertainty Principle: Scientific American
- What quantum physicist Aephraim Steinberg of the University of Toronto in Canada and his colleagues have now shown, however, is that it is possible to precisely measure photons’ position and obtain approximate information about their momentum, in an approach known as ‘weak measurement’. …
Intriguingly, the trajectories closely match those predicted by an unconventional interpretation of quantum mechanics known as pilot-wave theory, in which each particle has a well-defined trajectory that takes it through one slit while the associated wave passes through both slits.
- Emperor Penguins Rotate Through Giant Huddle for Warmth | Wired: Science • by Jane J. Lee
- If the penguins are too loosely arranged, they won’t stay warm enough …But if they’re too tightly jammed together, they can’t rearrange themselves, and animals on the edge of the huddle won’t get a chance to warm up.
The international team of researchers kept track of emperor penguin groups near a German research station in Antarctica using time-lapse photography.
- Eliza Dushku Will Star in Spinoff of Doctor Who Spinoff | The Mary Sue • by Susana Polo
- And here’s where the news gets a little underwhelming.
It’s not going to be a television series. It’ll be a webseries. And it’s not going to be live action. It’ll be an “animated ‘motion comic,’” with three minute episodes numbering up to ten, one for each episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. There are no plot details at the moment, but on the bright side one of the series’ two co-writers, Jane Espensen is a veteran of Buffy, Angel, Battlestar Galactica, and Torchwood itself.
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