2014年8月18日 星期一

2014-08-19 U.K. Spotlight


Obama's Hippocratic oath enfeebles his diplomacy  Financial Times
Since ancient Greece doctors have sworn to first do no harm. It is also a great principle for a superpower. Why attempt by war what you can achieve with diplomacy? Alas, President Barack Obama's version of the Hippocratic Oath – “don't do stupid stuff” – is ...


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The threat to Britain from terrorism is about the same as the threat from social ...  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
But something in it caught my eye. Cameron said in his piece about the steps he's taken to combat terrorism on these shores: Here in Britain we have recently introduced stronger powers through our Immigration Act to deprive naturalised Britons of their ...


   

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Richard III was bottle-a-day drinker, study suggests  BBC News
A study of the teeth and bones of Richard III show the king drank up to a bottle of wine a day in the last years of his life. The research by the British Geological Survey and University of Leicester revealed he also ate exotic meat including swan, crane, heron ...


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Poland's past points to the future  Financial Times
In Warsaw the evening of August 23 1989 was pleasantly warm. It augured well for August 24, the day Poland threw off its shackles and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a Catholic newspaper editor and activist in the patriotic Solidarity movement, was named the first ...


   


Iraq crisis: You can't win military campaigns without boots on the ground  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Isis fighters raise their weapons as they stand on a vehicle mounted with the trademark Jihadists flag in Anbar province. (Photo: AFP/GETTY). After all the controversy that has raged over our previous military campaign in Iraq, I can fully understand David ...


   

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Taiwan's 'vanishing canyon' erasing quake record  BBC News
A gorge in Taiwan, sliced through rocks only raised by a 1999 earthquake, is disappearing at an unprecedented rate. Continue reading the main story. Daan River gorge The tall rock formation pictured in the centre of the gorge disappeared in one hour during ...


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Zoologger: The secret hop of the Californian flea seed  New Scientist
At the height of summer in California, thousands of tiny brown spheres start falling from oak trees, littering the ground. At first glance, they look like seeds. Then they start jumping. The spheres are containers called galls. They appear on the leaves of the oak ...


   


If we don't attack Isis, they will attack us  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
So that's all right then. We can all relax, and go back to playing boules. The Yazidi are apparently off the mountain, there's a nice new Iraqi prime minister in office, Isis have been stalled outside Irbil, and Hitler has agreed to watch the fifth Test match with an ...


   

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Camouflage sheet inspired by octopus  BBC News
Based on the camouflage abilities of octopuses and cuttlefish, engineers in the US have built a flexible material that changes colour to match its surroundings. The new design features a grid of 1mm cells, containing a temperature-driven dye that switches ...


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How the human brain folds itself up  New Scientist
Figuring out how the brain works is enough to make your head spin. But now we seem to have a handle on how it gets its folded shape. The surface layer of the brain, or cortex, is also referred to as our grey matter. Mammals with larger brains have a more ...


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