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To: kinkblot who wrote (406)	1/19/2003 11:38:29 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 480

from NewScientist: FINALLY, the School of Mathematics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, recently placed a job advertisement in The Australian's Higher Education Supplement. It ran: "Applications are invited for the Position of Research Associate in the School of Mathematics. The successful applicant will work on the project 'Advanced computational algorithms for three dimensional systems'... Applicants with proven teaching abilities may be considered for a 3/4 research and 1/3 teaching position." Let's hope their mathematics is better than their arithmetic. newscientist.com Ya gotta read the side bar on the right about Johnson & Johnson rectal thermometers. Maybe there is a position open for that too. LOL OK I didn't make this up: this is what it says just in case it gets changed. "FROM the department of things we would rather not know. The packaging of Johnson & Johnson's rectal thermometer tells potential users: "Every rectal thermometer made by Johnson & Johnson is personally tested" " What's the qualifications and what is the passing criteria. (Don't answer) Now maybe we might also know how TLC can fly: he cheats: Flapping chicks give flying hints hXXXttp://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp(link doesn't work - it's within the news section of that site) A new study shows that young partridges flap their wings to help gain a footing as they climb away from predators, although the wings are too small to produce flight. If the ancient ancestors of birds went through a similar stage, it could explain how they eventually evolved wings big enough to fly, says Ken Dial of the University of Montana. To address the question, Dial studied young chukar partridges. The birds nest on the ground, leaving them vulnerable to predators. But the young hatch well-developed and can run up slopes to safer spots from the day they hatch. Dial observed changes in behaviour as the birds grew, and when he clipped or plucked their wings to change their size. A breakthrough came when Dial's teen-age son watched the birds run up the sides of bales of hay. "My son said, 'the birds are cheating' " by flapping their wings, Dial told New Scientist. High-speed photos revealed the running birds beating their wings from head to foot and back. Importantly, the direction of this movement is 90 degrees from that used for flying, which involves flapping from above the back to under the belly. (And here I was flapping the wrong way all this time)