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Champaign-Urbana Skeptics in the Pub!

Memoirs of a Skepchick (Free subscription) | yesterday

... Description: This is our inaugural “Skeptics at the Pub” event here in Champaign-Urbana. It is sponsored by CU Freethinkers, but all are welcome. I am also sending the invitation out to the U of I student Atheists, Agnostics & Freethinkers group as well as several friends and colleagues. The format is simple. We’ll start off with an ice-breaker, namely a little trivia game about some skeptical...

Botany: Biofuel heir apparent?

Nature (Free subscription) | yesterday

Global Change Biol.14, 2000–2014 (2008) 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01662.xThe perennial grass Miscanthus × giganteus (pictured right) is photosynthetic royalty. In field tests conducted by Stephen Long and his co-workers at the University of Illinois in Urbana, this sterile

How Do You Cram a Black Hole Into a GPU? Find Out at NVISION 08

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

... Kirk, chief scientist at NVIDIA, and featuring Dr. Wen-mei Hwu of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Satoshi Matsuoka of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Kathy Yelick of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. -- A session by John Stone of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on accelerating computational biology programs up to 100 times using CUDA...

cheers and jeers

little blog on the prairie (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

... band at this weekend’s event. And it’s even at a time when Peanut can go, yippee.Jeers to the new Urbana Meijer for not opening until October — what in the world is taking so long? I’m not much of a big box girl unless thy name is Target, but there’s something about Meijer that I find intoxicating.

Woo joins UWM to direct research cyber infrastructure

Wisconsin Technology Network (Free subscription) | yesterday

... CITES (Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She held various positions of increasing responsibilities there since 2000.“The addition of this position as well as our plans to open a second data center in early 2010, are major contributions to Chancellor Santiago’s vision to increase research at UWM,” said CIO Bruce Maas....

Pattern is Movement - 2008 Tour Dates (tonight, a special guest, Shudder To Think & The Jealous Girlfriends)

Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | yesterday

... St. Louis, Missouri Sep 19 - Pygmalion Festival @ Canopy Club w/ Black Mountain, Titus Andronicus Urbana, Illinois Sep 21 - Box Awesome, 18+ Lincoln, Nebraska Sep 22 - Larimer Lounge w/ Susan Susan, Khale Denver, Colorado Sep 23 - University of Colorado at Boulder @ Club 156 Boulder, Colorado Sep 24 - Kilby Court, all ages Salt Lake City, Utah Sep 26 - Health Times Fun Club w/ Mt. St. Helens...

News Roundup: 8/20/2008

The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

... High Places, Times New Viking and Oxford Collapse are among the bands announced for Champaign-Urbana, IL’s 2008 Pygmalion Musical Festival , which takes place Sept. 17 – 20. [PygmalionMusicFestival.com] More proof the vinyl revival is going strong: The vinyl-only label ORG (Original Recordings Group) is set to gross $1 million this year. [LATimes.com] A cavalcade of indie-rock stars, including...

How to write a mouthwatering menu

San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday

... language. She quoted Dr. Brian Wansink, who studied the subject at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Cornell. As part of his study at Bevier Cafeteria at the University of Illinois, he added descriptors to various food items on the menu. One week, for example, the cafeteria offered "Succulent Italian Seafood Fillet" and two weeks later the same item was listed simply...

Southwest Securities appoints SVP of clearing services

Banking Business Review (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

RELATED ARTICLES28 Mar 2008 26 Jun 2008 15 May 2008 2 Apr 2008 22 May 2008 COMPANIES MENTIONED No companies foundWHITE PAPERSNo White Papers AvailableMs Dombrowski is the former director of marketing for Broadcort, a division of Merrill Lynch. She has received a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA at The University of Chicago.Timothy Hamick,...

Keys to Ant Social Status Found

Live Science (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

Christopher R. Smith, a former graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and now a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University. "Our study shows that there is a large genetic component to caste determination, but that there is also a very strong environmental component."

Keys to Ant Social Status Found

US News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

"Basically what we found is that things are more complicated than previously thought," said researcher Christopher R. Smith, a former graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and now a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University. "Our study shows that there is a large genetic component to caste determination, but that there is also a very strong environmental...

• Genes and nutrition influence caste in unusual species of harvester ant - Physorg
• Genes and Nutrition Influence Caste in Unusual Species of Harvester Ant - YubaNet.com

Album Releases for the Week of 8/18

Hip Hop Ruckus (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

... Charlamagne Tha God - South Crack: The Album Chunk - Still Breakin Em Off Crooked Stilo - Cumbia Urbana: The Album D. Willz - Welcome to Willzville D-Block - Prepare for Glory Doc. Ce - Qualified Hustla DJ 2high West Coast Gangsta Sh*t, Vol. 3 Funkdoobiest - The Golden B-Boys GZA/Genius - Pro Tools Ice Cube - Raw Footage The Invizzibl Men - The Unveiling The Jacka & Lee Majors - The Gobots...

Southwest Securities Appoints Maryrose Dombrowski, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Clearing Services

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008

... clients. Dombrowski earned a bachelor's degree in economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Business Administration at The University of Chicago. Southwest Securities is a member of SWS Group Inc., a Dallas-based holding company offering a broad range of investment and financial services through its subsidiaries. Clearing Services is one of SWS Group's...

Art Sinsabaugh

the humid haney rant (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008

... and built one of the country's leading photography programs, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from scratch. According to Nan Brewer of the Indiana University Art Museum, Art Sinsabaugh is "an artist ripe for rediscovery."

Think you can afford more house in the exurbs? Think again.

http://www.wisebread.com/feed (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008

By Philip Brewer Many people who live in the far-out suburbs move there because they can buy more house for the money than they can in town. As an example from where I live, a house in Champaign-Urbana would cost about $60,000 more than a comparable house in one of the nearby towns or villages. If you do the math, though, $60,000 is a pretty small sum, compared to the cost of owning one extra...