Journal: Bio-Engineering Ramps Up

Researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel (Nanowerk News) Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels. In a new approach, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to …

CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 2 January 2009

Hot Topics AA: Afghan War Could Spill Over Into Central Asia 12/31/09 AA: Kazakhstan: Kyrgyz secret services are involved in the murder of Gennadyi Pavlyuk 12/30/09 AF: Afghan civilians killed in air raid 12/31/09 EG: Egyptian minister slams Al-Jazeera for ‘instigating civil war’ 01/02/10 IQ: Iraq says more ‘superfields’ up for grabs 12/31/09 IR: Exiled …

Who’s Who in Cultural Intelligence: Scott Atran

Research and teaching interests are centered in the following areas: Cognitive and linguistic anthropology, ethnobiology, environmental decision making, categorization and reasoning, evolutionary psychology, anthropology of science (history and philosophy of natural history and natural philosophy); Middle East ethnography and political economy; natural history of Lowland Maya, cognitive and commitment theories of religion, terrorism and foreign …