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Nice news coverage on a PNAS article on a music therapy to reduce ear ringing. See the article at http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/1 2/15/0911268107.
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Individually designed music therapy may help reduce the noise levels experienced by people who suffer from tinnitus, say German researchers.

PNAS Have you seen the video of the underwater eruption in the Pacific? The eruption was in May, and the video, released this week, was shot by a remote vehicle at nearly 4,000 feet. Very cool.

PNAS PNAS holiday cookie exchange: haystacks; mint chocolate chip, rosemary, white chocolate cranberry, tollhouse, and oatmeal raisin cookies; bourbon balls; kourabiedes; mexican wedding cakes; the death star Star Wars cookie; and more.

PNAS Did you hear about the Special Feature on Tipping Elements in Earth Systems?
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A Special Feature of the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” presents the latest scientific insights on so-called tipping elements in the planetary environment. These elements have been identified ...

PNAS Should PNAS authors be required/strongly encouraged to deposit FMRI data in a public repository? --Diane

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Lots
of talk about the leaked climate change e-mails. Here are the National
Academy of Sciences reports that analyzed earlier data and the NRC recommendations for data integrity and accessibility:
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December 3, 2009 -- Past controversies over historical temperature trends and access to research data have resurfaced amid a stir over old e-mail exchanges among climate scientists that were stolen from a university in the U.K. ...

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Is that what you expected?
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/displa y/56194/
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Some in the research community grouse about how members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) can hand pick reviewers and essentially fast track the publication of their papers or papers written by ...

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Hot off the press: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/1 1/20/0905362106.abstract
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PNAS Check out our latest podcast with James Thomson, "The man who brought us stem cells," according to Time magazine:
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Welcome to Science Sessions, the PNAS podcast program. Listen to brief, 5-minute, nontechnical conversations with cutting-edge researchers, Academy members, and policy makers as they discuss topics relevant to today's scientific community. ...

PNAS cool article: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/45/19040
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064;

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What papers should win a 2009 Cozzarelli Prize? We need your help nominating 6 articles published in PNAS in 2009 to receive a Cozzarelli Prize. Which papers should be recognized for their scientific excellence and originality this year? http://www.pnas.org/site/misc/cozzarelli prize.shtml
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In 2005, PNAS established the annual Paper of the Year Prize to recognize recently published PNAS articles of scientific excellence and originality. The lab motto of Nick Cozzarelli, the late Editor-in-Chief, was “Blast ahead,” as he encouraged researchers to push the envelope of discovery. ...

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Congratulations to Dr. Elinor Ostrom and Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, two PNAS editorial board members recognized with this year's Nobel Prize! http://www.nationalacademies.org/headlin es/20091012.html http://www.nationalacademies.org/headlin es/20091007.html





















