The Evening Standard (London, England) back issues from December 2007:
This month in odyssey.(SCIENCE SCOOPS)
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ODYSSEY's art director, Ann Dillon, loves color more than anyone I know (Perhaps, not quite as much as our cover model!). Ann dresses in bright colors, crafts jewelry of polymer clay in equally bright hues, and comments on what mood is set by the most ...
What color is your blood?(SCIENCE SCOOPS)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Red, right? That is, of course, unless you're a Vulcan like Mr. Spock aboard the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek. But doctors in Canada recently got a "Spock shock" when a patient they were operating on started oozing dark green blood! Yes, for real! ...
Can you dig it?(SCIENCE SCOOPS)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Life's a melon. In this case, a 2,100-year-old bit of biological refuse believed to be the oldest melon that still has fruit on the rind. This little slice of life was found by archaeologists digging in Moriyama Japan, about 205 miles southwest of Tokyo. Radiocarbon analysis ...
A genius for seafood.(SCIENCE SCOOPS)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Why does a lobster turn red when it's cooked? That sounds like an easy question. Except that for over fifty years, scientists (including Nobel Prize winners) haven't been able to provide a complete answer--until now! And all it took were two international ...
Was Columbus a chicken?(SCIENCE SCOOPS)(Christopher Columbus)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2007; ... No. And that's why he certainly wasn't the first person to "discover" America in 1492. You see, researchers have recently unearthed chicken bones on the coast of Chile in South America, which predate Columbus's arrival to "the New World." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
I, neuron.(SCIENCE SCOOPS)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Imagine if you could take a computer chip and rig it up so that it could store simple information in live neurons. That, for researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, would be the Holy Grail. Well, guess what? It's been done! ...
A purple frog?(SCIENCE SCOOPS)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Purple is a princely color, even for a frog. Meet the purple frog of Suriname, a highland country on the northeast coast of South America. The frog has an elaborate color scheme--an aubergine (sort of eggplant purple) skin with irregular fluorescent lavender loops. Conservation ...
The mysterious Mr. Biv.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Sir Isaac Newton was the first to make Mr. Biv's acquaintance. The two met in the year 1666. Newton's most famous discovery, that gravity causes apples to fall and moons to orbit, was still two decades in the future. In 1666, Newton experimented not with gravity but with light. ...
Fire in the sky: an interview with chemist & colorist John Conkling.(Interview)
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Say the word "fireworks" and a burst of color is sure to flash through your imagination--crimson starbursts, green comets, and fiery blue cascades. Dr. John Conkling, an adjunct professor of chemistry at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, has an ...
Blue skies, nothing but blue skies.
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHY IS THE SKY BLUE? SIMPLE QUESTION, RIGHT? WRONG. Scientists battled with this puzzle for centuries. After all, why isn't it white, or black, or lemon-lime? Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, and Sir Isaac Newton each pondered the problem, but none ...
Breaking science: under a purple sky.(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] According to Rayleigh scattering, our sky gets its color because our atmosphere scatters short wavelengths of light (like blue). OK, but the purple in natural sunlight has a shorter wavelength than blue. So why don't we praise a "perfect purple sky?" ...
Color by number: Albert Munsell's color system.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Is "fern" more similar to "moss" or to "forest?" Any of the three might be fine if you're choosing a T-shirt or painting your room. But what if you re a forensic pathologist? Which name accurately describes an eye color? Or, if you're selling "school bus yellow" paint, how do you define ...
Meet color scientist: David R. Wyble.(PEOPLE TO DISCOVER)
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "SIMPLY BY BEING HUMAN AND SEEING COLORS, WE ARE ALL IN A VERY REAL SENSE COLOR SCIENTISTS," says David R. Wyble, an associate scientist at the Munsell Color Science Laboratory (MCSL). "We have to perceive colors, process colors, match colors, and do many ...
Color coded.(BRAIN STRAIN)(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While exploring Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, astronauts come upon a large rectangular monolith. On the outside of the huge stone block is an array of different colors. The astronauts suspect there is a pattern in the arrangement. Could it be a code of some ...
Color by computer.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Have you ever considered the path that a color, say red, takes in the digital world? "Since when do colors move around?" you might ask. Actually, all the time! They are communicated from place to place, especially between computers, from computers to printers, and from computer hard drives ...
What color is a fire engine?
Dec 01, 2007; ... If you're a person with normal color vision, you no doubt reply, "Red, silly!" But if you're one of ten million or more Americans who are color deficient, the answer is not at all obvious. What is red? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Color vision isn't "black and white" in ...
How does pistachio ice cream taste? Green!.
Dec 01, 2007; ... When is a sound not a sound? When you're a synesthete, because then it's also a shape, a color, a scent, and a taste. Synesthetes are people with a statistically rare medical condition called synesthesia. Just as "anesthesia" refers to the partial or complete loss of a sensation, ...
The boy who spoke in colors.
Dec 01, 2007; ... He flooded my mind with yellow. At first, I felt cheerful as I looked down on him squirming and pink-faced in his crib. The brightness and intensity of the yellow quickly wore me down, though, making me feel angry and frustrated. The nurse explained you had to pick him up before it got to ...
The Monet effect.
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] In Claude Monet's masterpiece, Impression: Sunrise, the bright orange Sun, rising above the water, seems to shimmer, as if it were real. Monet (1840-1926), an impressionist painter, was renowned for his use of color to create this feeling of motion. In ...
Primitive paints: made to last many lifetimes.
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHAT'S THE OLDEST PAINTING YOU'VE EVER SEEN? Maybe a Rembrandt or da Vinci's Mona Lisa? These paintings are centuries old, but the primitive paintings on the walls of Egyptian pyramids are 5,000 years old. And prehistoric cave paintings are even older: ...
Do you (really) see red?
Dec 01, 2007; ... When we say we're "seeing red," we feel angry. "Feeling blue" means we're sad or depressed. Calling someone "yellow" means the person is cowardly or afraid. People use these common phrases every day. But do colors really affect our feelings? The answers are anything but black ...
Red in China actually is related to warm, loyal, kind, lucky, hospitality.
Dec 01, 2007; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In one study, researchers from Hong Kong and British Columbia tested responses to made-up "Rainbow Paint" ads. Brightly colored ads resulted in greater feelings of excitement and more positive views of the ad. People also liked ads more when they had ...
Conduct a colorful study.(ACTIVITY TO DISCOVER)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Design your own study to test people's feelings about color. Think about a question you'd like to investigate. Maybe you want to see what personal qualities your classmates associate with different colors. Or perhaps you want to see whether people in the same family tend to have the same ...
Coloring our world with words.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Have you ever "had the blues" after a special friend moved away, or been "green with envy" when that same friend got an iPhone? Today and throughout history, people have used color to express their feelings and describe their world. As a result, many color-related phrases are a common part ...
The case of the baffling black bloom.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Like most mysteries, this one is strange and eerie. It's a black, botanical thriller that remains unsolved. The case of the baffling black bloom started with one question: Is there such a thing as a black flower? Not one bred to be black, but one that is black by nature. The ...
Tickle me pink!(ASK DR. CY BORG)
Dec 01, 2007 ... Dear Dr. B, I've always wondered how color TV works. Can you explain it to me? Aaron, Web post Great question, Aaron. There's a lot of "behind the screen" magic going on to bring you a color television picture. To keep it simple, this explanation will ...
Star chart.(Brief article)
Dec 01, 2007 ... The monthly All-Sky Chart depicts the sky (minus the Moon) as it appears at 6 p.m. on Dec. 15. Useful all month (except for planet positions), the chart is also accurate for 7 p.m. on Dec. 1 and 5 p.m. on Dec. 31. To use the All-Sky Chart, first use a compass to find the ...
Why the winter solstice was a time of fear.(STARGAZING)(Cartoon)
Dec 01, 2007; ... GREETINGS, GREETINGS, FELLOW STARGAZERS. I KNOW A LOT OF US FEAR THE NIGHT. THAT'S EASY TO UNDERSTAND. BUT THE WINTER SOLSTICE? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WELL, TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO, THE WINTER SOLSTICE WAS ALMOST UNIVERSALLY FEARED BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT ON ...
Color: A Natural History of the Palette.(KIDS' PICKS)(Brief article)(Book review)
Dec 01, 2007; ... COLOR: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay (Random House Trade Paperbacks, Reprint 2003) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What's black, white, and red all over? Not to mention orange, yelling, green, blue, and purple? The book Color: A Natural History of the ...
Shrimp? I'm not a shrimp!(ANIMAL ANGLES)
Dec 01, 2007; ... Sea locust," "thumb splitter," "prawn killer." Not exactly the friendliest of nicknames, right? And these nicknames for the mantis shrimp are well deserved! So, although you probably wouldn't want to get cozy with one, the mantis shrimp is an incredible creature to see in action. ...
DeMerit destabilised by deportation fight ; COCA-COLA LEAGUE
Dec 03, 2007 ... JAY DeMERIT insists Watford's performances have been affected byAl Bangura's battle against deportation. While the midfielder fights being sent back to Sierra Leone, ...
Ipswich takeover as Coventry suffer ; COCA-COLA LEAGUE
Dec 03, 2007 ... IPSWICH today reached an agreement to sell 87.5 per cent of theChampionship club to media entrepreneur Marcus Evans. The plan will see Evans clear Pounds 32million debts and invest afurther Pounds 12m into the club. David Sheepshanks, who will stay on as ...
New doubts cast over Maddy DNA evidence
Dec 03, 2007; ... FRESH doubts were cast today on the forensic evidence that led toKate and Gerry McCann being made official suspects in theirdaughter's disappearance. Police have asked for further forensic tests on samples from theapartment in Praia da Luz from which Madeleine went missing on ...
'Murdered Amelie's passion for England'
Dec 03, 2007; ... THE mother of murdered Amelie Delagrange today told the OldBailey of her daughter's love of England. The 22-year-old was attacked as she walked to her flat acrossTwickenham Green after a night out with friends, to become,allegedly, the fifth and final victim of the bus stop ...
DEAD HUSBAND RETURNS: NOW WIFE RUNS OFF ; (1) Last five years are total blank says missing canoeist(2) He surfaces in London, she has moved to Panama
Dec 03, 2007; ... A MAN who turned up in London five years after being presumeddead says he cannot remember anything about the missing time, policesaid today. The mystery of John Darwin, 57, deepened this evening when itemerged that his wife Anne, 55, sold the family home less than amonth ago for ...
Magnificent Murali breaks world record ; Spin king bowls Collingwood to overtake Aussie ace Warne as leading Test wicket taker
Dec 03, 2007; ... MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN became the leading wicket-taker in Testhistory here today when making England's Paul Collingwood his 709thvictim. The dismissal saw Murali overtake fellow spinner Shane Warne, whoimmediately predicted the Sri Lankan would go on to "get ...
Well, at least someone's on track at Wembley ...
Dec 03, 2007 ... THIS is the scene at Wembley today after it completed its amazingtransformation into a race track. England crashed at the stadium last month, losing 3-2 to Croatiaand failing to qualify for next summer's Euro 2008. Now Wembley is gearing up for The Race of Champions on ...
Fancy dress man faces jail for clocking Pollard ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Dec 03, 2007 ... A FANCY dress character from the cult film Clockwork Orange waswarned he faced jail today for punching a Vicky Pollard lookalike ata Christmas party. Samantha Simmons, 21, was left with ...
Henri Paul told: It's not your job to drive Diana
Dec 03, 2007 ... HENRI PAUL, the man who drove Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed ontheir fatal journey, was told he should not have been driving, theHigh Court in London heard today. Francois Tendil, night security manager at the Ritz Hotel inParis, said acting security head Mr Paul was chosen to drive ...
Banksy back in Bethlehem
Dec 03, 2007; ... ELUSIVE graffiti artist Banksy has struck for a second time inthe Holy Land with stencilled works in Bethlehem. The Bristol-born artist has adorned the West Bank securitybarrier with six images, including a dove wearing a flak jacket anda soldier being frisked by a ...
Lucie charity launches texts by panic button
Dec 03, 2007 ... A "SILENT SCREAM" text message device was launched today by acharity set up after the murder of Tokyo hostess Lucie Blackman. Users press a button on the key fob device for four seconds tosend a help call to four selected mobiles. Once activated, satellite technology keeps ...
Jose: I'd be honoured to manage England
Dec 03, 2007; ... JOSE MOURINHO would consider it an honour to be England manager,his media adviser said today. The former Chelsea boss has been heavily linked with the rolerecently and is a popular choice to succeed Steve McClaren. Mourinho's media adviser Eladio Parames said he would be happy ...
Brick Lane rent rises push out curry houses
Dec 03, 2007; ... FEARS were raised today over the future of Brick Lane as itemerged that soaring rents have put many restaurants out ofbusiness, with more threatening to leave. Fifteen have closed already in the east London street famed forits curry houses. Rents have doubled in four years ...
National Express rejoins the online train booking fray ; IN BRIEF
Dec 03, 2007 ... NATIONAL Express is to launch a state-of-the-art train-bookingwebsite through its new GNER rail franchise, taking on market leaderthetrainline.com. The site at gner.co.uk will find the lowest train fares for anyrail services in the UK. National Express was behind the ...
Oxford Street's open-door policy wastes energy
Dec 03, 2007; ... SHOPS in London are wasting more energy than is burned up by areturn flight to Spain by leaving their doors open to enticecustomers. An Evening Standard survey of retailers in Oxford Street foundmost operate an "opendoor" policy. Environmental experts estimate each such store ...
Interbank borrowing cost soars to 10-year high
Dec 03, 2007 ... THE cost of borrowing between banks in the UK surged again todayas the credit markets showed no signs of easing. Libor the London interbank offered rate that banks charge eachother for loans hit its highest on one-month deals for 10 years. The British Bankers' Association ...
Morgan Stanley backs 10 to weather storms
Dec 03, 2007; ... BATTEN down the hatches, there are stormy times ahead for stockmarket investors. That was the warning today from Wall Street big-hitter Morgan Stanley, which is in bearish mood these days. It has set a year-end forecast for the FTSE 100 index of 6300 but that is for December next ...
Nectar is sweet for Mills as LMG is sold for Pounds 368m ; RETAIL
Dec 03, 2007 ... LOYALTY card champion Sir Keith Mills tasted the fruits of theNectar brand today by cashing in the best part of an Pounds 180million fortune. Mills, a multi-millionaire credited with helping bring the 2012Olympics to London and who has latterly been working to win theAmerica's ...
Boy, 14, stabbed to death outside police station
Dec 03, 2007; ... A SCHOOLBOY has died after being stabbed in the back and headoutside an unmanned police station. Jack Large, 14, had emergency surgery and was put on life supportafter the Friday attack but died last night with his parents by hisside. Two boys, aged 13 and 14, were arrested ...
OXFORD and Cambridge are refusing
Dec 03, 2007 ... OXFORD and Cambridge are refusing to sponsor the Government'sflagship city academies despite pleas from Schools Secretary EdBalls. They fear that ...
Sky sells its TV shows to all over the internet
Dec 03, 2007; ... SKY is to begin selling top shows such as Lost and Cirque deCelebrite to internet users for the first time. The service, called Sky Anytime on PC, had been restricted tosubscribers. But from today, any British web user will be able to downloadepisodes for Pounds 2 each. For ...
Olympic Park temporary venues may be scrapped
Dec 03, 2007; ... PLANS for temporary venues for the 2012 Olympics were in disarraytoday as it emerged two could be scrapped. Five structures had been planned in the Olympic Park in Stratfordfor fencing, basketball, water polo, hockey and judo. After 2012they would go to other parts of Britain as ...
Christmas minus Carole ; The Londoner's Diary
Dec 03, 2007 ... THE Christmas party season is underway and no doubt there will besome unfortunate clashes of dates. This Wednesday sees Andrew Neil'sdrinks for The Business at the Moussaieff showrooms in New BondStreet but, sadly for some, this takes place at the same time asnetworking queen Carole ...
All cancer patients to be treated within a month
Dec 03, 2007; ... EVERY cancer patient could get a personal "survival plan" afterbeing treated, according to major reforms announced today. A five-year overhaul of NHS cancer care aims to prevent up tohalf of all cases of the disease and cut the waiting time for life-saving treatment. Health ...
OLD Harrovian warbler James Blunt ; The Londoner's Diary
Dec 03, 2007 ... OLD Harrovian warbler James Blunt arrived arm in arm with Violetvon Westenholz at Newbury for the Hennessy Gold Cup over the weekendbut still found time to ...
IT doesn't quite match the Jim Naughtie ; The Londoner's Diary
Dec 03, 2007 ... IT doesn't quite match the Jim Naughtie moment, when the Radio 4presenter asked Ed Balls "if we win the election", but Newsnight'sKirsty Wark betrayed her own ...
Videos go gold
Dec 03, 2007 ... MUSIC videos now qualify for awards for going Gold (played 3,000times a year) and Platinum ...
Two years' jail for Tube cash machine skimmer ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Dec 03, 2007 ... A FRAUDSTER who fitted a skimming device to a cash machine on theTube has been jailed for two years. Romanian Catalin Sandulachi, 25,was caught on CCTV as he installed a tiny camera and a device toscan bank ...
Highways to heroism ... ; The Londoner's Diary
Dec 03, 2007 ... HATS OFF to the young Tory researcher who unearthed the DavidAbrahams scandal before the press got wind of it. Richard Hardyment filed a request under the Freedom ofInformation Act to the Highways Agency asking for details ofcorrespondence with Durham Green Developments about its ...
Universities 'have to tackle the spread of Muslim extremism'
Dec 03, 2007; ... HIGHER EDUCATION minister Bill Rammell has issued a stark warningto universities to take more responsibility for stopping the spreadof Islamic extremism on campus and warned against the segregationof Muslim students. Mr Rammell told the Standard: "There is evidence of ...
Drugs debt clue to dismembered body ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Dec 03, 2007 ... A MAN whose dismembered body was found in plastic bags in thebath of a south London flat may have been killed more than two weeksago over a drugs debt. Officers went to a tower block in Meteor Way,Wallington, after former amateur boxer Stavros ...
Homes crash will ruin millions says Lib Dem
Dec 03, 2007; ... THE housing market faces the prospect of a crash that could leavemillions in negative equity, acting Liberal Democrat leader VinceCable warned today. He became the first senior politician to signal a major downturnin property prices when he urged Gordon Brown and ...
Islam's loss
Dec 03, 2007 ... THE pardon granted by the Sudanese government to British teacherGillian Gibbons is very good news. Ms Gibbons had been sentenced to15 days in prison for allowing her primary school class to name ateddy bear "Mohammed"; there were riots in the streets over thisperceived insult to Islam ....
Still spinning
Dec 03, 2007 ... WHEN Gordon Brown entered Number 10 in June, the word was that hewanted to do away with the bad old days of spin and replacepresentation with real policy-making. This has not been quite howthings have turned out. Just how much money has been devoted to thepresentation of Government ...
HUSBAND WHO HAS COME BACK FROM THE DEAD ; (1) Last five years are total blank says lost canoeist(2) He turns up in London, wife is living in Panama(3) Presumed drowned: John Darwin went missing in March 2002 and the remains of his canoe were found washed up on a beach near Hartlepool. Right: his wife Anne who is thought to live in Panama City
Dec 03, 2007; ... A MAN who turned up in London five years after being presumeddrowned says he cannot remember anything about the missing time,police said today. John Darwin, 57, walked into West End Central station on Saturdayand told officers: "I think I'm a missing person." His wife Anne,who ...