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1. Geek Culture/Ephemera

Faces: Hulk Hogan, Junkyard Dog, Captain Lou Albano, Wendi Richter, Superfly Jimmy Snuka, Hillbilly Jim

21st century computer modelling software has enabled a long-lost, trumpet-like instrument called the  Lituus to be recreated – even though no one alive today has heard, played or even seen a picture of this forgotten instrument - allowing a work by Bach to be performed as the composer may have intended for the first time in nearly 300 years.

Generally acknowledged to be one of the greatest composers of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach was born in the German town of Eisenach in 1685 and produced over 1000 sacred and secular musical compositions. He died in Leipzig in 1750, at the age of 65.

Kin selection is one of those special considerations derived from “selfish gene theory” that postulates that it is the degree of relatedness between organisms that will determine the likelihood that altruistic actions will occur. This also clearly implies the existence of a social group, of some type, so it isn’t expected that it would play a role between members of different species, or among asocial animals (although it could).

In general the idea of “kin selection” is that individuals are more apt to behave altruistically to “blood relatives” than to others in the interest of propagating their genes into future generations. A classic example occurs in eusocial insects where sterile females help maintain the colony for the reproductive queen.

I wrote about the opening of the World Science Festival 2009 and Edward O. Wilson's 80th birthday at the Lincoln Center in New York City but he was not the only august personage in attendance.  Present to give tribute to him was also molecular biologist, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, James Watson.

BLAINVILLE, Quebec, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Merger of Xebec Adsorption and QuestAir Technologies Completed

Xebec Adsorption Inc. (TSX: XBC) (Xebec), the company formed by the merger of QuestAir Technologies Inc. (QuestAir) and Xebec Adsorption Inc. (Xebec Adsorption), today announced that the previously approved statutory plan of arrangement (the Arrangement) involving QuestAir and Xebec Adsorption, has been completed.

Xebec, the merged company, will immediately leverage the available synergies in gas purification, global distribution and manufacturing to expand its market share in clean energies, such as hydrogen purification, biogas upgrading and natural gas dehydration.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Radio access networks will evolve to provide solid platforms for new services and applications, making mobile broadband the main driver of revenue growth for mobile operators in Latin America, according to a new report from Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com), the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com).

BANGALORE, India, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced that it was named a leader in SOA System Integrator space in the recently published market assessment report The Forrester Wave(TM): North American System Integrators, Q2 2009 (May 2009) and The Forrester Wave(TM): EMEA System Integrators, Q2 2009 (May 2009).

LONDON, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Startling New Research Reveals the Mental Torment of the Nation's Informal Carers - New Research Reveals the True Picture of Depression Amongst Informal Carers in the UK, With Over 54% of women classified as Informal Carers in the UK, Being Depressed - Informal Carers Have Double the Likelihood Of Moderate Depression (or More) Than the General Population (32% versus 16%) - The Research Also Reveals That Informal Carers Have Three Times the Likelihood of Moderately Severe Depression (or More) Than the General Population (16% Versus 5 %)

According to new research out this week informal Carers in the UK are some of the most depressed in Europe.

AMSTERDAM, June 12 /PRNewswire/ --

- Improving Research Discoverability and Productivity

Elsevier today announced a new partnership agreement with NextBio, provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data to enrich ScienceDirect content. This agreement allows for an integration of NextBio's unique set of ontology-based semantic tools and a compilation of high quality sources of public data on ScienceDirect, providing health science, life science and chemistry researchers with a dynamic platform to improve discoverability and research productivity.

YORK, England, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Varlink, the York based mobile computing and data capture specialist distributor, will offer Janam's XG100, the new Windows CE 6.0, rugged IP64 gun-shaped mobile computer that scans barcodes and communicates wirelessly. The addition of the XG100 augments Janam's line of rugged PDA-style mobile computers. Varlink carries the full range of Janam's rugged mobile computers to cover almost any barcode-based application within the four walls of the enterprise.