LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ePulse is pleased to announce the launch of its strategic partner program aimed at sublicensing it's core technologies to Financial Institutions that want to reap the benefits of using own-branded tried and tested technologies and reduce product deployment risks, timeframes and costs.

LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- MirriAd , the embedded advertising specialist, today announces it has extended its global partnership reach with Endemol to exploit embedded advertising opportunities. The new deals follow MirriAd's joint venture with Endemol India and cover the Latin American and Hispanic markets, and Spain. They are expected to produce revenues approaching $1m in the first year.

Cicadas are nature’s candy—fat meaty bugs straight out of a Temple of Doom buffet.  Though most cicadas worldwide live typical insect lives, the Magicicada genus in the eastern US has a special power move to counterbalance its deliciousness: periodicity. 

I recently saw W D Hamilton’s 1970 paper “Geometry for the Selfish Herd” described as “a classic in its own right.” As a long-time bibliophile this made it irresistible, but I was also intrigued by the incongruity of “selfish herd” and of linking geometry to animals. I have to report that the paper certainly is a classic, for all the wrong reasons, but it contains a valuable message.

The introduction to the paper began with:
This paper presents an antithesis to the view that gregarious behaviour is evolved through benefits to the population or species. Following Galton (1871) and Williams (1964) gregarious behaviour is considered as a form of cover-seeking in which each animal tries to reduce its chance of being caught by a predator.

LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Body in Balance TV - A New Channel on SKY 275 and at http://www.bodyinbalance.tv

LONDON, March 30 /PRNewswire/ --

Body In Balance (BIB) is Europe's first fully integrated television network and web based operator dedicated to health, fitness and wellbeing programming. It is aimed primarily at ABC1 Women, who represent a fast growing demographic committed to maintaining health and fitness primarily through Yoga, Pilates, Exercise and Nutrition.

BIB is located on SKY channel 275 and at http://www.bodyinbalance.tv and is endorsed by celebrity hosts and yoga teachers who include, Deepak Chopra, Maya Fiennes and Katy Appleton with students ranging from Sarah, The Duchess of York to Goldie Hawn.

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Researchers at the universities of Leicester and Oxford have made a discovery about plant growth which could potentially have an enormous impact on crop production as global warming increases.

Dr Kerry Franklin, from the University of Leicester Department of Biology led the study which has identified a single gene responsible for controlling plant growth responses to elevated temperature.

As more research is conducted on the development and spread of pandemic type II diabetes, there is more evidence than ever that diabetes is intricately linked to obesity, which is spreading in the US at an alarming rate.

To combat the struggle of managing type II diabetes, physicians have turned to unconventional methods to reduce fat and likewise combat diabetes symptoms.  Obesity reduction was the theme of the 2009 UK Diabetes Professional Conference in Glasgow, and efforts to treat and reverse diabetes through bariatric surgery was one of the most controversial topics.

Dr. James E. Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and an adviser to Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” is quoted and referred to in the New York Times article "The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson - Profile"  - by Nicholas Dawidoff, March 29, 2009, New York Times, page MM32 and in the New York Times Magazine, March 25, 2009.

Dr. Hansen sent his response to the article to those who have subscribed to his e-mail commentaries the day before its publication in the Sunday New York Times. He has given me permission to convey his clarification in its entirety:

New York Times Magazine