Lore’s Lectures – Episode 25
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Zebra herd attacked by vandals
Vandals have beheaded and damaged a popular herd of artificial zebras at Lake George in southern New South Wales.
Canberra sculptor Alan Aston installed the four life-size zebras beside Lake George around 20 kilometres north-east of Canberra a month ago.
Their installation generated a mixed reaction.
The Department of Lands initially ordered their removal following a complaint from a farmer who leased the land.
However following strident community support the department changed its mind.
Mr Aston was in the process of gaining formal public approval for the eye-catching public art.
However overnight one zebra was beheaded while another is missing a tail and has been dragged 60 metres from the herd.
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Maths solves sperm movement mystery
UK scientists may have unravelled one of the long-standing mysteries of human fertility: why sperm cells tend to behave like tiny, surface-seeking missiles.
Researchers have known for more than 40 years that sperm cells in a drop of fluid tend to congregate at a specific distance from the surfaces where the fluid meets solid objects like microscope slides. Exactly why has long been a puzzle.
Now UK mathematicians Dr David Smith and Professor John Blake at the University of Birmingham think they have figured out what is going on.
Their results, published on the pre-press website arXiv.org and in the journal The Mathematical Scientist, are based on a mathematical model of a swimming sperm cell.
The researchers say that various factors work together to accumulate sperm near surfaces.
One factor is a weak fluid dynamic force that pulls the cells towards the surface.
Acting against that, however, is the fact that the tails of sperm cells tend to end up closer to the surface than the head, which causes the sperm to swim away from the surface.
US police destroy $2b worth of marijuana
Police in California say they have destroyed nearly $US2 billion ($2.2 billion) worth of marijuana plants in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
The White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy director, Gil Kerlikowske, says the police found industrial-sized plantations of marijuana.
He says about 450 agents destroyed more than 432,000 marijuana plants during a clampdown that has lasted almost three weeks.
A total of 97 people have been arrested over the past three weeks, most of them Mexican nationals believed to have ties with Mexican drug cartels.
The move is part of an ongoing sweep of marijuana growing operations that has netted more than $US1.7 billion worth of the drug in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
- BBC
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Russia brings back KGB-style warnings
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has signed a new law to boost the country's security service, restoring a Soviet-era practice of issuing warnings to people it believes are about to commit a crime.
Critics say the law could be used to intimidate independent journalists and opposition groups and undermines Mr Medvedev's promises to promote civil rights.
A Kremlin statement says the law gives the Federal Security Service (FSB), formerly headed by prime minister Vladimir Putin, the right to issue warnings to people "whose acts create the conditions for the committing of a crime".
The FSB was formed from the remains of the Soviet-era KGB, which was broken up in 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed.
Its influence grew greatly when Putin became president in 2000 and ordered it to lead the fight against Islamist rebels.
Rights groups and journalists say the government also uses the FSB to exert pressure on its critics.
Supporters of the bill say it will reduce crime and help people to realise what they are doing is potentially illegal.
Critics say it fails to spell out the legal consequences of receiving a warning and its vagueness will invite abuse.
The bill was significantly watered down after its first reading, when it drew an outcry from normally loyal opposition parties.
Politicians removed from the government's draft text a provision that would have allowed the FSB to issue people with a legally binding summons and impose up to 15 days in prison as punishment if they refused to come.
- Reuters
Children to carry GPS beepers in war on sex crime
South Korea will give school children GPS-embedded beepers as part of a trial to stem a wave of brutal sex crimes against minors.
The beepers are designed to warn police of dangers and activate surveillance cameras.
About 1,200 elementary school children in Anyang City, south of Seoul, will receive the beepers in a test run from October.
The ministry of public administration and security says authorities will then consider adopting the system nationwide.
Each child will be able to use their matchbox-sized beeper, fitted with GPS technology, to activate any nearby cameras and alert parents and police via mobile phone.
The government has strengthened monitoring of elementary schools after several crimes against children.
Police last month arrested a 44-year-old habitual sex offender for kidnapping an eight-year-old girl at her school in southern Seoul and raping her.
The National Police Agency has announced a plan to launch investigative units nationwide to tackle such crimes and declared "war" on child molesters.
- AFP