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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Top 7? Greatest love stories in gaming | GamesRadar
1. Johnny and River (To the Moon)
To The Moon's love story isn't an aside or sub-facet of the main story--it is the main story. When the game begins, you're introduced to Johnny, an elderly man on his deathbed with a dying wish to go to the moon. Well, to at least experience going to the moon, as you're tasked with implanting an artificial memory into his brain so he can rest in peace.
But once you start digging through his life's story, you begin to uncover his troubled relationship with his wife, River, who died a few years earlier. River has a disorder that makes their communication difficult. She creates rooms full of origami bunnies for him and he has no idea why, he writes her a song that she doesn't respond to, she asks him strange questions that he doesn't understand. The deeper you dive into Johnny's memories, the more you learn about their relationship, why they're doing the things they're doing, and why, of all things, Johnny's dying wish is to go to the moon. Oh, and you're going to cry. Oh, yes, there will be tears.
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Friday, February 8, 2013
James Harden's All-Star Game Travel Tips For Houston
HOUSTON (AP) ? James Harden is ready. For the music, the weather, the restaurants.
And, yes, he'll work in some basketball as well.
"Houston is a beautiful city," he says.
Harden will be making his NBA All-Star debut when the game and its weekend of festivities come to Houston Feb. 15-17.
In his first season with the Houston Rockets after an October trade from Oklahoma City, Harden has taken to the nation's fourth-largest city. And for those planning a trip to the game, he's set to play travel agent ? where to stay, what to eat, things to do.
"There's so much you can do, so if you come it should be a good time," he tells The Associated Press. "There's just so much variety."
And with temperatures expected to be in the high 60s, a visit would be a welcome respite for fans from colder climates.
"That's another reason why Houston is beautiful," he said. "The weather is always nice for the most part."
There's also the throngs of rappers who will descend on the city for a weekend that has become known as much for big-name rap shows and parties as it is for basketball.
"I'm looking forward to seeing everybody from the legends like Jay-Z and Kanye West and Rick Ross, to the newer, young guys like Meek Mill and Wiz Khalifa and even Trinidad James," he said.
The Sunday night game at the Toyota Center ends a weekend of events on the court, including the Rising Stars Challenge for first- and second-year players, slam dunk and 3-point contests and a celebrity basketball game.
"I'm excited to be a first-time All-Star and my first time being in Houston just made it more special," said Harden, who's in his fourth season. "Just to see all the newer guys like myself and all the other first-time All-Stars should be really fun."
After games, Harden often makes the half-mile trip to one of his favorite Houston restaurants, Vic and Anthony's Steakhouse, 1510 Texas St. He likes the Atlantic salmon with Texas tapenade, king crab risotto and Brussels sprouts, but says you can't go wrong with any of the steaks.
"Pretty much everything on the menu is really good," he said. "Nice atmosphere, good people and very good food, so it's a pretty good time."
He's also become a big fan of Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen, a Houston-based Cajun seafood chain with 12 locations throughout the city. Harden likes their Mississippi catfish Opelousas, a dish of blackened catfish with oysters, shrimp and jumbo lump crab meat in lemon garlic butter served over dirty rice.
"That's a big name out here if you're looking for a great seafood place," Harden said. "It's well known out here so a lot of people want to go there, especially out of towners."
Harden doesn't drink, saying he sticks to orange juice. But for those who do, Pappadeaux is known for its rainbow-hued Swamp Thing cocktail, a concoction of raspberry and melon liqueurs layered with frozen hurricane and margarita.
Harden loves the convenience of living downtown and suggests fans traveling to the game find a hotel in the area. When he has friends and family in town they often stay at the Four Seasons, a five-minute walk from the Toyota Center.
After signing a five-year, $80 million contract extension soon after the trade, one of Harden's favorite activities in Houston is shopping. And there's no better place to do it in the city than the Galleria.
The sprawling mall, located about eight miles from downtown at 5085 Westheimer Rd., spans 2.4 million square feet and is home to about 400 shops and restaurants.
"I can do a lot of shopping, and the Galleria mall has everything you need and every store," he said. "I go there like once a week just to get a couple of new things and stay up on my fashion game. The mall is just amazing."
Known for his long and wild beard, Harden describes his style as eclectic and said he doesn't gravitate to any one store or brand.
"I'm unique and different in my own way," he said. "I just go with the flow."
Visitors who are hip-hop fans will have no shortage of things to do at night during All-Star weekend. Harden, who was last season's Sixth Man of the Year and won an Olympic gold medal with the U.S. team in London, likes that the event brings rappers and athletes together.
"As basketball players we listen to a lot of music before the games and we're fans of the rap game, and rappers are fans of basketball players and they like to come see us play," he said. "In a sense, we want to be them and they want to be like us, so All-Star weekend is a chance for all of us to hang out and mingle with each other."
Dozens of parties and concerts featuring everyone from Lil Wayne to Diddy to Young Jeezy and T.I. are planned for the weekend. The sheer volume of events left Harden unable to suggest a single spot to check out.
"There's going to be so much going on, there's going to be so many headline parties and rappers and NBA players hosting parties and things like that," he said. "No matter what party you show up at it's going to be good and it's going to be packed because a lot of people are coming down."
Though Harden wouldn't reveal where he'll be partying, he did share that he listens to rapper Meek Mill's hit song "Dreams and Nightmares" before every game.
The rapper has a concert planned on Feb. 15 at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel St., less than a mile from the arena. It won't be hard to find Harden if he drops by. The bearded 6-foot-5 baller says he won't just be standing around if you catch him at a party.
"I have rhythm. I wouldn't call myself a dancer, but I go with the flow," he said with a grin. "I'm not just a wallflower. I can move a little bit."
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Online:
Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau: http://www.visithoustontexas.com/
NBA All-Star Game: http://www.nba.com/allstar2013/
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Meet our earliest common mammalian ancestor
Say hello to your greatest grandparent. Cute, furry, long-tailed and with a penchant for insects ? it sounds like something we would keep as a pet rather than be related to. But it seems that such a creature was the last shared ancestor of placental mammals ? a group including all living mammals apart from marsupials and those that lay eggs.
An exhaustive analysis, combining genomic information and fossil evidence, suggests that our ancestor lived soon after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Its descendants rapidly spread around the globe and evolved into all the major placental groups seen today, from bats to whales and from mice to men.
Molecular biologists and palaeontologists have long argued over the origin of placental mammals. For a long time, the accepted theory, based on fossil evidence, was that mammals had diversified after the dinosaurs were wiped out, exploding into myriad different species once the world was no longer dominated by these giants.
However, recent genetic analyses have suggested that our earliest ancestor would have walked with the dinosaurs ? living about 100 million years ago, and diversifying into more than 20 different lineages in the succeeding 35 million years.
But palaeontologists have found no fossils from any modern placental group that date from before the impact, suggesting that the ancestor of living mammals evolved after the dinosaurs were gone.
Family get-together
In an attempt to resolve the conflict, Maureen O'Leary of Stony Brook University in New York state and colleagues built a family tree combining genetic information with data on more than 4500 anatomical traits ? the most ever used in this way ? from 46 living species and 40 fossil species.
None of the fossils dating from before the impact could be classified as modern placental mammals. The oldest fossil they identified as being a modern placental lived 200,000 to 400,000 years after the impact. Their analysis showed that rapid evolution followed, producing the first members of the major placental lineages, such as primates and rodents, about 2 to 3 million years later.
The team's genetic analysis suggests that the last common ancestor was a small insectivore weighing between 6 and 245 grams that climbed trees and had a long furry tail (see image above).
"We have no real idea" where it originated, or how its descendants spread around the world, O'Leary says. And although the reconstruction looks like a rodent, "its teeth were completely different".
Boom or bust
Placental mammals weren't the only mammals to diversify after the impact. Marsupials experienced a similar but smaller burst of evolution following the asteroid hit, with a single lineage leading to all living species, O'Leary says. As did the multituberculates ? a group of rodent-like mammals that died without descendants 35 million years ago.
Palaeontologist Donald Prothero at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, is delighted with the results. "This is more in line with what the fossil record has told us for a long time," he says.
"This is a landmark piece of work," says Stephen Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh, UK. "The fossil record and the molecular clock are starting to converge. That's just what we want."
However, molecular biologist Mark Springer of the University of California at Riverside, who carried out the genetic analysis that suggested our ancestors diversified while the dinosaurs were still living, is still sceptical. "It does not convince me that the placental diversification commenced in the Palaeocene", the first 10 million years after the extinction, he says. "The tree based on morphology? is in striking disagreement with the molecular tree."
Resolving the dispute is likely to require the discovery of new fossils. Brusatte and others are currently looking for mammal fossils from the Palaeocene Period, hoping to catch the earliest stages of the evolution of our earliest ancestor.
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Blowing hot and cold: U.S. belief in climate change shifts with weather
Feb. 5, 2013 ? A University of British Columbia study of American attitudes toward climate change finds that local weather -- temperature, in particular -- is a major influence on public and media opinions on the reality of global warming.
The study, published February 5? by the journal Climatic Change, finds a strong connection between U.S. weather trends and public and media attitudes towards climate science over the past 20 years -- with skepticism about global warming increasing during cold snaps and concern about climate change growing during hot spells.
"Our findings help to explain some of the significant fluctuations and inconsistencies in U.S. public opinion on climate change," says UBC Geography Prof. Simon Donner who conducted the study with former student Jeremy McDaniels (now at Oxford University).
The researchers used 1990-2010 data from U.S. public opinion polls and media coverage by major U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. They evaluated the relationship between average national temperatures and opinion polls on climate change, along with the quantity and nature of media editorials and opinion pieces related to climate change.
While many factors affect climate change attitudes -- political views, media coverage, personal experience and values -- the researchers suggest that headline-making weather can strongly influence climate beliefs, especially for individuals without strong convictions for or against climate change.
"Our study demonstrates just how much local weather can influence people's opinions on global warming," says Donner. "We find that, unfortunately, a cold winter is enough to make some people, including many newspaper editors and opinion leaders, doubt the overwhelming scientific consensus on the issue."
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Video: Roubini: US Economic Growth 1.7% at Best
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