Istanbul airport attack: 36 dead, 147 injured

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.66667; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkeG6emW51oqMREMgEki5VRP2g8RosLZwqr0DArAA9Lqu3FowM1q7v2Zvchw6gZmtVRNQfWeYYD0IrYaVtkz5-fkELpVA25nBj-rb5XS8i-hs9wOFv7VRSt_nRxNJ40CTJFhH3obgTxUc/s1600/istambul-geektrends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkeG6emW51oqMREMgEki5VRP2g8RosLZwqr0DArAA9Lqu3FowM1q7v2Zvchw6gZmtVRNQfWeYYD0IrYaVtkz5-fkELpVA25nBj-rb5XS8i-hs9wOFv7VRSt_nRxNJ40CTJFhH3obgTxUc/s320/istambul-geektrends.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.66667; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Gunshots, screams and explosions pierced the air Tuesday as three terrorists armed with bombs and guns killed at least 36 people at Istanbul Ataturk Airport in Turkey.Witnesses described deadly carnage and crowds in a panic as the attackers struck one of the world's busiest airports.</div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">At least 36 people were killed, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. An additional 147 people were wounded, Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said.There was no immediate claim of responsibility.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">Sue Savage was in the airport to see a friend off when she heard gunshots and then an explosion. More gunshots rang out, followed by another boom, she told "Erin Burnett OutFront."</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px;">Coverage from CNN Turk</div><div class="zn-body__read-all" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.cnnturk.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank"></a></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">She ducked into a men's prayer room and then into a men's toilet, where she hid in a stall with a young woman.They came out about 30 minutes later, and heard more screams and gunshots. They ducked into a room where luggage is inspected.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">She and about 30 people were herded into a women's prayer room until authorities led them out and down an escalator into the main terminal hall."There was a lot of blood," she said. The floor was marked with bloody boot marks as the group was led to the other side of the room."There was so much glass on the floor they were scuffing it aside so we didn't slip," she said.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Video from inside the terminal shows people fleeing and the bright orange flash of fire from one of the explosions. Victims stagger and some fall from the blood-covered, slick floor.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Another video shows a man walking with a gun, which he drops when he's apparently shot by a security officer. The man slumps to the ground and the officer briefly stands over him before running. About 10 seconds later, there is an explosion.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Traveler Laurence Cameron described what he saw after he stepped off a plane.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">"It was just a massive crowd of screaming people. Some were falling over themselves. A poor chap in a wheelchair was just left, and everyone just rushed to the back of the building, and then people ran the other way and no one really seemed to know what was going on," he told CNN. "Where you normally hail a taxi, that is where the attack happened. The ground is just kind of shredded. There are bloodstains on the floor as well."</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><h3 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; display: inline-block; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 2.13333rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Two bombs in international terminal. </h3></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Of the three bombers in the airport attack, two were at the international terminal, and the third terrorist was in the nearby parking lot, a Turkish official told CNN. All three detonated suicide vests.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a unified international fight against terrorism.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">"Make no mistake: For terrorist organizations, there is no difference between Istanbul and London, Ankara and Berlin, Izmir and Chicago or Antalya and Rome," he said. "Unless all governments and the entire mankind join forces in the fight against terrorism, much worse things than what we fear to imagine today will come true."</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The attacks happened on a warm summer night at the airport, east of Istanbul, which is the 11th busiest in the world in terms of passenger traffic.</div> </div> </div></div><div class="el__embedded el__embedded--standard" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; position: relative; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; width: 780px; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="el__video--standard js__video--standard" data-autoplay="false" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 10px; width: 300px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div></div></div> </div></div>

Istanbul airport attack: 36 dead, 147 injured

Gunshots, screams and explosions pierced the air Tuesday as three terrorists armed with bombs and guns killed at least 36 people at Istanbul...

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TUNNEL VISION: Jumping Into a Hypothetical Tunnel

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2XZyIvDX5RYPdg6TpHxgkRmBtCtPUJ-8ZInyzwF8mX4eXPX-12svCwF15_tyv9UjCPLDZj_OiTITzUspajgdG-uFhOOuABewV4N5cdGi0sYcDnmyzQvutgEYJX3KU40fML-51UWiNLU/s1600/tunnel-vision-geektrends.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2XZyIvDX5RYPdg6TpHxgkRmBtCtPUJ-8ZInyzwF8mX4eXPX-12svCwF15_tyv9UjCPLDZj_OiTITzUspajgdG-uFhOOuABewV4N5cdGi0sYcDnmyzQvutgEYJX3KU40fML-51UWiNLU/s320/tunnel-vision-geektrends.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Falling down a hole through the center of the Earth would be rough — especially if there’s friction involved. A new study reveals what would happen to an intrepid traveler who jumped through a hypothetical tunnel through Earth, propelled by the force of gravity but impeded by the drag of air resistance and the friction of the tunnel walls.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Physicists have estimated that, if you jumped into a tunnel without such drag, you would be able to reach the other side in less than an hour. But include drag and it could be well over a year before you even reach Earth’s center — and you’d never make in to the other side<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>— scientists report in a paper published online June 3 at arXiv.org.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">“There’s a number of assumptions that you have to make to solve this problem,” says physicist Alex Klotz of MIT, who was not involved in the new study. To simplify the calculations, scientists have had to make unrealistic assumptions: that the Earth is a sphere of uniform density, that the Earth is not rotating and that there is no drag from friction or air in the tunnel.Including drag, Klotz says, is “a step forward.”</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">If you jumped into such a hole — or, say, rode through it on a futuristic subterranean transit system — gravity would accelerate you downward, quickly increasing your velocity. Once you passed the Earth’s center, you’d keep going, shooting upward. Gravity’s inward pull would gradually slow your rise to the opposite surface. Neglecting air resistance and friction, your momentum would carry you to the other side, where you might be able to clamber out of the hole. Adding drag to the mix complicates the problem, but the details haven’t been carefully analyzed until now.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The quandary is fun to think about, say the authors of the study, Thomas Concannon and Gerardo Giordano from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. But, says Giordano, “neither of us think this technology is going to be available” anytime soon. The technical challenges of building such a tunnel would be insurmountable. Instead, the problem is a thought experiment and a tool for instructing physics students.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">To calculate the drag forces caused by air resistance in the tunnel, the researchers assumed that you would travel in a vehicle with a profile similar to that of a large airplane. The scientists calculated that it would take you a whopping 1.8 years to get to Earth’s center under such conditions. But you might not even make it there, because the air deep down would be so highly pressurized that it would behave more like a solid than a gas. The scientists concluded that the tunnel would have to be emptied of all air in order to function as intended.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Even in an airless tunnel, you would feel friction from contact with the walls or rails that would direct the underground shuttle. In such a scenario, the scientists determined it would take roughly 19 minutes to get to the center. But thanks to the energy lost due to friction, you wouldn’t be able to overcome the pull of gravity to make it to the other side. Instead, you would fall back down before reaching the surface and the process would repeat, causing you to oscillate around Earth’s core until you slowed to a stop at the center.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The new result may further satisfy eager physics enthusiasts. In a 2015 paper in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>American Journal of Physics</em>, Klotz<span class="Apple-converted-space"> solved the problem</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>using a realistic model of Earth’s density for the first time, but he didn’t account for friction. When the result was covered in online news outlets, Klotz says commenters complained, “‘This idiot didn’t even take friction into account — this sucks!’”</div></div>

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Rugby Championship: New Bonus Point System

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="story-intro" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzIM0U5EsJ_eBDNdeucpvYaYwN5wCPUYukty9J_MRjhcq1YixzMv9oG199ovRKQWgVpxu24mxBXy2IJZJYnOLjSVP3VNY6TgMK6qV04cbS6mI-LXHqLCYjFnPvFPK-JD36jdAjSN0bQM/s1600/Rugby-geektrends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzIM0U5EsJ_eBDNdeucpvYaYwN5wCPUYukty9J_MRjhcq1YixzMv9oG199ovRKQWgVpxu24mxBXy2IJZJYnOLjSVP3VNY6TgMK6qV04cbS6mI-LXHqLCYjFnPvFPK-JD36jdAjSN0bQM/s320/Rugby-geektrends.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border: 0px; 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font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE modified bonus point system introduced into Super Rugby this season will be adopted for the upcoming Rugby Championship.</strong></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Teams will be awarded a bonus point for finishing three or more tries ahead of their opponent, replacing the old system of a bonus point for scoring four or more tries.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">The bonus point for losing by seven or fewer points remains unchanged.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">SANZAAR has also confirmed that Twickenham will host its first Rugby Championship match with the Wallabies facing Argentina in a Pumas’ home game.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifItalic, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: LiberationSerifBoldItalic, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NEW PODCAST! Foxsports.com.au’s Sam Worthington and Christy Doran are joined by BBC rugby reporter Chris Jones to examine England’s remarkable rise under Eddie Jones.</b></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">That match, which is the final game of the Championship, will be played on October 8.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Australia opens their title defence in a clash with world champions New Zealand in Sydney on August 20 before the teams meet again seven days later in Wellington.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">On September 10, the Wallabies host South Africa in Brisbane and the following week they play Argentina in Perth.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Australia then play the Springboks in Pretoria on October 1 before the London match.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">About Rugby Championship </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The Rugby Championship (TRC) is one of the pre-eminent international rugby union competitions in world rugby. It is contested annually by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Argentina, Austraila, New Zealand</span>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> South Africa.</span> It is owned and managed by SANZAAR.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">SANZAAR is an incorporated Joint Venture between the four participating national unions and its head office is located in Sydney, Australia.   </div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Prior to the 2012 tournament, when Argentina entered The Rugby Championship, it was known as the Tri Nations. The inaugural Tri Nations tournament was in 1996, and was won by New Zealand. South Africa won its first title in 1998, and Australia its first in 2000.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The new expanded TRC comprises a round robin format in which all the teams play each other home and away. The first Championship (2012) was won by New Zealand, who won all six of their matches. Australia won the 2015 TRC which was shortened due to the Rugby World Cup being played later in the year. The round robin format comprised the teams playing each other once home or away.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">New Zealand, Australia and South Africa have frequently been ranked among the top rugby nations with the latter two teams winning theRubby World Cup<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>twice and New Zealand winning it three times.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Argentina has been ranked as high as third in the official World Rankings<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and has twice reached the Rugby World Cup semi-finals, a higher achievement than Wales, Italy, Scotland, and Ireland among the Six Nations teams.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: black; border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Winners of The Rugby Championship</div><table border="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: black; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; width: 579px; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Year</strong></div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Winner</strong></div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1996</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1997</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1998</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Africa</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1999</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2000</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Australia</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2001</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Australia</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2002</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2003</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2004</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Africa</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2005</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2006</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2007</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2008</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2009</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Africa</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2010</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2011</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Australia</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2012</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2013</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2014</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand</div></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 91px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2015</div></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(54, 62, 68); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 19px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px; vertical-align: top; width: 337px;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.4rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Australia</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: LiberationSerifRegular, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 14px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div></div>

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Male Lacewings Disappear Made By Bacteria

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmfnt6WTYUTiWEjbCwONd4x2vk0HfMSBhZg4tjr8oTgH7GdlnW4Z3HrzMoaWq_X09o9hKYH7H1k_SHUC6Jp02cVZcAh3El3Y2x5VqNm0uKqSJGaexGdLa1mobJPsVbQa73X_fQAOaVj_c/s1600/bacteria-geektrands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmfnt6WTYUTiWEjbCwONd4x2vk0HfMSBhZg4tjr8oTgH7GdlnW4Z3HrzMoaWq_X09o9hKYH7H1k_SHUC6Jp02cVZcAh3El3Y2x5VqNm0uKqSJGaexGdLa1mobJPsVbQa73X_fQAOaVj_c/s1600/bacteria-geektrands.jpg" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">It’s the perfect setup for a teen dystopian novel: Men start disappearing from the population as many women fail to give birth to living male babies. But for some insects, it’s real life, and when that plot plays out among green lacewings, bacteria are the masterminds behind it all.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">A species of green lacewing,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Mallada desjardinsi</em>, can be found under street lamps near trees and bushes on the campus of Chiba University in Japan. While there are males, females far outnumber them. When Masayuki Hayashi of Chiba University and colleagues collected some of the tiny insects in 2011, they found 57 females and a mere seven males.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The researchers brought the insects into the lab; 34 of the females produced offspring. But again, the sex ratio was off. Of the 35 broods produced, 14 contained both males and females and 21 contained only females.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Many of the females that produced offspring, though, were infected with bacteria. The scientists discovered that all 21 that produced only females were infected with a species of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Spiroplasma</em>. In these broods, the females did lay eggs that included males, but these males died during the embryonic or larval phases. And treating females with an antibiotic that killed off the bacteria<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span> restored the survival of male offspring. The team reports their findings June 15 in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>PLOS ONE</em>.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Invertebrates, unlike humans and other vertebrates, let some groups of bacteria proliferate within their reproductive cells, and these microbes can pass from mother to offspring (though not from father to child). For such a bacterium, males just aren’t that necessary, and so they’ve evolved to kill off the males. Male-killing<em>Spiroplasma</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have been found before in moths, butterflies, ladybird beetles and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Drosophila</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>flies. But what’s weird about the green lacewings is that their<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Spiroplasma</em>, a previously unknown species, is more closely related to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Sprioplasma<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>species that infect plants than those that infect other insects, the researchers discovered by creating a huge phylogenetic tree of the bacteria. For now, the scientists aren’t sure, but green lacewings may have picked up an ancestor of their<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Spiroplasma</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>sometime in the past while feeding on flower nectar.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">What will happen to a species in which the males are disappearing? It could lead to altered sexual behavior, since males would no longer have to try so hard to find females since they’d be so outnumbered, Hayashi’s team notes. But to find out, they suggest a deeper study of the evolutionary forces acting on this bacteria-insect pairing.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Or we could just wait for someone to write that dystopian novel.</div></div>

Male Lacewings Disappear Made By Bacteria

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Women need more about their sexuality

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Making Computers Learn by Analogy!!!!!!!!!!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOqBGnLohzq3dn98D8XD2oaPURA82DfS9Lp_JTGTMnmd-xXV0Fi_8N_RUr8oC_1lIvTzYQpAePgvFzwHeDt7L-3_W8UHSsJSMmQukrY7TayJCOuz2D6AtCaG00uHpukJ2HCZlJfUFUta8/s1600/analogy-geektrands.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOqBGnLohzq3dn98D8XD2oaPURA82DfS9Lp_JTGTMnmd-xXV0Fi_8N_RUr8oC_1lIvTzYQpAePgvFzwHeDt7L-3_W8UHSsJSMmQukrY7TayJCOuz2D6AtCaG00uHpukJ2HCZlJfUFUta8/s1600/analogy-geektrands.jpg" /></a></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Scientists have developed a computer learn by analogy this is our information technology.Using cognitive science theories, Forbus and his collaborators have developed a model that could give computers the ability to reason more like humans and even make moral decisions. Called the structure-mapping engine (SME), the new model is capable of analogical problem solving, including capturing the way humans spontaneously use analogies between situations to solve moral dilemmas.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">"In terms of thinking like humans, analogies are where it's at," said Forbus, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering. "Humans use relational statements fluidly to describe things, solve problems, indicate causality, and weigh moral dilemmas."</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The theory underlying the model is psychologist Dedre Gentner's structure-mapping theory of analogy and similarity, which has been used to explain and predict many psychology phenomena. Structure-mapping argues that analogy and similarity involve comparisons between relational representations, which connect entities and ideas, for example, that a clock is above a door or that pressure differences cause water to flow.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Analogies can be complex (electricity flows like water) or simple (his new cell phone is very similar to his old phone). Previous models of analogy, including prior versions of SME, have not been able to scale to the size of representations that people tend to use. Forbus's new version of SME can handle the size and complexity of relational representations that are needed for visual reasoning, cracking textbook problems, and solving moral dilemmas.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">"Relational ability is the key to higher-order cognition," said Gentner, Alice Gabrielle Twight Professor in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. "Although we share this ability with a few other species, humans greatly exceed other species in ability to represent and reason with relations."</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Supported by the Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Forbus and Gentner's research is described in the June 20 issue of the journal<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;">Cognitive Science</i>. Andrew Lovett, a postdoctoral fellow in Gentner's laboratory, and Ronald Ferguson, a PhD graduate from Forbus's laboratory, also authored the paper.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Many artificial intelligence systems -- like Google's AlphaGo -- rely on deep learning, a process in which a computer learns examining massive amounts of data. By contrast, people -- and SME-based systems -- often learn successfully from far fewer examples. In moral decision-making, for example, a handful of stories suffices to enable an SME-based system to learn to make decisions as people do in psychological experiments.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">"Given a new situation, the machine will try to retrieve one of its prior stories, looking for analogous sacred values, and decide accordingly," Forbus said.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">SME has also been used to learn to solve physics problems from the Advanced Placement test, with a program being trained and tested by the Educational Testing Service. As further demonstration of the flexibility of SME, it also has been used to model multiple visual problem-solving tasks.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">To encourage research on analogy, Forbus's team is releasing the SME source code and a 5,000-example corpus, which includes comparisons drawn from visual problem solving, textbook problem solving, and moral decision making.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The range of tasks successfully tackled by SME-based systems suggests that analogy might lead to a new technology for artificial intelligence systems as well as a deeper understanding of human cognition. For example, using analogy to build models by refining stories from multiple cultures that encode their moral beliefs could provide new tools for social science. Analogy-based artificial intelligence techniques could be valuable across a range of applications, including security, health care, and education.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">"SME is already being used in educational software, providing feedback to students by comparing their work with a teacher's solution," Forbus said. But there is a vast untapped potential for building software tutors that use analogy to help students learn."</div></div>

Making Computers Learn by Analogy!!!!!!!!!!

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SELENA, THE ROCK, ICE CUBE AMONG 2017 WALK OF FAME HONOREES

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxLvdewENfE1yJZo4Sv6fWqZgeLTQBxBF9afNl5lNQCZKBEoC5xggHopIY0LKtmdhHi6iK1apvZaEvvUVgj6JpqA5iDWQfXR82Uj-3qtLkHnUjeknFVxwvfD7-7c8ISwU8n1ltsAyVuk/s1600/selena-geektrends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="selena-geektrends" border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxLvdewENfE1yJZo4Sv6fWqZgeLTQBxBF9afNl5lNQCZKBEoC5xggHopIY0LKtmdhHi6iK1apvZaEvvUVgj6JpqA5iDWQfXR82Uj-3qtLkHnUjeknFVxwvfD7-7c8ISwU8n1ltsAyVuk/s640/selena-geektrends.jpg" title="selena-geektrends" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />Hollywood, CA - 2017 Hollywood Walk of class of Fame announced Tuesday and as singer late Selena Quintanilla, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Tyra Banks, Chris Pratt, Amy Adams, Ice Cube, John Legend, and the name including the driver Los Gustavo Dudamel Angeles Philharmonic.<br /><br />Quintanilla, "Tejano music queen," was one of two winners posthumously. The other was film composer Jerry Goldsmith.<br /><br />Quintanilla shot and killed by Yolanda Saldívar in 1995. He was only 23 years old.<br /><br />Honorees selected to receive stars on the Walk of Fame Veterans Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, was taken over by hundreds of nominations by Walk.<br /><br />Walk of Fame honors in their respective categories were the following selections:<br /><br />Theater / performance: Criss Angel, Jeff Dunham and Gustavo Dudamel.<br /><br />Motion Picture: Amy Adams, Jason Bateman, Goldie Hawn, Dwayne Johnson, Chris Pratt, Brett Ratner, Ryan Reynolds, George A. Romero, Mark Ruffalo and Rita Wilson.<br /><br />Radio: Elvis Duran.<br /><br />Registration: Clarence Avant, Jerry Goldsmith, Hall and Oates, Ice Cube, John Legend, NSYNC, the new version and Selena Quintanilla.<br /><br />TV: Tyra Banks, Andre Braugher, Ken Corday, Lee Daniels, Hugh Laurie, Eva Longoria, Wolfgang Puck, Keri Russell, ham Saban, George Segal, Sarah Silverman and Jeffrey Tambor.</div>

SELENA, THE ROCK, ICE CUBE AMONG 2017 WALK OF FAME HONOREES

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Istanbul Ataturk airport attack: 40 dead and more than 225 hurt

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptJbQYO5WNw1Nh73MPa9IdE_KxQgiwQV3SGAwfvpTPbcIhOc9JZWU-ejMwUHxOKGmRv3vu2SNL03IBofqzkexa3r1assimriZanDXiG7OpVxhAbQ1AV4Lzi08ePATvSG_CNb1G-xcvQc/s1600/istambul-geektrends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="istambul-geektrends" border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhptJbQYO5WNw1Nh73MPa9IdE_KxQgiwQV3SGAwfvpTPbcIhOc9JZWU-ejMwUHxOKGmRv3vu2SNL03IBofqzkexa3r1assimriZanDXiG7OpVxhAbQ1AV4Lzi08ePATvSG_CNb1G-xcvQc/s400/istambul-geektrends.jpg" title="istambul-geektrends" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport has killed 41 people, at least 13 of them foreigners, and injured more than 230, officials say.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Three attackers arrived in a taxi and began firing at the terminal entrance late on Tuesday. They blew themselves up after police fired back.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PM Binali Yildirim said early signs pointed to so-called Islamic State but no-one has so far admitted the attack.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the attack should serve as a turning point in the global fight against militant groups.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The bombs that exploded in Istanbul today could have gone off at any airport in any city around the world," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The US called the attack "heinous", saying America remained "steadfast in our support for Turkey".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere called the attacks "cowardly and brutal".</div><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'Dressed in black'</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Istanbul's governor confirmed 41 people had died and 239 were injured in the attack. At least 13 of those killed were of foreign or dual nationality. Some 109 of those hurt have now been discharged from hospital.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One Iranian and one Ukrainian were confirmed dead.</div><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></h2><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Analysis:</h2><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The lack of any immediate claim for this attack by so-called Islamic State is not surprising. IS rarely, if ever, claims responsibility for attacks against the Turkish state yet it is quick to advertise its assassinations of Syrian activists inside Turkey.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All the signs point towards IS being the culprits. This is what British counter-terrorism officials term "a marauding terrorist firearms attack", following a pattern first seen in the Mumbai attacks of 2008.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Istanbul targets were international air travellers and ground staff at an iconic location, the third busiest airport in Europe.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IS is targeting Turkey because it sees its government as being un-Islamic and too close to its Western allies in Nato. IS is also feeling the pressure as the Turkish authorities move to close down its networks inside Turkey.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turkey's other main foe, Kurdish separatists, have carried out many attacks over the years but their primary targets have tended to be Turkish policemen and soldiers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paul Roos, who was due to fly home to South Africa, told Reuters he saw one of the attackers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He was wearing all black. His face was not masked. We ducked behind a counter but I stood up and watched him. Two explosions went off shortly after one another. By that time he had stopped shooting.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"He turned around and started coming towards us. He was holding his gun inside his jacket. He looked around anxiously to see if anyone was going to stop him and then went down the escalator. We heard some more gunfire and then another explosion, and then it was over."</div><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#Pray for Turkey</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><figure class="media-landscape has-caption full-width" style="background-color: #111111; border: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; margin: 24px -24.6406px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="image-and-copyright-container" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></figure><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.375; margin: 18px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Taxis were used to rush casualties to hospital after the attack. Desperate relatives of those missing later gathered outside a local hospital where many victims were taken.</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.375; margin: 18px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4b5yL4kFmC7Ggt6hj170HaYmasedv2TS7jkXi6qfMDqnSmJ03yFP6EuNGg785dUQ0SuQjVmlNM_tVTOV8QPDAYJ_M0AUS7cbJqPjL7hsQ4wTTZ2ggIgydZYNYbNMmxbTzZtxceK_rRU/s1600/istambul-geektrends.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="geektrends" border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4b5yL4kFmC7Ggt6hj170HaYmasedv2TS7jkXi6qfMDqnSmJ03yFP6EuNGg785dUQ0SuQjVmlNM_tVTOV8QPDAYJ_M0AUS7cbJqPjL7hsQ4wTTZ2ggIgydZYNYbNMmxbTzZtxceK_rRU/s400/istambul-geektrends.jpg" title="geektrends" width="400" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.375; margin: 18px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flights in and out of the airport were suspended after the attack. They have now resumed, but information boards showed about one-third had been cancelled, with many delays.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Charles Michel, the prime minister of Belgium whose capital city was <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35869985" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">targeted by bombers in March</a>, <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://twitter.com/CharlesMichel/status/747883000138993664" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tweeted </a>from the EU summit in Brussels: "Our thoughts are with the victims of the attacks at Istanbul's airport. We condemn these atrocious acts of violence."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Major recent attacks</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2016</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7 June, Istanbul:</strong> Car bomb kills seven police officers and four civilians. Claimed by Kurdish militant group TAK</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">19 March, Istanbul:</strong> Suicide bomb kills four people in shopping street. IS blamed</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13 March, Ankara:</strong> Car bomb kills 35. Claimed by TAK</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17 February, Ankara:</strong> 29 killed in attack on military buses. Claimed by TAK</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12 January, Istanbul:</strong> 12 Germans killed by Syrian bomber in tourist area</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2015</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">23 December, Istanbul:</strong> Bomb kills cleaner at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport. Claimed by TAK</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 October, Ankara:</strong> More than 100 killed at peace rally outside railway station. Blamed on IS</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20 July, Suruc, near Syrian border:</strong> 34 people killed in bombing in Kurdish town. IS blamed</div></div><div><br /></div></div>

Istanbul Ataturk airport attack: 40 dead and more than 225 hurt

A gun and bomb attack on Istanbul's Ataturk airport has killed 41 people, at least 13 of them foreigners, and injured more than 230, off...

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