Word: spatialization
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...Parkfield, Calif.) At first he and his colleagues looked for strong quakes that had already occurred, then scrolled backward through years of seismic data. More recently they have been working with current seismic records as well. Their computer programs home in on small quakes that occur in temporal and spatial proximity, linking up in a mathematically defined chain. Only when a chain is preceded by longer-term precursory patterns does the group issue an earthquake alarm. But it will take a long, sustained effort, Keilis-Borok concedes, before he or anyone else can claim to have cracked the puzzle...
...Personal Is Political Latham's parochial life has given his politics a unique social and spatial grounding. In trying to engage with the electorate, he's got intimate. It means he's comfortable talking about himself - and he's not shy about trying to appeal to voters on emotional grounds or on the basis of shared values. Latham says his "ladder of opportunity" slogan "comes from who I am and where I've been." At Labor's national conference in January, he sketched his climb out of Green Valley: "When I was young, my mum used to tell me there...
...Aborigines and the odd ranger, Archer's teams are the only people who set foot on this land. So how do they know their way around? Here, rogainer Creaser more than earns his keep. "This guy," says Frank Nissen, a surveyor with Queensland Parks and Wildlife, "has the best spatial brain of anyone I've ever met. More than 250 sites and he can lead you to every one of them." Digging will be confined this year to Riversleigh's fringes, for money's tight and the team lacks a helicopter, essential for reaching the more inaccessible sites...
...mother using cocaine during pregnancy may not be as devastating as we once thought--and, says a new study in J.A.M.A., may even be mitigated by good parenting. Studying 376 preschoolers, researchers found that youngsters who were exposed to cocaine in utero scored slightly lower on tests of visual-spatial skills, general knowledge and math skills than nonexposed kids. But drug-exposed children who were placed in nurturing foster or adoptive care--or whose caregivers had rich vocabularies--had IQs similar to children whose mothers never took drugs...
...mathematics of string theory gives rise to the almost unfathomable possibility that the universe may have more than three spatial dimensions. After an experimentally induced collision of particles, energy may be lost to the extra eight predicted dimensions, Greene explains, emphasizing the point by smashing his fists together and transforming his fingers into the extra dimensions. This way, it may be possible to indirectly “see” these missing dimensions...