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UK Animal Rights Extremist Mel Broughton Gets Ten-Year Sentence for Arson

Today, a court in Oxford found animal rights extremist Mel Broughton guilty of conspiracy to commit arson and sentenced him to ten years in prison for his crime. Broughton was arrested in 2007, after being linked to a failed arson attempt at Oxford's Templeton College (which followed a successful attack of Queen's College the previous year). I have written at length about the animal rightists' campaign of fear and intimidation against Oxford University (check out previous entries for more)--a campaign that escalated in 2005, when the ALF declared that nothing owned by the university is off…

Genetic ancestry testing: people who don't want to know

Dan Vorhaus pointed me to this review of the recent PBS series Faces of America. I haven't seen the series myself, but I found this segment of the review hilarious: The element of the last PBS episode I found most intriguing was Gates' interview with novelist Louise Erdrich, who declined to have her DNA tested because her identity as a descendant of the Chippewa Native American tribe is so important to her. She said that she felt her tribe and family were what made her who she was. And, as she explained to Gates, she "didn't want to add any confusion to it." Erdrich, in other words, didn't…

In which Orac, amazingly, publishes an article on integrative oncology in Nature Reviews Cancer

Over the years, my goals in doing this blog have evolved. Now, I want to do more than just blog about the issues of science and pseudoscience in medicine that are this blog’s primary raison d'être (along with the occasional post on more generalized areas of skepticism or the even more occasional political rant). I also want to publish my science-based critiques in the peer-reviewed medical literature. My first crack at came in the form of an article by Steve Novella and myself published last month in Trends In Molecular Medicine entitled Clinical trials of integrative medicine: testing…

Circus of the Spineless #18

The last time I hosted the Circus of the Spineless, I just did a series of photos—invertebrates are wonderfully photogenic. Here we go again, with another collection of gorgeous images of crunchy, squishy, slimy, tentacled, multi-legged, no-legged creatures. Arthropods SEF sent me this nice image of an Adalia imago, but no link—and also says there is a whole life history in photos. I'll update this if they're put online! Here's a photoessay on the Black Swallowtail butterfly. Dragonflies in March? This photo is from last summer. This is a nest of Jewel bugs, with a closeup here. How do…

Privacy vs knowledge

Wired reports a great new opportunity to make money online by suing internet companies for revealing the data: An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be outed when it disclosed insufficiently anonymous information about nearly half-a-million customers as part of its $1 million contest to improve its recommendation system. I'm not sure whether the litigators have read this particular section of the Netflix prize rules: To prevent certain inferences being drawn about the Netflix customer base, some…

Update on Pepsipocalypse

The crack SEED management team has made some significant changes on the new Pepsi nutrition blog. They have placed a small, grey band on the banner that says "Advertorial" (a word I abhor, but whatever). They have also placed the Pepsi logo everywhere and made it fairly clear that it is Pepsi content. This is a move in the right direction as far as transparency and ethics are concerned. As I read the extensive comments being left across the blogosphere I see some that show a misunderstanding of the problem here. The problem is not that Pepsi is "corporate" or "commercial". This is not…

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Pre-Order NOW!!!

You may have been hearing some of the buzz about Rebecca Skloot's forthcoming book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million…

The Churchlands on Consciousness

Here's Pat Churchland, from a recent New Yorker profile (not online): Paul and Pat believe that the mind-body problem will be solved not by philosophers but by neuroscientists, and that our present knowledge is so paltry that we would not understand the solution even if it were suddently to present itself. "Suppose you're a medieval physicist wondering about the burning of wood," Pat likes to say in her classes. "You're Albertus Magnus, let's say. One night, a Martian comes down and whispers, 'Hey, Albertus, the burning of wood is really rapid oxidation!' What could he do? He knows no…

Coffee Talk

Dave at the World's Fair asks: Can you show us your coffee cup? Can you comment on it? Do you think it reflects on your personality? Do you have any interesting anecdotes resulting from coffee cup commentary? Can you try to get others to comment on it? I'm a day late and a dollar short, as my dad used to say, in answering this, but I'll give it a try anyway. Most of my sciblings have already given it a go, with lots of nifty pictures of fab coffee mugs. Check out Dr. Free-Ride, Sandra Porter. Dr. Joan Bushwell, CR McClain, Chad Orzel, and Tara's lack-of-coffee lament. When all this…

Friday Random 10, Sept 12

My apologies for how slow the blog has been lately. I've been sick with a horrible sinus infection for the last month. I saw an ENT on wednesday, and with massive doses of antibiotics and steroids, I'm finally on the mend, so hopefully things will get back to normal soon. Marillion, "Thunder Fly": For those of us who pre-ordered Marillion's upcoming album, they just made mediocre-quality prerelease copies available for download. Overall, I'm very happy with it. It's quite good; I can't wait to listen to it in its high-quality CD form. This is a fun track; it's got a nice bounce to it, but…

A Dual-Purpose Observatory

The service tower attached to the iconic floating egg atop the Institute's Koffler accelerator (the "spaceship" in the photo, left) has recently been graced with a charming, shiny silver skullcap - an observatory dome. Formally known as the Martin Kraar Observatory, it houses two telescopes, and it figured in two of our recent press items. We spoke with observatory director Ilan Manulis of the Davidson Institute of Science Education: WSW: Tell us about the telescopes. IM: The larger one is a 41 cm. (16 in.) telescope. Due to special optical properties, it has the power of a much longer…

Dinosaurs Life Size, the book

I just received my copies of Dinosaurs Life Size, a children's book published by Barron's Educational in the USA and by New Burlington Books in the UK (Naish 2010). You can get it from amazon here (here from amazon.co.uk). You might wonder why I'm advertising a children's book when I could be publishing articles on gekkotans, amebelodontid proboscideans or solitaire hands (all of which are due to appear here very soon). Well, hey, it's my blog right? Dinosaurs Life Size is large-format and includes spreads on a diversity of dinosaurs as well as pterosaurs and Mesozoic marine reptiles. Some…

My picks from ScienceDaily

Basking Sharks: Disappearing Act Of World's Second Largest Fish Explained: Researchers have discovered where basking sharks - the world's second largest fish - hide out for half of every year, according to a report published online on May 7th in Current Biology. The discovery revises scientists' understanding of the iconic species and highlights just how little we still know about even the largest of marine animals, the researchers said. How Bees Hold Onto Flowers: 'Velcro'-like Structures On Flower Petals Help Bees Stick: When bees collect nectar, how do they hold onto the flower? Cambridge…

Science Journalism must-reads of the day

An article in Christian Science Monitor, reporting from the AAAS meeting last month, quotes me in a couple of places: As Climate Change debate wages on, scientists turn to Hollywood for help - read the whole thing (it may not be obvious at first, but there are two pages there). The must-read of the day is Ed Yong's The value of 'this is cool' science stories: But for now, as newspapers decline and shrink, the worry is that the internet will only cater for established interests. As Colin asks, "All of my interviews have pointed out that strong story and strong characters can get someone to…

Occupational Health News Roundup

Last month, workers from warehouses run by Walmart contractors NFI and Warestaff walked off the job and marched from Ontario, CA to Los Angeles to draw attention to unsafe working conditions. Now, employees of Walmart itself have walked off the job in several cities. On October 4, Josh Eidelson reported in Salon: Today, for the first time in Wal-Mart’s 50-year history, workers at multiple stores are out on strike. Minutes ago, dozens of workers at Southern California stores launched a one-day work stoppage in protest of alleged retaliation against their attempts to organize. In a few hours,…

A "Crisis in American Walking" -- in some places, anyway

Slate has just started a new series by Tom Vanderbilt called "The Crisis in American Walking: How we got off the pedestrian path." Vanderbilt observes that it's odd to see things like "Campaign to Get America Walking" when ambulation is one of the most natural activities for our species. Reliance on cars seems to be the main culprit in the United States' sad distinction as being the industrialized country where people walk the least. And that's a shame, Vanderbilt explains, because walking has many health benefits: Here are just some of the benefits, physical, cognitive and otherwise, that it…

Hitler the Creationist

Well I watched about half of the abominable D. James Kennedy special about Darwin and Hitler last night, about as much as I could stomach. It was every bit as bad as I imagined, perhaps even worse. The dishonesty absolutely leapt off the screen. At one point they present noted paleontological scholar Ann Coulter claiming that "all animal phyla" appeared in the Cambrian "in the blink of an eye" - yes, she actually said that. Apparently in Coulter's world, 70 or 80 million years is "the blink of an eye". Most galling, I thought, was that they invoked Hitler's book Mein Kampf as being laced with…

Back to the Bronze Age Again

Yesterday I began my return to the Bronze Age. For most of my career I've mainly worked with the Late Iron Age, a period that dominates the landscape of agrarian Sweden completely through its cemeteries and place names. But my first published piece of research, indeed the first research I ever did, concerned the Late Bronze Age. And now I'm thinking of going back there once my current book project in Östergötland is done. My old Bronze Age studies, I'm ashamed to admit, involved no field trips and hardly any artefact studies, but lots of archive work. I had no driver's license, hardly any…

American Science In Decline?

Inside Higher Ed reports on two new NSF studies showing a decline in American scientific publishing. Sort of. What the studies found, however, was that besides the well-known decrease in the relative share of journal articles originating from the United States, there was a slowdown in absolute numbers as well. This "plateau," as the reports call it, began in the early 1990s and stands in marked contrast to at least the two previous decades' worth of American research. The flattening of growth in science and engineering publishing -- it has "essentially remained constant since 1992,"…

Correction to James Ray Sedona sweat lodge post

Our post on drugs and documents found in the Sedona resort room occupied by self-help guru James Ray requires a correction and a clarification related to the Michigan doctor of osteopathy who, according to publicly-available records, prescribed some of the drugs as detailed in these publicly-available documents. 1. Correction: Dr. John Crisler was referred to as an "Internet physician from Michigan." To be clear, he is a physician with an office in Lansing, Michigan, with an internet presence at allthingsmale.com. On his website, he lists an "Office Visit Fee - Office or Virtual" for $60.00…

Psychics on the ascendancy

Here's a depressing way to start your week, courtesy of The New Statesman: .."psychic schools have never been so busy, and it's not the Doris Stokes brigade who want to learn, but the young, the prosperous and the educated. Stephen Armstrong uncovers a paranormal boom." If you don't know who Doris Stokes is, that's probably a good thing; those familiar with the name are more likely to have enrolled in the aforementioned schools. Plus, The New Statesman piece deals with the situation in England. But things aren't much better this side of the pond. Earlier this year came the results of a…

The bigger the ego, the harder the fall - how self-awareness buffers against social rejection

We all know them - supremely confident, arrogant people with inflated views of themselves. They strut and swagger, seemingly impervious to critical opinions, threats of failure or the glare of self-awareness. You may be able to tell that I don't like such people very much, which is why new research from Sander Thomaes from Utrecht University makes me smirk. Thomaes found that people with unrealistically inflated opinions of themselves, far from proving more resilient in the face of social rebuffs, actually suffer more because of it. Some psychologists hold that "positive illusions" provide…

Hyper Intelligent Spiders Work Together to Lure, Trap and Eat Human Prey

So that title may be a little sensationalistic... but the web is alive this morning (no pun intended) with stories about an enormous series of interconnected webs spread out over a 200 yard area in North Texas. Researchers and visitors alike have been drawn to the sprawling web, but were uncertain whether it was created by social spiders or one terrifying giant spider with unlimited silk production capabilities and a strong work ethic. Kind of a cross between the queen in Aliens and the giant spider, Shelob, that Frodo fights on his way to Mordor. Turns out the social spider theory was…

(Dead) lions and bees and syrup, oh my!

How difficult life must be for expatriates. Moving from the West coast to the East coast has made it difficult for me to find certain brands of food, and foreign foods are doubly difficult to come by. This week, anticipating a recipe created by the fabulous Nigella Lawson, I ran out to the store to get Lyle's Golden Syrup. They didn't have it, which is weird, because they had it three months ago. I drove to another store. Same problem! In the end I had to use King Golden Syrup, which doesn't compare at all. If I'd had time for shipping, I'd have ordered Lyle's online - it would totally be…

Humans Love Rare Things; Albinos Safe, Endangered Species Screwed

Two new experiments from French scientists show that humans love rare things. Not rarities, as in oddities, as in albinos. But rare things as in: not many of them left. That is bad news for many animals and conservation efforts. Hypothesis: Humans love rare things. Even if they are not really rare. Experiment 1 (online last year in Nature Precedings): A team of French scientists and social went into Parisian luxury hotels that were hosting upper class events and asked 316 people if they would prefer eggs (caviar) from a 'rare species' of sturgeon or a 'common species' of sturgeon, or if…

DSHEA: a travesty of a mockery of a sham

In 1994, Congress enacted the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). This act allows for the marketing and sales of "dietary supplements" with little or no regulation. This act is the work of folks like Tom Harkin (who took large contributions from Herbalife) and Orrin Hatch, whose state of Utah is home to many supplement companies. DSHEA has a couple of very important consequences (aside from filling the pockets of supplement makers). What does the FDA require of "supplements"? Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), the dietary supplement…

More shark sensationalism from the popular press

Whenever there's a documentary about shark attacks on the Discovery Channel or a popular press article involving the supposed "alarming rise" in shark attacks, the International Shark Attack File (ISAF) is usually mentioned. This project is primarily concerned with data-gathering and statistics, and this focus has led to some amount of criticism from other researchers concerned with shark attacks. The director of this project is George Burgess, who was quoted as saying the following in a LiveScience article likely spurred by the recent death of an Australian tourist who was bitten while…

A Universe of Black Holes: V

We are back to "Massive Black Holes" Happy Birthday Alberto! Alberto Sesana (AEI) leads off with "Probing massive black holes with space-based interferometry and pulsar timing" starts with overview of gravitational radiation - characteristic frequencies, amplitudes, timescales Baby Black Holes - up for adoption, get collectible adoption certificates with a picture of your very own baby black hole, or one much like it - this is eLISA's plan for fundraising... Ed - ok it is real it is an etsy thing and they are ***adorable*** quick pitch for eLISA/NGO Ed: New improved eLISA web page - see…

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)

This post is perhaps not my best post, but is, by far, my most popular ever. Sick and tired of politics after the 2004 election I decided to start a science-only blog - Circadiana. After a couple of days of fiddling with the templae, on January 8, 2005, I posted the very first post, this one, at 2:53 AM and went to bed. When I woke up I was astonished as the Sitemeter was going wild! This post was linked by BoingBoing and later that day, by Andrew Sullivan. It has been linked by people ever since, as recently as a couple of days ago, although the post is a year and a half old.…

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)

More Nonsense about Neo-Nazis in the Military

Someone named Greg Scott, writing at the famously misnamed Intellectual Conservative site, is up in arms about a New York Times report about the increasing number of neo-nazis and skinhead racists in the US military. That article was based on a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which cited Defense Department officials on the record about their ongoing investigations. Scott's critique of the Times' article is riddled with factual errors, distortions and exaggerations. Predictably, he's making the "they're insulting the whole military" argument, which is the standard reply from the…

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.

With this post, I say goodbye to ScienceBlogs. Am I leaving because of the fiasco with the PepsiCo blog? Not directly. That's not to say that there weren't serious issues raised by the whole incident. Many of these lie in the realm of journalistic ethics, at least as understood by people you might regard as affiliated with old school journalistic outlets (notwithstanding the fact that many such outlets currently have a significant online presence). The analyses by Paul Raeburn, Curtis Brainard, and John Rennie all do a nice job setting out the central issues in case, so do click through to…

Tracking flu through online search queries.

This morning, I was made aware (by my better half) of the existence of Google Flu Trends. This is a project by Google to use search terms to create a model of flu activity across the United States. Indeed, the results have been good enough that they were reported in a Letter in Nature [1] back in November 2008 (but with a correction published online 19 February 2009). From that letter: Seasonal influenza epidemics are a major public health concern, causing tens of millions of respiratory illnesses and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide each year. In addition to seasonal influenza, a new…

The E-Book Experience

A bit more than a month ago, I got a Sony Reader as a birthday present, upgrading my electronic book-reading platform from an old Palm Pilot. this is, obviously, not as sexy as a Kindle or a Nook, but then again, it doesn't involve me paying fees to use wireless services and further stoke my Internet addiction, so that's more or less a wash. Anyway, since I've been using this extensively for a month, now, I thought I'd post a few impressions: -- First and foremost, the e-ink display is very nice. The one crippling flaw of the Palm Pilot method was that I couldn't read outdoors or in bright…

Dangerous flu misinformation from HuffPo----again

We already know about the Huffington Post's war on science and its shameless publication of snake oil ads disguised as journalism. Now, Mark Hyman, an evangelist for the cult known as "functional medicine", is giving even more bad flu advice (and shilling for his books). He begins his blathering, misleading sales pitch with this bit of mendacious drivel: The main question my patients have been asking is whether they should get vaccinated against H1N1 or against the regular flu. This is not a simple yes or no answer. The guiding principle of functional medicine is personalized care, not the…

Three uneaten ears of corn

Prelude: Sunday, June 22, 2008 Only three weeks ago. All seems well. Prelude II: Thursday, July 3, 2008 We learn that all is not well. Saturday, July 12, 2008, 6:30 AM He spoke through tears of 15 years how his dog and him traveled about The dog up and died, he up and died And after 20 years he still grieves. (From Mr. Bojangles by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, 1970) It is early Saturday morning, and I can no longer sleep. Preternaturally quiet, a shroud of silence blankets the house, oppressive, dark, and hateful. There aren't even any birds chirping, and puzzlingly I have yet to hear the…

Cool linky stuff for science undergrads (15): What it's like to understand advanced mathematics, How to write your first math paper and more

I have a son who will be finishing up his undergrad in physics this coming school year with an eye towards possible graduate work in math. As you can imagine, I occasionally see a link or two on the web that I think he might particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps a) this kind of post might be more efficient and b) other undergrad students might find those links interesting or useful as well. Hence, this series of posts here on the blog. What is it like to understand advanced mathematics? How to Write Your First Paper How to write proofs: a quick…

CIA blogger fired for coloring outside lines

Top secret blogger for CIA fired, shut down: Christine Axsmith, a software contractor for the CIA, considered her blog a success within the select circle of people who could actually see it. Only people with top secret security clearances could read her musings, which were posted on Intelink, the intelligence community's classified intranet. Writing as Covert Communications, CC for short, she opined in her online journal on such national security conundrums as stagflation, the war of ideas in the Middle East and -- in her most popular post -- bad food in the CIA cafeteria. But the hundreds of…

ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants

As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what. Trevor Owens is the community lead for the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. He blogs at the eponimous blog and tweets. At the conference, Trevor will do an Ignite-style talk "Data mining the literature with Zotero" and will participate in the session about "…

Future Science Cyberstructure

Earlier today I went to UNC to talk about Science On The Web in Javed Mostafa's graduate course on Enabling Usability of Cyberinfrastructures for Learning, Inquiry, and Discovery. I showed and talked about the following sites: The rapidly growing List of Open Access journals and how the recent NIH law and Harvard vote are pushing publishing inexorably towards the OA model. PLoS, Open Access, the TOPAZ platform for a new breed of journals like PLoS ONE (and a couple of examples of user activity on ONE papers), as an example of the leader of OA publishing (and also the story of how I got to…

A DNA metacode?

About ten years ago I heard Fred Hoyle give a talk where he argues that "junk" DNA segments in fact must code for something else - his particular conjecture was that they coded for structural instructions (the example he used was the shape of leaves). It was intriguing, there is a lot of junk DNA in some genomes, but on the other hand we understand how it comes about as a result of transcription errors and mutations - genes are truncated or erroneously partly duplicated, or skipped over, leaving randomly mutating junk which is both added to and deleted under weak secondary selection. Further…

KITP: formation and evolution

I am currently at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, hanging out at the "Formation and Evolution of Globular Clusters" workshop. Apparently I am, for now, also the official "program blogger" program rapporteur... cause you know everything sounds fancier in french Who knew. When David suggests something is a good idea, it becomes a good idea. So, right now I am kinda busy trying to keep up with the workshop - there are some interesting new things, which I'll get to in due time. Real Soon Now. Y'all can participate through the multimedia online presence, including video (live and…

Not an “accident”: Agrey Emile Coudakpo, 32, suffers fatal work-related injury in Jessup, MD

Agrey Emile Coudakpo, 32, suffered fatal traumatic injuries on Friday, May 27 while working at Hanson Concrete Products. WBFF reports: Howard County (Maryland) police say the victim “died after becoming trapped in a piece of heavy machinery.” Police and fire units were dispatched at about 5:20 a.m.” to the worksite. WBFF’s and other news sources indicate the incident occurred at Hanson Concrete Products on Dorsey Run Road. A the same address is another business named Concrete Pipe & Precast (CP&P) which is the joint venture company formed by Hanson Pipe & Precast LLC and…

Not an “accident”: Kevin Purpura, 39, suffers fatal work-related injury in Wheeling, WV

Kevin Purpura, 39, suffered fatal traumatic injuries on Friday, January 15 while working at major renovation project in Wheeling, WV. His employer was Sandow Development. The (Wheeling) Investigator reports: Mr. Purpura “fell several stories while working inside the former Boury Warehouse." Wheeling police said he was “inspecting metal studding surrounding an elevator shaft” when he fell. The worksite is a “six-story, 120-year-old former warehouse…[which] is being converted into roughly 70 loft-style apartments by the Woda Group of Westerville, Ohio." The “Boury Lofts” project is valued at $…

A weird experience

So there I was, happily settled in Heffers with a nice large cup of coffee, looking forward to reliving the Newton-Leibnitz controversy via "the system of the world" when I thought I'd have a quick browse of "The Cult of the Amateur" by Andrew Keen, since it was on a nearby rack. It's the std.rant about how the internet is killing our kulture, which drowns its few good points in hyperbole. And indeed, in gross error. So naturally I waded through till I got to the wikipedia bit, and lo and behold, there is my name! (I'm sure I've heard this before, but only online, which isn't quite the same…

Amanda's Wayzata High School Science Bowl Team And Their Amazing Captain.

One of our local news stations, WCCO (Channel 4) CBS, has this story. Blindness Isn’t Stopping This 15-Year-old H.S. Senior’s Quest For Knowledge WAYZATA, Minn. (WCCO) – When the Wayzata Science Bowl team practices, they mean business. They just won the state championship, and they are now getting ready for nationals in Washington, D.C. They’re all smart kids, that’s obvious, but one of them stands out — team captain Nathan Stocking. “The other team gets intimidated,” said teammate Jayant Chaudhary, “because he doesn’t even need paper for pretty complex complications.” Stocking is a high…

What kind of country messes with Internet Freedoms?

Iran is cracking down on Internet Freedom: In the most sweeping move, Iran issued regulations giving Internet cafes 15 days to install security cameras, start collecting detailed personal information on customers and document users' online footprints. Spain passes new Internet "Piracy Law" United States Ambassador Alan Solomont put pressure on Spain's outgoing president, JosÃ© Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero, to pass a tough new internet piracy law, according to the Guardian. In a letter obtained by the Spanish newspaper El Pais and quoted by the Guardian, Solomont threatened "retaliation action" if…

Textbooks, again

Everyone in academia knows it: textbook publishers abuse the system. Jim Fiore decries the high cost of college textbooks, and I have to agree completely. Basic textbooks at the lower undergraduate levels do not need a new edition every year or two, not even in rapidly changing fields like biology. Churning editions is just a way for the publisher to suck more money out of a captive audience. It makes it difficult for students to sell off their used textbooks, it gives faculty the headache of having to constantly update their assignments, and if you allow your students to use older editions…

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