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2. Week of April 14th, to April 20th, 2014

3. Start-Up Business Activity and the Health
of the U.S. Economy
Good Moon Risin’ – Red Moon At Night,
Everyone’s Delight
Hornworts Loan Genes to Ferns for Shady
Environments
Runaway/Throwaway Children: Predictors
and Preventions
Post-It-Notes For Feet: Sticky Protein
Enhances Starfish Stride
Weather Around The World This Week:
Pick Your Poison
Major Earthquakes in the Western Pacific
and Nicaragua: 11-17 April 2014
New Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa:
Who’s in Danger?
Mexico’s Good Friday Earthquake: M7.2, 18
April 2014
Solar System Chemistry: Snow Line,
Thermodynamics, and the Proto-planetary
Disk
Relative Social Status by Gender and
Intimate Partner Violence in India
Kepler-186f: How Astronomers Discovered
an Earth-Sized Planet in a Star’s Habitable
Zone
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4. Start-Up Business Activity and the Health
of the U.S. Economy
APRIL 14, 2014 BY WALTER MCLAUGHLIN
President Obama meets with small business owners in
the Roosevelt Room, recognizing that start-up
businesses are an important barometer of the overall
economy. Image by Pete Souza

5. Good Moon Risin’ – Red Moon At Night,
Everyone’s Delight
APRIL 14, 2014 BY JON PLOTKIN
The totally eclipsed moon looks blood red. Photo
courtesy of NOAA

6. Hornworts Loan Genes to Ferns for Shady
Environments
APRIL 14, 2014 BY VIJAY SHANKAR BALAKRISHNAN, PHD
How did ferns evolve the ability to utilize low levels of
light? Image courtesy of Fay-Wei Li

7. Runaway/Throwaway Children: Predictors
and Preventions
APRIL 14, 2014 BY GINA PUTT
What makes a kid run away? Image by taliesin

8. Post-It-Notes For Feet: Sticky Protein
Enhances Starfish Stride
APRIL 15, 2014 BY VIJAY SHANKAR BALAKRISHNAN, PHD
Starfish walk by moving their tiny “tube feet” which
resemble minuscule elephant feet. Image by Jade.

9. Weather Around The World This Week:
Pick Your Poison
APRIL 15, 2014 BY JON PLOTKIN
Winter Storm Zephyr, now just a cold front along the
eastern seaboard, left cold temperature records in Her
wake. Courtesy of NOAA

10. Major Earthquakes in the Western Pacific
and Nicaragua: 11-17 April 2014
APRIL 17, 2014 BY JENNIFER YOUNG
Earthquakes 11-17 April 2014. Image credit: USGS

11. New Ebola Virus Outbreak in West Africa:
Who’s in Danger?
APRIL 18, 2014 BY JANELLE VAESA, MPH
This slide shows the changes in the tissue due to the
Ebola Virus, as well as the presence of the virus. Image
by the CDC.

12. Mexico’s Good Friday Earthquake: M7.2, 18
April 2014
APRIL 18, 2014 BY JENNIFER YOUNG
The location of the M7.2 Good Friday earthquake, 2014.
Image credit: USGS

13. Solar System Chemistry: Snow Line,
Thermodynamics, and the Proto-planetary
Disk
APRIL 18, 2014 BY JOHN JAKSICH
Our solar system is visually-striking, but what is the
chemistry behind it? Image courtesy of NASA

14. Relative Social Status by Gender and
Intimate Partner Violence in India
APRIL 20, 2014 BY JENNIFER DUBOIS
Education, employment, and intimate partner violence
are all related. Image by singhajay

15. Kepler-186f: How Astronomers Discovered
an Earth-Sized Planet in a Star’s Habitable
Zone
APRIL 20, 2014 BY PAUL A. HECKERT, PH.D.
This is an artist’s depiction of Kepler-186f , the first
validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the
habitable zone. Image Credit: NASA Ames/SETI
Institute/JPL-Caltech