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British university attacks BBC over covert North Korea trip

By Michael Holden

LONDON (Reuters) - A leading British university criticised the BBC on Sunday for arranging an academic trip to North Korea to make an undercover documentary, saying it had put students who were unaware of the plans in danger.

The London School of Economics (LSE) said three BBC journalists - including the respected reporter John Sweeney - joined a student society trip at the end of March, posing as tourists to make a film about the secretive state.

The university said the students had been told "a journalist" would accompany them, but it had not been made clear the BBC's aim was to use the visit to record an undercover film for "Panorama", a current affairs programme.

"This was not an official LSE trip," Craig Calhoun, the Director of the LSE, wrote on Twitter. "Non-students & BBC organised it, used the society to recruit some students, & passed it off."

Tensions on the Korean peninsula have escalated in recent weeks, with North Korea threatening nuclear war against the United States and South Korea.

Alex Peters-Day, general secretary of the LSE's student union, told Sky News the students were only told of the BBC's intentions to make an undercover film at a very late stage, with one saying she was only informed when they were on the plane to North Korea.

She said the BBC had used the students as "human shields".

The university said Sweeney, who graduated from the LSE in 1980, had posed as a history PhD student at the university to gain entry to the country even though he currently had no connections with the institution.

"BBC staff have admitted that the group was deliberately misled to the involvement of the BBC in the visit," the LSE said in an email to staff and students released to the media.

"It is the LSE's view that the students were not given enough information to enable informed consent, yet were given enough to put them in serious danger if the subterfuge had been uncovered prior to their departure from North Korea."

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It said the LSE's chairman had asked the BBC to pull the documentary, which is due to be shown on Monday, but the broadcaster's director-general had refused.

Sweeney admitted he had lied to the North Korean government agency that helped organise the visit, but defended the BBC's actions.

"What the LSE has been doing is putting out stuff which is factually inaccurate in our view," Sweeney told BBC TV. "They're putting words into the students' mouths. The majority of students support this programme."

Ceri Thomas, the Head of BBC News Programmes, said the students had been told twice about the possible dangers of having a journalist on the trip, but were not informed about the broadcaster's plans to make an undercover film because it would have put them in a worse position had the BBC team been found out.

"They had the information we think to make informed consent," he told BBC TV. He said he could not categorically rule out students' lives were put at risk but stated there was an "overwhelming" public interest in making the documentary.

"It's vital that we get in... because the public in this country on mainstream television on tomorrow night has a very, very strong interest ... particularly at this moment in seeing what's going on inside North Korea," he said.

Panorama's website said Sweeney had spent eight days undercover "inside the most rigidly-controlled nation on Earth".

"Travelling from the capital Pyongyang to the countryside beyond and to the De-Militarised Zone on the border with South Korea, Sweeney witnesses a landscape bleak beyond words, a people brainwashed for three generations and a regime happy to give the impression of marching towards Armageddon," it said.

The LSE said aspects of North Korea were legitimate objects of study in several academic disciplines but said the BBC may have seriously damaged the university's reputation, and jeopardised future visits to North Korea and other countries.

"BBC story put LSE students at danger but seems to have found no new information and only shown what North Korea wants tourists to see," Calhoun wrote.

(Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/british-university-attacks-bbc-over-covert-north-korea-141125944.html

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Two hikers missing in Washington state after avalanche

By Karen Brooks

(Reuters) - Two hikers were missing after at least one avalanche struck the mountains in Washington state on Saturday in an area east of Seattle that is a popular location for winter sports, a King County sheriff's spokeswoman said.

Sergeant Katie Larson said that a 60-year-old man who had been hiking with two companions went missing at around noon local time after an avalanche struck near Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascade Mountains, about an hour east of Seattle.

A second hiker received a non-life-threatening shoulder injury after the incident, she told Reuters.

In an apparent separate incident nearby, another person who had been among a group of 13 people hiking at the Alpental Ski Area was also reported missing, although Larson said the nature of that incident was not immediately clear.

"At some point something happened; we're not sure if it was an avalanche or an accident," Larson said, citing the remote location and communication difficulties with the hikers, who did not speak fluent English.

One hiker from that group suffered hypothermia and was being brought out of the mountains by rescuers, who have a two-and-a-half hour hike to where the group is located, Larson said.

"Obviously right now we're trying to (get) there as quickly as we can we before the weather conditions worsen and before nightfall," she said, adding that more heavy snowfall was expected in the area.

The King County Sheriff's Office had said earlier on social media that three people were missing in two avalanches, but Larson indicated that the number of missing had since been reduced to two.

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Apr. 12, 2013 ? Why do some memories last a lifetime while others disappear quickly? A new study suggests that memories rehearsed, during either sleep or waking, can have an impact on memory consolidation and on what is remembered later.

The new Northwestern University study shows that when the information that makes up a memory has a high value (associated with, for example, making more money), the memory is more likely to be rehearsed and consolidated during sleep and, thus, be remembered later.

Also, through the use of a direct manipulation of sleep, the research demonstrated a way to encourage the reactivation of low-value memories so they too were remembered later.

Delphine Oudiette, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychology at Northwestern and lead author of the study, designed the experiment to study how participants remembered locations of objects on a computer screen. A value assigned to each object informed participants how much money they could make if they remembered it later on the test.

"The pay-off was much higher for some of the objects than for others," explained Ken Paller, professor of psychology at Northwestern and co-author of the study. "In other words, we manipulated the value of the memories -- some were valuable memories and others not so much, just as the things we experience each day vary in the extent to which we'd like to be able to remember them later."

When each object was shown, it was accompanied by a characteristic sound. For example, a tea kettle would appear with a whistling sound. During both states of wakefulness and sleep, some of the sounds were played alone, quite softly, essentially reminding participants of the low-value items.

Participants remembered the low-value associations better when the sound presentations occurred during sleep.

"We think that what's happening during sleep is basically the reactivation of that information," Oudiette said. "We can provoke the reactivation by presenting those sounds, therefore energizing the low-value memories so they get stored better."

The research poses provocative implications about the role memory reactivation during sleep could play in improving memory storage," said Paller, director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at Northwestern. "Whatever makes you rehearse during sleep is going to determine what you remember later, and conversely, what you're going to forget."

Many memories that are stored during the day are not remembered.

"We think one of the reasons for that is that we have to rehearse memories in order to keep them. When you practice and rehearse, you increase the likelihood of later remembering," Oudiette said. "And a lot of our rehearsal happens when we don't even realize it -- while we're asleep."

Paller said selectivity of memory consolidation is not well understood. Most efforts in memory research have focused on what happens when you first form a memory and on what happens when you retrieve a memory.

"The in-between time is what we want to learn more about, because a fascinating aspect of memory storage is that it is not static," Paller said. "Memories in our brain are changing all of the time. Sometimes you improve memory storage by rehearsing all the details, so maybe later you remember better -- or maybe worse if you've embellished too much.

"The fact that this critical memory reactivation transpires during sleep has mostly been hidden from us, from humanity, because we don't realize so much of what's happening while we're asleep," he said.

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Dot Earth: Will Synthetic Biology Benefit or Threaten Wild Things?

Please look below for a ?Your Dot? missive on an emerging force that will, in ways both direct and indirect, shape the face of what we used to call ?nature? or ?wildlife.? The post was sent by?Cristi?n T. Samper, the president of the Wildlife Conservation Society, from a meeting held this week at Cambridge University to examine this question: ?How will Synthetic Biology and Conservation Shape the Future of Nature??

There?s a superb and detailed framing paper for the meeting posted here.

Here?s the note from Samper, which accurately notes that this meeting was the beginning of a long and important conversation, in which more questions were raised than answered:

Will synthetic biology help or hinder conservation efforts?

This was the question asked at a symposium organized by the Wildlife Conservation Society at Cambridge University this week, attended by about 80 synthetic biologists and conservationists. ?These are two communities that have never come together and, like a first date, we were examining each other and building some trust.

It was clear that synthetic biology ? which involves the engineering of life ? was advancing rapidly and inevitably could impact the world?s biodiversity ? and could be either a positive or negative. ?The conservationists from WCS, The Nature Conservancy, WWF, Fauna & Flora International, and other leading groups and academic institutions, all wanted to know more.

There were a lot of questions flying: Could genetic manipulation allow species to adapt to climate change or control an invasive species? Could scientists change the biology of an organism to be more productive or enable it to grow in new environments? Could we manufacture wildlife products like ivory in a lab? Could this emerging science bring back species that have gone extinct like the passenger pigeon?

When the synthetic biology experts spoke, they focused on how their field is currently addressing the potential needs for food, energy and medicine. These could all have major impacts on conservation, improving agricultural yields or reducing the demand for wood, thus reducing deforestation. None of that has a direct impact on conservation but all could have an indirect effect. For example, what if there was an unintentional release of a synthetic organism and it destroyed all the fauna in an ecosystem? The scenarios are endless.

As a tropical biologist, the symposium became my first lesson in synthetic biology. The field was not around when I was a graduate student, and engineers approach the world very differently from scientists. I could easily see how the current focus of the synthetic biologists will affect our lives as humans very directly, but how will it evolve and affect the rest of the species on our planet?

When the conservationists left the meeting, we could see the potential of synthetic biology to help conservation. We left, however, with questions and hopes that this new science might ultimately be another one of the tools that we could use to save our threatened natural world ? which some surmise is approaching its sixth episode of extinction. Could we pool our intelligence with this new group of colleagues to finally turn back the clock on the demise of Earth?s great diversity of life?

Ed Yong, who blogs on science for National Geographic, has filed ?Can We Save the World by Remixing Life?? ? a great post surveying this nascent field and offering insights from those who attended the meeting.

The meeting was largely conceived by Kent Redford, a biologist who until recently was at the?Wildlife Conservation Society?and now is an independent consultant on conservation strategies.?Redford was the lead author of a new paper in?PLoS Biology?that laid the groundwork for the meeting, which ended Thursday. [Here's a link to the open-access paper:?Synthetic Biology and Conservation of Nature: Wicked Problems and Wicked Solutions,?Kent H. Redford, William Adams, and Georgina M. Mace].

You can learn more from him in a fascinating podcast (part 1,?part 2) posted earlier this month by Scientific American.

There?s much more on synthetic biology here on Dot Earth and over at The Loom, the National Geographic blog of science writer Carl Zimmer.

11:43 a.m. | Addendum | Just one of the many secondary issues in this arena is ?de-extinction? ? the prospect of bringing vanished species ? say, the passenger pigeon ? back to life now that we know better. A recent Nature news article provides a good start.

And don?t miss Stewart Brand?s TED talk from earlier this year, titled, ?The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready??

Are you?

Source: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/will-synthetic-biology-benefit-or-threaten-wild-things/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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