CONTAMINANTES

À atenção de quem de direito: Football referees do favour home teams, study shows: Academics have proved what Premiership football managers have been complaining about for years ? that referees are inconsistent and favour home teams. Analysing over 2,500 English Premiership matches, researchers discovered that referees were statistically more likely to award yellow and red cards against the away team ? even when home advantage, game importance and crowd size were taken into account. [...]
As well as finding a distinct home bias in refereeing disciplinary action and inconsistency between referees, the research also highlighted that:
- underdogs tend to incur a higher rate of disciplinary sanction than favourites
- the number of disciplinary offences tends to be higher in matches between evenly-balanced teams, in matches with end-of-season outcomes at stake and in matches with higher attendances
- home teams appear to play more aggressively in front of larger crowds
- the crowd size did not appear to influence the incidence of disciplinary sanction against the away team
- there was no evidence that the behaviour of either teams or referees is any different when the match is televised.

VITAMEDIAS

Muitos dias depois, o BLOGUITICA tem finalmente uma resposta: Ouvir interesses atendíveis: "Não fomos felizes, embora tenhamos razões para acreditar que, quando escrevemos, estávamos a ser fiéis às informações de que dispúnhamos. Não procurámos fazer nenhum sensacionalismo nem fomos manipulados".

CONTAMINANTES

Korean scientist paid mafia for mammoth: Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Professor Hwang Woo-suk says he spent private donations for research to pay the Russian mafia for mammoth tissues to clone extinct species.

CONTAMINANTES

Scientists suffer human-rights abuses: And around the world, dozens of other scientists and physicians await verdicts of their own, after being imprisoned for dissenting with their government, fired for publishing unwelcome studies, or harassed for carrying out unwanted research.

CULTURAS IN VITRO

The works of art that matter most: To help compile the definitive list of the 50 works of art to see before you die, we need your suggestions. Here's a list of 20 to kick it off.

TECNOSFERA

Google Acquires Wiki Tool Developer: As JotSpot makes the transition to Google's systems, new registrations have been suspended.
JotSpot has both free and paid versions.

ZITE

How Rich Are You?

TECNOSFERA

Anónimos: Está aí à porta uma pequena polémica sobre o anonimato dos blogs. A pretexto de discutir o anonimato dos blogs, vai carregar-se forte & feio sobre os blogs em geral e o mal que eles fazem à saúde colectiva, às coronárias, ao colesterol e ao respeitinho. Ou eu me engano muito, o que não me parece. (...)

[Uma admiração no novo Freedomtocopy, agora com o título Equador : Miguel Sousa Tavares: afirma-se que "ESTE BLOG NÃO TEM QUALQUER LIGAÇÃO AO AUTOR OU À EDITORA DESTA OBRA".
Mas para "Contactar o Autor", o endereço de mail é autor@oficinadolivro.pt...]

TECNOSFERA

Net Neutrality Panel @ alt.telecom Forum: Net Neutrality isn't a new issue, nor is it over. The fight for the basic rights that the Internet's end-to-end architecture give us are being slowly but surely taken away from us by Big Media and the Bellheads. We need to be aware of this and take specific steps to ensure that we don't lose anything else, or better, turn the tide.

TECNOSFERA

Former Intelligence Agent Says Google In Bed With CIA: "I think that Google has made a very important strategic mistake in dealing with the secret elements of the U.S. government - that is a huge mistake and I'm hoping they'll work their way out of it and basically cut that relationship off," said the ex-CIA man.