Spaceflight Standard Measures

The main goal is to ensure that a minimal set of measures is consistently captured from all ISS crewmembers until the end of ISS to characterize the effects of space. The data from these measures will placed in an archive managed by HRP and can be made available to studies via data sharing agreements

Climate change cannot be entirely responsible for soil carbon loss observed in England and Wales, 1978-2003

We present results from modelling studies, which suggest that, at most, only about 10–20% of recently observed soil carbon losses in England and Wales could possibly be attributable to climate warming. Further, we present reasons why the actual losses of SOC from organic soils in England and Wales might be lower than those reported

Tiger Woods and the New Racial Order

There is no more serviceable celebrity than Tiger Woods. He is a colour- free emblem of a new America in which racism is dead and there are no barriers to progress for any member of its citizenry – a new racial order. His success obscures the grimmer reality of contemporary America. This article examines Woods, less as a person, more as a commodity of immense utility: something that effectively advertises a society that has long struggled with the issue of racism, but has finally won. Woods functions as ambulant publicity: he studiously avoids engaging with any political or remotely sensitive issue and refuses to align him- self with any particular ethnic group. In a sense, he is what one writer has called ‘a new kind of white person’. On the evidence presented here, Woods effectively invites consumers not to challenge racism directly, but to buy commodities that externalize success and in this way avoid confronting the racism that continues to bedevil most of America’s black population