| Study Casts Doubt On Mars Water Find
A U.S. scientist said high resolution images raise doubt that liquid water has been found on the surface of Mars. Jon D. Pelletier of The University of Arizona in Tucson said topographic data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows that a bright streak in a gully on the side of a crater is probably not water. .
Horvitz roots out a fun folk-rock outlet
The first half of 2008 has not yet been named Wayne Horvitz Season, but perhaps it should be. Horvitz has four albums coming out between now and May, is embarking on a long-form collaboration with author Sherman Alexie based on the James Welch novel "The Heartsong of Charging Elk" and just got a remarkable review in The New York Times. Writing about Manhattan's Winter JazzFest at the Knitting Factory, New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff wrote, "Mr. Horvitz should have a room named after him at the club ... his aesthetic and his music encoded the notion of 'downtown jazz.' " One "downtown" notion was the idea that genres — whether jazz, classical or klezmer — need not be pure, hierarchical or, for that matter, even relevant. One genre that continually inspires Horvitz is traditional American folk-rock, including the lyrics, the kind done so well by Bob Dylan and his former group, the Band.
A wee problem
Not that he has time to dwell on things anyway. After yesterday's meeting with Motherwell, there is the visit of Hearts on CiS Cup duty on Wednesday night, and the club are already "out there looking at some positions" ahead of the transfer window opening in January. "At the moment we have taken a couple of knocks in terms of both mental and physical knocks and you just get on with it," he said. "How do you get back to feeling positive? I just need to look at this group of players. When it is fully fit, I think it will be good. I look at where we want to add to that group. And yes, I am positive. I can't help it, that is how I feel." Strachan, rest assured, still has some big ideas. .
Weighing up Bradman's MCG legacy
In the MCG Long Room one morning this week, he augustly dared to take issue with Don Bradman. Moreover, the topic was one upon which Bradman was generally thought to be infallible: himself. The effect, however, was not to diminish the legend, but further it. McDonald recalled how Sir Donald once, upon seeing the youthful Sachin Tendulkar bat on television, summoned his wife, Lady Jessie, and said that the gifted Indian, more than any other batsman, most closely resembled himself in his prime. "Let me tell you, he was wrong," McDonald said affectionately. "Tendulkar is a textbook batsman, the sort coaches salivate about. But Bradman didn't bat anything like him." McDonald's point was not that Bradman was unorthodox, but that he batted on some higher plane, far beyond orthodoxy.
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