Yangtze Dolphin Not Gone Yet!

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.nytimes.com)

A large white mammal, possibly one of the China's rare baiji dolphins, proclaimed extinct just weeks ago, was sighted in the Yangtze River and videotaped. Heartening though this is, the article leaves out one important idea:

Scientists have said, even while they were searching for surviving dolphins, that even if a few individuals remained, they would not be enough to preserve the species.

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Penalty kicks are all in the mind

Hunter9 submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.nature.com)

On a summer evening last year, more than a billion pairs of eyes were fixed on footballer David Tr¨|z¨|guetas he stepped up to take his penalty for France in the shootout against Italy to decide the world championship. A supremely talented goal-scorer, he inexplicably crashed his kick against the crossbar. France lost.

Fast-forward sixmonths, and psychologists say they have explained why: the pressure got to him

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