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Hit a 95 mph baseball? Scientists pinpoint how we see it coming

Hit a 95 mph baseball? Scientists pinpoint how we see it coming May 8, 2013:

How does San Francisco Giants slugger Pablo Sandoval swat a 95 mph fastball, or tennis icon Venus Williams see the oncoming ball, let alone return her sister Serena’s 120 mph serves? For the first time, vision scientists at UC Berkeley have pinpointed how the brain tracks fast-moving objects.

Media Advisory: How Deepwater Horizon is linked to other disasters

April 11, 2013:

Robert Bea, an expert witness in the ongoing civil trial to determine the causes of BP’s oil rig blowout in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, will discuss the common threads linking Deepwater Horizon to other major engineering disasters.