David Bourne

Jun 30, 2024 | sportsbusinessjournal.com | David Bourne

“It’s only hubris if I fail.”Pardon if instead of Julius Caesar it’s a pontificating penguin that borrows this line in Rome, Ga. The city northwest of Atlanta owes its name to the capital of Italy because of its similar seven hills and three rivers. So when its Braves minor league affiliate rebranded last year, the Rome Emperors made perfect sense. As did a waddling emperor penguin fittingly named Julius to serve as the mascot.

May 26, 2024 | exhaustnotes.com.au | David Bourne

For fun, Hyundai offers the i30 N, and at the other end of the scale, is their new Sedan Hybrid. Boasting economy figures of just 3.9-litres/100km, it has the potential to make it an obvious choice for those wanting to avoid the petrol station. It means you don’t need to go fully electric to save on fuel, but all that tipples may not be gold. The main differentiator of the Hybrid is of course, its powertrain – a 1.6-litre four-cylinder petrol engine mated to a 1.32kWh lithium battery motor.

May 22, 2024 | sportsbusinessjournal.com | David Bourne

Sue Bird and Dawn Porter talk upcoming doc, Ricardo Viramontes of UNINTERRUPTED and NBA conference finals May 22, 2024 This week’s pod comes to you from 4se where SBJ’s Austin Karp is joined by basketball legend Sue Bird and award-winning director Dawn Porter as the duo share how their documentary, Power of the Dream, came together and what viewers can expect.

Apr 7, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Magena R. Marzonie |Matthew R. Nitschke |David Bourne |Hugo Harrison

1 INTRODUCTION Tropical coral reefs rely on endosymbiotic algae, Symbiodiniaceae (LaJeunesse et al., 2018), that provide nutrition to support the function and survival of reef-building corals (Baker, 2003; Muscatine, 1990).

Apr 3, 2024 | nature.com | Lauren Messer |David Bourne |Megan Clay |Sara Bell |Simon J. McIlroy

AbstractMicrobial diversity has been extensively explored in reef-building corals. However, the functional roles of coral-associated microorganisms remain poorly elucidated. Here, we recover 191 bacterial and 10 archaeal metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from the coral Acropora kenti (formerly A. tenuis) and adjacent seawater, to identify microbial functions and metabolic interactions within the holobiont. We show that 82 MAGs were specific to the A.