Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Scientists discover that scallops “love” disco lights
nme.comThe Guardian, Enever said of the discovery: “It’s like a scallop disco – illuminate the trap and they come in. It’s astonishing that no one else has discovered this before.
It’s quite an exciting find. This has the potential to open up a whole new inshore fishery and that’s a global first.”The accidental discovery may help to lower the damage caused to seabeds by fishing.
Most scallops are caught by dredging, which can significantly damage marine habitats when done on a large scale.Fisher Jon Ashworth, who was also involved in the experiment, said: “Pretty much every pot that we hauled had scallops in them and yet every haul without lights had no scallops.
It was conclusive, there and then. To have proof that lights can be used to catch scallops has got to have some awesome implications looking forward.”He continued: “Pretty much every pot that we hauled had scallops in them and yet every haul without lights had no scallops.
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