The app describes it as "a special equation combining the number of snaps you've sent and received, stories you've posted, and other factors", with those other factors sparking plenty of online theories about how to game the algorithm and inflate your score.
Relations with Mali's Tuaregs – estimated to comprise between 3% and 10% of the population – have been in crisis since Tuareg separatists were accused of killing Malian soldiers last year in the northern town of Aguelhok, one of the factors sparking the 22 March coup.
O.K., before I get too highfalutin, let's address the outrage factor that sparked a firestorm of protests in London after the show was (unwisely) shown on BBC television three years ago.
Specifically, a majority of this study population who demonstrated strong talent and interest in STEM indicated that nonclassroom encounters, including childhood experiences with nature, astronomy, and so on, and relatives or friends who introduced them to STEM were the strongest factors that sparked their initial interest in the field.
The Reading the Riots research indicates that a significant factor in sparking the disturbances was the humiliation, unjust suspicion, lack of respect and targeting that characterises the way rioters felt police carry out stop and search.
In a paper published online by Science on 29 April, researchers at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston report that the tumors of patients who respond to Iressa carry mutations in one of their proteins, the receptor through which epidermal growth factor (EGF) sparks cell growth.
Besides the location, another factor that has sparked surprise has been the nature of the culprit.
Indeed, the British government's huge underestimation of how deeply the halt in westward expansion would be resented by the colonists was one of the factors in sparking the 12-year crisis that led to the American Revolution.
