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Humans Still Evolving As Brain Shrinks
LiveScience | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
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Evolution in humans is commonly thought to have essentially stopped in recent times. But there are plenty of examples that the human race is still evo...
Weight Gain Linked To Bacteria In Intestines
latimes.com | Thomas H. Maugh II | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
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A high-fat, high-sugar diet does more than pump calories into your body. It also alters the composition of bacteria in your intestines, making it easi...
Aardonyx celestae: New Dinosaur Species Discovered
AP | CELEAN JACOBSON | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
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JOHANNESBURG — A newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved ...
UK Considers Using Human DNA In Animals
AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
LONDON — British scientists begin a new study on Tuesday to consider how human DNA is used in animal experiments and to determine what the bound...
Oceanophilia: The Neuroscience of Emotion and the Ocean
Wallace J Nichols | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact
Let's mine neuroscience to develop a set of powerful conservation tools that educators, advocates, policymakers and scientists can use to better and more deeply engage, inspire and lead people in the restoration and protection of our beloved ocean.
Creationism And Intelligent Design Gain Foothold In Turkey
Washington Post | Marc Kaufman | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
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With direct and indirect help from American foes of evolution, similarly-minded Turks have aggressively made the case that Charles Darwin's theory is ...
A Question of Harm -- The Legacy of Vaccination
Tim Ellis | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
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The anti-vaccination movement has picked up steam in the past few years, and authorities now believe that pockets of unvaccinated children are forming. This is beginning to have deadly results.
Electronics and Atrocities: Tech Supply Chains Must Do No Harm
David Sullivan | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology
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Electronics companies should commit resources to trace supply chains back to the point of extraction, conduct audits, and check assurances for fraud to certify electronics products as conflict-free.
Housework After Sex, Not Sleep
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
I wonder, are there ingredients in human sperm yet to be identified that can chemically alter a woman's body? Help her to conceive? Prepare the body for pregnancy?
Mapping The Link Between Alcohol, Cancer
Yahoo! News | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
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New research suggests that alcohol may boost the progression of cancer by stimulating a pathway inside cells....
Science Says Sex With Others Is Better
eSarcasm | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy
Now, they aren't actually talking about humans -- they're talking about plants and animals able to reproduce both by themselves and with others. But that doesn't make it any less amusing.
Practicing Science -- With or Without Religion?
Dan Agin | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
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The problem for the working scientist is that the essence of science is a self-conscious and mandatory objectivity -- which means dogma and doctrine are essentially antithetical.
CDs and Ardi and Vooks, Oh My!
Michael Sigman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Technology
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It can be exhilarating to contemplate the digital and evolutionary future. But I don't know if I could bear a world of "vookcases," "vook reports," and God forbid, a New York Review of Vooks.
How Much Television is Too Much? Science Weighs In
Todd Kashdan | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
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Let's move beyond the silly argument of how much television people should watch. If you are a parent, the amount of TV your children watch should not be another area for you to stress about.
Modern Man Is A Wimp, According To Anthropologist
Reuters | John Mehaffey | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
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Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions. Any Neanderthal wom...
Ultra Slow Motion Video Of Bullet Impacts (VIDEO)
Posted 10.13.2009 | Technology
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Chris Higgins at Mental Floss flags this very cool video of an ultra-slow motion camera capturing the impact of bullets on a variety of objects. Two ...
Demographic Science and Gay Civil Rights
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
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Allowing the Census Bureau to apply its scientific powers to the question of changing families is a breath of fresh air from which demographers, and the public, will ultimately benefit.
The God Crisis
Landon Ross | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
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Other countries are on a future trajectory to out-compete us in science and technology. It's hugely unpatriotic to do nothing in the face of moneyed interests pushing superstition into the classroom.
Dan Brown's New Book, 2012 - Are You Ready for the Consciousness Shift?
Doc Childre | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
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Many people are feeling a shift in consciousness happening now and some are predicting a major planetary shift around the year 2012.
New Music Software Turns Hit Songs Into A Science
npr.org | Laura Sydell | Posted 10.12.2009 | Technology
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Many of us like to believe that there's a little magic behind the making of a hit single. David Meredith, CEO of Music Intelligence Solutions, says th...
A Journalism Lesson from King Abdullah's University of Science & Technology
Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
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KAUST is the first university in Saudi Arabia to allow a mixed-gender environment. This has triggered a 'showdown' between the press and a senior member of the clergy.
Sleep: Theory About Biological Clocks Overturned, Study Says
Medical News Today | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
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University of Michigan mathematicians say they have identified the signal the brain sends to the rest of the body to control biological rhythms, a fin...
Up Close and Personal With Ardi, World's Oldest Human Ancestor
eSarcasm | Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy
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eSarcasm managed to score an exclusive interview with Ardi. Here she talks about what it's like to be the world's first hip hop diva, and reveals the real reasons why men walk upright.
Butterflies Arrive At American Museum Of Natural History
Posted 10.09.2009 | New York
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Since first opening at the American Museum of Natural History in 1998, the Butterfly Conservatory has been cherished by millions of children and adult...
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