Madeleine Bunting wanders the vast museum of ideas explored in a trio of new titles and emerges profoundly disoriented ...
1902
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 1, 2006 9:49 am
Down with the techno-utopians! Up with the techno-realists! http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2144775...
1903
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 1, 2006 9:50 am
Fertility rates in the relatively secular blue states are 12 percent lower than in the relatively religious red states, according to Philip Longman in the...
1904
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 1, 2006 10:06 am
America's human embryo glut and the unbearable lightness of almost being ...
1905
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 1, 2006 10:07 am
William Shockley left two extraordinary legacies to posterity. One is the transistor, which is to the electronic world what cells are to the living one. The...
1906
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 2, 2006 7:03 am
Animals are on the run. Plants are migrating too. The Earth's creatures, save for one species, do not have thermostats in their living rooms that they can...
1907
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 2, 2006 7:33 am
Bones and tusks dating back 400,000 years are the earliest signs in Britain of ancient humans butchering elephants for meat, say archaeologists. ...
1908
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 2, 2006 1:48 pm
After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning http://living.scotsman.com/books.cfm?id=957532006...
1909
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 2, 2006 1:50 pm
Early human embryos grown from unfertilised eggs are not viable - but this means that their stem cells could be used to treat disease without upsetting...
1910
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 2, 2006 1:50 pm
People with a syndrome called déjà vécu spend much of their time living through experiences they are convinced have happened before. Researchers think the...
1911
Richard Sharpe
richardsharpe1
Jul 2, 2006 10:35 pm
Non-Euclidean Navigational Strategies Of Women: Compensatory Response Or Evolved Dimorphism? Irwin Silverman, Psychology Department, York University, 4700...
1912
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 3, 2006 11:31 am
A review of Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists by Jerome H. Barkow (Ed.). 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 302 + vii. $49.95...
1913
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 3, 2006 11:31 am
Stem cell researchers should be punished in the same way as women who have abortions and doctors who perform them, a senior Vatican official said. ...
1914
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 3, 2006 11:36 am
A review of The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution by Albert Somit and Steven A. Peterson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 155. ISBN...
1915
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 3, 2006 11:47 am
SCOTTISH babies are "programmed" to become fat while still in the womb due to women's poor diets, research suggests. ...
1916
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 3, 2006 11:51 am
When Warren Buffett announced last week that he will be giving away more than $30 billion to improve health, nutrition and education, people all over America...
1917
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 4, 2006 1:15 pm
Teenagers have been drinking alcohol for centuries. In pre-Revolutionary America, young apprentices were handed buckets of ale. In the 1890's, at the age of...
1918
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 4, 2006 1:16 pm
Protein affecting body clock could lead to better treatments, scientists say http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13689246/...
1919
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 4, 2006 1:19 pm
The United States could easily fall from its privileged perch in the global economy unless it does something about the horrendous state of science education at...
1920
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 4, 2006 1:20 pm
Researchers tap the `dismal science' of economics to quantify well-being. It isn't money that leaves you feeling like a million. ...
1921
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 4, 2006 1:58 pm
All Things Considered, July 1, 2006 · The human body contains 20 times more microbes than it does cells. In fact, a visitor from outer space might think the...
1922
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 5, 2006 9:03 pm
Some lucky people are naturally repellent to the biting bugs and now the smelly sweat-chemicals responsible have been isolated ...
1923
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 5, 2006 9:06 pm
Everyone knows about the death of the dodo, but no one knows much about its life. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/science/04dodo.html...
1924
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 5, 2006 9:08 pm
Adults become more sensitive to pain after watching other mice in pain, the first sign of empathy in non-primate mammals ...
1925
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 5, 2006 9:09 pm
In the decade after the birth of the world's first cloned mammal, scientists have been busy copying animals from Asian oxen to pet pooches—while the debate...
1926
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 6, 2006 4:04 am
Scientists believe they have found a possible cause for mental impairment in Down's syndrome. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5151232.stm...
1927
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 8, 2006 1:12 am
Grover Krantz's Last Wish Was to Remain With His Friends. And He Has. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/04/AR2006070400992.html...
1928
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 8, 2006 1:18 am
Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in East Asia — Taiwan, Malaysia and Siberia all are likely locations. He — or she — did...
1929
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 8, 2006 1:27 am
DNA analysis says there were probably woolly blondes. http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060703/full/060703-14.html...
1930
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 8, 2006 1:41 am
July 6, 2006 — A baboon hand gesture appears to send the message "go ahead, make my day" to other baboons — suggesting that gesturing may have been a...
