While much attention has been paid to how inherited traits such as skin tone or height influence economic success, a groundbreaking new study from the Journal...
2061
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2006 9:05 pm
Umberto Eco on why we should beware mad scientists http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1837244,00.html...
2060
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2006 9:05 pm
David Hume wrote that reason is a ``slave to the emotions." But new research suggests that in our moral decision-making, reason and emotion duke it out within...
2059
Richard Sharpe
richardsharpe1
Aug 7, 2006 4:51 pm
Lives of Crime, by David Rose: Tony Blair's "tough on the causes of crime" and David Cameron's "hug a hoodie" speeches reflect the dominant sociological model...
2058
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2006 11:48 pm
August 4, 2006 · Congress may not have the scientific expertise it needs to evaluate current issues such as energy policy, climate change, public health and...
2057
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2006 11:45 pm
Increased tendency to mutate is handed down to next generation. http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060731/full/060731-16.html...
2056
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2006 11:45 pm
MOTHER'S milk is undeniably the most nutritious food for babies, but can they have too much of a good thing? While exclusive breastfeeding during the first six...
2055
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2006 11:43 pm
The huge brains that set humans apart from other animals could have evolved so that our ancestors could think quickly to avoid being eaten. ...
2054
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 5, 2006 8:57 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Different genes may be responsible for causing autism in boys than in girls, researchers said on Wednesday in a study that may help...
2053
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 5, 2006 5:51 pm
Bioethics matures into a formal academic field—and faces an identity crisis http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/0631,tuhusdubrow,74033,12.html...
2052
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 5, 2006 5:42 pm
A palaeontologist finds the first fossilised bone marrow in frogs that lived 10 million years ago, showing the decay-prone tissue can survive for a long time ...
2051
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 5, 2006 5:41 pm
How forensic DNA may finally fulfill its promise http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/07/connecting_the_dots.php...
2050
Richard Sharpe
richardsharpe1
Aug 5, 2006 12:21 am
Movie spies on malaria parasite's sneaky behavior Malaria has been outsmarting the human immune system for centuries. Now, using real-time imaging to track...
2049
theresamcgill
Aug 4, 2006 8:18 pm
... "Overall, intelligence seems to be correlated with absolute brain size, rather than brain size relative to body size, or the relative sizes of different...
2048
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 4, 2006 7:05 am
Primate IQ test hails orang-utans as our smartest relatives. http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060731/full/060731-5.html...
2047
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 4, 2006 6:58 am
Men and women think differently. But not that differently http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7245949...
2046
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 4, 2006 6:57 am
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A common parasite found in cats may be affecting human behavior on a mass scale, according to a scientist based at the...
2045
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 4, 2006 6:55 am
August 3, 2006 · New court documents in a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration allege that decisions about whether to allow over-the-counter...
2044
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 4, 2006 6:54 am
Stacked like well-trod carpets, layers of mud from an ancient wetland have preserved the world's largest collection of ancient human fossil footprints. ...
2043
Richard Sharpe
richardsharpe1
Aug 3, 2006 6:35 pm
... "Although IQ tests fail to really define what intelligence is in the first place (often knowledge gets blurred with ability) ..." Bullshit....
2042
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2006 5:26 pm
The mental processes of chess grandmasters are unlike those of novices, a fact that illuminates the development of expertise in other fields ...
2041
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2006 4:56 pm
Inside the hypercompetitive world of high-IQ societies http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/0631,aviv,74027,12.html...
2040
Matt McIntosh
clockwork_da...
Aug 2, 2006 11:06 pm
The diversity of microbes living in the world's oceans may be more than 100 times greater than previously estimated, according to a survey of marine life. ...
2039
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2006 6:30 am
Christopher S. Ruebeck, Joseph E. Harrington, Jr., Robert Moffitt NBER Working Paper No. 12387 Issued in July 2006 NBER Program(s): ED LS ... We examine...
2038
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2006 6:23 am
Andrea Ichino, Enrico Moretti NBER Working Paper No. 12369 Issued in July 2006 NBER Program(s): LS ... In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism...
2037
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2006 4:26 am
Measuring the brain development of premature babies in their first weeks of life can show those likely to have difficulties, scientists suggest. ...
2036
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2006 4:24 am
The unfortunate 'rat people' of Pakistan could provide the answer. Armand Leroi investigates ...
2035
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2006 4:20 am
IN the border war between science and faith, the doctrine of "intelligent design" is a sly subterfuge — a marzipan confection of an idea presented in the...
2034
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 1, 2006 3:23 pm
Many were cranks, frauds or just plain mad. But today, four centuries later, they may have something to teach scientists. ...
2033
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 1, 2006 3:17 pm
Moderates hope to gain seats on the State Board of Education and reverse teaching standards. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/us/01evolution.html...
