Use of antibiotics in U.S. livestock may have helped create more resistant strains of the bacteria that cause the most common food-borne illness, a study...
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Jason Malloy
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Aug 9, 2006 4:05 am
Everyone is a little confused about happiness. Even Dr Johnson, that great touchstone of good sense, once declared that "it is the business of a wise man to be...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 9, 2006 4:06 am
Francis Collins -- head of the Human Genome Project -- discusses his conversion to evangelical Christianity, why scientists do not need to be atheists, and...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 9, 2006 4:08 am
Cooperative society gets stressed out when babies are involved. http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060807/full/060807-4.html...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 9, 2006 4:09 am
San Francisco neuropsychiatrist says differences between women's and men's brains are very real, and the sooner we all understand it, the better ...
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Richard Sharpe
richardsharpe1
Aug 10, 2006 4:19 pm
Genetic affinities of Indian caste and tribal groups " ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: India is a country with enormous social and cultural diversity due to its...
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Richard Sharpe
richardsharpe1
Aug 10, 2006 4:32 pm
Positive selection on skin pigmentation loci A new paper in MBE that uses publicly available SNP and other sequence data to examine which of the candidate skin...
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Richard Sharpe
richardsharpe1
Aug 10, 2006 6:02 pm
Sex Differences and Lateralization Revealed in the Posterior Language Areas Kenji Kansaku1, Akira Yamaura and Shigeru Kitazawa Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 10, No. 9,...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 10, 2006 8:15 pm
The largest parasite of humans, the fish tapeworm is an ideal freeloader: compassionate, cunning, living off its host but not killing its benefactor. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 11, 2006 1:22 am
Heather MacDonald: "Conservative atheists and agnostics support traditional American values. They believe in personal responsibility, self-reliance, and ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 12, 2006 12:50 am
Early primates developed keen eyesight to better detect and avoid increasingly dangerous snakes in a sort of evolutionary arms race, scientists say. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 12, 2006 12:51 am
A third of U.S. adults believe evolution is "absolutely false," according to international surveys that put the U.S. next to last among Western nations in...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 12, 2006 12:54 am
Dog cancer traced back to wolf roots 200-year-old tumour has mellowed with age. http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060807/full/060807-13.html...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 12, 2006 12:55 am
Researchers chart out insertions and deletions in the genome. http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060807/full/060807-15.html...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 12, 2006 12:58 am
Was the bald eagle really the best choice of national symbol? A closer look at the habits and evolutionary lineage of this American icon casts doubt ...
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theresamcgill
Aug 12, 2006 5:48 pm
A gene mutation that alters the shape of the brain in some people with schizophrenia could help explain why the disease often strikes at adolescence. Hugh...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 13, 2006 3:46 am
It's clear that diet and genes contribute to how fat you are. But a new wave of scientic research suggests that, for some people, there might be a third factor...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 13, 2006 3:53 am
When Michael Graham's wife Elizabeth was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, she made up her mind to die before she became completely immobile. Michael knew...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 13, 2006 3:56 am
Asking researchers to declare conflicts of interest that might prejudice their work is not enough to safeguard science, says a science journal editor ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 13, 2006 4:01 am
Fragments of ostrich eggs, perforated beads and finely shaped arrowheads have provided the first firm archaeological evidence for the "out of Africa" origins...
For a moment it was like being back in the lecture theatre at Stirling University circa 1991. The class was Introduction to Philosophy, the reading material...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 14, 2006 5:39 am
Powerful evangelical churches are pressing Kenya's national museum to sideline its world-famous collection of hominid bones pointing to man's evolution from...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 15, 2006 10:09 am
When I was a kid growing up in the seventies, it was taboo to suggest that women's brains were any different from men's. We were all the same -- same design,...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 15, 2006 10:12 am
IT was not until the 1990s that researchers began to study female neuroanatomy and psychology in their own right, despite growing evidence that women faced a...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 15, 2006 10:12 am
Despite repeated promises of reform from the SAT's keepers, critics still find plenty to talk about. Could the ACT finally conquer all? ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 15, 2006 10:13 am
Stem cell research, which scientists say has been slowed by government policy, may yield better drugs before cell therapies are found. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 15, 2006 10:17 am
Charles Darwin was one of the most original scientists of all time – and also one of the most misunderstood. ...
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Richard Sharpe
richardsharpe1
Aug 15, 2006 5:09 pm
... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060812.BKFEMA12/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Books/ ... The article, and perhaps the book, suggests that we...
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Richard Sharpe
richardsharpe1
Aug 15, 2006 5:56 pm
New findings offer more complete view of breast cancer gene mutations in US population "BETHESDA, Md., Tues., Aug. 15, 2006 – A large study funded by the ...