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[Nature News] Flies live longer if they can't smell their food
The whiff of yeast might help determine lifespan. http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070129/full/070129-12.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 1, 2007 9:05 pm
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[BBC] 'Terror birds' never met humans
Early humans could never have come into contact with the giant carnivorous "terror bird" Titanis walleri, research suggests. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 1, 2007 9:05 pm
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[Reuters] Muscles, not fat, strengthen bones
Researchers speculated that excess fat, which places more weight on the bones, may help build stronger bones in young people. However, a new study has found...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 1, 2007 9:16 pm
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[Nat Geo News] Fossils of "Most Primitive Primate" Found Near Yello
Fossils of a 56-million-year-old mouse-size animal discovered in Wyoming could redraw humans' family tree, scientists say. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 1, 2007 9:16 pm
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[The Scientist] A Fluctuating Reality
Accused of fraud, Anders Pape Møller has traveled from superstar evolutionary biologist to pariah. http://www.the-scientist.com/2007/1/1/26/1/...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 1, 2007 9:25 pm
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[WSJ] Twilight of Sociology
Seymour Martin Lipset explored the social forces that limit individual freedom. Is an era of inquiry over? http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110009615...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 3, 2007 2:05 pm
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[New Sci News] Non-invasive Down's syndrome test shows promise
A new way of analysing the fetal DNA circulating in pregnant women could lead to improved prenatal screening for genetic disorders ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 3, 2007 2:05 pm
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[Skeptic] What a Friend We Have in Dawkins
Discourse in this country is sometimes held in such a death-grip by religion that a genial "up yours" directed thereto is, perhaps, the only way to initiate a...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 3, 2007 2:07 pm
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[Nat Geo News] First Americans Arrived Recently, Settled Pacific Co
DNA extracted from an ancient human skeleton found in Alaska suggests that the New World was first settled by prehistoric seafarers 15,000 years ago. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 3, 2007 2:09 pm
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[Natural History] Faces of the Human Past
Science and art combine to create a new portrait gallery of our hominid heritage. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 3, 2007 2:12 pm
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Daniel Tammet, savant.
"Morley Safer met another savant, Daniel Tammet, who is called "Brain Man" in Britain. But unlike most savants, he has no obvious mental disability, and most...
victoreigen
Feb 4, 2007 5:41 am
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[SMH] The god of small things
After unlocking the secrets of the human genome, the controversial scientist Craig Venter now is trying to engineer a microbe to liberate us from our...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 5, 2007 7:17 pm
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[New Sci News] When co-operation is the key to survival
Forget what you might have heard about "nature, red in tooth and claw". Mother Nature, bless her heart, may be much kinder and gentler than most people give...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 5, 2007 7:19 pm
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[Nature News] Inbreeding gives some an advantage
Sibling matrimony pays off for African fish. http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070205/full/070205-1.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 5, 2007 7:26 pm
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[LAT] Can Washington get smart about science?
How Congress can safeguard science from distortion, something of which both parties are historically guilty. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 5, 2007 7:58 pm
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[NYT] U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling
New rules will allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 5, 2007 10:12 pm
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Kenneth Clark's Dolls, 50 Years of Desegregation.
After 50 years of desegregation, a young documentarianne repeats Kenneth Clark's two dolls experiment: ...
victoreigen
Feb 6, 2007 10:35 pm
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Re: Kenneth Clark's Dolls, 50 Years of Desegregation.
15 out of 21 children preferred the white doll that's not a statistically significant deviation from 50/50...
rikurzhen
Feb 7, 2007 1:59 am
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[New Sci News] Germ makes female butterflies promiscuous
Female butterflies become four times more sexually active in the presence of Wolbachia bacteria, which leaves colonies with precious few males ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 7, 2007 3:30 am
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[NYT] A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects
The insula is a long-neglected brain region that has emerged as crucial to understanding what it feels like to be human. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 7, 2007 3:31 am
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[Reuters] Human skin populated by veritable zoo of bacteria
Researchers on a safari for microbes have found that human skin is populated by a veritable menagerie of bacteria -- 182 species -- some apparently living...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 7, 2007 3:32 am
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[New Sci News] Are female songbirds evolution's unsung heroines?
Males do the singing and the females do the listening, right? This has been the cherished view, but some ornithologists are changing their tune ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 8, 2007 1:11 am
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[Boston Globe] Morality play
A Harvard researcher believes that humans have an innate sense of right and wrong, but others say morality is mostly learned ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 8, 2007 1:13 am
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[Sci Am News] Ingredient in Male Sweat Raises Women's Hormone Levels
Acting as a pheromone many in other animals, a steroid from male sweat caused the elevation of a hormone tied to stress and mood in women ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 8, 2007 1:15 am
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[LAT] Prehistoric couple embrace for eternity
Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua, just 25 miles south of Verona, the...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 8, 2007 1:17 am
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[New Yorker] Missing Link
Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin's neglected double. http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/070212crat_atlarge_rosen...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 8, 2007 1:19 am
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[Am Sci] Defending Darwinism
The historian and philosopher Michael Ruse has spent decades explaining the nature of the Darwinian Revolution. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 9, 2007 6:01 am
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[Sci Am News] Autism-spectrum disorder reversed in mice
Scientists show possibility of reversing effects of a severe neurological syndrome in a mouse model by restoring full function to a gene formerly rendered...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 9, 2007 6:03 am
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[Guardian] The brain scan that can read people's intentions
Call for ethical debate over possible use of new technology in interrogation http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2009229,00.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 9, 2007 6:09 am
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[Telegraph] Young, gifted and trying to be a normal child
They enjoy a good philosophical debate, parse sentences for fun and conquered quadratic equations when most children were reading Ladybird books. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Feb 9, 2007 6:09 am