Scientists have discovered the first gene which appears to increase the odds of being left-handed. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6923577.stm...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 1, 2007 3:46 pm
Scientists Turn to the Zebra Fish for Answers http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3432823&page=1...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 1, 2007 3:48 pm
The English are less genetically diverse than in the past – and plague in the Middle Ages is the most likely cause ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 1, 2007 3:51 pm
A South Carolina biotech firm re-engineers trees to make them grow faster and cleaner, says Fortune's Marc Gunther. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 1, 2007 4:01 pm
After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2007 5:30 pm
Disgraced biologist's cell line was first of its kind, but not cloned. http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070730/full/070730-9.html...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2007 5:32 pm
The Genealogy Craze in America. Steven Pinker http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070806&s=pinker080607 Few technologies often have unforeseeable consequences....
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2007 5:33 pm
A man with severe brain injuries who spent six years in a near-vegetative state can now chew his food, watch a movie and talk with family thanks to a brain...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2007 5:33 pm
Orangutan communication resembles a game of charades, a study suggests. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6926703.stm...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2007 5:33 pm
The insect's jaws are found to be the fastest muscle-powered body parts in the animal kingdom ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2007 6:22 pm
Injuries and illness among dogs and cats seems to be higher during full moon than at other times of the month, a new study finds. But researchers don't know...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2007 6:22 pm
A new study finds that blacks who kill whites are more likely to face execution. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20072722/site/newsweek/...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2007 6:26 pm
Children who wet the bed had an IQ of 1.7 points lower on average than those who did not wet the bed, the study, published in the journal Pediatrics, said. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2007 6:26 pm
A dose of sentimental claptrap from the New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.slate.com/id/2171469/...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2007 6:28 pm
Young women in New York and several other U.S. cities who work full time now earn more than men. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2007 7:56 am
Knocking out pheromone sensor makes female mice act male. http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070730/full/070730-13.html...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2007 7:58 am
According to research reported in Evolution and Human Behavior some people suffer abuse because being too fat is mistaken by the brain for a sign of disease. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2007 8:00 am
Weekend Edition Sunday, August 5, 2007 · The newest status symbol for the nation's most affluent families is fast becoming a big brood of kids. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2007 8:02 am
Herbert Spencer’s theory of everything. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/08/13/070813crat_atlarge_shapin...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2007 8:17 am
Simple math may explain why toddlers experience a sudden burst of wordsâ€"and why some talk earlier and more than others. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2007 5:30 am
Gregory Clark believes that the Industrial Revolution occurred because of a change in the nature of the human population. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2007 5:31 am
Economists are finding that social concerns often trump selfishness in financial decision making, a view that helps to explain why tens of millions of people...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2007 5:32 am
REDEFINE the concept of free will? Only a Nobel laureate would have the nerve. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19526154.200...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2007 5:34 am
More Swiss than Rwandans have a gene for unusually good emotional memory http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9581647...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2007 5:36 am
A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth? ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 8, 2007 4:29 am
Infants are found to have a higher risk for seven malformations. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 8, 2007 4:49 am
Analysis of more than 5,000 ancient teeth indicates that early humans who settled in Europe arrived from Asia and not direct from Africa. ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 8, 2007 4:50 am
Ten million years ago a unique ape moved through the trees not only by swinging from branch to branch but also by walking on all fours ...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 8, 2007 4:51 am
Bacteria revived after 8 million years in the freezer http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070806/full/070806-4.html...
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Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 8, 2007 6:43 am
Two studies published on Monday showed the importance of a brain chemical in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, with researchers saying it might help...