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[BBC] Gene for left-handedness is found
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...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 1, 2007 3:43 pm
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[ABC News] A Fish That's Almost Human?
Scientists Turn to the Zebra Fish for Answers http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3432823&page=1...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 1, 2007 3:46 pm
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[New Sci News] Black Death casts a genetic shadow over England
The English are less genetically diverse than in the past – and plague in the Middle Ages is the most likely cause ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 1, 2007 3:48 pm
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[Fortune] Super trees: The latest in genetic engineering
A South Carolina biotech firm re-engineers trees to make them grow faster and cleaner, says Fortune's Marc Gunther. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 1, 2007 3:51 pm
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[AP] Why people have sex: lust not love
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...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 1, 2007 4:01 pm
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[Nature News] Korean stem cells unmasked
Disgraced biologist's cell line was first of its kind, but not cloned. http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070730/full/070730-9.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2007 5:30 pm
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[TNR] Strangled by Roots
The Genealogy Craze in America. Steven Pinker http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070806&s=pinker080607 Few technologies often have unforeseeable consequences....
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2007 5:32 pm
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[Reuters] Device wakes man with severe brain injuries
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...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2007 5:33 pm
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[BBC] Orangutans use 'charades' to talk
Orangutan communication resembles a game of charades, a study suggests. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6926703.stm...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2007 5:33 pm
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[New Sci News] Termite is world's snappiest animal
The insect's jaws are found to be the fastest muscle-powered body parts in the animal kingdom ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 2, 2007 5:33 pm
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[LiveScience] Full Moon Sends More Dogs and Cats to Emergency Room
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...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2007 6:22 pm
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[Newsweek] Black and White
A new study finds that blacks who kill whites are more likely to face execution. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20072722/site/newsweek/...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2007 6:22 pm
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[The Age] Bed-wetting link to lower intelligence
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. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2007 6:26 pm
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[Slate] The Cat Who Knew Too Much
A dose of sentimental claptrap from the New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.slate.com/id/2171469/...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2007 6:26 pm
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[NYT] For Young Earners in Big City, a Gap in WomenÂ’s Favor
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...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 3, 2007 6:28 pm
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[Nature News] Nose goes, gender bends
Knocking out pheromone sensor makes female mice act male. http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070730/full/070730-13.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2007 7:56 am
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[Independent] Why slim people dislike the overweight
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. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2007 7:58 am
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[NPR] Big Broods New Status Symbol
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. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2007 8:00 am
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[New Yorker] Man with a Plan
Herbert Spencer’s theory of everything. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/08/13/070813crat_atlarge_shapin...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2007 8:02 am
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[Sci Am News] Math Explains Toddlers' Linguistic Leap
Simple math may explain why toddlers experience a sudden burst of wordsâ€"and why some talk earlier and more than others. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 6, 2007 8:17 am
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[NYT] In Dusty Archives, a Theory of Affluence
Gregory Clark believes that the Industrial Revolution occurred because of a change in the nature of the human population. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2007 5:30 am
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[Sci Am] Is Greed Good?
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...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2007 5:31 am
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[New Sci News] Free will - is our understanding wrong?
REDEFINE the concept of free will? Only a Nobel laureate would have the nerve. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19526154.200...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2007 5:32 am
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[Economist] Race and Emotional Memory
More Swiss than Rwandans have a gene for unusually good emotional memory http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9581647...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2007 5:34 am
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[Boston Globe] The downside of diversity
A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth? ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 7, 2007 5:36 am
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[LAT] Study links mom's obesity, birth defects
Infants are found to have a higher risk for seven malformations. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 8, 2007 4:29 am
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[Nat Geo News] First Europeans Came From Asia, Not Africa, Tooth St
Analysis of more than 5,000 ancient teeth indicates that early humans who settled in Europe arrived from Asia and not direct from Africa. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 8, 2007 4:49 am
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[New Sci News] Ancient ape was an early swinger
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 ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 8, 2007 4:50 am
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[Nature News] Genetic popsicle
Bacteria revived after 8 million years in the freezer http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070806/full/070806-4.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 8, 2007 4:51 am
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[Reuters] Brain chemical has key role in ADHD: studies
Two studies published on Monday showed the importance of a brain chemical in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, with researchers saying it might help...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Aug 8, 2007 6:43 am