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[New Yorker] The last boomer game.
Extending your own life expectancy is the most selfish motive imaginable for doing anything. Do it, by all means. http://tinyurl.com/2otx7y...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 2, 2008 11:27 pm
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[Nat Geo News] Climate Change, Then Humans, Drove Mammoths Extinct
Changes in climate may have first shrunk the woolly mammoth's habitat, but humans delivered the final blow to the species, a new study shows. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 2, 2008 11:36 pm
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[New Sci News] Monkeys eavesdrop on neighbours' orgasmic cries
The ejaculation-inducing cries of promiscuous female macaques during sex are found to arouse other local males as well as their current mate ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 2, 2008 11:42 pm
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[NYT] April Fool! The Purpose of Pranks
Recent research suggests that the experience of being duped can stir self-reflection in a way few other experiences can. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 2, 2008 11:49 pm
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[BBC] Dolphin woos with wood and grass
A South American river dolphin uses branches, weeds and lumps of clay to woo the opposite sex and frighten off rivals, scientists have discovered. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 2, 2008 11:51 pm
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[Telegraph UK] Menopause stops female competition
The menopause marked a "truce" in the age-old battle between wives and their mothers-in-law, says a new theory. http://tinyurl.com/yqgjan...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 4, 2008 3:32 am
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[Reuters] Gene could help dope cheats, researchers say
As Olympic officials prepare a bigger dope testing programme than at any previous Games, researchers say a common genetic variation may be helping some...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 4, 2008 3:47 am
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[New Sci News] First Americans left fossil stools in cave latrine
Ancient faeces are the earliest traces yet found of humans in North America – DNA analysis suggests that the settlers crossed from Asia ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 4, 2008 3:59 am
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[AP] Asian-Americans Using Sex-Selective Abortion
Some Asian Families in US Using Sex-Selection to Produce Sons, Analysis Shows http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4561037...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 4, 2008 6:43 pm
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[NYT] Defense Lawyers Fight DNA Samples Gained on Sly
DNA gathered surreptitiously helps get guilty verdicts, but critics say the practice violates privacy rights. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 4, 2008 9:20 pm
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[NPR] Chimps with Spears Captivate Photographer
A peculiar band of chimpanzees hunts with weapons http://tinyurl.com/3l6sw6...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 5, 2008 2:21 am
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[Eureka] Were Assyrian rulers the forefathers of today's CEOs?
Between 700 BCE to about 70 CE, Jerusalem was home to various Judean cults and at times a center for religious fanaticism. The Assyrians understood that they...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 5, 2008 2:47 am
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[Telegraph UK] Babies 'are natural born statisticians'
Many adults may have a deep set fear of mathematics but it turns out that babies are natural born statisticians, say scientists. http://tinyurl.com/26yh5w...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 5, 2008 3:00 am
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[AP] Sex and financial risk linked in brain
A new brain-scan study may help explain what's going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles — sex. When young men were...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 6, 2008 12:36 am
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[Nature News] 'Ruthlessness gene' discovered
Dictatorial behaviour may be partly genetic, study suggests. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080404/full/news.2008.738.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 6, 2008 12:38 am
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[New Sci News] Single virus gene may cause obesity
If obesity seems to be spreading like a virus, that could be because it is. And understanding the adenovirus responsible could help fight the flab ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 6, 2008 12:40 am
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[Nat Geo News] Hundreds of Dino-Era Animals in Amber Revealed by X-R
Tiny mites, huge wasps, and spiders are among the more than 300 amber-entombed organisms recently brought to light by a new x-ray technique. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 6, 2008 12:41 am
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[WSJ] The DNA Dilemma
Grappling With Bad News From Genetic Testing http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120735197158891321.html?mod=googlenews_wsj...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 6, 2008 12:43 am
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[Sci Am] The Origin of Menopause: Why Do Women Outlive Fertility?
New research sheds light on why women survive for decades when females in many other species die after they lose the ability to reproduce. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 7, 2008 2:12 am
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[Economist] Look and feel
The value of a coin or banknote depends on its familiarity http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10952783...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 7, 2008 2:13 am
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[New Sci News] Male monkeys prefer boys' toys
It's a sexual stereotype: boys tend to play with toy cars, while girls like dolls. But male rhesus monkeys seem to have the same preferences ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 7, 2008 2:14 am
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[WaPo] A Long and Sorted Coming-of-Age Story
With unprecedented insights on the molecular basis of disease and the rise of "personalized medicine," cell sorting heads into its golden age. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 7, 2008 2:18 am
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[NPR] Studying Regeneration for New Limbs, Organs
Salamanders have amazing abilities to renew and regenerate themselves. Research biologist David Gardiner talks to Andrea Seabrook about why salamanders can...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 7, 2008 2:31 am
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[Nature News] Dyslexic diversity
Chinese and English dyslexias stem from different brain abnormalities. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080407/full/news.2008.739.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 8, 2008 5:36 am
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[Nat Geo News] First Lungless Frog Found
The Indonesian amphibian may have evolved to respire through its skin as an adaptation to its cold, fast-moving stream habitat, a new study says. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 8, 2008 5:37 am
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[New Sci News] Genes trigger phobias in kids and teens
The genes controlling which phobias we develop get turned on at different stages of life, possibly because the risks we face change ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 8, 2008 5:38 am
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[AP] Ancient tools unearthed in Australia
Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have been unearthed in a rock shelter in Australia's remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 8, 2008 5:40 am
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[BBC] Depression linked to Alzheimer's
People who have had depression may be more prone to Alzheimer's disease, two studies suggest. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7334298.stm...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 8, 2008 5:41 am
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[NYT] A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity
Some patients with FTD develop artistic abilities when frontal brain areas decline and posterior regions take over. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 9, 2008 2:56 am
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[Nature News] Fear in the genes
Fear is partly down to your genes, but this process changes as you grow older. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080408/full/news.2008.743.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Apr 9, 2008 2:56 am