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[NYT] Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch?
New papers illustrate the continuing power of Stanley Milgram's shock experiments — and the interpretations they still inspire. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 1, 2008 8:03 pm
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[Sci Am] The Mirror Neuron Revolution: Explaining What Makes Humans
Neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni discusses mirror neurons, autism and the potentially damaging effects of violent movies. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 1, 2008 8:06 pm
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[WaPo] Fathering Autism
A Scientist Wrestles With the Realities of His Daughter's Illness http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062703023.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 1, 2008 8:07 pm
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[New Sci News] Counting monkeys tick off yet another 'human' ability
Rhesus macaques that can add dots and sounds at the same time suggest that some mathematical abilities could be a boon in the wild ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 1, 2008 8:08 pm
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[NPR] Darwin's Theory of Evolution — Or Wallace's?
Even though we generally think the idea of natural selection was devised by Charles Darwin, it turns out that he wasn't the concept's sole originator. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 1, 2008 8:12 pm
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[Nat Geo News] Brain's "Core" Revealed by First Hi-Res Wiring Map
The first high-resolution map of wiring in the cerebral cortex has revealed a structural "core" that seems to play a vital role in communication within and...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 2, 2008 1:31 pm
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[NYT] Deep Down, We CanÂ’t Fool Even Ourselves
A moral hypocrite convinces himself that he is acting virtuously even when he does something he would condemn in others. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 2, 2008 1:32 pm
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[SEED] Tom Wolfe + Michael Gazzaniga
The father of cognitive neuroscience and the original New Journalist discuss status, free will, the human condition, and The Interpreter. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 2, 2008 1:38 pm
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[WaPo] What's Colorless and Tasteless And Smells Like . . . Money?
The push to turn water into the new wine is a marketing phenomenon: The bottled-water industry is engaged in an intense effort to convince Americans that the...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 2, 2008 1:40 pm
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[Slate] The Sex Difference Evangelists
Unpacking the science of sex difference http://www.slate.com/id/2194486/entry/0/...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 2, 2008 1:43 pm
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[New Sci News] Did newborn Earth harbour life?
An Australian rock deposit hints that life may have emerged 250 million years into Earth's history – nearly a billion years earlier than thought ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 3, 2008 7:40 am
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[Nat Geo News] Migrating Birds Understand "Foreign Languages"
Birds that travel widely can understand warning calls made by other bird species encountered during migrations, scientists say. Stay-at-home birds show no such...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 3, 2008 7:41 am
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[NYT] Biologist Teaches the NationÂ’s Judges About Genetics
James P. Evans hopes to demystify all of science and, specifically, genetics. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01conv.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 3, 2008 7:43 am
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[Nature News] Dog cloners baring their teeth
Rival companies are about to clash over who has the rights to the crucial technology. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080704/full/news.2008.936.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 4, 2008 6:06 pm
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[Sci Am News] Dig Challenges Assumptions About First Americans
Ancient stone artifacts reveal the day-to-day lives of Clovis people while offering tantalizing clues of an even earlier culture ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 4, 2008 6:09 pm
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[New Sci News] Do we have the technology to build a bionic human?
Electronic eyes give sight to the blind, while functioning penises are grown in the lab. New Scientist investigates the body shop of the near future ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 6, 2008 2:26 am
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[NYT] The Urge to End It
Is suicide the deadly result of a deep psychological condition — or a fleeting impulse brought on by opportunity? ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 6, 2008 2:29 am
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[Times UK] Scientists reopen debate over GM food
Scientists have genetically engineered fruit and vegetables capable of providing most of a day's nutrients in a single meal. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 6, 2008 2:39 am
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[Newsweek] Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin?
Darwin and Lincoln: we want to say that they belong together. It's not just because they were both great men, and not because they happen to be exact coevals....
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 6, 2008 2:46 am
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[Weekly Standard] Practice Makes Perfect
At what cost to humanity? http://tinyurl.com/65epyf...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 6, 2008 2:49 am
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[BBC] Fossil feathers reveal their hues
Scientists show they are able to interpret the colour patterns seen in 100 million-year-old fossil feathers. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 9, 2008 12:15 am
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[New Sci News] Did 'burrowing' placenta give us big brains?
A hormone which allows the placenta to push into the wall of the uterus in some primates might also have played a key role in brain evolution ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 9, 2008 12:16 am
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[Boston Globe] Head fake
How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/07/06/head_fake/...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 9, 2008 12:19 am
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[Slate] Phallus in Wonderland
Male pregnancy and a la carte sex changes. http://www.slate.com/id/2194977/...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 9, 2008 12:25 am
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[NYT] Learning From a Muddy Muscle Master
When it comes to a sensible display of excessive muscular activity, the male toadfish has the right idea. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/science/08angi.html...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 9, 2008 12:28 am
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[Sci Am] Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom
Homosexual behavior is common in nature, and it plays an important role in survival http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bisexual-species...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 13, 2008 12:27 am
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[New Sci News] How bats made the leap from gliding to flying
An analysis of bat and flying-squirrel wings hints that bats may have developed rudimentary flapping as their wings became less suited to gliding ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 13, 2008 12:28 am
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[Telegraph UK] How we keep our ancient reptilian wits about us
Modern man still relies on ancient, reptilian brain centres to make life-or-death decisions because they are faster thinking than the ones that make us human. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 13, 2008 12:29 am
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[LAT] Flatfish fossils fill evolutionary gap
Scientists have long been stumped by the unusual creatures, which have both eyes on one side of their heads. Fossils suggest how they developed. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 13, 2008 12:30 am
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[Discovery News] Smaller Families Face Higher Extinction Risk
A safer environment leads to smaller families with larger offspring, but places species at greater risk of extinction, according to research. ...
Jason Malloy
jmalloynyc
Jul 13, 2008 12:32 am