Thursday, October 30, 2008

Beyond Traffic Lights: China Is Already "Light" Years Ahead of the West : TreeHugger
An article in the IHT last week raised China's billion-dollar, billion-ton-of-CO2 question: how will a country known for its inimitable capacity for imitation manage to switch to an economy based on innovation and invention? Note that the question is

Did a Deadly Algal Toxin Inspire Hitchcock's 'The Birds'? : TreeHugger
Image from exfordy Alfred Hitchcock may not have been a marine biologist, but he was a keen observer of the news. So it was that the famed horror movie director may have found inspiration for the 1963 film, 'The

Phoenicians Left Deep Genetic Mark, Study Shows - NYTimes.com
New research suggests that as many as 1 in 17 men living today on the coasts of North Africa and southern Europe may have a Phoenician direct male-line ancestor.

Video: Jared Diamond on Why Societies Collapse : TreeHugger
Avoiding Collapse Jared Diamond, a man of multiple talents (evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, professor of geography and physiology at UCLA, non-fiction author), gave an interesting talk at TED about why societies collapse. Environmental factors play a big role in

Move Over, My Pretty, Ugly Is Here - NYTimes.com
The repulsive and the simply unattractive are getting a philosophical and political makeover.

A Psychologist Helps Repackage Democrats’ Message - NYTimes.com
Democrats trying to escape labels like “liberal” are finding help in a handbook by a professor who was virtually unknown in political circles not long ago.

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