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Culture skews human evolution(PhysOrg.com) -- The rise of agriculture 10,000 years ago meant the end of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle for which human beings had been optimized by millions of years of evolution and the beginning of an era where culture encourages habits unhealthy for us and for the world around, with uncertain evolutionary ...
Phytoplankton is changing along the Antarctic Peninsula
As the cold, dry climate of the western Antarctic Peninsula becomes warmer and more humid, phytoplankton - the bottom of the Antarctic food chain - is decreasing off the northern part the peninsula and increasing further south, Rutgers marine scientists have discovered. In research to be published tomorrow ...
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“Avoided Deforestation” Plan Gains Support | Worldwatch Institute
Rooftop Gardens Will Save the Bugs : TreeHugger
Image from Buglife Rooftop gardens are being proposed for the top of some of London's biggest buildings. By installing them on the rooftops of places like universities and town halls, it is hoped that endangered species of birds and
China’s Leader Says He Is ‘Worried’ Over U.S. Treasuries - NYTimes.com
The Chinese premier Wen Jiabao expressed concern on Friday about China’s $1 trillion investment in U.S. government debt.
Picky preschoolers: Young children prefer majority opinion
When we are faced with a decision, and we're not sure what to do, usually we'll just go with the majority opinion. When do we begin adopting this strategy of 'following the crowd'? In a new report in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologists Kathleen ...
Einstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistance
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of medicine's most vexing challenges. In a study described in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are developing a new generation of antibiotic compounds that do not provoke bacterial resistance. ...
Patient Money - Bargaining Down the Medical Bills - NYTimes.com
If you’re out of work or underinsured, hospitals and doctors may be willing to negotiate their fees.
March 13, 1964: No One Helps as Kitty Is Slain
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How To: Survive the Apocalypse (Think D.I.Y. Knives, and Solar Stills) | Danger Room from Wired.com
Best-selling author Neil Strauss helped Jenna Jameson show us How to Make Love Like a Porn Star. Then he taught us the finer points of attracting mates in The Game:
What Economic Crisis? | Mother Jones
Dek: Ten big winners of the financial collapse. Short Body: "Everyone is suffering," President Obama said in his speech to a joint session of Congress in late February. He was referring to the global financial and economic
China Comes to Africa - Photo Essays - TIME
In the last decade, trade between China and Africa has mushroomed to over $106 billion. In his new book, La Chinafrique photographer Paolo Woods explores how the Chinese are changing life on the vast
Brazilian City Makes Food A Basic Right And Ends Hunger : TreeHugger
Restaurant Popular (People's Restaurant) by Bruno Spada/MDS Back in 1993, the newly elected city government of Belo Horizonte, Brazil declared that food was a right of citizenship. At that time, the city of 2.5 million had 275,000 people living
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australia spill '10 times worse'
An oil spill along the coast of Queensland is 10 times worse than originally thought, Australian authorities say.
Tired of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own - NYTimes.com
Some laid-off workers are turning to their inner entrepreneur in what could be a boon for the economy.
Is It Time to Retrain Business Schools? - NYTimes.com
Some are wondering if the way business students are taught may have contributed to the most serious economic crisis in decades.
Death Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk - NYTimes.com
Newly unearthed recordings by the band Death reveal a remarkable missing link between the hard rock of Detroit bands and the high-velocity assault of punk of 1976 and ’77.
YouTube - Death - Politicians In My Eyes
via Drag City records: "Also hot on February 17th is the 1975 archival album from Death titled for the Whole World to See. Death were the Hackney brothe...
Wind shifts may stir CO2 from Antarctic depths
Natural releases of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean due to shifting wind patterns could have amplified global warming at the end of the last ice age--and could be repeated as manmade warming proceeds, a new paper in the journal Science suggests.
A.I.G. Planning Huge Bonuses After $170 Billion Bailout - NYTimes.com [via claudio]
The insurer planned to pay about $165 million in bonuses by Sunday, though some payments were reduced after the Treasury secretary intervened.
Freeman Affair Puts Israel Lobby in Spotlight - by Daniel Luban and Jim Lobe [via claudio]
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