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- Who Is Saul Alinsky And Why Does Newt Gingrich Fear Him? (250 comments)
- Not All Slave Owners Were Rapine Beasts: Ron Paul's Musings on States' Rights and the Civil War (34 comments)
- Where Did Dragons Come From? (10 comments)
- The first artificial sweetener poisoned lots of Romans (24 comments)
- How Mitochondrial Eve connected all humanity and rewrote human evolution (30 comments)
Toxic relationships are linked to cancer, depression and heart disease
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:02 AM EST (the Mail online)
It may be wise to keep your friends close and your enemies not quite so close, after all. Relationships may be as vital to good health as a balanced diet and plenty of rest, new research suggests. Scientists at UCLA's school of medicine have found that negative social interac …
Study into Jersey Neanderthal mammoth hunters
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:44 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
About 30 years ago, evidence suggested early residents of what is today the island of Jersey chased wooly mammoths off the cliffs at La Cotte above Ouaisne. Dr Geoff Smith, an analyst for Jersey Archive, is undertaking a more systematic analysis of the evidence to put thi …
Human Nature and the Neurobiology of Conflict
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:44 AM EST (Wired News)
Science can offer new insights into how social behavior reflects -- and perhaps even shapes -- basic human biology. An very important upcoming issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B features a collection of new studies on the biology of conflict.
Signing Off: The Slow Death of the Signature in a PIN-Code World
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:01 AM EST (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)
As a kid, Marcel Danesi loved signatures. Now he studies them -- along with other signs and symbols -- for a living.
Not All Slave Owners Were Rapine Beasts: Ron Paul's Musings on States' Rights and the Civil War
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:23 AM EST (Daily Kos)
Over the last few days, I have watched this interview with Ron Paul several times.
New study of hunter-gatherers suggests social networks sparked evolution of cooperation
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:26 PM EST (PhysOrg.com)
Ancient humans may not have had the luxury of updating their Facebook status, but social networks were nevertheless an essential component of their lives, a new study suggests. "The astonishing thing is that ancient human social networks so very much resemble what we see today …
Neanderthals were using paint 250,000 years ago - 'thousands of years earlier than previously thought'
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:50 PM EST (the Mail online)
Neanderthals were using red paint up to 250,000 years ago -- far earlier than previously thought. Traces of the paint, made from ochre, were dug up in the Netherlands and dated to a quarter of a million years ago.
How Mitochondrial Eve connected all humanity and rewrote human evolution
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:01 PM EST (io9)
This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of Mitochondrial Eve, the common ancestor of every human alive today.
The evolution of division of labor
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:16 PM EST (PhysOrg.com)
Division of labour is not only a defining feature of human societies but is also omnipresent among the building blocks of biological organisms and is considered a major theme of evolution.
On The Civil War, Slavery, And Treason
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:20 AM EST ()
In our previous post, Winning Progressive made a reference to South Carolina being a state that continues to celebrate treason by flying the Confederate flag at the state capitol and having Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday.
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