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Computer game "Spore" has Darwin doing stupid creature befriending dance in his grave!
Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 17 hours (www.sciencemag.org)
The makers of the computer game "Spore" promise a real evolutionary experience: Start out the game as a microbe just trying to survive and travel all the way through the history of evolution into a species capable of a modern, civilized society! Depending on the choices the player makes early on in the game, the later species can have a seemingly limitless range of fascinating, monstrous forms 
Bradley Effect abstains from 2008 election
Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 1 day (www.nytimes.com)
This year's election day showed record turnout among voters, but there was one factor that didn't show up at the polls: The Bradley Effect.
The Bradley Effect is a phenomenon that occurs when a black or other minority candidate runs for political office. The idea is that more people will be willing to vote against a minority candidate in the privacy of the voting booth than will be willing to admit it to pollsters face-to-face. It is named after a Tom Bradley, a black Californian who lost the 1982 race for governor despite polls predicting that he would win
Genetics: Phoenicians leave their mark on the world ...again
Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)
If you look for "Phoenicia" on a map, you won't find it. The people, culture and language were dead when the Romans were still Roming all over the place. (As a matter of fact, these two events were directly related; darn legionnaires!) Still, you're heard of the Phoenicians before. Maybe you don't remember precisely when, but it's something that reminds you of stone and Greece and a sea that is for some reason wine-dark.
It could be because Phoenicia had a huge trading empire and a huge influence on the ancient Mediterranean
The Iceman's mysterious genetic past
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 1 week (www.sciencenews.org)
A 5,000-year-old mummy displays a genetic signature no longer found in Europe, according to its complete mitochondrial DNA sequence.
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 1 week (www.nature.com)
Geologists have found evidence for the most recent predecessor of the Indian Ocean mega-tsunami thought to have killed more than 220,000 people in 2004
New life found in ancient tombs
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 1 week (esciencenews.com)
Life has been discovered in the barren depths of Rome's ancient tombs, proving catacombs are not just a resting place for the dead. The two new species of bacteria found growing on the walls of the Roman tombs may help researchers develop new forms of antibiotics. It is even more likely that they will help other researchers find ways to preserve similar tombs and other monuments.
Is religion good for your health?
sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 4 days (www.nature.com)
Science and religion, anyone? Come now, stifle those yawns. A paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B1 this week claims to offer a fresh perspective, with the startling suggestion that religion is a way to protect us from disease.
The general idea behind this theory — that religion is mainly a social construct — is actually much older than the authors, Corey Fincher and Randy Thornhill of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, acknowledge
Nature takes a look at in-vitro fertilization's past, present and future
Darkfrog submitted, created time 5 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
This article is a comprehensive look at the past and future of artificial babymaking. It covers IVF, the possible use of iPS to make gametes. It covers ethics, public relations, and economics...
The part that I like best? IVF has "gone as far as it can" with regards to what it can do, so the next focus is on making it cheaper. The article discusses the woman in a developing country who, on top of her own wishes for a family, faces discrimination for her infertility
the construction of gene therapy for blood disorders
sea-maid submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org)
The concept of introducing genes into human cells for therapeutic purposes developed nearly 50 years ago as diseases due to defects in specific genes were recognized. The development history of gene therapy for blood disorders was introduced in this paper.
Darwin Papers Debut on Internet
Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (blog.wired.com)
The complete works of Charles Darwin -- a god among scientists and the bane of every creationist’s existence – are finally available for anyone, anywhere to read. And it only took 126 years and another scientific revolution to make it happen.
Archaeological discovery elucidates misconceptions about domestication
Darkfrog submitted, created time 9 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)
A discovery of ten donkey skeletons at a dig in Abydos reveals that the Egyptians didn't always view asses as a bumbling, low-rent form of transportation. The donkeys' skeletons show clear signs of wear and tear from freight work, but their hooves and teeth seem to indicate that they were cared for scrupulously and their general bone structure is almost identical to that of the wild ass. More significantly, the position of the burial site -- diggers initially expected to find human officials killed to accompany their king into the afterlife -- suggests a great deal of reverence
How we judge the thoughts of others
jane2007 submitted, created time 9 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
New research suggests we use the same brain region that we do when thinking about ourselves — but only as long as we judge the person to be similar to us. But this region does not become involved when second-guessing the opinions and feelings of those unlike ourselves. This may potentially helping to explain the causes of social tensions such as racism or religious disputes.
All we are is dust in the wind and what we are is COLD!
Darkfrog submitted, created time 9 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)
I love finding these matchups between different disciplines
For years, historical records and tree rings have supported the idea of lower temperatures during different points in history. In particular, a period shortly after the fall of the Roman Empire shows crop failures and other climate-related problems. Now scientists have figured out just what made the dark ages so dark: a volcano. They just don't know where.
Peruvian mummies show that New World lice predated Columbus, give implications for typhus
Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 17 hours (www.nytimes.com)
While it's generally known that European explorers imported smallpox, fevers and even the bacteria for tooth decay to the previously unafflicted New World, but they have just been absolved of another annoyance: head lice. Arid conditions in Peru one thousand years ago preserved a number of human corpses and the lice in their long hair. It is now thought that lice came to the Americas along with humans during the earliest migrations.
The new idea raised in this article is that that typhus, a disease that can be spread by lice, may have originated in the New World
Peer reviewing the modern-day matchmaker: online dating sites begin to publish studies
Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)
eHarmony.com and Chemistry.com in particular are dying to be able to advertise their dating algorithms as "scientifically proven." And after years in the online dating market, they finally have enough data to perform, write and publish sociological studies.
But will these studies be the real thing? So far, eHarmony's only got one out there, despite having enough data for more. For all that these companies claim to want to be peer reviewed, I get the impression that they're being awfully selective with the information that they release.
The article brings up another interesting point
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