News - May, 2005

Love's All in the Brain- fMRI Study Shows Strong, Lateralized Reward, Not Sex, Drive Eureka Alert (5/31/05)

Class Matters - Social Class in the United States of America New York Times (5/22 - 31/05)

• Class in America: Shadowy Lines That Still Divide New York Times (5/15/05)
• Life at the Top in America Isn't Just Better, It's Longer New York Times (5/16/05)
• When Richer Weds Poorer, Money Isn't the Only Difference New York Times (5/19/05)
• Up From the Holler: Living in Two Worlds, at Home in Neither New York Times (5/19/05)
• On a Christian Mission to the Top New York Times (5/22/05)
• Blue Collars in Olive Drab New York Times (5/22/05)
• The College Dropout Boom New York Times (5/24/05)
• No Degree, and No Way Back to the Middle New York Times (5/24/05)
• 15 Years on the Bottom Rung New York Times (5/26/05)
• Who Has the Work? He Who Finds the Busboys New York Times (5/27/05)
• When the Joneses Wear Jeans New York Times (5/29/05)
• The Five-Bedroom, Six-Figure Rootless Life New York Times (6/1/05)
• Old Nantucket Warily Meets the New New York Times (6/5/05)
• Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind New York Times (6/5/05)
• In Fiction, a Long History of Fixation on the Social Gap York Times (6/8/05)
• Angela Whitiker's Climb New York Times (6/12/05)
• Encounters With Class New York Times (6/12/05)
• Forums New York Times
• Lesson Plans New York Times

Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain New York Times (5/31/05)

Work Starts on Giant Medieval Siege Catapult Scotsman (5/30/05)

Did Climate Shift Kill Giant Australian Animals? - Bones Suggest That Early Humans Did Not Ruthlessly Wipe Out Huge Beasts Nature (5/30/05)

• Climate 'Key to Beasts' Demise' BBC News (5/31/05)
• Australia's Megafauna Coexisted with Humans University of Sydney (5/31/05)

A Race to Save Sudan's Past From Progress New York Times (5/30/05)

Smithsonian to Screen a Movie That Makes a Case Against Evolution New York Times (5/28/05)

Theory vs. Hypothesis in Science NPR (5/28/05)

Darwinian Theory on a Molecular Level NPR (5/28/05)

Studying DNA Reaps New Insight Into Corn Los Angeles Times (5/28/05)

New Evidence of Sacrificed Inca Children Discovery (5/27/05)

• Inca Tax Man Collected Child Sacrifices Australian Broadcasting (5/30/05)

Violence May Be a 'Socially Infectious Disease' New Scientist (5/27/05)

Africa Faces Crisis Under Global Warming Discovery (5/27/05)

Blackbeard Stemware Aids Experts Jacksonville Daily News (5/27/05)

1787 Map IDs Lucky Finds, Including Possible Outhouse Site at Old Salem Winston-Salem Journal (5/26/05)

Psychologist - Make Culture Part of the New Collaborative Science Eureka Alert (5/25/05)

First-ever Dictionary Aids Campaign to Save Native American Languages Eureka Alert (5/25/05)

Seventeenth-century Islamic Brassmakers Were Far Ahead of European Peers, Engineers Say Eureka Alert (5/25/05)

Blind Biologist Finds Clues to Human Societies in Shells NPR (5/25/05)

Archaeologists Re-create the Pompeii Diet MSNBC (5/25/05)

• Archaeologists Offer Taste of Pompeii Washington Post (5/25/05)
• Archaeologists Offer Taste of Pompeii Yahoo (5/25/05)

Founding Fathers & Mothers - How Many Crossed the Land Bridge? Eureka Alert (5/23/05)

• North America's 1st Migrants Were Few, Study Says Los Angeles Times (5/24/05)
• Americas Had Seventy 'Founding Fathers' - Gene Study Counts the First Humans to Reach the New World Nature (5/24/05)
• On the Number of New World Founders: A Population Genetic Portrait of the Peopling of the Americas PLOS Biology (May 24, 2005)

Secrets of the Maya ... Unlocked! Christian Science Monitor (5/24/05)

More Clues Point to Blackbeard's Last Ship MSNBC (5/24/05)

Deer Teeth a 'Must' for Stone Age Ladies Discovery (5/24/05)

NASA Technology Reveals Texts of Trojan Wars, Early Gospels Seattle Times (5/23/05)

In Africa, Lifting the Pall of Smoke From Cooking Washington Post (5/23/05)

"Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen" Tells an Extraordinary Story Seattle Times (5/22/05)

• Unearthing Tse-whit-zen Seattle Times

Creation Museum Sparks Evolution Debate ABC News (5/22/05)

Divers Looking for History Clues in River Near Macon Ledger Enquirer (5/22/05)

Dome Improvement Wired (5/21/05)

Oaxaca Residents Battle Over Shade Trees ABC News (5/21/05)

Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice Global Politician (5/21/05)

New Life for Elizabeth I's 'Lost' Garden 430 Years On Telegraph (5/21/05)

Something is Rotting in the State of Tennessee Telegraph (5/21/05)

Indian Tribes Linked to African Eve Discovery (5/20/05)

• Two Andaman Tribes Have Come from Africa Hindustan Times (5/19/05)
• Unravelling the Mystery of Origin of the Andaman Population Hindu (5/19/05)

Indictment Targets Getty's Acquisitions Yahoo (5/20/05)

• Indictment Targets Getty's Acquisitions Los Angeles Times (5/20/05)
• Italy Indicts Art Curator at the Getty - Charges Involve Conspiracy to Receive Stolen Antiquities San Francisco Chronicle (5/20/05)
• Getty's Antiquities Buyer Faces Trial Over Stolen Goods Independent (5/21/05)

Have Jordanian Archaeologists Found the Place Jesus Was Baptized? Daily Star (5/20/05)

Archaeologists Find Relics at Georgia Fort ABC News (5/20/05)

• Archaeologists Uncover Georgia Fort Where War Of 1812 Ended News 4 Georgia (5/19/05)
• Archaeologists Find Relics at Georgia Fort MSNBC (5/20/05)
• Archaeologists Find Relics at Georgia Fort Yahoo (5/20/05)
• Is the Mystery Solved? Brunswick News (5/25/05)

Guatemala Wants 'Survivor' Boost CBS (5/20/05)

Past Resurfaces at Camp Dodge Des Moines Register (5/20/05)

Scientists Learning More About Shipwreck Delaware News Journal (5/20/05)

Prehistoric Bones Point to First Modern-Human Settlement in Europe National Geographic News (5/19/05)

• Fossils Rekindle Neanderthal Debate Washington Post (5/19/05)
• Oldest Cranial, Dental and Post-cranial Fossils of Early Modern European Humans Confirmed Eureka Alert (5/20/05)
• Modern Humans Or Neandertals? New Evidence Sheds Light On Cave Fossils' Age Science Daily (5/20/05)
• Bones Show Age of Early Settlement Telegraph (5/25/05)

New African Monkey Discovered BBC News (5/19/05)

• New Monkey Species Is Found in Tanzania New York Times (5/19/05)
• Honking Monkey Discovered in Africa - But the Highland Mangabey Seems Critically Endangered Nature (5/19/05)
• New Monkey Species Discovered in East Africa National Geographic News (5/19/05)
• New Monkey Species With Goose-Like Call Discovered ABC News (5/19/05)
• New Monkey Species Found in Tanzania Telegraph (5/19/05)
• Discovery of New Species Bucks Extinction Trend Guardian (5/20/05)
• New Monkey Species Found CNN (5/20/05)
• New Monkey Species Discovered in Africa New Scientist (5/19/05)
• New Monkey Species Found in Tanzania MSNBC (5/20/05)
• New Monkey Discovered in Tanzania Discovery (5/19/05)
• New Monkey Species Found in Tanzania NPR (5/22/05)

Half of Humanity Set to Go Urban BBC News (5/19/05)

Amazon Destruction Accelerating BBC News (5/19/05)

History Washes Up Ancient Bathroom Washington Post (5/19/05)

Scientists Learn the Taste of Words Guardian (5/19/05)

Red is a Recipe for Sporting Success - The Colour You Wear Can Influence Your Chances of Victory Nature (5/19/05)

• In Sports, Red Is Winning Color, Study Says National Geographic News (5/18/05)
• Red Is the Colour If Winning Is Your Game New Scientist (5/18/05)
• Study - Red Is the Color of Olympic Victory NPR (5/18/05)
• Wearing Red Helps You Win Guardian (5/19/05)
• Research Finds That Red Is for Winners New York Times (5/19/05)
• If You Want to Win in Sports, Wear Red Yahoo (5/19/05)
• Scarlet Uniforms Linked to Success in Sports Scientific American (5/19/05)

Ecosystems, Economic Choices and Human Well-Being Eureka Alert (5/19/05)

• Past Century Sees Biodiversity Dive - The Latest of the Ecosystem Assessment Reports Is Bad News Nature (5/20/05)

Digs Reveal the Truth About Trash Times Union (5/19/05)

Anatomy of Give and Take Los Angeles Times (5/18/05)

Searching for the Queen of Sheba Eureka Alert (5/18/05)

• Scholars Search for the Queen of Sheba University of Toronto (5/18/05)

X-Rays Illuminate Ancient Writings - Hidden Archimedes Text Comes to Light in a Physics Lab Nature (5/18/05)

• Archimedes Manuscript Yields Secrets Under X-ray Gaze Stanford Report (5/19/05)
• Archimedes Manuscript Yields Secrets Under X-ray Gaze PhysOrg (5/20/05)
• New Technology Reveals Ancient Math Texts Yahoo (5/20/05)
• Eureka! Unlocking Archimedes' Ancient Text CNN (5/21/05)
• X-ray Brings Archimedes' Hidden Treatises to Light Los Angeles Times (5/21/05)
• Archimedes Palimpsest Walters Art Gallery

Dig Near Las Vegas Continues to Yield Fossils San Diego Union Tribune (5/18/05)

New Theory Places Origin of Diabetes in an Age of Icy Hardships New York Times (5/17/05)

Peru Ruins Reveal Their History BBC News (5/17/05)

• Large Find of Mummies Uncovered at Ancient Burial Ground Herald (5/18/05)

International Alliance to Unlock Secrets of Egyptian Mummies University of Manchester (5/17/05)

Genetic Factors Partly Influence Differences In Language Development Science Daily (5/17/05)

Stolen Rare Artifact Recovered in Mail Jerusalem Post (5/17/05)

Guardians of Japan's Forbidden Tombs Resist Bid to Dig Up Past Times (5/17/05)

Chinese Made First Use of Diamond BBC News (5/17/05)

Language Makes Difference to Cancer Patients NPR (5/16/05)

Papuans Seek Forest Carbon Credit BBC News (5/17/05)

Small Family Farms 'May Vanish' BBC News (5/17/05)

A Critic Takes On the Logic of Female Orgasm New York Times (5/17/05)

School Boards Want to 'Teach the Controversy.' What Controversy? New York Times (5/17/05)

• Kansas Debate Focuses on Defining Science MSNBC (5/16/05)
• Doubting Rationalist Washington Post (5/15/05)

Napoleon Undone by Faulty Buttons? Discovery (5/17/05)

Boat to Travel Chesapeake, History Delaware News Journal (5/16/05)

Ape Hunters Pick Up New Viruses BBC News (5/16/05)

• Monkeys Infect Bushmeat Hunters - Cameroon Survey Suggests Viruses Often Jump from Primates to People Nature (5/16/05)

China Contests Out of Africa Claims Discovery (5/16/05)

Early Cities - New Perspectives on Pre-Industrial Urbanism Eureka Alert (5/16/05)

"Antibiotic" Beer Gave Ancient Africans Health Buzz National Geographic News (5/16/05)

Language Learning Declines After Second Year of Life - Deaf Children Should Get Cochlear Implants Sooner, Study Suggests Nature (5/16/05)

Inventing Our Evolution Washington Post (5/16/05)

Tree of Paradise- Jewish Mosaics Art Daily (5/16/05)

'Pleistocene Park' Experiment BBC News (5/15/05)

• Pleistocene Park Underway- Home for Reborn Mammoths? National Geographic News (5/17/05)

Archeologists Unearth 'Chinese Pompeii' Destroyed in Quake 700 Years Ago Yahoo (5/15/05)

Artifacts Donated to Smithsonian Herald-Mail (5/15/05)

Bones May Be Linked to Old Cemetery Billings Gazette (5/15/05)

Battle for the Books of Herculaneum Independent (5/14/05)

Submerged Gravel Plant Toured Las Vegas Review Journal (5/14/05)

Crew Digs Into Past Beneath Building Alabama Mobile Register (5/14/05)

Consumer Frustration Fuels a Growing Market in Multiethnic Products Newhouse News (5/13/05)

Cyprus Winemaking Oldest in Mediterranean CNN (5/13/05)

Experts Can't Agree on How to Rescue Ancient Murals in Nara Tomb Asahi.com (5/13/05)

Sea Hero's Fate Revealed After 217 Years London Times (5/13/05)

Leprosy Genome Tells Story of Human Migrations Eureka Alert (5/12/05)

• Leprosy Was Spread by Colonialism, Slave Trade National Geographic News (5/12/05)
• Slave Trade Key to Leprosy Spread BBC News (5/13/05)
• Study- India Not Leprosy Source Discovery (5/13/05)
• Leprosy's Roots Traced to East Africa, Not India Los Angeles Times (5/14/05)

Evolution Hearings End on Bitter Note MSNBC (5/13/05)

• The Evolution of a Fight to the End MSNBC (5/12/05)
• Future of Evolution MSNBC Special Report
• Cosmic Log- Back and Forth on Evolution MSNBC Discussion

Ancient Mayan Wood Architecture Found Science Blog (5/12/05)

NASCAR Plans Hit with an Anthropological Twist Staten Island Advance (5/12/05)

• Anthropologists Unearth Ancient Artifacts at Proposed NASCAR Site on Staten Island NY1.com (5/13/05)

Archaeology Museum Wins Top Award BBC News (5/12/05)

Early African Migrants Made Eastward Exit Nature (5/12/05)

• Early Humans May Have Crossed Sea to Leave Africa National Geographic News (5/13/05)
• Early Humans 'Followed Coast' BBC News (5/13/05)
• DNA Study Yields Clues on First Migration of Early Humans New York Times (5/13/05)
• Ancient Pioneers Took Coastal Route, DNA Analysis Concludes Scientific American (5/13/05)
• Study - Early Humans Left Africa Via Coast Discovery (5/12/05)
• How Did Early Humans First Leave Africa? MSNBC (5/12/05)
• Out of Africa and Straight to the Beach New Scientist (5/12/05)

Pygmy Village Casts Doubt on 'Hobbit' Human Discovery (5/12/05)

Tribes Want Tighter Rules for Groups to Get Federal Status Seattle Post Intelligencer (5/12/05)

Sharp Words Traded at Evolution Hearing MSNBC (5/12/05)

Dig Reveals Clues to Area's Past BBC News (5/11/05)

Brazilian Chief Calls for Tools to Help Save Land from 'White Man' Guardian (5/11/05)

Stockholm's Old Town "300 Years Older" Local (5/11/05)

How Culture Pushed Us to the Top of the Food Chain New York Times (5/10/05)

Battle of the Gorillas New York Times (5/10/05)

Iron Age Shoe Unearthed at Quarry BBC News (5/10/05)

• Archaeologists Find 2,000-Year-Old Shoe MSNBC (5/10/05)
• 2,000-Year-Old Shoe Found in Iron Age Well Yahoo News (5/10/05)
• Archaeologists Find Britain's Oldest Shoe Reuters (5/10/05)
• An Iron Age Fashion Disaster, But Worth Its Weight in Gold Guardian (5/11/05)
• Iron Age Shoe Found Telegraph (5/18/05)

Search for Roots of Modern Images BBC News (5/10/05)

Photo in the News- King Tut's Face Reconstructed National Geographic News (5/10/05)

• CT Scans Reveal King Tut's Face MSNBC (5/10/05)
• CT Scans Show What King Tut Looked Like Yahoo News (5/10/05)
• Scientists Show How King Tut Looked Los Angeles Times (5/10/05)
• Gangrene Felled King Tut Discovery (5/11/05)
• Boy-King With Chubby Cheeks Los Angeles Times (5/11/05)
• King Tut's New Face: Behind the Forensic Reconstruction National Geographic News (5/11/05)
• Tut Was Not Such a Handsome Golden Youth, After All New York Times (5/11/05)
• A New Look at King Tut Washington Post (5/11/05)
• Rebuilding the Face of King Tut NPR (5/11/05)

World Renowned Social Evolution Theorist Robert Trivers to Be Honored Eureka Alert (5/10/05)

U.K. Excavation May Rewrite U.S. History Washington Post (5/9/05)

Ancient Musical Instruments Found Discovery (5/9/05)

Desert Research Institute Awards 2005 Nevada Medal to University of Washington Archaeologist Donald K. Grayson Eureka Alert (5/9/05)

Pheromone Attracts Straight Women and Gay Men New Scientist (5/9/05)

• "Sexy" Smells Different for Gay, Straight Men, Study Says National Geographic News (5/10/05)
• For Gay Men, an Attraction to a Different Kind of Scent New York Times (5/10/05)
• The Scent of a Man Newsweek (5/23/05)

Pillars of Indian Culture Honored Seattle Times (5/8/05)

Recalling Ancient America's Forgotten History ABC News (5/7/05)

Egypt's "King Tut Curse" Caused by Tomb Toxins? National Geographic News (5/6/05)

Some Say His Digging Up of a Legend Is Just a Myth New York Times (5/6/05)

The Unselfish Gene Guardian (5/6/05)

Witnesses Criticize How Evolution Is Taught MSNBC (5/5/05)

• The Evolution of a Fight to the End MSNBC (5/5/05)
• Kansas Weighs Alternates to Teaching Evolution NPR (5/5/05)
• Teachers, Scientists Vow to Fight Challenge to Evolution Washington Post (5/5/05)
• In Kansas, Darwinism Goes on Trial Once More New York Times (5/6/05)
• Some Kansas Board Members Skipped Readings Washington Post (5/6/05)

Divers Visit New Sites Around Shipwreck Jacksonville Daily News (5/4/05)

Ancient Graves Cast New Light on History Scotsman (5/4/05)

The Seeds of Civilization Smithsonian (5/4/05)

Archaeologists Discover 1,700-Year-Old Fort in Eastern China Yahoo (5/4/05)

New Tech Reveals Mastodon Secrets Discovery (5/4/05)

'Beautiful Mummy' Emerges from Sand Discovery News (5/3/05)

• 2,300-Year-Old Mummy Unveiled in Egypt MSNBC (5/3/05)
• 2,300-Year-Old Mummy Unveiled in Egypt ABC News (5/4/05)
• 'Most Beautiful' Mummy Unveiled Guardian (5/4/05)
• In Pictures - Egypt's Loveliest Mummy BBC News (5/3/05)

Fastest-Evolving Genes in Humans and Chimps Revealed New Scientist (5/3/05)

• A Scan for Positively Selected Genes in the Genomes of Humans and Chimpanzees PLOS Biology (June 2005)

Madagascar Populated from Africa, Borneo MSNBC (5/3/05)

• Madagascar Populated from Africa, Borneo - Study ABC News (5/4/05)

Ugly Children May Get Parental Short Shrift New York Times (5/3/05)

Neandertal Femur Suggests Competition with Hyenas and a Shift in Landscape Use Eureka Alert (5/2/05)

• Cave Housed Neanderthals, Humans, Hyenas Discovery News (5/2/05)
• Neandertals, Hyenas Fought for Caves, Food, Study Says National Geographic News (5/3/05)

Evolution Going on Trial in Kansas MSNBC (5/2/05)

• U.S. Biology Classrooms Get Tense ABC News (5/4/05)
• Now Evolving in Biology Classes - A Testier Climate Christian Science Monitor (5/3/05)
• The Stirring on the Mount MSNBC (5/2/05)

Appalachians Are Finding Pride in Mountain Twang National Geographic News (5/2/05)

Scientists Track 'Stealth' DNA Elements In Primate Evolution Science Daily (5/2/05)

Columbus' Purported Remains Are Still Bones of Contention Los Angeles Times (5/2/05)

Jonesing for Fries? Blame the Cave Men NPR (5/2/05)

In Search Of The Hobbit CBS News (5/1/05)