News - August, 2005

Science Plumbs Placebo Effect Christian Science Monitor (8/31/05)

Eritrean Cookers Saving Firewood BBC News (8/31/05)

Groundbreaking Research Sheds Light on Ancient Mystery Rochester Inst of Technology (8/31/05)

Mexican Myth or Texas Terror? Netscape (8/31/05)

Humans Smell Like Bloodhounds Live Science (8/31/05)

Chimpanzee Joins the Genome Club Nature (8/31/05)

• Chimp Genome Special Nature (8/31/05)
• 'Life Code' of Chimps Laid Bare BBC News (8/31/05)
• Chimps, Humans 96 Percent the Same, Gene Study Finds National Geographic News (8/31/05)
• DNA Shows Human-Ape Links, Differences NPR (8/31/05)
• The Chimpanzee Genome Is Unveiled New Scientist (8/31/05)
• Scientists Decode Chimp DNA CNN (8/31/05)
• Scientists Decipher the Chimpanzee's DNA ABC (8/31/05)
• Chimp Genetic Code Opens Human Frontiers MSNBC (8/31/05)
• Scientists Decipher Chimp Genome Guardian (8/31/05)
• Chimp Genome--and First Fossils--Unveiled Scientific American (9/1/05)
• Chimp Genome Illuminates Humans Discovery (9/1/05)
• Scientists Complete Genetic Map of the Chimpanzee Washington Post (9/1/05)
• Man, Chimp Separated by Dab of DNA Los Angeles Times (9/1/05)
• In Chimpanzee DNA, Signs of Y Chromosome's Evolution New York Times (9/1/05)

First Chimp Fossil Unearthed Nature (8/31/05)

• First Convincing Chimp Fossil Discovered New Scientist (8/31/05)
• First Chimp Fossils Found; Humans Were Neighbors National Geographic News (8/31/05)
• First-Ever Chimp Fossils Found Live Science (8/31/05)
• First-Ever Chimpanzee Fossils Found MSNBC (8/31/05)
• First Chimpanzee Fossils Found BBC News (8/31/05)
• Ancient and Modern Man Lived Side by Side - Study Yahoo (8/31/05)
• Fossils Place Chimp, Prehuman in Same Habitat: Primates Lived Side by Side in Africa 500,000 Years Ago San Francisco Chronicle (9/1/05)

Balloons Help Spot Ancient Sites BBC News (8/31/05)

Teaching of Creationism Is Endorsed in New Survey New York Times (8/31/05)

• Poll Shows Support for Teaching ‘Creationism' MSNBC (8/31/05)

Battle in the Brain Predicts Risky Behaviour Nature (8/31/05)

Ancient and Modern Man Lived Side by Side - Study ABC (8/31/05)

• Ancient and Modern Man Lived Side by Side - Study Yahoo (8/31/05)

'Male' Chromosome to Stick Around CNN (8/31/05)

• Male Chromosome May Have a Future After All MSNBC (8/31/05)
• Scientists: Male Chromosome Won't Lead to Extinction NPR (9/1/05)

UCSD Scientists Propose Ethical And Scientific Guidelines For Study Of Captive Great Apes Univ of California at San Diego (8/31/05)

Small 1860s House, Big Site for Diggers Oregonian (8/31/05)

Navajo Help Save Unique Sheep From Extinction National Geographic News (8/30/05)

New Structure Found at Ancient Ohio Site Yahoo (8/30/05)

9000 Years Old Oriental Wine Found Epoch Times (8/30/05)

TB One of Oldest Human Diseases? Discovery (8/30/05)

Rev. Guenther Opens Hearts and Minds White Mountain Independent (8/30/05)

The Claim: Violent Video Games Make Young People Aggressive New York Times (8/30/05)

Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much New York Times (8/30/05)

Archaeology from the Dark Side Salon (8/29/05)

Misery of India's Child Sari Weavers BBC News (8/29/05)

Univ of Vermont's Jim Petersen Broke New Ground Argus Times (8/28/05)

Language Born of Colonialism Thrives Again in Amazon New York Times (8/28/05)

Show Me the Science New York Times (8/28/05)

Arab Christians are Arabs AMIN (8/28/05)

More Animals Join the Learning Circle New Scientist (8/28/05)

Schizophrenia 'Price for Speech?' BBC News (8/27/05)

'The Wreckers' Sails into Dark Historical Territory NPR (8/27/05)

On a Chinese River, Archeologists Discover Salt's Ancient History Los Angeles Times (8/27/05)

Volunteers Help with Missouri Dig NPR (8/26/05)

Prehistoric Dig at Colorado Dam Site Running Out of Time Arizona Sun (8/26/05)

The Human Zoo London Zoo (8/26/05)

• Crowds Go Ape Over ‘Humans' Zoo Exhibit MSNBC (8/26/05)
• Humans 'Bear All' at London Zoo ABC News (8/29/05)

Endangered Vultures Highlight Parsi Culture Clash Yahoo (8/26/05)

Talking Primates with Dr. Frans de Waal 92Y Blog (8/25/05)

New Understanding of Human Sacrifice in Early Peru Eureka Alert (8/25/05)

New School Year, New Battle Over Evolution USA Today (8/25/05)

Empire of the Sums Guardian (8/25/05)

• Cliodynamics

Spears Spawned Ancient Group Violence? Discovery (8/25/05)

Peru's Glaciers in Retreat BBC News (8/25/05)

China to Salvage 800-Year-Old Ship on "Marine Silk Road" China View (8/25/05)

X-Rays Reveal Ancient Text Wired News (8/24/05)

• X-Rays Reveal Lost Stone Writings Discovery (8/25/05)

Primate Communication Linked to Social Bonding New Scientist (8/24/05)

Tracing a Mutiny by Slaves Off South Africa in 1766 New York Times (8/24/05)

Water Returns to Iraqi Marshlands BBC News (8/24/05)

• Recovery of Iraq's Biblical Marshes a ‘Phenom' MSNBC (8/24/05)
• U.N.: Iraq's Marshlands Recovering CNN (8/24/05)

Long in the Tooth: Dental DNA Reveals Our Ancient Roots San Diego Union Tribune (8/24/05)

Native Americans - Lost and Found Christian Science Monitor (8/24/05)

Ancient Site Reveals Stories of Sacrificed Horses China View (8/24/05)

Top of the Crops Guardian (8/23/05)

Region 8 Sheriff Explores Link Between Meth and Arrowheads KAIT Jonesboro, AR (8/23/05)

Hadrian's Neglected Mausoleum 'Close to Collapse' Independent (8/23/05)

Scientists Speak Up on Mix of God and Science New York Times (8/23/05)

Hundreds Mourn Slain Univ of Vermont Professor Burlington Free Post (8/23/05)

Under the Old Neighborhood: In Iraq, an Archaeologist's Paradise New York Times (8/23/05)

Archaeologists Find Evidence of Large-Scale Salt Production in Ancient China People's Daily Online (8/23/05)

From Genocide to Ecocide: The Rape of Rapa Nui CCNet (8/22/05)

Different view for East and West BBC News (8/22/05)

• Chinese, Americans Truly See Differently, Study Says National Geographic News (8/22/05)
• Westerners and Easterners See the World Differently New Scientist (8/22/05)
• Asians, Americans Show Perceptual Divide Yahoo (8/22/05)
• Americans and Chinese Differ in Their World View--Literally Scientific American (8/23/05)

Gambling Monkeys Compelled by Winner's High LiveScience (8/22/05)

Scientists Find Homo Erectus Skull Yahoo (8/22/05)

• Georgians Claim to Unearth Ancient Skull Washington Post (8/22/05)
• Georgians Claim to Unearth Ancient Skull Yahoo (8/22/05)

Swaziland Abandons Ancient Chastity Rite Yahoo (8/22/05)

In Explaining Life's Complexity, Darwinists and Doubters Clash New York Times (8/22/05)

• Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive New York Times (8/21/05)
• How India Reconciles Hindu Values and Biotech New York Times (8/21/05)
• Editor Explains Reasons for 'Intelligent Design' Article Washington Post (8/19/05)
• Frist Voices Support for ‘Intelligent Design' MSNBC (8/19/05)
• Taking Issue... Evolution and Religious Faith NPR (8/8/05)

University of Pennsylvania Archaeologists Return to Iran after 26 Years Payvand (8/22/05)

Archaeologists Search for Artifacts at Old Mission Coeur d'Alene Press (8/22/05)

Students Trace History of Buffalo Soldiers in Guadalupe Mountains Silver City Sun-News (8/22/05)

The Newest Indians New York Times (8/21/05)

Dam Project Threatens Roman Ruins in Turkey NPR (8/21/05)

Chimps Show Sign of Culture Nature (8/21/05)

• Cultural Norms Not Unique to Human Societies Eureka Alert (8/21/05)
• Chimpanzee Culture 'Confirmed' BBC News (8/22/05)
• Chimps Found to Conform to Cultural Norms Scientific American (8/22/05)
• Study: Chimpanzees Conform Socially Discovery (8/22/05)
• Copycat Chimps Are Cultural Conformists New Scientist (8/22/05)
• Chimps Show Desire to Fit In Washington Post (8/22/05)
• Chimps Learn By Watching Others -- Just Like Humans ABC News (8/24/05)
• Chimps Show Hallmark of Human Culture, Study Finds National Geographic News (8/26/05)

Rabbit Plague Digs a Hole in British History Observer (8/21/05)

Intriguing Feature Salina Journal (8/21/05)

A New Dawn for Museums of Native American Art New York Times (8/20/05)

Third-Generation Iraqi Looks After Abraham's Birthplace Yahoo (8/20/05)

• Third-Generation Iraqi Looks After Abraham's Birthplace Turkish Press (8/22/05)

Digging the Work Peoria Journal Star (8/20/05)

On the Trail of an Undercover Professor New York Sun (8/19/05)

• Northern Arizona Univ Professor Outed as College Author Arizona Republic (8/23/05)
• Professor Explores Her College USA Today (8/22/05)
• Professor Explores Her College Yahoo (8/23/05)
• Arizona Prof Spends Year As an Undergrad Yahoo (8/25/05)

Manfred Korfmann, 63, Is Dead; Expanded Excavation at Troy New York Times (8/19/05)

Russian Archaeologists Discover Ancient Birch-Barks with Profanities RIA Novosti (8/19/05)

Prehistoric Dig at Dam Site Running Out of Time, Money Denver Post (8/19/05)

Chechens Consider Reviving Polygamy Institute for War and Peace Reporting (8/18/05)

Photo in the News: Child Mummy Scanned at Stanford National Geographic News (8/18/05)

Hawaiians Turn to Native Healing CNN (8/18/05)

Climate Change Fueled Human Evolution? Discovery News (8/18/05)

• Climate Flux Could Have Fostered Early Human Speciation, Diatom Study Suggests Scientific American (8/19/05)

Archaeologists Find Ancient Treasure ABC (8/17/05)

• Thracian Treasure Surfaces in Bulgaria Discovery (8/18/05)
• 4,100-Year-Old Treasure Found in Bulgaria MSNBC (8/17/05)
• Bulgaria Unearths Huge Hoard of Gold Guardian (8/18/05)
• Treasure of Ancient Gold Discovered in Bulgaria Los Angeles Times (8/23/05)

Tiny Seed May Fill a Historical Hole Maine Today (8/18/05)

Mixed Reviews for Museum of American Indian NPR (8/17/05)

• National Museum of the American Indian

How Women Dream of Symmetrical Men Guardian (8/17/05)

Cave Reveals 10,000-Year-Old Art BBC (8/17/05)

• Ice Age Engravings Found in Somerset Guardian (8/18/05)

Protective Footwear Started Nearly 30,000 Years Ago, Research Finds Washington University (8/17/05)

• 26,000-year-old Arch Supports? LiveScience (8/17/05)
• Prehistoric Sturdy Shoe Fad Discovered Discovery News (8/19/05)
• Bones Reveal First Shoe-Wearers BBC News (8/24/05)
• Effects of Prehistoric Trainers Discovered Telegraph (8/31/05)

Have You Heard? Gossip Turns Out to Serve a Purpose New York Times (8/16/05)

A Question of Creation BBC News (8/15/05)

As Congregations Shrink, Half of Children with Two Religious Parents Reject Church University of Manchester (8/15/05)

University of Vermont Professor Killed in Brazil Burlington Free Press (8/15/05)

• Univ of Vermont Archeologist Killed in Brazil Boston Globe (8/15/05)
• Former Univ of Maine Professor Killed in Brazil Portland Press Herald (8/15/05)
• U.S. Professor Shot Dead in Brazil's Amazon Yahoo (8/15/05)
• Brazil Suspects in U.S. Man's Death on Drugs - Police Yahoo (8/15/05)

Tsunami Clue to 'Atlantis' Found BBC News (8/15/05)

• Atlantis Again (and Again) CCNet (8/18/05)

What Lies Beneath Jerusalem Post (8/15/05)

Archaeology Professor Shaped Lives Pantagraph (8/15/05)

Researchers Continue to Comb Bay for Wreck of Spanish Ship Myrtle Beach Online (8/15/05)

Archeologists on Trail of Ancient Warships ABC News (8/15/05)

• Archeologists on Trail of Ancient Warships Yahoo (8/15/05)

Viking Ship Built with 15 Million Ice Cream Sticks Yahoo (8/15/05)

Scientists Unearth Bronze Casting Centre Vietnam News (8/14/05)

Ancient Faces Brought to Life Vietnam News (8/14/05)

Tribe Sues State, Demands Reburial of Its Ancestors Seattle Times (8/13/05)

Learning From Culture Shock American Chronicle (8/13/05)

Building a Modern Partnership on Relics Yahoo (8/13/05)

Poplar Forest Work Reveals a Different Jefferson Lynchburg News & Advance (8/13/05)

7 Convicted in Antiquities Smuggling Trial ABC News (8/13/05)

Free Frank's town makes National Register of Historic Places Quincy Herald Whig (8/13/05)

Archaeologist in Plea to Save the Maze from Bulldozers Guardian (8/12/05)

She's So Cool, So Smart, So Beautiful: Must Be a Girl Crush New York Times (8/11/05)

Peru's Ancient Bureaucrats Used Knotted-String Devices as Ledgers Eureka Alert (8/11/05)

• Inca Tax Records Were Tied Up in Knots, Study Says National Geographic (8/11/05)
• Scientists Untangle Inca Number-Strings Nature (8/11/05)
• Computer Analysis Provides Incan String Theory New Scientist (8/11/05)
• INKA Textile Devices Served as Business Ledgers Eureka Alert (8/11/05)
• Inca Knotted Strings Tell Ancient Tale CNN (8/11/05)
• Possible pattern found in Incan strings MSNBC (8/11/05)
• Possible Pattern Found in Incan Strings Los Angeles Times (8/11/05)
• Inca Knotted Strings Tell Ancient Tale CNN (8/12/05)
• Researchers Think They've Got the Incas' Numbers Los Angeles Times (8/12/05)
• Those Ancient Incan Knots? Tax Accounting, Researchers Suggest New York Times (8/16/05)

Galapagos Used by Both Sides of Evolution Debate NPR (8/11/05)

• Fisherman, Conservationists at Odds in Galapagos NPR (8/10/05)
• Common Intruders Threaten Galapagos Species NPR (8/9/05)
• Galapagos Plants, Wildlife Under Threat NPR (8/8/05)

Discoveries Rewriting Missouri History Belleville News Democrat (8/11/05)

Ruins of Lonely Mesopotamian City Still Stand South African Independent (8/11/05)

Face of Ancient Fiji Shows Pacific's Past ABC (8/11/05)

Kansas Moves to Stem Role of Evolution in Teaching ABC (8/11/05)

• Kansas Moves Closer to Intelligent Design Curriculum NPR (8/11/05)

Reading the Past in Dorset Artifacts and Vintage Pop Cans Nunatsiaq News (8/11/05)

Project Seeks to Preserve Dying Languages Guardian (8/10/05)

• Foundations Work to Save Dying Languages Los Angeles Times (8/13/05)
• Researchers Watch Language for Effort: Project Aims to Save Endangered Tongues Columbia Daily Tribune (8/14/05)

Hunt Begins Off S.C. for Spanish Galleon State (South Carolina) (8/10/05)

Technology Lets Researchers Map Explorers' Camp USA Today (8/10/05)

Under Central Park, and Now on Radar New York Times (8/10/05)

• Ground Radar Probes New York's Past CNN (8/10/05)
• Clues Sought in Pre-Central Park Village Yahhoo (8/11/05)

Hadrian's Wall Trail Erosion Fear BBC (8/10/05)

New Lemurs Found in Madagascar BBC (8/9/05)

• Madagascar Reveals Two New Species of Lemur New Scientist (8/9/05)
• A New Primate Cousin for Humans? Discovery (8/12/05)

Ancient Monk Cell Unearthed in Egypt CNN (8/9/05)

Biblical Pool Uncovered in Jerusalem Los Angeles Times (8/9/05)

Tsunami-Surviving Tribe Threatened by Land Invasion National Geographic News (8/8/05)

Taking Issue... Evolution and Religious Faith NPR (8/8/05)

Pharaohs Inspire Nuclear Industry BBC (8/8/05)

Study: Atlantis Sinking Has Scientific Basis Discovery (8/8/05)

Artist to Re-Create Destroyed Buddhas Yahoo (8/8/05)

Egyptologist Discovers Ancient Gossip Discovery (8/8/05)

Brain Region Tied to Regret Identified Scientific American (8/8/05)

Trees That Tell Stories Denver Post (8/8/05)

Rome Stages Artistic Tribute to Ancient Cults NPR (8/7/05)

The Mystery of Twins Guardian (8/7/05)

• Twins Hold Key to Unravelling Maths Gene Guardian (8/7/05)

The Medical World of Medieval Monks BBC News (8/6/05)

Race Drives Persistence of Fear Harvard Gazette (8/5/05)

Creationism Rift Opens Within The Vatican New Scientis (8/5/05)

Burial for Pakistan's Fake Mummy BBC News (8/5/05)

Digging Deep for Proof of an Ancient Jewish Capital New York Times (8/5/05)

Young Archaeologists Dig for Treasure Yahoo (8/5/05)

Coffin from Civil War Uncovers Mystery ABC News (8/4/05)

• Smithsonian to Examine Kinston Caskets Kinston Free Press (7/29/05)
• Coffin from Civil War Uncovers Mystery MSNBC (8/4/05)
• Coffin from Civil War Uncovers Mystery USA Today (8/4/05)
• Details Emerge Of Civil War-Era Remains in D.C. Washington Post (8/5/05)
• Iron Coffin Is Unexpected Time Capsule NPR (8/5/05)

Scan Finds Mummy Between 4 and 6 Years Old Washington Post (8/3/05)

• Scanning Technology Reveals Mysteries of Girl Mummy USA Today (8/3/05)
• Mummy Child Scanned inside Gold Coffin Live Science (8/4/05)
• Child Mummy Wows Egyptologists Wired (8/3/05)

Novel Technique Offers New Look at Ancient Diet Dogma Eureka Alert (8/3/05)

• New Clues Show Early Humans Favored Fruit MSNBC (8/3/05)
• Tooth Study Reveals Diets of Early Humans National Geographic News (8/3/05)

Study Shows Big Game Hunters, Not Climate Change, Killed Off Sloths University of Florida News (8/3/05)

• Hungry Humans Killed Off Ice Age Mammals MSNBC (8/4/05)
• Humans to Blame for Ice Age Extinctions, Study Says National Geographic (8/10/05)

Scholars Swim in Choppy Waters UC Berkeley News (8/3/05)

Ancients Rarely Punished Prostitutes Discovery (8/3/05)

Abbey Oak Door 'Britain's Oldest' BBC News (8/3/05)

• Science Reveals Abbey's Oak Door Pre-Dates Conquest Telegraph (8/5/05)

Bush Remarks Roil Debate on Teaching of Evolution New York Times (8/3/05)

• Fanning the Controversy Over 'Intelligent Design' Time (8/3/05)
• Bush Remarks On 'Intelligent Design' Theory Fuel Debate Washington Post (8/3/05)
• Physics Society President Says Intelligent Design Should Not be Taught as Science Physics.org (8/4/05)
• American Federation of Teachers Statement on President Bush's Comments on Intelligent Design US Newswire (8/4/05)
• Inspiration for Doubters of Darwin Los Angeles Times (8/3/05)
• Bush Remarks on 'Intelligent Design' Fuel Debate MSNBC (8/3/05)
• Design for Confusion New York Times (8/5/05)
• 'Darwinism Is More Than a Theory' Guardian (8/5/05)

Kansas Educators Criticize Policy on Evolution MSNBC (8/2/05)

A New View of Culture's Spread Los Angeles Times (8/2/05)

• New Theory on Genesis of Mesoamerican Culture San Francisco Chronicle (8/2/05)

New Research Into the Mafia, Antimafia, and the Plural Cultures of Sicily Eureka Alert (8/2/05)

X-ray Fluorescence Recovers Ancient Text Cornell News Service (8/2/05)

• Original Draconian Laws may be Revealed by New Machine Yahoo (8/2/05)

A Subway Bores Into the Ottoman and Byzantine Eras New York Times (8/2/05)

Oldest Dated Evidence of Cattle in Southern Africa Found Eureka Alert (8/2/05)

Studies of Amazonian Languages Challenge Linguistic Theories Eureka Alert (8/2/05)

Footprints to Fill: Flat Feet and Doubts About Makers of the Laetoli Tracks Scientific American (8/1/05)