News - September, 2005

Liars' Brains Make Fibbing Come Naturally New Scientist (9/30/05)

• Some Minds Appear Wired to Lie Los Angeles Times (10/1/05)

Ancient Statues of Roman Goddesses Discovered MSNBC (9/30/05)

• Statues of Ancient Goddesses Discovered Yahoo (9/30/05)

The New Bone Collectors South Africa Mecury (9/30/05)

Medieval African Texts Take Spotlight MSNBC (9/30/05)

Digging for Historical Artifacts Is All in a Day's Work U. S. Naval Academy News (9/30/05)

Lakota Winter Counts Online Exhibit Smithsonian Institution

Anthropologists Help Explain Consumer Behavior Inc (9/29/05)

Venice 'Will Get Protection Dam' BBC News (9/29/05)

Massive Project Will Reveal How Humans Continue to Evolve Popular Science (9/29/05)

Culturally Sensitive Psychiatry for Minorities NPR (9/29/05)

Search 'Locates' Homer's Ithaca BBC News (9/28/05)

• Peninsula Seen as Homer's Ithaca Los Angeles Times (9/30/05)
• Odyssey Island 'Revealed' by Briton's Holiday Hunch Telegraph (9/30/05)
• Has ‘Odyssey' Hero's Land Been Found? MSNBC (9/30/05)

Iron Age Body in Denmark New York Times (9/28/05)

• Iron Age Woman's Skeleton Found in Denmark Yahoo (9/28/05)

First Observation of Tool Use in Wild Gorillas PLoS Biology (9/28/05)

• Biologists Observe Gorillas Using Tools AP News (9/29/05)
• Wild Gorillas Spotted Using Tools for First Time MSNBC (9/29/05)
• Wild Gorillas Use Tools, Photos Reveal National Geographic News (9/30/05)
• Gorillas Branch Out Into Tool Use Nature (9/30/05)
• Wild Gorillas Seen to Use Tools BBC News (9/30/05)
• Wild Gorillas Reveal Their Use of Tools New Scientist (9/30/05)
• Wild Gorillas Recorded Using Tools for First Time CNN (9/30/05)
• One Small Step for Leah Is a Giant Leap for Wild Gorillas Telegraph (10/5/05)

Europe Is 'Fuelling Ivory Trade' BBC News (9/28/05)

NSF Funds Cybertools Project Cornell News Release (9/28/05)

Linking of Languages May Speak Volumes New York Times (9/27/05)

• Evolutionary Tools Help Unlock Origins of Ancient Languages Scientific American (9/23/05)

Hunters as Endangered Species? A Bid to Rebuild Ranks Christian Science Monitor (9/27/05)

Preserving a 460 Year Old Wreck Eureka Alert (9/27/05)

US Evolution Court Battle Opens BBC News (9/27/05)

• Agreeing Only to Disagree on God's Place in Science New York Times (9/27/05)
• Evolution Lawsuit Opens in Pennsylvania New York Times (9/27/05)
• Parents Challenge US 'Intelligent Design' Teaching Guardian (9/27/05)
• Trial Over 'Intelligent Design' Resumes ABC News (9/27/05)
• New Analyses Bolster Central Tenets of Evolution Theory Washington Post (9/26/05)
• Witness Blasts School District's Evolution Policy MSNBC (9/26/05)
• In Evolution Debate, Creationists Are Breaking New Ground Washington Post (9/25/05)
• ‘Intelligent Design' Faces First Big Court Test MSNBC (9/23/05)

Israel to Open New Archaeological Site Yahoo (9/27/05)

• Israel to Open New Archaeological Site ABC News (9/27/05)

Ancient Boat Just Won't Float Daily Pennsylvanian (9/27/05)

Ex-University of Maine-Farmington Professor Remembered Kennebec Journal (9/27/05)

Words 'Can Change What We Smell' BBC News (9/26/05)

Transmission of Tuberculosis Is Linked to Historical Patterns of Human Migration Eureka Alert (9/26/05)

Zoo Visitors Stress Out Gorillas Discovery News (9/26/05)

Robot Claims 'Treasure Island' Booty New Scientist (9/26/05)

Archaeologists Discover Infants' Remains ABC News (9/26/05)

• Ice Age 'Twins' Found in Ancient Burial Ground New Scientist (9/27/05)

Ancient Peruvian Artefacts Seized BBC News (9/24/05)

Office "Jungle" Mirrors Primate Behavior National Geographic News (9/23/05)

New 'Hobbit' Disease Link Claim BBC News (9/23/05)

Cambodian Archaeological Sites Being Decimated: Archaeologists Yahoo (9/23/05)

Medieval Pottery in the Basque Country (VIII-XIII Centuries) Basque Research (9/23/05)

Digging Up the Present Brown Alumni Magazine

Time, Tumult and the Science of Survival Chicago Tribune (9/18/05)

Babies Use Rhythms to Adapt to Their Culture, Study Hints National Geographic News (9/21/05)

Hunt for Civil War-Era Sub Continues NPR (9/21/05)

And Another Thing! Why Do Quarrels Go Off at Seemingly Irrational Tangents? It's the Chemistry of Rage, Argues Robert Sapolsky Telegraph (9/21/05)

Civil War Brig Uncovered at Base Pensacola News Journal (9/21/05)

Cleopatra Found Depicted in Drag Discovery (9/21/05)

Was the Mummy Found on Our Shelf at School a Murder Victim? Telegraph (9/21/05)

e-Science Records Roman Finds Eureka Alert (9/21/05)

Was Indian Temple Hit by Ancient Tsunami? MSNBC (9/21/05)

• Indian Ruins Show Signs of Ancient Tsunami Yahoo (9/21/05)

Going Home Again: On a Sacred Island in Humboldt Bay, Descendants of the Wiyots -- an Indian Tribe Nearly Wiped Out by Massacres in the 1800s -- Forge a Future from the Remnants of That Tragic Past San Francisco Gate (9/20/05)

Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore New York Times (9/20/05)

Propriety and History Clash in Argentina Washington Post (9/20/05)

• Protest Over Child Mummies Guardian (9/21/05)

Can This Fruit Be Saved? Popular Science

Working the Earthworks Hampton Roads, Virginia Daily Press (9/20/05)

Men and Women Come from Same Planet After All, Claims Psychology Study Guardian (9/20/05)

A Gig Where They Dig the Past Portland Tribune (9/20/05)

Czech Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Greek Town Flattened by Bohemian Celts Radio Prague (9/20/05)

Flint Remains Show Stone Age Life BBC News (9/20/05)

Challenged by Creationists, Museums Answer Back New York Times (9/20/05)

• F.A.Q.- What's Evolution? Is It 'Just a Theory'? New York Times (9/20/05)

Mexico's Masked Wrestlers Have Headlock on Spectacle National Geographic News (9/19/05)

Neanderthal Teeth Grew No Faster Than Comparable Modern Humans' Ohio State University (9/19/05)

• Teeth Yield Clues to Neanderthals' Lives Yahoo (9/20/05)
• Geordies Provide Neanderthal Clues Telegraph (9/21/05)

'Better' DNA Out of Fossil Bones BBC News (9/19/05)

Dig Reveals Much About Lost City of Herrington Annapolis Hometown Tribune (9/19/05)

Intelligence in the Internet Age C-Net News (9/19/05)

Israeli Archeologists Unveil Byzantine Mosaic, Table Yahoo (9/19/05)

Time, Tumult and the Science of Survival Chicago Tribune (9/18/05)

Take Four People, One DNA Test, and Unravel the Story of Human Migration Guardian (9/18/05)

Looters Plunder Ancient City in Peru, Says Discoverer's Son Seattle Times (9/18/05)

The Roots of Civilization Trace Back to ... Roots Eureka Alert (9/16/05)

National Study Shows Black Immigrants' Health Erodes the Longer They Live in the U.S. Rice University (9/15/05)

Statue of Goddess Anahita Can Be Only Modern Cast CTK (9/15/05)

• Czech Archaeologists CHN (9/14/05)
• Unique Statue of Persian Goddess Uncovered Near Prague Persian Journal (9/9/05)

Lewes Mysteries Unraveling Delaware Online (9/15/05)

The Ghost Dances California Alumni Assoc at UC Berkeley (9/14/05)

New Species of Early Man Telegraph (9/14/05)

• Small Brain Did Not Stop Hobbit Having Big Ideas Telegraph (9/8/05)

Enthusiast Uses Google to Reveal Roman Ruins Nature (9/14/05)

• Internet Maps Reveal Roman Villa BBC (9/21/05)
• Ancient Villa Discovered Thanks to Internet Maps Guardian (9/21/05)
• How Google Unearthed Roman Remains Telegraph (9/21/05)
• Is This a Message from the Incas? Telegraph (9/14/05)

Investigating a Mega-Mystery American Scientist (9/13/05)

Professor to Lecture on the Disinterment of Medici Corpses Billings Gazette (9/13/05)

Food Crisis In Niger Will Happen Again, Experts Say National Geographic News (9/12/05)

Crystal Clumps Preserve Fossilised DNA New Scientist (9/12/05)

Declaration Signed on Great Apes BBC News (9/12/05)

• Interviews: Saving the World's Great Apes NPR (9/9/05)

Poverty and the World Summit BBC News (9/12/05)

A Design for Life Guardian (9/12/05)

Mysteries of Taste, Smell Unlocked Discovery (9/12/05)

Michelangelo's David Marble Said Flawed Discovery (9/12/05)

A Debate of Biblical Proportions Haaretz (9/12/05)

Bronze Age Boat Sets Sail, Sinks Live Science (9/12/05)

• Crew Plans New Bronze Age Journey BBC News (9/11/05)
• Ancient Boat's Crew Vows to Try Again ABC News (9/10/05)
• Scientists Aboard Bronze Age-style Boat Rescued MSNBC (9/9/05)
• Eight Men in a Boat to Recreate India-Oman History New Kerala (9/2/05)
• Bronze Age-Style Reed Boat to Sail from Oman to India Centre Daily (9/6/05)
• Bronze Age-Style Reed Boat to Sail Ancient Trade Route Centre Daily (9/7/05)
• Indian Warship Escorts Omani Sailboat on Voyage New Kerala (9/7/05)
• Bronze Age' Boat Set to Sail from Oman to India  Hindustan Times (9/7/05)

Were Modern Humans Neighbors to Neanderthals? Washington Post (9/12/05)

Spear Point Extends Ancients' Range Idaho Statesman (9/12/05)

In Greece, High-tech Looters Target Artifacts Buried in the Sea Boston Globe (9/11/05)

Put a Bounce in Your Step - Maths Model Shows Why We Move the Way We Do Nature (9/11/05)

Tibetan Poachers Target Bhutan's 'Miracle' Fungus Guardian (9/11/05)

Retreating Glaciers Worrying Greenlanders Los Angeles Times (9/11/05)

• Retreating Glaciers, Melting Permafrost Threaten Arctic Lifestyle CNN (9/12/05)
• As Greenland Gets Warmer, Glaciers Retreat MSNBC (9/12/05)

UC Faculty Members Break New Ground While Treading Gently on the Alaskan Tundra University of Cincinnati (9/10/05)

Is Happiness All in Your Head? NPR (9/9/05)

Uncovering the Past Floridian (9/9/05)

Archaeologists and Dealers Spar Over U.S.-Italian Art Accord New York Times (9/9/05)

Tut's Tomb, Revisited Penn Current (9/8/05)

Researchers Say Human Brain Is Still Evolving New York Times (9/8/05)

• HHMI News: Human Brain Is Still Evolving Howard Hughes Medical Institute (9/8/05)
• Human Brains Enjoy Ongoing Evolution New Scientist (9/9/05)
• 'Proof' Our Brains Are Evolving BBC News (9/9/05)
• Genes Show Signs Brain Still Evolving Washington Post (9/9/05)
• Genes Show Signs Brain Still Evolving AP (9/9/05)
• Genetic Analysis Suggests Human Brain Is a Work-in-Progress Scientific American (9/12/05)

Ancient Humans 'Altered' Climate BBC News (9/8/05)

Gamblers Are a Superstitious Bunch New Scientist (9/8/05)

Secrets of the Pharaohs' Physicians Revealed Yahoo (9/8/05)

Using Hands As Bait, "Noodlers" Stalk Giant Catfish National Geographic News (9/8/05)

May/June 2005, Eighth Issue - Pieter Hugo: The Hyena People of Nigeria Details AK47

King Loses Mother But Gains a Daughter New Scientist (9/7/05)

The Mummies Return Christian Science Monitor (9/7/05)

Is the Spirit of Piltdown Man Alive and Well? Telegraph (9/7/05)

Penn Museum Ready to Work in Iran Again Daily Pennsylvanian (9/7/05)

Vanished, Under Force of Time and an Inconstant Earth New York Times (9/6/05)

Spear Led to Era of Early-Human Peace, Expert Says National Geographic News (9/6/05)

Remains of Old Ship Found in San Francisco  Yahoo (9/6/05)

• Gold Rush-Era Ship Found in San Francisco MSNBC (9/7/05)

Lost City Reportedly Plundered MSNBC (9/6/05)

Organic Bath Saves Paper from Decay - Scavenging Copper from Ancient Inks Stops Archives Falling Apart Nature (9/6/05)

• Bath Saves Ancient Manuscripts Discovery (9/14/05)

World Oldest Fishing Boat Unearthed Digital Chosunilbo (9/6/05)

Northwest Indians Continue Efforts to Revive Languages at University of Washington Workshop Eureka Alert (9/6/05)

Artifact Is Tiny, but Ancient Find Is Big Salt Lake Tribune (9/6/05)

Nations Focus on Great Ape Crisis BBC News (9/5/05)

Extinct Giant Deer Traced to Modern Relative by DNA National Geographic News (9/4/05)

London and Beijing to Exchange Archaeological Treasures  Guardian (9/6/05)

Rochester Institute of Technology Receives National Science Foundation Grant to Model Rumor Propagation Rochester Institute of Technology (9/6/05)

If Meditation Is Good, God Makes It Better New Scientist (9/2/05)

Who's Counting: Complexity and Intelligent Design ABC News (9/4/05)

Apes 'Extinct in a Generation' BBC News (9/1/05)

• Plea for $30 Million to Save Africa's Great Apes MSNBC (8/31/05)

Blood Feud Wired (9/1/05)

• Ancestry in a Drop of Blood Washington Post (8/30/05)

One Side Can Be Wrong Guardian (9/1/05)

Park Service Team Set to Rescue Years of Artifacts Washington Post (9/1/05)