News - April, 2006

Norwegian Team Embarks on 'Kon-Tiki' Trip ABC News (4/29/06)

• In Pictures: Kon-Tiki Voyage Recreation BBC News (4/28/06)
• Norwegians Sail on 'Kon-Tiki' Odyssey MSNBC (5/1/06)

Old Bones Are Telling New Tales Seattle Times (4/28/06)

Fearful Ways to Meet a Lover Guardian (4/28/06)

Egyptologists Launching Online Encyclopedia CNN (4/28/06)

The Bosnia-Atlantis Connection Archaeology (4/27/06)

• Bosnian Pyramids: Great Discovery or Colossal Hoax? Live Science (5/4/06)
• Pyramid or PR Stunt? Critics Blast Bosnian Find MSNBC (5/4/06)

Seven World Wonders Finalists Picked Discovery (4/27/06)

Archaeology: Digital Digs Nature (4/26/06)

Girls Much Quicker than Boys at Timed Tasks LiveScience (4/25/06)

Why Men Get Aggressive with Super-Masculine Rivals Guardian (4/25/06)

Team Conducts ‘Autopsy' on Civil War Sub MSNBC (4/25/06)

Blackbeard Dive Site Still Posing Questions Jacksonville Daily News (4/25/06)

Professor Shares Andean Discovery Columbia Missourian (4/25/06)

Ghost-Hunters Descend on Whaling Ship MSNBC (4/25/06)

Cloud of Scholarly Dust Rises Over Ancient Footprints Claim Columbus Dispatch (4/25/06)

Scientists Debunk Astrology Discovery (4/24/06)

University of Florida Professor Describes Lost Amazonian Life Gainesville Sun (4/24/06)

Mathematical Model May Provide Insight into How We Sense Scientific American (4/24/06)

Olympia Event Scrapped After Archaeologists Intervene Reuters (4/22/06)

Thailand Says to Repatriate Smuggled Orangutans Soon Reuters (4/21/05)

The Molecules of Evolution Christian Science Monitor (4/20/06)

Possible Gospel of Judas Fragments Revealed in Ohio National Geographic News (4/20/06)

• Papyrus Bits Add New Twist to ‘Judas’ Tale MSNBC (4/20/06)

Controversial Theory Linking Reading Ability to Specific Brain Region Gets a Boost Scientific American (4/20/06)

Archaeologists Hope Bosnian "Pyramid" is Real Yahoo News(4/20/06)

• Photo in the News: Pyramid Discovered in Bosnia? National Geographic News (4/20/06)
• Experts Find Evidence of Bosnia Pyramid MSNBC (4/20/06)

Using DNA to Plumb Human Ancestry NPR (4/19/06)

Equality Makes for Better Sex LiveScience (4/19/06)

• Global Sex Survey: Satisfied in the West NPR (4/21/06)

Finches Provide Answer to Another Evolutionary Riddle Scientific American (4/19/06)

Watching the Brain 'Switch Off' Self-Awareness New Scientist (4/19/06)

Emotional Wiring Different in Men and Women LiveScience (4/19/06)

Lingerie Makes Hagglers Happy-Go-Lucky Nature (4/19/06)

Polynesian Odyssey Ready for a Remake MSNBC (4/19/06)

Name that W... o... r... d... Science (4/19/06)

• Alphabets Are As Simple As... Telegraph (4/19/06)
• Writing Systems Traced Back to Nature MSNBC (4/25/06)
• Letters in All Writing Systems Traced Back to Nature LiveScience (4/25/06)

We Believe in ET, Not ID Guardian (4/18/06)

Secrets of 9,000-Year-Old Dentistry Guardian (4/18/06)

US Colonel Offers Iraq an Apology of Sorts for Devastation of Babylon Independent (4/16/06)

Chimpanzees And Humans Have Gene Variant, For Different Reasons Science Daily (4/16/06)

'John the Baptist Cave' Part of Complex? Discovery (4/15/06)

Scientists Begin Dig at Bosnian ‘Pyramid’ MSNBC (4/14/06)

Slow Death of Africa's Lake Chad BBC News (4/14/06)

Goth Subculture May Protect Vulnerable Children New Scientist (4/14/06)

Under an Easter Ritual, an Ancient Pyramid Yahoo (4/14/06)

How the Gospel of Judas Emerged New York Times (4/13/06)

• Adventure Tale Surrounds ‘Gospel of Judas' MSNBC (4/14/06)

Relationship of Brain and Skull More Than Just Packaging EurekAlert (4/13/06)

Boredom Could Be Good for Children Guardian (4/13/06)

Where Do the 'Big Ideas' Come From? ABC News (4/12/06)

Seeking Ancestry in DNA Ties Uncovered by Tests New York Times (4/12/06)

Researchers Trawl the Origins of Sea Fishing in Northern Europe Unversity of York (4/12/06)

Fossils Fill Gap in Human Lineage BBC News (4/12/06)

• New Fossil Links Up Human Evolution ABC News (4/12/06)
• Hominid Fossils from Ethiopia Link Ape-Men to More Distant Human Ancestors EurekAlert (4/12/06)
• Fossil Find Improves Knowledge of Human Origins LiveScience (4/12/06)
• Ancient Fossils Fill Gap in Early Human Evolution Reuters (4/12/06)
• Fossil Connects Human Evolution Dots CNN (4/12/06)
• Fossils Fill Human Evolution Gap Discovery (4/13/06)
• Earlier Ancestors: Ethiopian Fossils Link Humans to 4.4 Million-Year-Old Apelike Creatures, Researchers Say San Francisco Chronicle (4/13/05)
• New Fossils Add Link to the Chain of the Evolution of Humans New York Times (4/13/06)
• Fossil Find Is Missing Link in Human Evolution, Scientists Say National Geographic News (4/13/06)

From Squeak to Syntax: Language's Incremental Evolution New York Times (4/11/06)

Senses: A Whiff of Fear Can Sharpen a Woman's Thinking New York Times (4/11/06)

Brain's Darwin Machine Los Angeles Times (4/11/06)

Few Clues to High IQs LiveScience (4/11/06)

Genes Predict Body Shape and Fatness LiveScience (4/11/06)

Creationism 'No Place in Schools' BBC News (4/11/06)

• Two New Discoveries Answer Big Questions In Evolution Theory Wall Street Journal (4/7/06)
• Creationist to Tour UK Universities Guardian (4/9/06)

Are Near-Death Experiences a Dream? Nature (4/10/06)

Iraq Antiquities Find Sparks Controversy Science (4/10/06)

Endangered Monkeys at Heart of Research Fight MSNBC (4/10/06)

Video: Decoding Ancient Scrolls From Volcanic "Tomb" National Geographic News (4/10/06)

Egyptian "Female King" Gets Royal Treatment National Geographic News (4/10/06)

Girls Gone Bad: Statistics Distort the Truth LiveScience (4/10/06)

Garden Dig Uncovers Roman Pottery BBC News (4/10/06)

Burial Find Reveals Ancient Lives BBC News (4/10/06)

Devoted to Making Discoveries Honolulu Advertiser (4/9/06)

Vital Lessons at Orang-utan 'Oxbridge' Guardian (4/9/06)

• Why Are Some Animals So Smart? Scientific American (4/14/06)

China Digs Into Mystery of Missing Peking Man Fossils Los Angeles Times (4/7/06)

Study, in a First, Explains Evolution's Molecular Advance New York Times (4/7/06)

A "His" or "Hers" Brain Structure? Science (4/7/06)

Fast Language Learners Boast More White Matter New Scientist (4/7/06)

Scientists Prove It: Nobody Likes a Freeloader LiveScience (4/6/06)

• No Pain, No Collective Gain Science (4/6/06)
• People Want Freeloaders Punished, Study Finds MSNBC (4/6/06)
• Groups Unite in Dislike of Freeloaders NPR (4/6/06)
• Threat of Punishment Is Key to Cooperation Scientific American (4/7/06)

Optimism Comes with Age LiveScience (4/6/06)

Ancient Pyramid Found in Mexico BBC News (4/6/06)

• Ancient Pyramid Found at Mexico City Christian Site National Geographic News (4/6/06)
• Huge 1,500-Year-Old Pyramid Discovered in Mexico Reuters (4/6/06)
• Ancient Pyramid Discovered in Mexico Yahoo (4/6/06)
• 1,500-year-old Pyramid Uncovered In Mexico LiveScience (4/5/06)

'Gospel of Judas' Surfaces After 1,700 Years New York Times (4/6/06)

• Text Might Be Hidden 'Gospel of Judas' CNN (4/6/06)
• Lost Gospel Revealed; Says Jesus Asked Judas to Betray Him National Geographic News (4/6/06)
• Gospel of Judas Pages Endured Long, Strange Journey National Geographic News (4/6/06)
• Ancient Text Shows Judas in a Different Light NPR (4/7/06)
• A Gospel's Rocky Path from Egypt's Desert to Print Christian Science Monitor (4/7/06)
• In Ancient Document, Judas, Minus the Betrayal New York Times (4/7/06)
• Newly Translated Gospel Offers More Positive Portrayal of Judas Washington Post (4/7/06)
• Judas 'Helped Jesus Save Mankind' BBC News (4/7/06)
• Judas: This Is What Really Happened Guardian (4/7/06)
• 'Gospel of Judas' Tells His Side LiveScience (4/7/06)
• Judas Is No Traitor in Long-Lost Gospel Los Angeles Times (4/7/06)
• ‘Gospel of Judas' Offers Contrarian View of Jesus MSNBC (4/7/06)
• New Twist on Judas in Ancient Text Discovery (4/10/06)

9,000-Year-Old Drilled Teeth Are Work of Stone Age Dentists National Geographic News (4/5/06)

• Research Digs Up Examples of Ancient Dentistry NPR (4/6/06)
• Prehistoric Trip to the Dentist Had to Hurt CNN (4/5/06)
• Yeeowww! Prehistoric Dentists Used Stone Drills LiveScience (4/5/06)
• Ancient Dentists Knew the Drill Earlier Than Expected Los Angeles Times (4/8/06)

Unusual Ancient Egyptian Pillow Analyzed Discovery (4/5/06)

Bishop's Country Palace Uncovered BBC News (4/4/06)

Canadian Bison Set to Stroll Siberia Reuters (4/4/06)

Sunken Treasure at Centre of Murky Indonesian Scandal Yahoo (4/4/06)

Trapped in the Creationist Briar Patch Guardian (4/4/06)

Roman-Era Burial Cave Unearthed in Lebanon ABC News (4/4/06)

Churchgoers Live Longer LiveScience (4/3/06)

Bushmeat Boom Benefits Ghana's Farmers (4/3/06)

No, Duh! Sex in Media Drives Earlier Teen Passion LiveScience (4/3/06)

Archaeologists Launch Large Dig in Virginia Yahoo (4/1/06)

Key Dead Sea Scroll Makes U.S. Debut NPR (4/1/06)

• Exhibit Highlights Artifacts of Early Christianity MSNBC (4/3/06)