News - August, 2006

Devaluing the Race Card Science (8/31/06)

Multiple Copies of a Mystery Gene May Make Us Human Nature (8/31/06)

• Brain Gene May Help Make Us Human LiveScience (8/31/06)
• Human Evolution: The More the Merrier Science (8/31/06)

Ethiopian Herders Risk Floods to Save Cattle National Geographic News (8/31/06)

Ritualistic Mercury Use Dangerous: Environmental Protection Agencey Reuters (8/31/06)

Is Peru's Famed 'Ice Maiden' in Danger? ABC News (8/31/06)

No 'God Spot' in the Human Brain LiveScience (8/29/06)

• 'God Spot' Researchers See the Light in MRI Study Guardian (8/30/06)
• Nuns Go Under the Brain Scanner Nature (8/30/06)
• Study: No ‘God Spot' in the Human Brain MSNBC (8/30/06)

Ancient Raptors Likely Feasted On Early Man, Study Suggests Ohio State University (8/29/06)

• Ancient Raptors Likely Feasted On Early Man TerraDaily (8/31/06)

Receding Texas Lake Reveals Old Skeleton LiveScience (8/29/06)

• Receding Texas Lake Reveals Old Skeleton MSNBC (8/29/06)

Chimpanzees Can Transmit Cultural Behavior to Multiple "Generations" Emory University (8/28/06)

Lebanon Historic Sites Again Escape Conflict Unscathed National Geographic News (8/28/06)

Pope Prepares to Embrace Theory of Intelligent Design Guardian (8/28/06)

• Papal Summit to Debate Darwinian Evolution New Scientist (8/30/06)

The New Piracy: How West 'Steals' Africa's Plants Guardian (8/27/06)

The Health Minister, the African Potato and a State in Denial Over Aids Guardian (8/27/06)

Sleeping with Cannibals Smithsonian (Sept 2006)

Interview: Amy Smith, Inventor Smithsonian (Sept 2006)

The Queen Who Would Be King Smithsonian (Sept 2006)

• Interview with Elizabeth Wilson, Author of "The Queen Who Would Be King" Smithsonian (Sept 2006)

Gifts of the Body [Ethical issues in human organ transplants] New Atlantis (Summer 2006)

• Body Parts Trade Lacks Oversight LiveScience (8/31/06)

Teacher's Gender Affects Learning Discovery (8/28/06)

Iliad, Odyssey Penned by Woman Discovery (8/28/06)

Urban Legends: How They Start and Why They Persist LiveScience (8/27/06)

Khampa Horsemen Ride the Winds of Change NPR (8/27/06)

The Huie Kin Family's Dynasty of Diversity NPR (8/26/06)

Will the Hobbit Argument Ever Be Resolved? Nature (8/25/06)

• Pruning the Human Family Tree Archaeology (8/24/06)

Remote Island Provides Clues on Population Growth, Environmental Degradation University of Oregon (8/25/06)

Ice Age Gives Clues to Global Warming: Study Reuters (8/25/06)

Indiana Jones (for a Weekend) Christian Science Monitor (8/25/06)

Bringing Dark Times to Light Archaeology (8/24/06)

Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List New York Times (8/24/06)

Ancient Minty Painkiller Worked, Modern Study Suggests LiveScience (8/24/06)

• Ancient Minty Painkiller Worked, Study Suggests MSNBC (8/25/06)

How Modern Were European Neanderthals? EurekAlert (8/24/06)

Some Ancient Caves Designed for Comfort Discovery (8/24/06)

Scythian Mummy Shown in Germany BBC News (8/24/06)

• Archaeologists Find 2,500-Year-Old Mummy in Mongolia, Tattoos and All Yahoo (8/24/06)
• Ancient Mummy Found in Mongolia Spiegel (8/25/06)

Kenya's Owl Man Defies Superstition BBC News (8/23/06)

Ancient Biblical Waterworks Discovered CNN (8/23/06)

• Ancient Biblical Waterworks Found in Israel Reuters (8/23/06)
• Ye Gods! Ancient Volcano Could Have Blasted Atlantis Myth USA Today (8/27/06)

"Atlantis" Eruption Twice as Big as Previously Believed, Study Suggests National Geographic News (8/23/06)

• Thera Eruption Was Bigger Still BBC News (8/27/06)

Aztecs Butchered, Ate Spanish Invaders CNN (8/23/06)

• Boiled Bones Show Aztecs Butchered, Ate Invaders Reuters (8/23/06)
• Grisly Aztec Saga Reconstructed MSNBC (8/23/06)

What a Professor Learned as an Undercover Freshman New York Times (8/23/06)

Maybe We Are Different: New Book Argues Female Brain Wired to Nurture USA Today (8/22/06)

• Why We're Hemispheres Apart Australian (8/19/06)

Neanderthals: Still in Our Genes? Discovery (8/22/06)

The Fame Motive New York Times (8/22/06)

Circumcision: Fact, Fiction and Hype LiveScience (8/22/06)

People Judge in the Blink of an Eye LiveScience (8/22/06)

Ancient Indian Port Faces Extinction South Africa Independent (8/21/06)

Report Reignites Feud Over 'Little People' as Separate Species New York Times (8/21/06)

• The Hobbit Wars Heat Up Time (8/22/06)
• The Hobbit: Was It a Work of Fiction? Independent (8/22/06)
• No Hobbits in This Shire EurekAlert (8/21/06)
• Time to Slay the Hobbit? Science (8/21/06)
• Hobbit Humans 'Impossible' Discovery (8/21/06)
• Hobbit or Not? Species Debate Flares Up MSNBC (8/21/06)
• Claim of 'Hobbit' Species Discounted LiveScience (8/21/06)
• "Hobbits" Were Pygmy Ancestors, Not New Species, Study Says National Geographic News (8/21/06)
• Photo of Original Skull and Right & Left Composites Penn State (8/21/06)
• The 'Hobbit' Is Just a Pygmy After All, Claim Scientists Telegraph (8/22/06)
• Hobbit Theory Debunked Courier Mail (8/22/06)
• Scientists: 'Hobbit' Was Ancestor of Pygmy CNN (8/22/06)
• "Hobbit" Was Ancestor of Modern Human Pygmy Reuters (8/22/06)
• Human Hobbit More Likely to Be a Pygmy, Scientists Admit Guardian (8/22/06)
• Ancient Bones Found to be Pygmies, not 'Hobbits' NPR (8/22/06)
• Indon Hobbit 'Was Disabled Caveman' Courier Mail (8/20/06)
• Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: Population affinities and pathological abnormalities Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Map Details Global Water Stress BBC News (8/21/06)

• Water Crisis Happening Now Nature (8/21/06)
• A Third of the World Population Faces Water Scarcity Today EurekAlert (8/21/06)
• Global Water Crisis Looms Larger New Scientist (8/21/06)

Cheating Is an Awful Thing for Other People to Do Washington Post (8/21/06)

Japan Bans 'Contaminated' US Rice BBC News (8/21/06)

Success Beats in the Heart of a Captive Gorilla Washington Post (8/21/06)

Why We're Hemispheres Apart [Review of The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine] Australian (8/19/06)

Evolution Forgot the Democratic Process Guardian (8/19/06)

Mohels to Mozambique: The Case for Genital Mutilation Slate (8/19/06)

60 Years Later, a World War II Submarine May Finally Come Home ABC News (8/18/06)

Canaries Mummy Coming Home After 200 Years CNN (8/18/06)

Pea-Brains Make Best Prey, Study Finds Discovery (8/18/06)

Chinese Child Policy Increases Gender Imbalance Reuters (8/18/06)

Orangutans and Human Origins Buffalo Museum of Science (8/06)

• Grehan, J.R. 2006. Mona Lisa Smile: The Morphological Enigma of Human and
  Great Ape Evolution. The Anatomical Record (Part B: New Anatomist) 289B: 139-157

Looted Peru Treasure Found in UK BBC News (8/17/06)

• Looted Ancient Peruvian Headdress Found in London Lawyer's Office Yahoo (8/17/06)
• Looted Peru Headdress Recovered in London National Geographic News (8/18/06)

Your Brain Boots Up Like a Computer LiveScience (8/17/06)

Another Ancient Tomb Discovered in Egypt? ABC News (8/17/06)

How to Own an Artefact [Review of Rescuing the Past: The Cultural Heritage Crusade by Jonathan Tokeley] Times Literary Supplement (8/16/06)

Human Evolution, Genome Style Science (8/16/06)

• Research Finds 'Unique Human DNA' BBC News (8/17/06)
• Human Brain Evolved Quickly Discovery (8/17/06)
• Scientists Identify Gene Difference Between Humans and Chimps Scientific American (8/17/06)
• The Brain Genes That Gave Man a Head Start on Chimpanzees Guardian (8/17/06)
• Scientists Find Brain Evolution Gene ABC News (8/17/06)
• Brain Gene Could Explain Why Yours is So Big LiveScience (8/16/06)
• DNA Snippet Sets Human and Chimp Brains Apart NPR (8/16/06)
• DNA Hints at Roots of Brain Evolution MSNBC (8/16/06)
• Fastest-Evolving Human Gene Linked to Brain Boost New Scientist (8/16/06)

Genetic Map Reading Guardian (8/16/06)

Online Dating Service Planned for Apes LiveScience (8/16/06)

Group Helps Man with Possible Shipwreck MSNBC (8/16/06)

2,500-Year-Old Figurines Found in China ABC News (8/16/06)

• Ancient Chinese Statues Set the Style MSNBC (8/16/06)
• 2,500-Year-Old Figurines Found in China Yahoo (8/16/06)

Did Humans Evolve? Not Us, Say Americans New York Times (8/15/06)

• How to Make Sure Children Are Scientifically Illiterate New York Times (8/15/06)

Skin Tone More Important Than Educational Background for African Americans Seeking Jobs EurekAlert (8/15/06)

Archaeologists Challenge Link Between Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Sect New York Times (8/15/06)

Younger Siblings 'More Amusing' BBC News (8/15/06)

Does Age Quash Our Spirit of Adventure? NPR (8/15/06)

Prehistoric Kangaroos Starved to Death CNN News (8/15/06)

• Prehistoric Australian Giants Starved Reuters (8/15/06)

Bison Hunters More Advanced Than Thought: Archaeologist EurekAlert (8/15/06)

Celts' Warpaint May Be Weapon to Beat Cancer Telegraph (8/14/06)

Agriculture And Tropical Conservation: Rethinking Old Ideas Science Daily (8/14/06)

Japanese Researcher Ponders Reviving Woolly Mammoth LiveScience (8/14/06)

• Can Woolly Mammoths Be Resurrected? MSNBC (8/14/06)

Mead's Letters Reveal Her Genius for Friendship Indianapolis Star (8/13/06)

Edible Ants Being Eaten Up LiveScience (8/13/06)

• Crunchy, Big-Butt Ants Entice Gourmands New Scientist (8/14/06)

Navy Halts Sunken War Ship's Photography St Paul Pioneer Press (8/13/06)

Dig Clues Point to Roman Murder BBC News (8/12/06)

That Air of Expectation, Still and Assured Archaeology (8/11/06)

To Avoid Being Eaten, Get Smart New Scientist (8/11/06)

Extinction of Languages Puts Plants and Animals at Risk LiveScience (8/11/06)

Snake Threat May Have Spurred Evolution of Primate Eyes National Geographic News (8/10/06)

Another Source of Genetic Variability Mapped Nature (8/10/06)

Love and Sex Influence Disease Evolution LiveScience (8/10/06)

Hastings Introduces Bill to Allow Study of Ancient Remains Tri City Herald (8/10/06)

• Bill Would Aid Study of Ancient Remains MSNBC (8/10/06)
• Bill Would Help Study of Ancient Remains ABC News (8/10/06)
• Hastings Authors Kennewick Man Bill Congressman Hastings Press Release (8/9/06)
• News and Comment [Text of the bill and background information] Friends of America's Past

Evolution Less Accepted in U.S. Than Other Western Countries, Study Finds National Geographic News (8/10/06)

• U.S. Lags World in Grasp of Genetics and Acceptance of Evolution LiveScience (8/10/06)

Cadaver Exhibits Are Part Science, Part Sideshow NPR (8/10/06)

• Ethics Murky on Human Anatomy Shows NPR (8/10/06)
• Origins of Exhibited Cadavers Questioned NPR (8/11/06)
• A Bioethicist Takes a Peek at 'Body Worlds' NPR (8/12/06)

Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island American Scientist (Sept 06)

Folk Science: Why Our Intuitions About How the World Works Are Often Wrong Scientific American (Aug 06)

Humans Keep Cool with Complex Systems NPR (8/10/06)

Maori Gene Claim Stirs New Zealand Family Violence Debate Reuters (8/9/06)

• Maori Gene Claim Stirs New Zealand Family Violence Debate Scientific American (8/9/06)

Surprise for Linguists: Nouns and Verbs Sound Different LiveScience (8/9/06)

In Africa, Overcoming the Risks of Childbirth NPR (8/9/06)

Landscape Influences Human Social Interaction Scientific American (8/9/06)

Archaeological Finds in Syria -- Looters and a Tomb Yahoo (8/9/06)

Monet's Colors Show Polluted London Discovery (8/9/06)

• Monet's Art May Reveal Victorian London's Smog New Scientist (8/9/06)

China Turns Out Mummified Bodies for Displays New York Times (8/8/06)

Baby Brains are Wired For Math LiveScience (8/8/06)

• Infants, as Early as 6 Months, Do See Errors in Arithmetic Physorg.org (8/7/06)

Saving Sumatra's Wild Orangutans NPR (8/7/06)

• The Green Heart of Sumatra NPR (8/8/06)

Frederick Douglass' Childhood Home Unearthed Daily Times (8/7/06)

• Archaeologists Unearth Abolitionist Home Los Angeles Times (8/12/06)

St Louis University Archaeologist and His Team Are Digging Into a Dark Past Black Death? St Louis Post Dispatch (8/7/06)

Lost Document Reveals Columbus as Tyrant of the Caribbean Guardian (8/7/06)

Understanding How Humans Walk Upright New Scientist (8/7/06)

• Blindfolded Humans Steered by Remote Control Nature (8/7/06)
• Electrical Current Used to Control Human Walk Scientific American (8/8/06)

Polynesia Explorers Created Worldwide Web of Scientific Knowledge EurekAlert (8/7/06)

Another Ancient Tomb Discovered in Egypt? ABC News (8/7/06)

Ancient Dagger Found in Bulgaria BBC News (8/6/06)

• Bulgarian Archaeologist Unearths Dagger Topix (8/7/06)
• Bulgarian Archaeologist Unearths Dagger Yahoo (8/7/06)
• 'Sensational' Golden Dagger Reveals the Secrets of Life in Thrace 5,000 Years Ago Independence Online (8/8/06)
• Ancient Dagger Unearthed in Bulgaria Discovery (8/8/06)

Video: Egypt's Sunken Treasures Showcased at Berlin Museum National Geographic News (8/6/06)

Archaeologists Find Surprise at Fort Ancient Columbus Dispatch (8/6/06)

Cat Drags in New Theory on Cairns BBC News (8/4/06)

Expert: Tablet May Have Oldest Writings Yahoo (8/4/06)

Archimedes' Secrets Revealed by Atom Smasher National Geographic News (8/3/06)

• X-rays Reveal Archimedes' Hidden Writings LiveScience (8/5/06)
• X-rays Reveal Archimedes Secrets BBC News (8/2/06)

Cat Parasite Affects Human Culture LiveScience (8/3/06)

Medieval Justice Not So Medieval LiveScience (8/3/06)

Prehistoric Causeway Is Uncovered BBC News (8/3/06)

Tribes Call for Removal of Dams That Block Journey of Salmon New York Times (8/3/06)

Spy Pics Reveal Ancient Settlements Courier Mail (8/3/06)

• Ancient Syrian Settlements Seen in Spy Satellite Images LiveScience (8/7/06)

A Peek at Prejudice Philadelphia Inquirer (8/3/06)

Peru Link to Indian Archaeological Find? BBC News (8/3/06)

NOAA Scientists Name Alaska Fish with Aleut Words Alaska Report (8/3/06)

Breast Is Best, But Watch Out for the Allergies New Scientist (8/3/06)

Fight or Flight Response Fuelled Man's Big Brain Guardian (8/2/06)

• A No Brainer: Predators Prefer Dimwitted Prey LiveScience (8/2/06)

Ancient Global Warming Spurred Primates Into North America, Fossils Show National Geographic News (8/2/06)

Clues to 'Black Paul Bunyan' Found Discovery (8/2/06)

• Archaeologists Find No DNA in Search for Slave 'Paul Bunyan' Hartford Courant (8/2/06)
• Clues to 'Black Paul Bunyan' Found LiveScience (8/2/06)
• Objects May Shed Light on 'Black Bunyan' Yahoo (8/2/06)
• Graves Searched for 'Black Paul Bunyan' Yahoo (7/28/06)

Case Closed: Charles V Died of Gout Science (8/2/06)

Tree Carvings Depict Basque Sheepherders Seattle Post Intelligencer (8/2/06)

It's Official: Apes Outsmart Monkeys Nature (8/1/06)

What Makes Us Human? Telegraph (8/1/06)

Evolution's Backers in Kansas Start Counterattack New York Times (8/1/06)

• Kansas Vote Focuses on Evolution MSNBC (8/1/06)
• Evolution Opponents Lose in Kansas Primary LiveScience (8/1/06)
• Evolution Scores in Kansas Primary Science (8/2/06)
• Evolution Debate Not Settled by Election LiveScience (8/3/06)
• Evolution Fight Shifts Direction in Kansas Vote New York Times (8/3/06)
• The Evolution Debate New York Times

Radiocarbon Testing Challenges Understanding of Ancient Hawaiian Architecture Physics.org (8/1/06)

• Hawaiian Temples Much Older Than Thought LiveScience (8/1/06)
• Radiocarbon Testing Challenges Understanding of Ancient Hawaiian Architecture, Social Complexity EurekAlert (8/1/06)
• Kansas Schools Set to Re-embrace Evolution New Scientist (8/2/06)
• Maui Temples Reveal Polynesian Past Discovery (8/3/06)

Lost Over Laos Smithsonian (8/06)

Raffaele Among the Korowai Smithsonian (8/06)