News - November, 2006
New Study Suggests Speakers of Different Languages Perceive Rhythm Differently EurekAlert (11/30/06)
Aboriginal Australians Hit Hard by Cancer New Scientist (11/30/06)
World's Oldest Ritual Discovered EurekAlert (11/30/06)
University of Leicester Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Curse EurekAlert (11/30/06)
In Search of Lost Time Nature (11/29/06)
Female Chimps Fight Back LiveScience (11/28/06)
Chimps Name Foods With Grunts Discovery News (11/28/06)
Success Is Relative, and Height Isn't Everything New York Times (11/28/06)
Stonehenge Was a Site for Sore Eyes in 2300BC Telegraph (11/28/06)
Women Talk Three Times as Much as Men, Says Study Daily Mail (11/28/06)
Outcomes: Circumcision May Reduce Risk of S.T.D.'s New York Times (11/28/06)
Professor Honored for Dog-Man Work Daily Star (11/28/06)
Abandoned O.J. Project Shows Shame Still Packs a Punishing Punch Washington POst (11/27/06)
Gorilla Staple Adds Spice to New Drugs Washington Post (11/27/06)
Traditional Cures Meet Intellectual Property Rights New Scientist (11/27/06)
A Layered Look Reveals Ancient Greek Texts New York Times (11/27/06)
Radiologists Attempt to Solve Mystery of Tut's Demise EurekAlert (11/27/06)
Native Americans Bristle at Smoking Bans NPR (11/27/06)
Let Us Test Darwin, Teacher Says BBC News (11/27/06)
Maya Teased Ears Through Architecture Discovery News (11/27/06)
Researchers Seek Routes to Happier Life Red Orbit (11/26/06)
The Traits That Make Us Humans NPR (11/26/06)
Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid National Geographic News (11/27/06)
Clifford Geertz, Pioneering Cultural Anthropologist NPR (11/26/06)
Words Come Easier After a Singalong New Scientist (11/26/06)
Located: Human Search Engine Guardian (11/26/06)
Lemur Boon on Madagascar Nature (11/24/06)
Mining Ancient Molars Science (11/22/06)
Human Genome More Variable Than Previously Thought Nature (11/22/06)
Report Finds Most Programs Ineffective for Aboriginal Children EurekAlert (11/22/06)
Think of a Concept, Taste It on Your Tongue New Scientist (11/22/06)
21st Century Technology Cracks Alchemists' Secret Recipe EurekAlert (11/22/06)
Creation vs Darwin Takes Muslim Twist in Turkey ABC News (11/22/06)
Tomb Find Reveals Pre-Inca City BBC News (11/22/06)
U-boats' Last Resting Place Found BBC News (11/22/06)
African Cave Art Depicts Peace CNN (11/22/06)
Rome's She-Wolf Younger Than Its City Discovery News (11/22/06)
Magellan's Epic Voyage Retold BBC News (11/22/06)
A Free-for-All on Science and Religion New York Times (11/21/06)
Rebel Sub May Reveal Its Secrets in a Year MSNBC (11/21/06)
Jamestown Skeleton Still a Mystery Discovery News (11/21/06)
4,000-Year-Old Tombs Found Near Jerusalem Mall National Geographic News (11/21/06)
Brain Controls How You Taste Food Discovery News (11/21/06)
Chimps Go Ape Over Older Females Science (11/20/06)
Gestures Say So Much, Whatever Your Language New Scientist (11/20/06)
3,000-Year-Old Tools to Museum BBC News (11/20/06)
Some Believe 'Truth Serums' Will Come Back Washington Post (11/20/06)
Java Sunken Treasure to Be Sold BBC News (11/19/06)
Archaeologists Dig Deep to Revive 2,200 Year-Old Ancient Capital People's Daily (11/19/06)
Syrian Village Hobbled by Years of Inbreeding NPR (11/19/06)
99.5 Percent Like a Neanderthal [editorial] New York Times (11/18/06)
Orangutans Displaced, Killed by Indonesian Forest Fires National Geographic News (11/17/06)
Museum Returns Aboriginal Remains BBC News (11/17/06)
Forensics, Archaeology Techniques Used in MIA Search National Geographic News (11/17/06)
At Holy Site, Even Trash Holds Treasures MSNBC (11/17/06)
Tomb of Aztec Emperor May Lie in Mexico Yahoo (11/16/06)
Banking on Indian Umbilical Cords Wired (11/16/06)
Love-Hungry Apes Move to Island BBC News (11/16/06)
Mere Thought of Money Makes People Selfish LiveScience (11/16/06)
Neanderthal DNA Secrets Unlocked BBC News (11/15/06)
Lack of Toilets Harming Health of Billions, UN Report Says National Geographic News (11/15/06)
Sharpest Cut from Nanotube Sword Nature (11/15/06)
Best, Worst World Heritage Sites Ranked National Geographic News (11/15/06)
Ancient Crash, Epic Wave New York Times (11/14/06)
For Clues on Climate, Seeing What Packrats Kept New York Times (11/14/06)
Roman Ship Thrills Archaeologists BBC News (11/14/06)
Mudslide Victims Exhumed One Year After Hurricane Yahoo (11/14/06)
Roman Tombstone to Stay in City BBC News (11/14/06)
Roman Coins Found at Netherlands Dig Yahoo (11/13/06)
Unearthed: Ancient Sect's Extreme Latrine Nature (11/13/06)
Unique Roman Artistry Revealed Discovery (11/10/06)
Raiding for Women in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest? EurekAlert (11/10/06)
Is This the Perfect Comedy Face? BBC News (11/10/06)
Libraries in the Sand Reveal Africa's Academic Past Reuters (11/10/06)
Forging the Modern World's Marvels CNN (11/10/06)
Not Just Nuts and Berries for These Hominids Science (11/9/06)
Sea Urchin Genome Reveals Striking Similarities to Humans National Geographic News (11/9/06)
Gorillas Missing Link in HIV Mystery New Scientist (11/8/06)
Economist Shows Good Fences Do Make Good Neighbors Today @ Univ of Calif Irvine (11/8/06)
The Green House of the Future - Built c.1550 Guardian (11/8/06)
Intelligent Design Suffers Further Setback in Midterms Science (11/8/06)
Google Tops Translation Ranking Nature (11/8/06)
The Bookshelf talks with Michael Shermer [author of Why Darwin Matters] American Scientist (11/7/06)
The Place of Physics in Religion NPR (11/7/06)
Why Eyes are So Alluring LiveScience (11/7/06)
Google Earth, Satellite Maps Boost Armchair Archaeology National Geographic News (11/7/06)
Baboons, Birds Remember Hundreds of Photos National Geographic News (11/7/06)
Old Viruses Resurrected Through DNA New York Times (11/7/06)
Did Modern Humans Get a Brain Gene from Neandertals? Science (11/7/06)
Glenn Grieco, Still Building After All These Years Texas A&M News (11/6/06)
New World Explorers Sought to Explain Death Washington Post (11/6/06)
Indonesia Forest Fires, Attacks Kill 1,000 Orangutans Reuters (11/6/06)
Bones of Contention? [Review of The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons] American Scientist (11/5/06)
An Up-Close Look at a 2 Percent Difference New York Times (11/4/06)
Cool Like You Science (11/3/06)
Bigfoot Studies Render Academic an Outcast MSNBC (11/3/06)
The Smart and Swinging Bonobo Smithsonian (11/3/06)
Chile's Driving Force Smithsonian (11/3/06)
Song and Dance Man Smithsonian (11/3/06)
Pilgrims' Progress Smithsonian (11/3/06)
The Ritual World of Pocahontas Natural History (11/3/06)
Venus Statue X-Rayed for Cracks Discovery News (11/3/06)
Tongues on the Mind Science (11/2/06)
Politics: All in the Family? Discovery News (11/2/06)
Social Pressure, Not Health Warnings Influence Sexual Behavior LiveScience (11/2/06)
Child Abuse: Nature or Nurture? New Scientist (11/2/06)
Viking-Era Silver Coins Found in Sweden LiveScience (11/2/06)
Viral Fossil Brought Back to Life Science (11/1/06)
Topless Skull Confirms Earliest Autopsy Discovery News (11/1/06)
Westerners 'Are More Promiscuous' BBC News (11/1/06)
Widespread Creationism Teaching Would Worry UK's Blair Reuters (11/1/06)
Cultural Pillagers Leave Trail of Ruin Oregonian (11/1/06)
Turk Court Acquits Woman in Scarf Case Topix.Net (11/1/06)
92-year-old Turkish Archaeologist to Be Tried for Saying Head Scarves Linked to Sex Rites USA Today (10/31/06)