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• Copenhagen and the Commons

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  I discussed the tragedy of the commons in a recent post here, and over the last month have been struck by how well this concept fit some of te events at the climate change conference in Copenhagen. Here are some thoughts on this, also posted at my blog on Huffington Post : Reviews of this months Copenhagen ...
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• The Diametric Revolution in Psychotherapy

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Revolution/revolutionary are often very over-used words, and boil down to little more than hype for things which seldom deserve such sensational slogans. But a true revolution in psychotherapy is in the making in relation to the so-called “diametric model” of mental illness. Diametric derives from diameter , ...
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• Evolutionary Marketing - P2P Foundation

  
  Today's Review — Authority: 472
  Dear P2P friends, I’m working on a project to define the contours of a new approach to marketing — what I call Evolutionary Marketing — based on the recognition that we are all part of an evolving process, and that we have both a … Continue reading from the original source: Evolutionary Marketing - P2P ...
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• Why Is Health Care a Right?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  In the partisan debate on the current health care reform in Congress, nobody on either side seems to question the underlying assumption that basic health care is a right, not a privilege.  But why is health care a right? In a capitalist economy like the United States, everybody has to purchase everything they want ...
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• How Evolutionary Mechanisms Contribute To Biological Diversity

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 161
  An international team of scientists has discovered how changes in both gene expression and gene sequence led to the diversity of visual systems inAfrican cichlid fish. In research published in [...]
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• Viruses that adapted to high temperatures may jump species more easily

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, December 27 (ANI): A team of scientists is all set to investigate whether viruses that have adapted to higher temperatures can jump species more easily, which could shed light on the characteristics of host-switching viruses such as the avian flu or H1N1.The team, which consists of a computational ...
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  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 529
  New Zealand journalist Susan Mazur has published a fascinating book about some of the current controversies among evolutionary biologists. The book is a loosely edited collection of interviews with, and comments about, various people, including the Altenberg 16. Her favorites are the “two Stus” — Stuart Newman ...
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• Man convicted for killing and eating Chinas last Indochinese tiger

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  The last Indochinese tiger in China was killed and eaten by a man who has now been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his crime. [More]
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• Ancient whale was dwarf mud-sucker

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, December 25 (ANI): A new study has determined that an ancient dwarf whale unearthed in southeastern Australia captured its prey by slurping up mouthfuls of mud.According to a report in National Geographic News, the fossil whale, thought to be between 25 and 28 million years old, hints that mud sucking ...
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• Chimps use tools to cut up their food

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 25 (ANI): Chimps from Nimba Mountains of Guinea, Africa, use stone and wooden cleavers along with stone anvils to cut up Treculia fruits.PhD student Kathelijne Koops and Professor William McGrew of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, observed a group of apes ...
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• The True Meaning of Christmas

  
  Psychology Today — Authority: 141
  Lets be honest.
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• 10 things Apple did right in 2009

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 144
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Apple’s 2009 execution was nothing short of spectacular, given the sour economy and CEO Steve Jobs’ medical leave. Apple executives handled both circumstances, which might have sunk another company, with finesse and subtle but direct aggressiveness. I had a difficult time narrowing the ...
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• Religious Piety as a Mating Strategy

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  The evolutionary significance of religion is a hot topic. Several researchers have suggested that religious belief is one or another sort of parasitic meme that exploits the existing architecture of the human mind (I made joking reference to this view in my earlier post  How the Dawkins Stole Christmas , but I ...
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• Would Including Grains Make You “Better Fed?”

  
  Free The Animal — Authority: 516
  Ill have to file this as about the dumbest thing Ive seen all week. Tons of readers have alerted me to articles out claiming that Stone Age man was "better fed than previously thought" and has been "feasting on grains for 100,000 years." Its nonsense. U of C archeologist finds Stone Age man better fed than ...
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• Evolutionary Basis of Marriage

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 572
    What Anthropology says about marriage, and how when compared to today’s perception of marriage its all quite hilarious. Its easy to find yourself married and never have any idea why. Know this: Your marriage stems from a prehistorical homo sapien tradition at the heart of which is not surprisingly what is ...
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• First chapter of encyclopedia of microbe genomes released

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, December 24 (ANI): Genome scientists from the US and Germany have assembled the first pages of a comprehensive encyclopedia of genomes of all the microbes on Earth, which will help biologists find new genes and fill out the branches of the “Tree of Life.”“This is a rich sampling of the diversity of ...
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• Physical Pain and Emotional Pain: More Similar Than You Think

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  New research led by psychologist C. Nathan DeWall of the University of Kentucky and reported in the journal Psychological Science suggests that physical pain and emotional pain may be more similar than you think. In a first experiment, volunteers were randomized either to take 1,000 mg/day of acetaminophen (the ...
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• Velocity of Climate Change Varies from Mountain to Marsh

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Reports of maples on the march northward and butterflies flitting far afield are already flooding in, and climate scientists predict that with escalating temperature changes more species will need to either get out of dodge, or hope for emissions reductions that will help the planet dodge the climate bullet. ...
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• Peak oil and the psychology of work

  
  The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future — Authority: 617
  The following is a guest post from Vinay Kumar, who lives in the small coastal town in Southern India. Vinay has a Phd in Neuroscience from M.I.T. and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. He works as a systems engineer and volunteers on an organic farm that he helped to create. He also ...
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• Invictus: Race harmony and rugby

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Conflicts are easy to begin and much harder to patch up. Deep in the human psyche, we divide the social landscape into us and them - in-groups and out-groups. Early social psychologists were preoccupied by this problem. Their interest was piqued by the holocaust to which many had lost family members. Social division ...
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