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Wonderfest 2010: How Did Evolution Shape Human Behavior? Wonderfest 2010: How Did Evolution Shape Human Behavior? News In November, Stanford University and UC Berkeley were home to the 12th Annual Bay Area Festival of Science, aptly named Wonderfest . 50 Reasons I reject Evolution 1.) Because I don’t like the idea that we came from apes… despite that humans are categorically defined and classified as apes. 2.) Because I’m too stupid and/or lazy to open a fucking book or turn on the Discovery Science Channel. The Lost America The Lost America America, One of the Most Powerful Continent in World as well as, the Most Modernized and Advanced Continent of Today. But somewhere in this Race we have Lost the America that it looked before.
- StumbleUpon Studies have shown that meditating regularly can help relieve symptoms in people who suffer from chronic pain, but the neural mechanisms underlying the relief were unclear. Now, MIT and Harvard researchers have found a possible explanation for this phenomenon. In a study published online April 21 in the journal Brain Research Bulletin, the researchers found that people trained to meditate over an eight-week period were better able to control a specific type of brain waves called alpha rhythms. Alligators: A Window Into An Ancient World How amazing is it that we have creatures as old as dinosaurs living in our midst? Close ancestors of the alligator survived the event that wiped out the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago and as this graphic from the History Channel and Column Five details, there are some fascinating and unusual facts about the large reptile. Thanks to alligators, we have a window into how ancient creatures looked and acted. Food for thought: while alligator populations are currently large in the southern US, a place where the temperature supports the proper range for hatching eggs, it’s interesting to note how small a change in global temperature would select only one sex of offspring (as sex is determined by temperature during incubation). How much will global warming change the range and the population of alligators in the future? Click here or the image below for a full sized view:
Our Family Tree: Chimps, Bonobos And Our Commonality : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture hide captionThis figure is adapted from The Demonic Male (Mariner Books, 1997) by Richard Wrangham. Mariner Books This figure is adapted from The Demonic Male (Mariner Books, 1997) by Richard Wrangham. As anticipated last week, I’m here at the Great Ape Trust in Iowa, where I’ve spent a fantastic afternoon with Sue-Savage Rumbaugh and seven bonobos. Since I’ll also be here tomorrow, I’ll blog about the full experience next week. This week I’ll continue the great-ape theme by walking through the above image — Our Family Tree — and reflecting on some of its implications.
On Pangaea, latitude and rain dictated where species lived PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Aggregating nearly the entire landmass of Earth, Pangaea was a continent the likes our planet has not seen for the last 200 million years. Its size meant there was a lot of space for animals to roam, for there were few geographical barriers, such as mountains or ice caps, to contain them. Yet, strangely, animals confined themselves. Early 1900s in Colour - All around the world All around the world - Franny Wentzel - Thursday, May 6th, 2010 : goo [previous] :: [next] In the early part of the 20th century French-Jewish capitalist Albert Kahn set about to collect a photographic record of the world, the images were held in an 'Archive of the Planet'. Before the 1929 stock market crash he was able to amass a collection of 180,000 metres of b/w film and more than 72,000 autochrome plates, the first industrial process for true colour photography
47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself - StumbleUpon I’ve decided to start a series called 100 Things You Should Know about People. As in: 100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application. Or maybe just 100 things that everyone should know about humans! The order that I’ll present these 100 things is going to be pretty random. So the fact that this first one is first doesn’t mean that’s it’s the most important.. just that it came to mind first. Dr.
60 insane cloud formations from around the world [PICs] Cloud varieties go way beyond the cumulus, stratus, and cirrus we learn about in elementary school. Check out these wild natural phenomena. STANDING IN A CORNFIELD IN INDIANA, I once saw a fat roll cloud (like #4 below) float directly over my head. It’s a 12-year-old memory that remains fresh. There was a moment of mild panic just as the cloud reached me — Is this what a tornado looks like right before it hits?
New Type of Ancient Human Found—Descendants Live Today? A previously unknown kind of human—the Denisovans—likely roamed Asia for thousands of years, probably interbreeding occasionally with humans like you and me, according to a new genetic study. In fact, living Pacific islanders in Papua New Guinea may be distant descendants of these prehistoric pairings, according to new analysis of DNA from a girl's 40,000-year-old pinkie bone, found in Siberian Russia 's Denisova cave. This "new twist" in human evolution adds substantial new evidence that different types of humans—so-called modern humans and Neanderthals , modern humans and Denisovans, and perhaps even Denisovans and Neanderthals—mated and bore offspring, experts say.
New research may show that Neandertals did not go extinct By Philip Guelpa 27 December 2011 The recently reported results of genetic research comparing samples of fossil Neanderthal DNA with that of modern populations around the world appear to indicate that modern humans outside of Africa derive some portion of their genetic material from Neanderthals. This finding, if supported by further research, has important implications, not only in answering the longstanding question of what happened to the Neanderthals, but more importantly for our understanding of the relative weight of cultural versus biological adaptation in human evolution. Since the discovery of human-like fossils in the Neander Valley of German in the mid-19th century, anthropologists and others have debated the question of how closely Neanderthals, as this fossil group was named, were related to modern humans. The question soon became entangled in the larger issue of biological evolution in general after the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
The First Aircraft Carrier, 1910 “On November 14, 1910, Eugene Ely became the first pilot to successfully launch a plane from a stationary ship. The Curtiss pusher airplane, one of the first models in the world to be built in any significant quantity, flew for two miles before Ely landed on a beach. Using the same aircraft, Ely landed on the USS Pennsylvania on January 18, 1911, while the ship was anchored at the San Francisco waterfront. He had to use a braking system made of ropes and sandbags, but he was able to quickly turn around and take off once again” Drugs information, advice &support, Scotland, UK N.B. This information has been collated from a variety of sources including expert users from UK and Europe, information obtained from users at outreach events, surveys and questionnaires and information from users via relevant websites and drug forums. This information is to be used as a rough guide only and Crew cannot vouch that all information is factual as little is known about the substance and much of the information has been obtained from service users reports. Appearance