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Rather like the ant in an Aesop's fable, people with thrifty genotypes--wisely, it might be argued--prepare for hard times by consuming and storing more calories than they expend. In this fashion, they create a reservoir of fat that comes in handy when food grows scarce. It's easy to imagine that repeated famines over the course of human development practically forced the biological system for regulating weight to skew strongly toward resisting weight loss rather than protecting against weight gain...
Emergence has become a common way of thinking about the world: zillions of little units--in this case neurons--do their own thing but together make up an entity of almost unfathomable complexity. Change the word neurons to "six-legged workers," and you'd have an ant colony. Change "ants" to "online buyers and sellers," and you'd have eBay. Change that to "stock traders," and you'd have NASDAQ...
...paper, which will vary from 12 to 18 pages a day, carried nine stories on its front page yesterday, including pieces on a court battle over New York wine sales, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s welfare reform position and an Associated Press story about the discovery of an ant colony stretching from Italy to Spain...
...have its Icicle Ball cancelled, I ventured to the somewhat hallowed halls of New York city’s Hammerstein Ballroom, which was not so unlucky. Artist Direct’s Snocore mini-festivals have two different tours that run concurrently. The rock tour, which this year featured Alien Ant Farm and The Apex Theory, caters for the harder-headed listeners, while the romantically named Icicle Ball presents an eclectic mix of artists tending towards the more adventurous. This year’s Ball even featured poet Saul Williams on some of the stops...
...Prime Minister for the past six years, António Guterres, quit in December after his Socialist Party (PS) was trounced in municipal elections by its main rival, the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Guterres had two years left in his term but felt bound to step down after such a huge slap, the worst part of which was that the Social Democrats captured the City Hall in Lisbon for the first time since the 1974 revolution that ended decades of dictatorship. With general elections on March 17, many Portuguese commentators think Guterres stepped aside just in time for the country...