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...sociology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and the object of her most recent investigations is not the kind of thing you would think social scientists spend their time on. Her quarry, sociologically speaking, is the elusive, zealously guarded heart of the modern-day teenage boy. Giordano--an author of such articles as "A Conceptual Portrait of Adolescent Romantic Relationships" and "Hooking Up: The Relationship Contexts of 'Nonrelationship' Sex"--believes something most people don't: not only do adolescent boys have hearts, but they're also the biggest romantics around...
...that last part - the fact that a population of pygmies can still be found living just a stone's throw away from the Liang Bua cave where the original bones were found - that helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental geneticist at Penn State and another author of the PNAS paper. "If you look throughout the area, there are plenty of populations where the average male is under a meter and a half [4'11''] and females are shorter," he says. "If the people there are short now, so were the people who lived there 20,000 years...
...original authors of the Nature paper - Peter Brown and Michael Morwood, both of the University of New England in Australia - aren't about to surrender their belief in a new species. In an email, Brown says that the PNAS paper "provides absolutely no evidence that the unique combination of features found in Homo floresiensis are found in any modern human." Morwood points out that supporting papers have previously been published in elite journals like Science and Nature, while Brown argues that the asymmetry in the skull was due to the fact that the original skeleton was buried...
...this sounds like he-said, she-said for the paleoanthropological crowd, you're not far off. The two sides quickly descend from debating the finer points of human fossils to slagging off on each other's ethics. Brown has accused Teuku Jacob - the lead author of the PNAS paper and one of Indonesia's most venerable anthropologists - of removing the fossils from their legal depository and damaging them while attempting to make a copy. Jacob has denied the charges in the past, and Thorne takes umbrage at the accusations. "This is a very senior academic," he says of Jacob. "This...
...Muhammad Amir Rana, author of A to Z of Jihadi Organizations in Pakistan, takes a different view, claiming that explosives training is exactly what visiting foreigners are getting from Pakistan-based cells. "We have seen that the foreigners aren't interested in battlefield training, they are only interested in making explosives," he says, referring to the research he does with the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies in Lahore. "You can download bomb-making instructions from the Internet, but when you don't have practice, it's still very difficult to do. So you come to Pakistan for the experience side...