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...meeting is just starting and will be over in the blink of an eye. But, it won't really be over, in terms of policy creation, for months. The pieces on the chess board may have moved a lot by then...
...That makes sense for a human. But exactly how much new information does a fruit fly acquire in a day? How complex could Drosophila's world be that it actually needs shut-eye to recharge its brain? You'd be surprised. For a fly, its brief, two-month life can only be about mating and eating - or eating and mating, depending on whether mates or food are in shorter supply - but these activities involve complex social interactions that, frankly, can be exhausting...
...Industrial Park - where over 90% of the world's notebook computers, motherboards and cable modems are made - three-quarters of the nearly 130,000 workers took at least one or two days of unpaid leave a week during the first two months of 2009. For firms with an eye on an eventual recovery, one of the main reasons to cut working hours and not jobs is that it reduces costs at the same time as preserving the talent base. But cutting hours also adds to the bigger macroeconomic problem currently hammering the world economy: lack of demand. Pay cuts...
Pretty nearly all the animal species that existed during Earth's history are gone. There may be at least 8 million species of life on the planet right now, but there are many millions more that exist only as fossils or in the mind's eye of zoologists. In this week's cover story for our annual Environment issue, Bryan Walsh writes that there have been five great waves of extinction in the planet's history--the most recent being 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs bit the dust. Now, he suggests, we may be entering the sixth. Some...
...away, “I hope it’s a nice time, Miss Winnie.”Something about it—about that patient face of his—made me so mad. Mad in the way you get when someone elbows you in the eye but says it’s an accident. It wasn’t anyone’s fault that that stray brick had messed up Ezekiel’s ear. But that didn’t mean he was defunct. And even if he was a Negro, it was still such...