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...memoir Falling Through the Earth put her in the upper echelons of the literary heavens, but with Angelology she has voluntarily consigned herself to the infernal realm of the commercial thriller. Angelology is based on a literal interpretation of a passage in Genesis that describes angels interbreeding with human women to produce powerful hybrid beings called Nephilim. Trussoni supposes - and why shouldn't she? - that the Nephilim are still among us, a wealthy, evil élite who secretly guide the affairs of men. It's a killer premise. That peal of thunder you just heard was the sound...
...some points during the night, Harvard had to have been wondering whether it was really shooting against a human goaltender or a backboard...
...which is also home to a rebel insurgency. Aid workers operating in the region in 2007 told TIME the government allowed them to distribute food in some places and not others. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of upsetting the government. In a report soon after that, Human Rights Watch accused the Meles government of rounding up and killing livestock in the region and blocking aid. The government has repeatedly denied such accusations. (Read about the rise of extremism in Somalia...
Wrangham’s new book “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human," published in May 2009, delves further into the implications of cooking food...
...research in human evolutionary biology is something that our students have enjoyed hearing about in the past in our junior symposium,†said Shawn C. Harriman, Educational Program Coordinator of the Mind/Brain/Behavior program, “This is an opportunity for the larger Harvard community to hear about his most recent work and his most recent book...