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...have known each other—in the biblical sense, that is.Last month, a team of geneticists at HMS and MIT compared the human genome to that of chimpanzees and two more distant primates and found that early humans and chimpanzees may have interbred to form a more successful hybrid species.Scientists had previously believed that humans and chimpanzees split into separate species 7 million years ago. But “on the X chromosome, we’re more closely related to chimpanzees by 1.5 million years,” says David E. Reich, an HMS assistant professor of genetics.Reich...
What was the first car you ever owned? What kind of car are you driving these days? First car was a 1937 Packard. Paid 60 bucks for it in 1947. Today I drive a Prius, a hybrid SUV and a Volvo wagon with some "stuff...
...change is that they don't see any benefit. Climate change may be a frightening, irreversible calamity, but its worst effects will not be felt next week or next year. The planet looks the same whether I buy a sky-choking gasoline-powered car or an electric hybrid - except that I've got to pay at least $3,000 more for the hybrid. And so there's something that governments and environmentalists ought to agree on, right now: give consumers a motivation to go green. Currently, if I pay my utility bill through a direct debit to my checking account...
...ugly-duckling story won huge audiences in Germany, India and Russia, but ABC will air it as a once-a-week prime-time comedy. As the network responsible for Desperate Housewives, the closest thing to a network telenovela today, ABC has a good shot at creating a successful hybrid. CBS is enlisting a writer who knows a thing or two about melodrama--Nicholas Sparks, author of The Notebook--to develop a homegrown telenovela...
...Americans are such gluttons. We consume the most oil in the world, with little regard for the planet. You want the price of gas to go down? Stop driving so much. Take the bus, ride a bike, take a walk, join a van pool, take the train. Buy hybrid cars, and trade in your Hummers and suvs. And once in a while, stay home. The natural order of the capitalist economy will take care of the rest. Then we can we stop blaming the oil companies, the government, the Arabs and the terrorists for the price of gas. Lee Kann...