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Do you decide not to post about your friends, or are you impartial about whom you blog about? - Roberto Torres, Wilmington, Del. I'm not impartial. Nor do I pretend to be. I think my readers like the fact that I have opinions and strong ones. I never set out...
Finarelli and Flynn did not study as broad a collection of animals as the authors of the earlier paper. They studied just one order, the carnivores, but they did so in depth. Sampling both living terrestrial carnivores and the fossils of extinct ones, they analyzed overall brain volume relative to...
The problem with the old study, the researchers believe, was its overemphasis on dogs and its use of living species alone. Canines have co-evolved with humans, growing more social as we selected for those traits. That essentially skewed the results, and the absence of fossil ancestors from the data...
Ask Brent Boyd, a retired offensive guard for the Minnesota Vikings, who receives Social Security disability benefits for head trauma sustained while playing football, but was refused similar recompense from the NFL. Testifying in 2007 at a congressional hearing on NFL retirement benefits, Boyd described the NFL's process as...
The Khans' choice of destination was relatively fortunate. Khan and 15,000 others are the guests of the Tarakai family. On land it owns, inside schools it built, the wealthy political clan has established an impressive relief operation that boasts ambulances, clinics, visiting doctors, a constant supply of electricity and...