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...groups for a long period of time, they have an incentive to steward the resources," explains the study's lead author, Christopher Costello, a resource economist at U.C. Santa Barbara. "If they overharvest or destroy habitat today, they will have a less vibrant stock in the future, and thus lower future profits...
...caffeinated drinks consumed in one day 2) Number of objectionable pictures you have un-tagged on Facebook 3) Number of times you said you hated reality TV but watched it anyway 4) Number of Facebook friends 5) Number of Pokemon cards collected in your childhood 6) Your BMI (the lower the better) 7) Your fastest mile time 8) Number of licks it takes you to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop 9) Consecutive days spent on World of Warcraft 10) Number of Miley Cyrus songs on your iPod 11) Your record highest score on Rock Band...
...Tricia Rose, a professor at Brown University's Department of Africana Studies and the author of the forthcoming book The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop - And Why It Matters. The average median household income in Riviera Beach is about $10,000 lower than that in the rest of the country, and the city's per capita violent-crime rate is higher than the city of Miami's, according to 2007 FBI figures released this month...
...Sports were a much smaller influence than you would think.” Each college and university was assigned a Predictive Qualities Indicator score that determined its ranking. Harvard’s PQI score was 2365.42. Columbia, which ranked second, scored more than a hundred points lower. Stanford, which came in third, scored more than a hundred points less than Columbia. Yale ranked a distant eighth. “It’s kind of interesting how large the gap was between Harvard and the other schools,” Payack said. “The difference between Harvard...
...larger jaw and other measures imply a greater influx of testosterone during puberty, according to Apicella. “This financial risk taking in men is the modern equivalent of male-to-male combat,” said Apicella, who found in a previous study that men with lower voices tend to father more children than men with higher voices. Apicella’s co-author, Anna S. J. Dreber, a visiting researcher from the Stockholm School of Economics, noted that “in an evolutionary sense, it makes sense that women are more risk averse” than...