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...these trends were to continue with no cultural changes in the town for the next 10 generations, by 2409 the average Framingham woman would be 2 cm (0.8 in) shorter, 1 kg (2.2 lb.) heavier, have a healthier heart, have her first child five months earlier and enter menopause 10 months later than a woman today, the study found. "That rate of evolution is slow but pretty similar to what we see in other plants and animals. Humans don't seem to be any exception," Stearns says. (See TIME's photo-essay "Happy 200th Darwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwin Lives! Modern Humans Are Still Evolving | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Nevertheless, both morality researchers and olfactory scientists agree that people do strongly associate physical cleanliness with purity of conscience. It is the notion at the heart of adages like "cleanliness is next to godliness" and evidenced by the widespread use of cleansing ceremonies to wash away sins in various religions around the world. (Truth be told, that practice is merely an extrapolation of an evolutionary strategy to avoid disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do 'Clean' Smells Encourage Clean Behavior? | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Well, watch out, dear FlyBy reader. They’ve already hit Pfoho—your House could be next...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Attack of the Ladybugs! | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...officer, in an interview last Friday. But he noted that even a “shrunken down” series of capital expenditures would remain sizable simply due to the University’s large size, and that as a result, “at some point during the next year or so we could be going to market again [for more debt...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University May Assume More Debt | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...credit rating report issued by Moody’s Investors Service in April said that Harvard was considering halving its capital spending and new debt issuance due to investment losses. The report said that Harvard had previously planned on issuing $3 billion in new debt over the next few years to fund campus expansions, in addition to spending roughly $1 billion a year on capital projects...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University May Assume More Debt | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

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