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Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker spoke to an overflow crowd of over 250 at the Science Center last night, arguing that human religious beliefs are a by-product of evolution, but not an actual evolutionary adaptation...
Religion, he said, “may be a by-product of certain features of our psychology that may [have been evolutionarily] adaptable...
...epic quests, skipping across decades of time and continents of space--The Known World is a glorious, enthralling, tangled root ball of a book--but always returning to the story's tragic core. Slowly, terrifyingly, it dawns on us that although Henry has his free papers, he's the product of an evil world, and his soul will never be free. When it was published last summer, Jones' book seemed like a very mature first novel. With the benefit of eight months' reflection, we can say that The Known World is a masterpiece that deserves a place in the American...
...voltage impulses under the screen's plastic skin as you move. The result is virtual topography. Since the sensations vary, depending on whether you're touching an icon or a blank area, you can finger through options without taking your eyes off the road. Alpine's first PulseTouch product is the IVA-D300 in-dash DVD player and receiver ($1,500), left, whose 7-in. screen can display navigation, music options or DVDs. The videos won't play unless the car is parked. --By Wilson Rothman
...good for a company like Coca-Cola. But the Atlanta soft-drink giant has been facing multinational malfunctions. In February, India's Parliament alleged that Coke's soft drinks contain pesticide residue. (India levied similar charges against PepsiCo.) Meanwhile, U.S. investigators are probing whether the company oversold its product in Japan to pad short-term results--a practice known as channel stuffing. In Britain, the press has been ridiculing Dasani, Coke's purified-water brand. It turns out Dasani does not flow from mountain springs in Switzerland but from the taps of London. And Coke had to recall Dasani from...