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...study finds that religion may have evolved as a by-product of non-religious, cognitive processes, dispelling a competing theory that religion served as an adaptation to help unrelated individuals cooperate...

Author: By Adam T. Horn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Rethinks Origins of Religion | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...braking, but the NHTSA determines that their concerns are of "ambiguous significance" given the variety of defects described. Based on this sense of inconclusiveness, the administration denies Ziprin's petition for further investigate into the 19 Camry and Lexus models that are potentially involved. (See the top 10 product recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toyota's Safety Problems: A Checkered History | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...song also has a more distinct arc than any other on the album. It’s the only track with a clear bridge, and it builds to a climactic resolution that inundates the listener in an icy, placid pool of electronic harmonies. The end product is a song that grips with remarkable force, immediately establishing the album’s dark, baleful atmosphere...

Author: By Matthew C. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Massive Attack | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...course, Google’s moral high ground benefits from the fact that it sells a high-concept unmanufactured product. It may be a little harder for a manufacturing company like Nike to make a similar move, given the fact that many such companies employ low-paid factory workers who earn pennies a day. For example, a 2008 National Labor Committee report called into question the new Sesame Street dolls, which were allegedly made under sweatshop conditions. Just recently, the NLC released a report on the abject conditions in a Reebok sweatshop in San Salvador. According to the report, workers...

Author: By FRANK C. MALDONADO | Title: Firms as Diplomats | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...beauties of Ecocradle is that unlike Styrofoam--which is hard to recycle, let alone biodegrade--this myco-material can easily serve as mulch in your garden. Ecovative's next product, Greensulate, will begin targeting the home-insulation market sometime next year. And according to Bayer's engineering tests, densely packed mycelium is strong enough to be used in place of wooden beams. "It's not so far-out," he says of Ross's art house. So could Bayer see himself growing a mushroom house and living in it? "Well"--he hesitates--"maybe we'd start with a doghouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industrial-Strength Fungus | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

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