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...talk about apes sharing food as a demonstration of empathy. What's in it for the apes who already have food - why do they choose to give it away? In biology, we usually make a sharp distinction between why things evolved and why animals do things. For example, sex evolved for reproduction. But if you ask people why they have sex, reproduction is not always mentioned. So there's a separation between why the behavior evolved and why the actors actually engage in it. The same is true for altruistic tendencies. You share food with your kin. You share food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Humans Actually Selfish? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...Wednesdays from 2000 to 2008. The health of the patients, who were split evenly between the July and August admission days, was tracked for a week. While there was little difference between the crude death rates for each seven-day period, when researchers controlled for the patients' age, sex, socioeconomic status and secondary medical problems, the odds of dying was found to be 6% higher for those admitted on the Wednesday in August. Among so-called medical admissions - all those not suffering from cancer or requiring surgery - the odds were 8% higher. (See the most common hospital mishaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can New Doctors Be Harmful to Your Health? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...half of this decade, Meyer was working away on an idea that would make Potter look disturbingly mainstream-pagan. Before I go any further, here’s a refresher on the “Twilight” series: it’s an allegory for waiting to have sex until after marriage. Charming. Mormonly charming. If you’ve watched or read the first installment, this intention is immediately evident. Kristen Stewart stumbles around onscreen licking her lips in Pavlovian fashion while Robert Pattinson winces a thousand times and whispers that Stewart smells so good?...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Hot Topic: Vamps Don’t Really Suck, Per Se | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

King, Representative Steve • warning by that same-sex marriage is just one brief stop on the route to socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Values Voter Summit • attendees at are told by Carrie Prejean that she is "disgusted at the way some people can be so intolerant" of her views on same-sex marriage, though her intolerance of same-sex marriage itself is apparently not disgusting • most amusing image from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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