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...Sometimes they do matter more than that. Sometimes there’s greater meaning to be found in athletics. Sports can break social barriers and make broader statements, as Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, or Maniac Magee would be quick to tell...
...field who would love to work with them,” Giles said. The fellows’ chosen areas of study span a diverse set of issues. According to a press release for the foundation, Beth Macy, the families beat reporter at "The Roanoke Times," will study the financial, social, and political impact of the aging baby boomer population; former NBC correspondent and current freelance multimedia journalist Kevin Sites will focus on developing a model for sustainable, independent Web-centric journalism; and Russian op-ed editor Maxim Trudolyubov will study the interaction of opinion journalism with contemporary media and society...
...short-burst format encourages streams of consciousness that go tragically unedited. Or, possibly, the world is full of more jerks than we care to acknowledge. Whatever the explanation, a shocking number of Twitterers manage to use just 140 characters to come across as massive jackasses. (See the top 10 social-networking apps...
That's not to say that the shape of the brain tells you nothing about the characteristics of social species, particularly when the species in question are primates. Studies from the 1990s that have stood up over time showed that among social apes like gorillas and chimps, brain and behavior evolve in ways peculiar to an individual's sex. Males have more bulk in the region of the brain connected with aggression and competition and less in the region that tempers those tendencies - which better equips them for the socially competitive world into which they're born. Females have more...
...problem with the old study, the researchers believe, was its overemphasis on dogs and its use of living species alone. Canines have co-evolved with humans, growing more social as we selected for those traits. That essentially skewed the results, and the absence of fossil ancestors from the data meant there was no information about whether the brains of the earliest dogs grew or shrank or did both over time. Finarelli and Flynn acknowledge that the modern canine brain has grown along with its sociability, but they do not know which is the cause and which is the effect...