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...males, not surprisingly, have to fight for the right to mate. Females, on the other hand, are on the hunt for not just any mate but one that can provide food for both her and the clutch of eggs she will lay. (Females, in the ultimate bow to efficiency, tend to lay their eggs on a food source, thus ensuring their offspring have a ready supply of nutrition.) So for males, securing a territory with a food patch is critical to attracting the attentions of a female. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...either a patch of food or the head of a female. (If she weren't decapitated, she wouldn't stay put, says Kravitz; and the males, being male, don't seem to care that she's not that lively.) Based on hours of footage, Kravitz says that male flies tend to use specific combat skills such as rearing up on their hind legs and lunging at their opponents when fighting over a mate. Females fighting over food, meanwhile, tend to use head-butting and shoving tactics...
...We’re constantly looking for ways to make contributions to the community and the environment,” said Alex Attia, the hotel’s general manager. Attia also said there were financial considerations to the decision. Because of how green-conscious Cambridge residents tend to be, Attia said he expected a positive response to the initiative and increased business for the garage, which he said would compensate for the loss of revenue from the parking discount. Currently, the garage charges $34 for overnight parking and offers a ten percent discount for hybrids. The discounted rate...
...nerdy, studious guys, the research suggests they can't expect to be fruitful unless they become more like the bullies who tormented them as boys. That's because, as past studies have shown, the higher your intelligence, the less sex you tend to have - and, therefore, the fewer kids you will have. The last 20 years have been a golden era for dorks as video games and graphic novels and software engineering have become respectable, even mainstream. But in the end, the brutish football players who tormented them in high school will likely win in the merciless world of genetic...
...unwind the massively leveraged positions they took in the past 10 years. To put some heft back into the economy, the IMF has recommended an injection of demand equivalent to 2% of world output. The U.S. has taken the lead on a stimulus package, but some European nations - which tend to be wary of long-term national budget deficits - have balked at the size of the new resources required...