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Entries written in December 2006
The 2006 Darwin awards winners have been announced . First place:
(August 2006, Brazil) August brings us a winner from Brazil, who tried to disassemble a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) by driving back and forth over it with a car. This technique was ineffective, so he escalated to pounding the RPG with a sledgehammer. The second [...]
When you watch someone do something, with the aim of later doing it yourself, then the same motor areas in your brain are activated. More at ScienceDaily
“Brain-expressed genes are known to evolve slowly in mammals. Nevertheless, since brains of higher primates have evolved rapidly, one might expect acceleration in DNA sequence evolution in their brain-expressed genes. In this study, we carried out full-length cDNA sequencing on the brain transcriptome of an Old World monkey (OWM) and then conducted three-way comparisons among [...]
National Geographic has an interesting video of some chimpanzee populations in the Congo encountering humans for the first time
“Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood rather than by geologic forces, more than three [...]
Science Daily is reporting on a paper in November that shows that the maternal diet during pregnancy in mice affects not only their offspring, but their offsprings’ offspring. We’ve known for quite a while that maternal diet influences offspring via all sorts of epigenetic funkiness, but as far as I know, this is the first [...]
CyArk collects the most accurate 3D models of World Heritage Sites and stores them safely in a publicly accessible archive. Currently has such models of heritage sites like Ancient Thebes, Angkor Wat, and Tikal in Gutemala.
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