The Christopher Hitchens Web
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Pharyngula
Probably not. But the New York Times reports: A review of studies has found that the health benefits of infant male circumcision vastly outweigh the risks involved in the procedure. Actually, it doesn’t. Not at all. The paper is all about the frequency of circumcision in the US; this is the only real data in the paper, and notice that a good chunk of it is speculation.
Lectures de pensée animale
Il y a une dizaine d'années encore, la littérature sur les animaux disponible en langue française se composait essentiellement de titres tels que Jeannot Lapin va à l'école ou Rosalie la tortue qui fait plouf. Les temps changent. De préoccupation puérile, la question animale est passée au rang de sujet de publications intellectuellement respectables. On évoquera ici quelques-uns des ouvrages qui en témoignent parmi ceux qui ont un lien direct avec le thème principal de ce numéro des Cahiers (la sensibilité, la conscience) : À quoi pensent les animaux ? de Marc Hauser ; Les origines animales de la culture de Dominique Lestel ; Comment l'esprit vient aux bêtes et Les animaux pensent-ils ?
Black Triangle
By Anthony - Last updated: Thursday, July 4, 2013 If anyone is reading this, I now blog at anthonycox.org Many thanks. Anthony By Anthony - Last updated: Monday, February 13, 2012
Bad Astronomy
Well now, this is an interesting discovery: astronomers have found what looks like a "super-Earth" – a planet more massive than Earth but still smaller than a gas giant – orbiting a nearby star at the right distance to have liquid water on it! Given that, it might – might – be Earthlike. This is pretty cool news. We’ve found planets like this before, but not very many!
What's wrong with Gillian McKeith by Ben Goldacre
Call her the Awful Poo Lady, call her Dr Gillian McKeith PhD: she is an empire, a multi-millionaire, a phenomenon, a prime-time TV celebrity, a bestselling author. She has her own range of foods and mysterious powders, she has pills to give you an erection, and her face is in every health food store in the country. Scottish Conservative politicians want her to advise the government. The Soil Association gave her a prize for educating the public. And yet, to anyone who knows the slightest bit about science, this woman is a bad joke.
paleoanthropology, genetics and evolution
I have a review of Marlene Zuk's new book, Paleofantasy , in this week's Nature : "Evolutionary biology: Twisting the tale of human evolution" [1] . I can't replicate my review here, but for people who have access to Nature I thought I'd bring attention to it. And if you don't have access, I wanted to share a couple of my reactions. It was a fun book for me to read. Zuk brings a light-hearted skepticism to a broad array of topics in human evolution. She took as her focus a collection of "paleo-advice" ideas: barefoot running, paleo diet, back-to-nature parenting advice.
The Loom
Your hands are, roughly speaking, 360 million years old. Before then, they were fins, which your fishy ancestors used to swim through oceans and rivers. Once those fins sprouted digits, they could propel your salamander-like ancestors across dry land. Fast forward 300 million years, and your hands had become fine-tuned for manipulations: your lemur-like ancestors used them to grab leaves and open up fruits. Within the past few million years, your hominin ancestors had fairly human hands, which they used to fashion tools for digging up tubers, butchering carcasses, and laying the groundwork for our global dominance today. We know a fair amount about the transition from fins to hands thanks to the moderately mad obsession of paleontologists, who venture to inhospitable places around the Arctic where the best fossils from that period of our evolution are buried.
Science
Stories tagged with “Science” This 32-Year-Old Florida Woman Is Dead Because Her State Refused To Expand Medicaid One English Town’s Innovative Response To Sea Level Rise Women From Koch-Funded Conservative Groups Lambaste Equal Pay Measure Culture
NeuroLogica Blog
Jan 13 2017 Cognitive Biases in Health Care Decision Making This was an unexpected pleasant find in an unusual place.
Fayetteville State University-Van Cantfort & Dar
References BBC News (2007, March, 29). Should apes have human rights? Retrieved April 15, 2007 from , L., & The evolution of culture: From primate social learning to human culture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 101(27), 10235 - 10240.
Timeline: The evolution of life - life - 14 July 2009
Read full article Continue reading page |1|2|3|4 There are all sorts of ways to reconstruct the history of life on Earth. Pinning down when specific events occurred is often tricky, though. For this, biologists depend mainly on dating the rocks in which fossils are found, and by looking at the "molecular clocks" in the DNA of living organisms.
