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The Hidden Power of Scent

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Scientific American - By Josie Glausiusz - Aug. 24 (Review) - Key Concepts: * The human sense of smell is often seen as insignificant, but this sense is keener and more influential on our species than many people realize. * Smell subconsciously facilitates a variety of human social interactions. People use smell to assess a person's likability, sexual attractiveness and emotional state. They can also use scent to distinguish a stranger from a friend, a male from a female and someone who is gay from someone who is straight...

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A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Amy Harmon - Aug. 24 (News Report) - David Campbell switched on the overhead projector and wrote "Evolution" in the rectangle of light on the screen. He scanned the faces of the sophomores in his Biology I class. Many of them, he knew from years of teaching high school in this Jacksonville suburb, had been raised to take the biblical creation story as fact. His gaze rested for a moment on Bryce Haas, a football player who attended the 6 a.m...

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Solar plane makes record flight

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

BBC News - Aug. 24 (News Report) - A UK-built solar-powered plane has set an unofficial world endurance record for a flight by an unmanned aircraft. The Zephyr-6, as it is known, stayed aloft for more than three days, running through the night on batteries it had recharged in sunlight. The flight was a demonstration for the US military, which is looking for new types of technology to support its troops on the ground. Craft like Zephyr might make ideal platforms for reconnaissance.

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Head to head over money, markets and morality

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Australian Broadcasting - By Natasha Mitchell - Aug. 24 (Interview) - The global credit crunch, rising interest rates and petrol prices...Are markets moral? Is our hunter-gatherer brain geared for modern capitalism, and do economies work like evolutionary organisms? That's this week's show - an event recorded for National Science Week here in Australia. We're talking 'the mind of the market', the rise of neuroeconomics, the extinction of Homo Economicus and more.

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Back-to-School: Play and Academic Success

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Greater Good - Aug. 24 (Opinion) - School starts next week, and so our kids will be back to a day of structured learning. But this year Fiona won't be taking Spanish and Mandarin and knitting and drama. Most days after school she and Molly [who starts Kindergarten!!], are going to walk home, hopefully with the neighborhood kids, and hang around and play...

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Flaws Found In Watch List For Terrorists

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Wall Street Journal - By Siobhan Gorman - Aug. 22 (News Report) - The government's main terrorist-watch-list system is hobbled by technology challenges, and the $500 million program designed to upgrade it is on the verge of collapse, according to a preliminary congressional investigation.

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Energy Politics Proving Difficult to Master

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Kirk Johnson, Monica Davey - Aug. 22 (News Analysis) - The politics of energy are convoluted and volatile in Congressional campaigns across the United States this summer, as candidates search for a Goldilocks approach that is neither too hot nor too cold, and that voters will believe is sincere.

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DEVELOPMENT: Food, Fuel and Water Crises Converging

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Inter Press Service - By Thalif Deen - Aug. 22 (News Report) - ...a little less than one billion people worldwide still don't have access to clean drinking water while over 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation. .......... Asked if the international community will meet the MDGs relating to water and sanitation by 2015, she said: "Not if we don't change immediate course." For one, she said, the World Bank needs to stop making water privatisation a condition for their loans.

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East Brains, West Brains

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Newsweek - By Sharon Begley - Aug. 20 (Review) - How do you look at a face? Since 1965 it has been a tenet of psychology that people look at faces through the triangle method; that is, they scan the eyes (especially) and then the mouth, in a basic visual process assumed to be common to all humans. But guess what? This conclusion was based on studies in which only Westerners participated. Now that someone has finally thought to study non-Westerners, you can consign the universality of facial processing to the scientific dustbin.

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As Oil Giants Lose Influence, Supply Drops

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Jad Mouawad - Aug. 19 (News Report) - Oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though they are awash in profits and eager to expand.

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