Monthly Archives: December 2011

Leaf Cutter Ant – Costa Rica

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NYTimes: Sex Education Gets Directly to Youths, via Text

Some health organizations and school districts are developing Web sites and text services to reach teenagers. http://nyti.ms/rDc9Uo

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NYTimes: Keynes Was Right

Once again, when politicians and policy makers decided to focus on deficits, not jobs, they proved Keynes right about a slump being the wrong time for austerity. http://nyti.ms/spKwWn

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Disgrace: On Marc Hauser | The Nation

Disgrace: On Marc Hauser | The Nation.

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Outsider physicists and the oh-my-god particle – New Scientist – New Scientist

Outsider physicists and the oh-my-god particle – New Scientist – New Scientist.

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SOPA is the End of Us, say Bloggers | Common Dreams

SOPA is the End of Us, say Bloggers | Common Dreams.

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How Much Dam Energy Can We Get? | Do the Math

How Much Dam Energy Can We Get? | Do the Math.

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Jackson Lears reviews ‘The Other Barack’ by Sally Jacobs and ‘A Singular Woman’ by Janny Scott · LRB 5 January 2012

Jackson Lears reviews ‘The Other Barack’ by Sally Jacobs and ‘A Singular Woman’ by Janny Scott · LRB 5 January 2012.

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Christmas Shopping, Credit Cards, and Layaway : The New Yorker

Christmas Shopping, Credit Cards, and Layaway : The New Yorker.

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What Causes Strokes

What Causes Strokes.

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Candle Trick

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What it’s like to have sex with someone with Asperger’s | Penelope Trunk Blog

What it's like to have sex with someone with Asperger's | Penelope Trunk Blog.

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Hard Core – The Atlantic

Hard Core – The Atlantic.

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The Fat Trap – NYTimes.com

The Fat Trap – NYTimes.com.

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Forgetting is Key to a Healthy Mind: Scientific American

Forgetting is Key to a Healthy Mind: Scientific American.

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Organ Donor Foundation TV ad – ‘Leila’

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Top Ten Myths about the Arab Spring of 2011 | Informed Comment

Top Ten Myths about the Arab Spring of 2011 | Informed Comment.

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Major Ron Paul Supporter Favors Death Penalty for Gays | | AlterNet

Major Ron Paul Supporter Favors Death Penalty for Gays | | AlterNet.

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NYTimes: For Transgender Detainees, a Jail Policy Offers Some Security

Cook County Jail has instituted a new policy for transgender detainees, which includes a panel that determines whether they should be housed with men or women. http://nyti.ms/vEXnCA

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NYTimes: New Drugs Raise Hope for Patients With M.S.

After decades of research, a rapid rollout of sophisticated treatments is changing how the disease is managed. http://nyti.ms/uR9B5m

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NYTimes: Patterns: HPV Vaccine Is Not Linked to Promiscuity

A survey has found that girls ages 15 to 19 who are vaccinated against human papillomavirus, or HPV, are no more likely to be sexually active. http://nyti.ms/tdivXv

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NYTimes: Have We Met? Tracing Face Blindness to Its Roots

New research helps explain why a person with face blindness may still have difficulty determining who a person is even after he or she has begun to speak. http://nyti.ms/ux2ndq

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NYTimes: An Idyllic Picture of Serenity, but Only if You’re Not Inside

Common freshwater fish kept in small tanks appear to be considerably more aggressive than those in larger ones. http://nyti.ms/sSiW7W

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NYTimes: How Smart Is This Bird? Let It Count the Ways

Scientists knew pigeons could count, but now they have evidence that the birds can perform abstract mathematical reasoning. http://nyti.ms/sbpkch

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NYTimes: Tiniest of Spiders Are Loaded With Brains

The smallest of nine species in a study had smaller brains in absolute terms, but relatively speaking, their brains were enormous. http://nyti.ms/tpegvV

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