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Oldest nuclear family seems to have been murdered [Greg Laden's Blog]The oldest genetically identifiable nuclear family met a violent death, according to analysis of remains from 4,600-year-old burials in Germany. Writing in the journal PNAS, researchers say the broken bones of these stone age people show they were killed in a struggle. Comparisons of DNA fr... |
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Apparent spread of transgenes from GM corn [Effect Measure]In 2001 Ignacio Chapela, an ecologist from the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author David Quist published a highly controversial paper in Nature that appeared to show that genetically engineered genes used in genetically modified (GM) corn (maize) was spreading from GM cornfields in ... |
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Researcher Claims “Attention Spirals” Hold Key To Predicting Success Of YouTube VideosWhy do certain videos on YouTube become mass phenomena while the vast majority of videos just get a handful of views, if any? Riley Crane, an American post doctoral fellow currently researching at the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at ETH university in Zurich/Switzerland, says he has the answer... |
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Scientists Discover World's Most Ancient Nuclear FamilyWASHINGTON — A stone-age burial in central Germany has yielded the earliest evidence of people living together as a family. The 4,600-year-old grave contained the remains of a man, woman and two youngsters, and DNA analysis shows they were a mother, father and their children. "Their u... |
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When the corn weevil knocks, we are all doomed. [Greg Laden's Blog]Maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais [usda] ... or the corn rust or the corn root cutter or whatever pathogen that comes along that cannot be fought off with a cleverly concocted combination of chemicals. This is because all we eat is corn, or so it seems. In a paper just published in PNAS,... |
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![Fast food = corn, corn and more corn [Effect Measure]](http://statics.keegy.com//img/postsh/0C/04/th2-fast-food-another-name-for-corn-3128.jpg)
Fast food = corn, corn and more corn [Effect Measure]Half of all restaurants in the United States are fast food restaurants. They do $100 billion worth of business a year (that's one seventh of a Bailout, a new unit of expenditure). A lot of the fast food is in the form of beef (hamburgers), chicken (sandwiches, tenders or nuggets) and french fries... |
