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Michael Shermer » Our Neandertal Brethren

we must reclassify Homo neanderthalensis as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, a subspecies of Homo sapiens

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P != NP

Holy Hemlock, Batman! A new Gödel?

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UC-Santa Cruz scientist coordinated project that reveals Neanderthal-human liaisons – San Jose Mercury News

The possibility of cave-based canoodling has long tantalized scientists. What is it about Cro-Magnon/Neatherthal sex that causes writers to go so prissy?

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Motivated Multitasking: How the Brain Keeps Tabs on Two Tasks at Once: Scientific American

‘Humans have problems deciding between more than two alternatives….  A possible explanation is that they cannot keep in mind and switch back and forth between three or more alternatives.

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Gallery: The 10 Worst Jobs in Science | Popular Science

But after three months in an orangutan rehab center in Borneo, she got to do her own tickling on half a dozen furry orange babies.

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Beheaded Vikings found at Olympic site – CNN.com

This is the best example we have ever seen of a group of individuals that clearly have their origins outside Britain. So, the wogs don’t begin at Calais, after all?

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Magnitude 8.8 – OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE

Magnitude 8.8 – OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE Monstrous big, but 50 years ago, a 9.5 in the same region.

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Origin of the Author

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The comedy circuit: When your brain gets the joke – life – 01 February 2010 – New Scientist

if someone failed to get the joke, the rostral cingulate zone of the brain became more active And did you hear the one about the amygdala and the hippocampus?

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Books of The Times – Unwitting Donor to Science in ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ – Review – NYTimes.com

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