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Weekend Tidbits

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Feb 9, 2013

As you have no doubt observed, brothers and sisters do not mate.While they may find one another attractive, they find the notion of sex with one another repulsive. This is because a child produced by ...

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Feb 3, 2013

There are ants in Tunisia that are roughly a few millimeters long. They leave their nests and find food sources by smelling them.In order to make sure they do not loose the scent, they aim somewhat do ...

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Feb 2, 2013

Scientists are able to control hierarchy in rhesus macaques. They do this by introducing monkeys into groups one at a time, and at least initially the monkeys that are introduced first have higher sta ...

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Jan 27, 2013

Altruism was first explained as kin selection: "I would lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins", as J.B.S. Haldane put it.Then Robert Axelrod showed that in repeated interactions, individu ...

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Jan 26, 2013

Asian Americans comprise 4% of the American population, but account for 25% of the students at top universities.Moreover, their salaries are 25% higher than the American average—this despite the fact ...

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Jan 20, 2013

Life has many perils: parasites, predators, and pitfalls. Eventually, any organism will succumb, and if that organism has not first passed on its genes, those genes will face extinction.So, we are des ...

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Jan 19, 2013

Wikipedia is an astonishing resource that provides an enormous amount of information to billions of users.Even more amazing is that it was created by volunteers who, according to Clay Shirky, put in o ...

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Jan 13, 2013

In yesterday's tidbit, we learned that across the planet women seek material wealth in their mates. This stems from our hunter-gather past in which females depended on male hunters to provide them and ...

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Jan 12, 2013

A vast number of studies ranging across time, continents, cultures, political systems, and religions show that when evaluating potential mates, women place significantly greater emphasis than men on m ...

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Jan 6, 2013

One of the roles our government has taken on is to provide us with information to be used in making decisions.For example, the EPA stickers on the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt state that these electric ...