Where did dogs come from? The answer is wolves (not foxes). Here's a thought experiment. Go back 20,000 years and check out the dogs. Yikes! There were no dogs only 20,000 years ago. This 1994 story from Discover is a good starting point to learn about the beginnings of dogs.…
It's way past time for this mass protest. Let's set the scene at a large prominent public space such as the Washington, DC Mall. Let's gather five million white-collar workers and professionals and invite them to throw their neckties into a huge bonfire to demonstrate that they're not willing to…
The new media are increasingly learning the lessons of the corporate media. According to this post on the Harper's site, the bloggers who get personal access to the President are those who write about the President sympathetically. Here's an example of the sort of bloggers the President seeks: Matthew Burden, who…
According to National Geographic’s Genographic Project, we are all African. The DNA tests taken in many isolated native populations conclusively demonstrate that we are all no more than 2000 generations removed from Africa. If you’d like, sign up and learn the path of your own migration out of Africa for…
Salon.com has published an article ("The light's on, but is anybody home?") on a new study that claims that scientists are able to determine (based on fMRI studies) that a woman who has been diagnosed to be in a vegetative state for two years appears to be conscious. In a…