human

Whoa, this is a biggie.

Quoted: Humans may have been walking around what is now central Mexico 40,000 years ago

Quoted: All four families have a few things in common. First, the people with Unertan syndrome are all the products of incestuous marriages. Children of closely-related people often suffer birth defects. Also, the children who walk on all fours are developmentally disabled; some are unable to talk.

Flash recording of an artist drawing a fully clothed person, starting with the skeleton.

Oh, I really want to hope this memoir isn't fraudulent... It was so powerful.

Quoted: On Jan. 19, the Australian, Rupert Murdoch's Aussie broadsheet, published a 4,600-word investigation challenging the credibility of the child-soldier memoir A Long Way Gone. Author Ishmael Beah's heart-wrenching account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the two years he spent as a cocaine-addicted teenage killer achieved instant literary acclaim.

Quoted: If Roomba could clean itself and eliminate its own waste, it would be strictly more functional than Cat.

Quoted: PhysOrg news: Are humans evolving faster? Findings suggest we are becoming more different, not alike

Freeman Dyson mentioned the HAR1 gene last night; he thinks it may be the most important discovery in biology since the double helix. I'd not heard of it before. Will be interesting to learn more...

Quoted: Found by scanning through giant genomic databases of multiple species, some of these highly mutated areas are thought to be responsible for development of human brain size, language, and complex thought.
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Pollard K. et. al. An RNA gene expressed during cortical development evolved rapidly in humans. Advanced electronic publishing. Nature. August 16, 2006.

Batonga is giving girls a secondary school and higher education so they can take the lead in changing Africa. We are doing this by granting scholarships, building secondary schools, increasing enrollment, improving teaching standards, providing school supplies, supporting mentor programs, exploring alternative education models and advocating for community awareness of the value of education for girls.

Quoted: Batonga’s mission is to support both secondary school and higher education for girls in Africa.

Quoted: Their parents had okayed it: the twenty-two boys of Robbers Cave were actually the basis of social psychologist Muzafer Sherif's landmark study of group conflict.