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German woman, product of Mid-Neolithic? Source: Siebbi Yesterday I pointed to a paper which was interesting enough, but didn’t pass the smell test in relation to other evidence we…

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CES gives peek of our tech future New Zealand Herald If CES left me confident that the future of consumer technology is in good hands, there’s much already on offer…

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Next time you’re in the supermarket weighing the glossy conventional fruit against the small, blotched organic alternative, consider this: organic fruits’ stunted size may be the signal of their nutritional…

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2/18/13 – Glenn Beck paid a visit to Bill O’Reilly on Monday night to talk about whether we’ll see a Tea Party resurgence — and to chime in on the Republican establishment…

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As man is, the dog is

On January 24, 2013 By

Since John Hawks already hit it I don’t have much to add about the dog-starch-adaptation-paper in Nature , The genomic signature of dog domestication reveals adaptation to a…

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The above image, and the one to the left, are screenshots from my father’s 23andMe profile. Interestingly, his mtDNA haplogroup is not particularly common among ethnic Bengalis, who are more…

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Tech in 2013: Smartphones look to drive future New Zealand Herald Tech in 2013: Smartphones look to drive future . By Hamish Fletcher hamishfletcher Email Hamish. 5:30 AM Saturday Dec 29, 2012. Tweet; Email; Print. Driverless…

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I mentioned this in passing on my post on ASHG 2012 , but it seems useful to make explicit. For the past few years there has been word of research pointing to…

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Republican hopeful Mitt Romney blasted the president’s healthcare reform law as an “attack on free enterprise” while campaigning in San Diego on Monday, hours after Read more…

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What’s keeping the country from beefing up manufacturing jobs is dysfunction within the GOP, Vice President Joe Biden told reporters in Ames this afternoon. 21 photos: Biden in Iowa Video: Biden …

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The Congressional Budget Office released a report Thursday that showed real unemployment in America at 15 percent for the month of January, a figure considerably higher than the White House’s oft…

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Some DC-area conservatives plan to hold protests of their own right next Occupy DC’s encampment at Freedom Plaza. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out since cops…

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“When you look at government policies, there’s a massive transfer of wealth from the young and relatively poor members of society toward the old and relatively members of society,”…

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Martin Luther King’s family asked US Park Police to eject a group of 32 Occupy Wall Street protestors from an Atlanta based memorial center that was named after the civil rights…

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New York, Jan 25 : A senior United Nations political official on Tuesday urged Israel and the Palestinians to redouble efforts to resolve all their permanent status issues, end the conflict and …

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Luna Rossa are back in Auckland and ready for a year of testing and training alongside Emirates Team New Zealand.But while Max Sirena, the skipper of the Italian

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Guardian Network (London)-China sees Ethiopia as a land of business opportunities, but the African country remains in charge of any deals.

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India’s tea production is expected to have declined in the last month of 2011 on account of bad weather conditions in the main growing states of Assam and West Bengal.

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Peter Hoekstra spoke in front of a crowd at Calder Plaza Saturday, August 22nd, 2009. It was a great gathering with approximately 400 people in attendance. No SEIU thugs, therefore no violence.

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