social behavior

Who is Smarter -- Men or Women?

People like to think that men’s brains and women’s brains are fundamentally the same. But research indicates that men and women do in fact have different structures and wiring in the brain, and men...

Kenyan Elephant Experts Also to Study Asian Elephants

MINNERIYA-KAUDULLA WEWA ELEPHANT POPULATIONS TO BE STUDIED ALONG THE LINES OF AMBOSELI PROJECT OF KENYA (By Walter Jayawardhana) Kenya?s world famous...

FCC Says BitTorrent Throttling Illegal, EFF Releases Tool for You To Test Your ISP For It

The Federal Communications Commission ruled this morning by a 3 to 2 vote that Comcast's arbitrary throttling of customers' use of BitTorrent was illegal. Hours before the ruling, the Electronic...

Primate Violence and Culture

One of the biggest misconceptions of natural selection is that it mandates nastiness, that the pressure to survive and multiply requires a ruthless sort of amorality. In other words, we are all...

Where there's a will, there's a way

The Associated Press is carrying the story about the man in Japan that rammed a crowd of shoppers with a two ton truck on Sunday and then jumped out and began stabbing the victims with a large knife,...

Child Abuse

Statistics don't get any more tragic than this: About one of every 43 American infants is physically abused or neglected annually, and those babies are especially at risk in the first week of their...

Boston Threatens Property Rights

In a move that may prove shortsighted and misguided, the Boston Zoning Commission recently enacted an ordinance ostensibly designed to curb the anti-social behavior of college students.

Learning from the Finns

Open Education takes a closer look at those high-scoring Finnish students. Finnish students don’t start school till age seven, but all attend “a high-quality government funded preschool...

Ricin Scare in Las Vegas: Facts and Fiction

The investigations into Las Vegas Ricin poisoning continue since last Friday, the mystery over two vials of poison found in the Von Bergendorff’s Motel room still haunts Police, FBI and U.S....

American Response to the Holocaust

American Response to the HolocaustThe holocaust, the targeted destruction of so many jews and others by the Nazis, continues to live in the memory of the present generations in large part due to the...