Happy Darwin Day

Posted on February 14, 2009

Car exhaust causes brain damage in Children

Posted on January 10, 2008

Saw this in the New Scientist, I’m just going to repost the entire thing here since you can only read the intro to the article on their site w/o a subscription:

03 January 2008
Magazine issue 2637
www.newscientist.com/article…OJIMBLAC

Removing lead from petrol was supposed to prevent damage to children’s
mental development. Now it seems that traffic fumes may still be
impairing their learning – because of the soot particles it contains.

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chimp inteligence & anthropocentrism

Posted on December 14, 2007

[video http://s9.video.blip.tv/1330001701037/Knews-YouVsTheChimp632.wmv]

Yet another proof for evolution – creationists want to believe humans are special, created unique, perfect, in the image of God, but looking at this it’s pretty obvious that we share common ancestors with chimps and other apes. (i mean, as if it wasn’t already proven by the fact they share something like 98% of our dna….). we evolved more complex linguistic capabilities and the ability to use more complicated tools, they got superior memory skills. we have more processor speed, they have a better hard drive…. it’s a basic evolutionary trade off. we adapted in one direction to be more effective as hunter-gatherers on the plains, using language and weapons to hunt larger more difficult prey. they adapted to be more effective as hunter-gatherers in the deep forest. and, of course, they continue to evolve just as we do. we are not “more evolved” then them, just different.

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